Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McChitis.

Hello, hello, and once again, we have a fantastic guest. It is Michelle Geland and she is sharing some

really cool research and principles and tactics all around how improved happiness leads to improved performance and just feels good.

So you're going to learn, one, how happiness truly does translate into career performance.

Two, how to use small shifts to talk about solutions

instead of problems, and three, the four C's

of delivering bad news better.

So if you want to check out the show notes,

the transcripts, the links to things mentioned, that's over at awesome at your job.

dot com slash epp for nine.

Here's a bit about Michelle.

Michelle Geland is a national CBS news anchor turned positive psychology researcher who is the

best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness. Michelle is the founder of the

Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Ariana Huffington to study how transformative

stories fuel success. She is an executive producer of The Happiness Advantage special on PBS

and a featured professor in Oprah's happiness course.

Michelle holds a master of applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania

and her research and advice have received attention from the New York Times, the Washington Post,

Forbes, CNN, Fox, and the Harvard Business Review.

Here's Michelle.

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