Don’t Worry… Be Happy (The importance of Joy and Happiness in Business) - Dr. Tracie Hines Lashley

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Introduction

In the midst of crisis or a pandemic, joy and happiness are crucial in business. How do you encourage your center of joy and peace to resurface during a pandemic or disaster? Another important question is how do you keep your staff motivated and happy with job loss and more happening all around them? As business owners, we have the responsibility to lead ourselves, organization, and family. As a business owner, we manage the business but must lead our staff. This conversation will be focused on leading in the midst of a crisis.

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Show Objectives – The Why

The objective during this show is to help you find your joy as a business owner while encouraging happiness at work and home. Harmonizing your life is a crucial aspect of business and leadership. What does it really mean to have work/life harmony (a.k.a. balance)? This conversation is crucial to highlight the need to eliminate allowing life events affect them, the importance of good relationships, importance of satisfaction, and to value and love everything that they do.

Key Issues – Owner Perspective

1. Communication problems will have a negative impact.
2. Emotional conflict can arise.
3. Mistrust will surface.
4. Sadness will take over the culture.
5. Psychological challenges
6. Increase in staff friction.
7. Business owners have the misconception that happiness comes from within.
8. Owners believe that balance equals time.

What You Need to Know – The What
 

1. Increasing team dynamics will infuse more joy and happiness, which can increase your bottom line.
2. Focusing on work/life integration vs balance will enhance all staff and leaders.
3. Find a way to include family in the business.
4. Balancing the meaning of life will enhance integration.
5. Happiness is external and joy is internal.
6. Joy in the workplace is cultivated and requires the entire team.
7. Increasing joy and happiness in the organization elevates productivity.

What You Need to Do – The How

1. Be transparent with staff and let them in.
2. Get better at storytelling.
3. Increase team development programs.
4. Develop team activities and programs.
5. Take what you do for your business to your family.
6. Apply daily devotions into your life.
7. Increase engagement.
8. Build a dynamic and productive team.

Possible Solutions by THE LIGS LLC

1. Let our certified professionals develop a team culture program to infuse continuous relationships and happiness.
2. The consultants can develop a strategy to enhance leadership teamwork skills.
3. Allow our team to eliminate the stress of your leadership team tackling this task alone.
4. Develop a leadership mentorship and continuity program.

Women of Business THRIVING provides actionable information and practices the team concept using the THRIVE model. The THRIVE model teaches business owners and leaders how to view business with the “heartfelt mindset”, which is deeper than the fixed and growth mindset. To thrive from the heart requires Thought, Heart feeling, Relationships, Intention, Vitality, and Enrichment. Heartfelt mindsets are actively engaged and involved in contribution and focused on internal and external THRIVING.
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Written by Dr. Tracie Hines Lashley, D.M. 
CEO, THE Leaders Innovative Growth Solutions LLC
WEBSITE: theligsllc.info OR drtracielashley.info 
EMAIL: growme@theligsllc.com
eBOOKS: booksbytracie.com  

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