The Great Resignation Solution: Empowering Employees With Happiness with Rob Dubin, Employee Engagement Expert (#4)

The Great Resignation is still subsiding very slowly. Millions of workers leaving their jobs every month creates a daily challenge for HR pros to keep their organizations fully staffed. Consultant Rob Dubin, who works with companies to turn burned out employees into engaged employees, shares his ideas for helping your people better connect with the things that lead to true happiness.

Highlights

[5:51] Where feelings of unfulfillment driving the Great Resignation are coming from

[9:38] Happiness vs. “mis-wanting”

[13:48] Re-thinking good benefits and compensation as the key to happiness

[16:02] Can happiness be taught?

[19:15] Happiness, relationships with others and remote work

[21:21] Would four-day workweeks make people happier?

[23:05] Getting the C-suite to care about improving employee engagement

[26:14] What HR can do to promote more happiness within the company

[28:58] Happiness, productivity and profits

[30:54] Some things scientific research has found about happiness

Guest Bio:

Rob Dubin was an award-winning filmmaker who traveled the world making commercials and TV programs for Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 42 Rob and his wife sold their home, moved onto a 40-foot sailboat, and spent 17 years sailing around the world studying human happiness and fulfillment. Today Rob gives back by teaching courses in employee happiness which increase engagement, reduce resignations and combat quiet quitting. Rob combines lessons learned while sailing around the world with the science of human happiness to deliver strategies for building team engagement.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robdubin/

https://www.robdubin.com/

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