Interview with Eric Karpinski
Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years, with clients that include Intel, Facebook, IBM, T-Mobile, Genentech and many others. He is a key member of Shawn Achor’s GoodThink team, trained as a scientist at Brown University and has an MBA from the Wharton School. McGraw Hill is publishing his new book, Put Happiness to Work which has been endorsed by Dan Pink and Adam Grant. Book Website: https://puthappinesstowork.com/ What are your Social Media links, so we can tag you when your interview goes live?:https://www.linkedin.com/in/erickarpinski/Twitter: @erickarpinskihttps://puthappinesstowork.com/ Here are some key questions that get right to the fundamental issues from the book: • Why should employers care about happiness?• What do you mean by happiness at work?• How are happiness and engagement related? Are they pretty much the same thing?• My team is full of lots of different personalities. How can we do activities that cover everyone?• You talk about hardwiring behaviors a lot in the book. What do you mean by that?• You talk about stress and negativity as tools in a book about happiness. What’s that about?• We’re all really busy with work, how can fit in these happiness exercises?• Let’s get concrete. What’s one thing we can do to increase our happiness for ourselves and for our team?