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		<title>Five Reasons to Focus on Flow</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2013/03/five-reasons-to-focus-on-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is 'flow'? How can you achieve more of it? How can it help you develop your skills and confidence? In this article we explore how to acheive greater well-being through flow, and some top tips for getting more flow in your life.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What is &#8216;flow&#8217;? How can you achieve more of it? How can it help you develop your skills and confidence? In this article we explore how to acheive greater well-being through flow, and some top tips for getting more flow in your life.

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Beer and Philosophy: Engagement Japanese Style</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2013/03/beer-and-philosophy-engagement-japanese-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the UK business community there is a growing interest in the topic of employee engagement, sparked by a government-commissioned report in 2009, Engaging for Success: Enhancing Performance through Employee Engagement. In November 2012 the report’s authors, David MacLeod and Nita Clarke, established a group called Engage for Success  (EfS) which describes itself as a “movement [...]]]></description>
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In the UK business community there is a growing interest in the topic of employee engagement, sparked by a government-commissioned report in 2009, Engaging for Success: Enhancing Performance through Employee Engagement. In November 2012 the report’s authors, David MacLeod and Nita Clarke, established a group called Engage for Success  (EfS) which describes itself as a “movement committed to the idea that the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Honda and the Joy of Engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/12/honda-and-the-joy-of-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Ken Keir focused on Honda’s R&#038;D philosophy, explaining that in recessionary times, the company goes against the tide and invests more in R&#038;D rather than less, by the time we reached slide 5 of the presentation on the Honda strategy, vision, values, and behavior, it was pretty clear to me that here was a company founded on positive psychology principles. How did I know?]]></description>
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I recently had the privilege of attending an Open University Business School ‘Business Perspectives’ Masterclass at which Ken Keir OBE,  the Executive Vice President of Honda Motor Europe, talked about the way innovation, the  lifeblood of the Honda company, drives its success.
Even though he focused on Honda’s R&amp;D philosophy, explaining for example how, in recessionary times, the company goes ...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Getting to Grips with the UK&#8217;s Well-being</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/11/getting-to-grips-with-the-uks-well-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday, the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its first Annual Report on Measuring National Well-being (MNW).
The MNW programme was set up in October 2010 in response to the acknowledgement that traditional economic measures of progress such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) do not provide a complete picture of how society is doing. The stated aim of the MNW programme is to “develop and publi...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Should You Play to Your Signature Strengths or Not?</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/09/should-you-play-to-your-signature-strengths-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Applied Positive Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first came across the VIA Inventory of Character Strengths back in my 2007 MAPP class, I was curious to know whether all 24 strengths are the same in terms of their relationship to well-being. We’d read the 2005 research paper by Seligman and colleagues that suggests that using your strengths in new ways [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I first came across the VIA Inventory of Character Strengths back  in my 2007 MAPP class, I was curious to know whether all 24 strengths  are the same in terms of their relationship to well-being. We’d read the  2005 research paper by Seligman and colleagues that suggests that using  your strengths in new ways is an effective way to lastingly increase  your well-being and alleviate depression. Then we were d...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>2012 London Olympic Games: The Optimism Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/09/2012-london-olympic-games-the-optimism-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent London 2012 Olympic Games an unparalleled mood of optimism and hope swept across the United Kingdom. Even people who don’t love sports could not help being drawn into the anticipation and excitement, sharing the heroism of the medal winners and the heart-break of those who missed out, whether by a millimetre or [...]]]></description>
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During the recent London 2012 Olympic Games an unparalleled mood of optimism and hope swept across the United Kingdom. Even people who don’t love sports could not help being drawn into the anticipation and excitement, sharing the heroism of the medal winners and the heart-break of those who missed out, whether by a millimetre or a mile. Who could not be impressed by the sight of beaming Mo Farah winning gold in ...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Book Review: Personal Well-being Lessons for Secondary Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/06/book-review-personal-well-being-lessons-for-secondary-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instinctively, a good teacher knows that a happy child learns more easily and bounces back more quickly from disappointments than an unhappy child.  It’s common sense that a happy teacher performs better than an unhappy one, and this has now been borne out by research at Birkbeck College at the University of London, which suggests [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Instinctively, a good teacher knows that a happy child learns more easily  and bounces back more quickly from disappointments than an unhappy  child.  It’s common sense that a happy teacher performs better than an  unhappy one, and this has now been borne out by research at Birkbeck  College at the University of London, which suggests that there is a link  between teacher well-being and student attainment.
But t...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Book Review: Positive Psychologists on Positive Psychology</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/06/book-review-positive-psychologists-on-positive-psychology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Jarden has written a 130-page e-book, Positive Psychologists on Positive Psychology that explores topics that all positive psychologists, experienced or novice, researcher or practitioner, will find interesting. Not only does the book provide answers to basic questions, such as “What is positive psychology?”, it also addresses more challenging ones, such as When, where and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Aaron Jarden has written a 130-page e-book, Positive Psychologists on Positive Psychology that explores topics that all positive psychologists, experienced or novice, researcher or practitioner, will find interesting.

Not only does the book provide answers to basic questions,  such as  “What is positive psychology?”, it also addresses more challenging ones,  such as

When, where and how did positive psychology...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Positive Psychology: A Practical Guide in the news</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/04/positive-psychology-a-practical-guide-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Charlotte Shepherd has written a fabulous piece about my new book, Positive Psychology: A Practical Guide, in the Wiltshire &#38; Gloucestershire Standard this week. ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Journalist Charlotte Shepherd has written a fabulous piece about my new book, Positive Psychology: A Practical Guide, in the Wiltshire &amp; Gloucestershire Standard this week.
Positive Psychology A Practical Guide Wilts and Glos Standard 19-04-2012
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		<title>7 Highly Effective Habits of Happy People</title>
		<link>http://www.workmad.co.uk/blog/2012/03/7-highly-effective-habits-of-happy-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New for 2012! This special one-day workshop is a fun, practical taster of the science of Positive Psychology in which we share seven of the scientifically-proven tools to increase happiness. Date: Saturday 21st April 10.00 &#8211; 17.00 Venue: Engineers’ House, Clifton Down, Bristol BS8 3NB In this wholly practical day you will have the opportunity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[New for 2012!
 

This special one-day workshop is a fun, practical taster of the science of Positive Psychology in which we share seven of the scientifically-proven tools to increase happiness.
 Date: Saturday 21st April 10.00 &#8211; 17.00
 Venue: Engineers’ House, Clifton Down, Bristol BS8 3NB
In this wholly practical day you will have the opportunity to try for yourself some of the highly effective habits whic...]]></content:encoded>
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