Empowered Employees Are Engaged Employees: Using Science to Solve the Employee Engagement Crisis: The Smart Way to Manage Emotions, and Improve Core S

Your organization can achieve the ultimate competitive advantage of enthusiastic and empowered employees if your aim at the right target in your employee engagement program. Strategies to increase engagement based on research help you achieve your goals. Employee Engagement lingers around 30%, with 20% of employees actively disengaged and half not engaged because traditional methods of increasing employee engagement aim at the wrong target. Individual employee characteristics--the way they think about work and life--as well as their stress levels have a tremendous impact on employee engagement. Until now this aspect of engagement has been largely ignored because management couldn't do anything about it. You can't hire for resilience, Psychological Capital, Psychological Flexibility, growth mindset, internal locus of control or optimism because it creates a disparate impact on minorities and low-income populations. New research has opened up a way to help employees effectively develop the ability to enhance these skills so while you can't hire for them, you can train them and reap the considerable benefits they deliver.

Dr. Jeanine Joy is the Founder of Happiness 1st Institute, where the knowledge and skills necessary to become adept at using one's mind and emotions the way they were intended is taught to students from all walks of life. She is a leading expert in helping individuals learn how to be more positively focused, optimistic and resilient.

Science is advancing our knowledge of the benefits of happiness at a rapid pace. Knowing the benefits of happiness achieves little without the knowledge and skills to become more positive and optimistic so the benefits can be realized. Dr. Joy teaches her students how to increase their happiness, belief in self, and how to be hopeful when facing challenges. She has a phenomenal capacity to identify the root cause of people s struggles and share her knowledge using real world examples that are easy to understand and practical enough to use in everyday life.

How an employee processes feedback from management(positive or negative) is largely based on the employee's mindset. The reason traditional engagement increasing techniques have led to dismal 30% engagement rates is they focus on the transmission of the message and ignore the receiver. If a radio station is broadcasting a beautiful melody buy your receiver is out of tune, you can't hear or enjoy the melody. Engagement has not been approached from this angle because until now, no one knew how to help employees become better receivers on a large scale basis. Dr. Joy has perfected a method of accomplishing just that.

Her method not only improves engagement, it increases employee happiness and improves interpersonal relationships at work and at home and decreases stress significantly.

Dr. Joy has conducted more two decades of primary research on human thriving. Her burning passion to find answers that help others thrive has created a depth and breadth of knowledge for accelerating human thriving beyond common psychology practices and theory, where the focus continues to emphasize what can go wrong and respond with dose-dependent strategies. Her techniques empower readers to reprogram their minds for optimal functioning and to develop skills that help them enjoy every moment of life more.

When you begin tracing the pathway between mindset and stress level out to the impact it has on physical and mental health, behavior, relationships, resilience, success in school and career, addiction, high school completion, crime, and other areas of life it becomes clear that one solution improves every area. But telling people what they should do and what will happen if they do and if they don t is far from enough. People must be empowered with knowledge and practical skills that enable them to take action, to increase autonomy, self-worth, and resilience while taking control of their own lives and following the path that stirs passion in their hearts and minds.

Everyone s mind is programmed a process that is largely complete by age 6. Few people have deliberately adjusted their programming for optimal happiness and to minimize stress. This book provides everything you need to know to reach your best potential self.

Dr. Joy is a game changer focused on bringing better living to all with knowledge and skills she has woven together into books and programs designed to help people thrive more at all stages of life. Dr. Joy is a powerful motivational speaker, trainer, and author who inspires others to achieve more of their potential.