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• Making Work Better: Microinterventions in Organizations with Theresa Glomb, PhD

  • When
    14 Nov 2019
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar: The link to join will be sent to those that register

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  Making Work Better: Microinterventions in Organizations with Theresa Glomb, PhD

  Many of us have focused on getting a good job. But how many of us have focused on making a job good? So often at work, we bumble through our days in unintentional ways. What if we recognized the power we have to improve our work lives? What if we directed our attention and intention toward the creation of purposeful and satisfying work?

  This session will present the science and practice of small, practical micro-interventions or “work hacks” designed to create more fulfilling, productive, and satisfying work lives. For the past 25 years, I have been studying work and workers. I am passionate about helping others create positive work experiences by fostering growth, happiness, and satisfaction. Along with my colleagues, I have conducted rigorous research showing how small changes designed to bring greater intentionality to one’s work can have a big impact on work and wellbeing.

  The session toggles between the punchlines of scientific literature along with the practical takeaways, woven together with rich examples from employees, executives, and my own efforts at crafting a meaningful and wholehearted work life. It is a unique and engaging blend of research highlights, personal stories, and practical disciplines, with a focus on simple, evidence based micro-interventions designed to improve working life. Ultimately, I’m trying to make work great (or at least a little better).

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  Professor Theresa Glomb is the Toro Company-David M. Lilly Chair in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in social, organizational, and individual differences psychology from the University of Illinois and her BA in psychology from DePaul University.

  Theresa’s 25 years of research have focused on the well-being of workers, defined broadly to include psychological, affective, physiological, and familial effects. Theresa has conducted field research in dozens of companies with tens of thousands of workers and has shown firsthand that small changes can have a big impact on work and well-being. Her research studies micro-interventions, or work-hacks, small practices aimed at fostering greater reflection, mindfulness, and intentionality at work.

  She has published extensively in top journals including the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology and been cited in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Huffington Post. In her TEDx talk, “Let’s Make Work Better” she shared simple, evidence based techniques to improve our working lives. You can read more about her at TheresaGlomb.com.

  
  

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  Registration is free for Supporting and Lifetime members of the MAPP Alumni Association.  

  Registration for Basic members costs $20.  Want to get this webinar for free? If you are a Penn MAPP graduate, you can pay the $49.95 dues now to become a supporting member. You'll get free registration for this webinar and for other continuing education webinars coming up in the next 12 months.

   

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• CHARACTER STRENGTHS: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE! with Dr. Ryan Niemic

  • When
    05 Dec 2019
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
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  CHARACTER STRENGTHS: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE! with Dr. Ryan Niemic

  For the first time, Dr. Ryan Niemiec will present using an approach in which YOU will decide the presentation content! As there are now over 600 studies on character strengths, on average a new study coming out each week, and many emerging best practices, there are plenty of possible areas to cover. Throughout this experience, there will be new content, opportunity for questions, a sneak peek at 2020 happenings in our field, and an insider-tour of the new VIA website for you to learn how you can use it to best help your clients and students. Integrated within this experience will be the classic "choose your own adventure approach." Here's an example of how this will work. Ryan might ask something like the following:

  "Would you like to hear about a new theory of character strengths or the latest on strengths overuse/underuse? I can send you the PDF of both 2019 papers so you can learn about each but in the CHAT BOX right now choose Path A for me to discuss the theory paper or Path B for the overuse/underuse paper. Choose now."

  So, let's have some meaningful fun and direct your learning at the same time. All aboard!

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  Ryan M. Niemiec, Psy.D. is a leading figure in the education, research, and practice of character strengths that are found in all human beings. He’s education director of the VIA Institute on Character, a global, nonprofit organization in Cincinnati that leads the global advancement of the science of character strengths. Ryan is author of 9 books including the brand new consumer-oriented books The Power of Character Strengths (a #1 Amazon bestseller) and The Strengths-Based Workbook for Stress Relief, as well as practitioner-focused books that are leaders in their respective fields including, Character Strengths Interventions, Mindfulness and Character Strengths, and Positive Psychology at the Movies. He has two positive psychology books scheduled for 2020.

  Ryan is creator of the evidenced-based, 8-week program, Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice, used across the globe by practitioners; MBSP was the first positive-oriented mindfulness program, the only mindfulness program to target what’s best in us (our character strengths), and the only one to use positive qualities (our character strengths) to improve meditation and mindful living. 

  Ryan has penned around 90 scholarly/peer-reviewed articles and given more than 800 workshops, keynotes, and webinars on positive psychology topics across the globe. He’s a columnist for Live Happy Magazine and for Psychology Today, the latter which his column has 1-2 million reads. He’s an award-winning psychologist, certified coach, annual instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at Xavier University. Ryan received a Distinguished Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association in 2011, and was granted Fellow status of the International Positive Psychology Association in 2017. 

  On a personal note, Ryan lives in Cincinnati with his wife and three young, zestful children who travel the globe together. Ryan is an avid collector of vintage Pez dispensers, a passionate fan of The Walking Dead, only listens to 1990s alternative rock music, and is a zealot for his alma mater, Michigan State University. His highest strengths are hope, love, honesty, curiosity, fairness, and appreciation of beauty.

  
  

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  Registration is free for Supporting and Lifetime members of the MAPP Alumni Association.  

  Registration for Basic members costs $20.  Want to get this webinar for free? If you are a Penn MAPP graduate, you can pay the $49.95 dues now to become a supporting member. You'll get free registration for this webinar and for other continuing education webinars coming up in the next 12 months.

   

  Registration for the general public costs $25.

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