Survey: Happier At Work

As part of the research for my second book, I posed this question "What is the one thing you do to make you happier at work?" to three friends (an investment banker, a headhunter and a human resources director) at a dinner party last week.

The answers they gave and the enthusiasm they showed for this question piqued my curiosity so I decided to pose this question to a wider audience.

I'm in two minds about letting you know what these three persons told me. I know you'll be curious yet I don't want their responses to influence your own response. Anyway, here are their responses:

• Friend A developed an awareness of his own fear and how it manifests in his behaviours. He learned to deal with his own fear and learned to behave constructively to lessen the fear in people who work with him.

• Friend B let go of her fear (losing her job by not being good enough or not being on the boss's good book etc). She did this by formulating a realistic strategy to "What is the worst that could happen to me if I lose my job?"

• Friend C mentioned that she cannot change many of the stressful and negative events at work but by focusing on the well-being and growth of her team members, the reward of watching other people grow more than compensate for the negativity around her.
  

I'm inviting you to share your experience and co-create this book with me. I want to know what people actually do rather than what they believe or think they should do. I will share all your tried and tested interventions in my book without revealing the identities of the contributors.

There are only 3 questions in this survey and it will take no more than 5 minutes of your time. So please be my daymaker: make my day by completing this survey!

Survey in English

Survey in Chinese

As a gesture of appreciation for completing this survey, I will send you a gift, RippleThanks, a set of thank-you cards that you can use to make other people happy at work, by catching them doing the right things.