by MAI Team | Aging, Energy, Happiness, Mind/Body Connection, Perseverance, Physical Fitness, Physical Health, Positive Psychology, Uncategorized, Willpower
I attended the Canadian Positive Psychology’s 2012 conference this past weekend and was surprised to learn that it was the first conference about positive psychology in all of North America. In the mean time, I want to highlight something I have in common with...
by MAI Team | Business, Career, Employees, Flourish, High Performance, Positive Psychology, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Teamwork
Last week an article by Edward Lawler III titled Preventing the Loss of Key Talent was posted on Forbes. Ed Lawler and his Center for Effective Organizations has been recognized by Fortune and other publications as one of the leading management research...
by MAI Team | Energy, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Intelligence, Intelligence & Abilities, Mindfulness, Motivation, Positive Psychology, Self Confidence, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Values
At the core of each of us are our values – important and enduring beliefs about what is important. Once ignited, our instinctive drives can sustain us when we need to set aside our most natural behavior, as shown in this TED video by Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The...
by MAI Team | Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Positive Psychology, Team Dynamics, Teamwork
Positive Psychology suggests that how we deal with each other’s good news may be more important than how we deal with problems and crises. That’s right. Celebration trumps Commiseration. Your spouse comes home and announces they have received a raise. Do you say:...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, Flourishing, Happiness, Mind/Body Connection, Positive Psychology, Positivity, The Mind
People who spend twenty or more minutes outside in the sunshine in the spring and early summer have more expansive and open thinking, Matthew Keller, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, et al tell us in their research paper A Warm Heart and a...
by MAI Team | Coaching, Conflict, Conflicting Ideas, Positive Psychology, Strengths, Team Dynamics, Team Performance, Teamwork, Values
Steve Jobs’ authorized biography by Walter Isaacson paints a vivid picture of a man with vision, purpose and one whose single-minded focus brought us an ingenious array of beautifully designed and intuitive products. Also apparent, to misquote Shakespeare in Othello,...
