4 exciting research projects from Woohoo Labs - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

4 exciting research projects from Woohoo Labs - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog We are currently working on 4 RD?projects that we hope will generate new important knowledge about happiness at work. We are really excited about the results and were doing the studies under a fairly rigorous scientific approach. Its not like were expecting any of this to be peer reviewed, but were trying really hard to conduct the studies objectively. Here are the 4 projects. 1: Client impact of our work Were doing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the effect of the work weve done for our clients over the last 2 years. Outcomes: An increased knowledge of the effect of our work. Knowledge of which of our offerings and tools work best. Information to have even more of an impact in the future. 2: Analysis of our happiness surveys Some years ago we developed an informal happiness at work survey that weve been using with some of our clients, mostly in Denmark. In all, the survey has been taken 15,000 times, giving us some cool data to crunch. Outcomes: A benchmark for happiness at work across Danish workplaces. Statistics on?which of 9 different factors (like co-workers, managers, praise, etc) correlate most with happiness at work. A wealth of other statistics like happiness levels in private vs. public workplaces, big or small workplaces or even how happiness changes over the year or during the week. HeartCount measuring happiness at work Were beta testing a new team-based way to measure happiness at work where team members answer 3 simple questions weekly. Its called HeartCount and you can read all about it here. Outcomes: Testing?a method?to give teams useful real-time feedback on how the team is feeling. Does that feedback itself influence team happiness? Can you keep the team engaged in the survey and response rates high? Intervention study on happiness at work What actually makes a team happier? We are testing the effect of 4 different fairly small interventions on 1,200 people in 70 teams from different Danish workplaces. Well be measuring team happiness before the study, then each team gets a simple happiness tool which they use for 4 weeks. We measure happiness again after 2 weeks and also after 4 weeks. Main question were trying to answer: Outcomes: Can you increase a teams happiness with fairly small interventions. Which interventions actually end up being used. Which interventions have an effect an how much. All of this is very much a new direction for us. Weve been using other peoples studies for ages so we thought it was about time for us to contribute some research of our own. Got any questions or suggestions? Write a comment wed love to hear what you think. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related