637: How to Have a Happier Work Week with Nic Marks
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Nic Marks shares the research and best practices for more happiness at work.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The five elements of a happy work life
2) How to draw the boundary between work and life
3) How to boost motivation and engagement in 5 minutes
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— ABOUT NIC —
Nic Marks was once described as a "statistician with a soul" due to his unusual combination of 'hard' statistical skills and 'soft' people skills.
He has been working in the field of happiness, wellbeing and quality of life over 25 years with a particular emphasis on measurement and how to create positive change. He is the founder of Friday Pulse and has worked with over a 1,000 organizations and teams measuring and improving their happiness at work.
• Nic’s website: NicMarks.org
• Nic’s LinkedIn: Nic Marks
• Nic’s company: Friday Pulse
• Personality Test: FridayOne.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Company: HelloFresh
• Software: HubSpot
• Term: Dunbar numbers
• Term: PERMA by Seligman
• Study: The Day Reconstruction Method
• Book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• Book: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 638 with Nick Marx. |
| 0:23.5 | Nick has done the hard work research on zeroing in on the things that make us happy at work |
| 0:29.0 | and he shares the best practices we can follow. |
| 0:32.0 | So you'll learn one, the five elements of a happy work life, two, how to draw the boundary |
| 0:36.2 | between your work and your life, and three, how to boost motivation and engagement in |
| 0:40.4 | just five minutes. |
| 0:41.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes of the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:44.0 | we reference here, visit awesome at your job.com slash EP 638. |
| 0:48.9 | And if you want to summarize goods, sign up for the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 0:53.6 | You can read what Nick's gems of brilliance have to say in about three minutes, write |
| 0:58.7 | your email box as well as access the vault of all the gold nuggets from all the guests. |
| 1:02.8 | Now here's Nick's story. |
| 1:04.0 | Nick Marx has once described as a statistician with a soul due to his unusual combination |
| 1:08.0 | of hard statistical skills and soft people skills. |
| 1:11.3 | He's been working in the field of happiness while being in quality of life for over 25 |
| 1:14.8 | years with a particular emphasis on measurement and how to create positive change. |
| 1:19.5 | He's the founder of Friday Pulse and has worked with over a thousand organizations and |
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