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Socializing is good for wellbeing -- your employees' and your company's
December 21, 2011
News flash: Your team's chats around the water cooler aren't necessarily time wasters. Gallup research shows that socializing is good for your employees' wellbeing -- and your company's performance.
Most people equate wellbeing with being wealthy and healthy. That's not the whole story, say the authors of Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. In this interview, they explore the basics of wellbeing and what we can do to increase our own wellbeing.
It’s easy to cultivate a sense of doom at the moment, and there are ample reasons to give up hope. But business leaders should resist the tide of negativity, says a prominent psychologist. That’s because hope serves a bottom-line business purpose.
Measuring internal customer service is driving positive results in one of the world’s biggest medical equipment companies. This profile of a major division of Stryker -- with 1,800 employees in 21 countries who speak almost two dozen different languages -- reveals how.
