The author proposes a six-point plan for executives to improve employee happiness in 2024. This includes becoming more knowledgeable about happiness as a strategy foundation, creating a brand around a happiness improvement program, leveraging attractor theory from physics, creating a leadership team that smiles often, appointing a Chief Happiness Officer, and developing employee happiness toolkits and operating practices. The author concludes by expressing hope that the readers have enjoyed the employee happiness series and wishes them a happy New Year.
Key takeaways:
- Employee satisfaction has significantly dropped since the start of 2020, with the technology sector experiencing the sharpest declines in happiness.
- Executives are encouraged to integrate happiness as a strategy foundation, create a brand around happiness improvement, and leverage science to create an energy force that promotes desired behaviors.
- Other strategies include creating a leadership team that smiles often, appointing a Chief Happiness Officer, and developing employee happiness toolkits and operating practices.
- The author, Dr. Cindy Gordon, is a global AI thought leader who emphasizes the importance of responsible AI practices and prioritizes employee happiness.