532: How to Help People Thrive, with Jim Harter

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jim Harter: Wellbeing at Work Jim Harter is Chief Scientist for Gallup’s workplace management and wellbeing practices. He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness and is the bestselling coauthor of It’s the Manager, 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. Jim has also published articles in many prominent business and academic journals and he's the author with Jim Clifton of Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams*. In this conversation, Jim and I discuss Gallup’s recent research findings on what managers and organizations can do to support wellbeing at work. We highlight the five key elements of wellbeing from the research and the obstacles that managers and organizations face in supporting these. Plus, we share practical steps that each of us can take to support wellbeing among the people in our organizations. Key Points People report that their strongest links to net thriving are “my job” and “my manager.” The five key elements of wellbeing are, in this order: Career, Social, Financial, Physical, and Community. Many people report that “time with a manager” is the worst part of the day. To support better wellbeing, make it a part of regular career conversations. Have open conversations about pay philosophies. Data shows this is even more important than the actual salary. Giving meaningful feedback every week is a basic requirement of management. Gallup’s data shows that only half of employees worldwide know what is expected of that at work, a significant contributor to stress and anxiety. Resources Mentioned Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving Teams* by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237) How to Manage Abrasive Leaders, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 290) How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293) Three Steps to Great Career Conversations, with Russ Laraway (episode 370) Gallup Findings on the Changing Nature of Work, with Jim Harter (episode 409) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	We sort of know intuitively that doing a better job managing may help to support people's
0:05.8	lives in other ways, but the connection may be even stronger than you think.
0:11.2	In this episode, Gallops findings on the significant link between what managers do and how much
0:17.9	people thrive.
0:19.3	This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 532.
0:24.1	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:32.9	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:35.6	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovjak.
0:40.4	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:42.7	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:48.7	So many of us have such a heart to build and grow resilient and thriving teams.
0:55.4	And one of the things that we owe it to ourselves as leaders to do is really ground ourselves
1:01.4	in what's happening in the research and what's going on in the world of helping us to do
1:06.5	a better job at doing that for the people we have the privileged influence.
1:10.2	I'm so glad today to welcome back to the show one of the leading voices on the data and
1:16.0	the research from Gallop.
1:18.0	I'm so pleased to welcome Jim Harder back to the show.
1:21.0	He is Chief Scientist for Gallops Workplace Management and Wellbeing Practices.
1:26.5	He has led more than a thousand studies of workplace effectiveness and is the best-selling
1:30.8	co-author of It's The Manager, Twelve, The Elements of Great Managing, and Wellbeing,
1:36.5	The Five Essential Elements.
1:38.3	Jim has also published articles in many prominent business and academic journals, and he's
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