Let’s Get Happy: Happiness Drives Performance

Great leaders, create great culture, which yields great work: G3. Leadership requires skills and is in greater demand. Are you ready to lead when the call comes? Would you like to refresh your leadership skills? If so, this course is for you.

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What You Will Learn

  • The business case for happiness
  • What is happiness
  • How to build personal happiness
  • What is happiness at work
  • How soft skills link to happiness at work
  • What contributes to PM happiness at work
  • What detracts from PM happiness at work
  • How to build happiness at work

About This Course

In this course you will learn about great culture – the goal of every great leader. Find out how happy you are personally and at work, be able to make the case for happiness at work as a critical strategic approach, understand how happy project and technical professionals are right how, and learn how to build you own personal happiness and happiness at work

Practical tools and techniques for use right away to be happier, more productive, more promotable, and more passionate at work.

This is the first course in the Reimagining Leadership certificate. This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success

This course is the first in a series of leadership courses. The second course is Let’s Get Started: You First! which will be offered in the summer of 2020.

Great leaders, create great culture, which yields great work: G3. Great culture, where individuals flourish and organizations thrive, requires happiness as a competitive strategy.

This course provides both new ideas and practical applications you can use immediately. You’ll learn that soft skills are so important that they are now called POWER SKILLS. They are the most sought-after skills by recruiters and hiring managers. Power skills are key to creating and sustaining happiness at work. Happiness drives performance.

Get the Models - Understand what happiness and happiness are work are
Get Why It Matters - Understand the business case for happiness and happiness at work
Get the Data - Establish their personal baseline for happiness and happiness at work
Set the Goals - Set personal development goals for increasing happiness and happiness at work
Learn the Tools - Learn tools and techniques for how to build happiness and happiness at work
Take Action - Build effective action plans to increase happiness and happiness at work
Make the Change - Practice new skills to increase happiness and happiness at work
Get the Benefit - Be able to build positive workplaces where individuals flourish and organizations thrive

Start your journey to becoming a Great Leader, creating Great Culture, yielding Great Work with Happiness at Work!

At A Glance

  • Expert Instruction Build Skills
  • Self-Paced Progress at your own speed
  • 4 Weeks 2-3 hours per week
  • Free or $199.00 For the full program experience Discounted to $179.10 when you purchase the full Re-Imagining Leadership Professional Certificate Program.
  • 10 Professional Development Units (PDUs) Earn PDUs toward your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Mangement Professional (PMP) certification

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Your Instructor

Jocelyn S. Davis

Professor Davis is an innovative educator whose specialty lies in educating students in Managing Project Teams and Evolving as Project Leader. She is the sole instructor and creator of the Re-Imaging Leadership Professional Certificate on edX.

What Our Students Are Saying

  • I truly love this course!! I think this course well introduces happiness as a strategy to the business table and gives you a tangible roadmap to achieve better leadership, better culture, and better outcomes! I learned a lot from this course and I believe that I can apply this knowledge into my career! Alan Liu
  • The Course was really great! It was easy to understand with the videos and lot of great things that apply to our work and personal life. After this course I will be able to improve my Work Life Balance. Anonymous
  • The content was simple and good, yet reached depth beyond what I expected. I was taken back by the science behind simple concepts and the impact it can have on how we live and how productive/successful companies can be when intentional plans are put into place. The list of powerful corporations that have gained an edge due to the implementation is impressive. I think the content can be applied to daily life as well as the number of hours we dedicate at work. This course caused much reflection for me as I reflected on how I work/interact with others. Anonymous
  • I really enjoyed learning all about how important happiness is in work places. I definitely learned a lot of new and interesting things through this course, and would recommend it to anyone! Anonymous
  • I truly loved this course. I finished it in 10 days, I couldn't stop learning as learning has never been this fun. The topic is essential for everybody who wants to be happy personally and professionally. It really puts together the know how to unlocking a high quality, true happiness in life . Anonymous

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Syllabus

Week 1
The Business Value of Happiness
  • Introduction
  • Happiness as Strategy
  • Why Happiness is Great Strategy
  • Happiness & Soft Skills
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to What is Happiness
Week 2
What is Happiness?
  • Introduction
  • What is Happiness?
  • Happiness Limitations
  • Myths about Happiness
  • A Primer on Building Happiness
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to What is Happiness at Work
Week 3
What is Happiness at Work?
  • Introduction
  • Happiness Refresher and Selected Models
  • What is Happiness at Work, Part I
  • What is Happiness at Work, Part II
  • Building Happiness at Work
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to How Happy are PM’s at Work?
Week 4
How Happy are PM’s at Work?
  • Introductions
  • PMI Research Findings, Part I
  • PMI Research Findings, Part II
  • APM Research Findings
  • A Primer on Building Happiness at Work
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to My Leadership Journey
Week 5
My Leadership Journey
  • Introduction
  • Learning from Experience
  • Learning by Building Self-Awareness
  • Learning through Professional Development
  • Becoming a Best Self Leader
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to Next Course: Let’s Focus on You: Building Self-Awareness

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