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Deri’s blogs and video posts include emerging information, tools, tips, and strategies for living a positive, mentally-healthy life – at work and beyond!
What Are You Thinking?
For this post, I am sending you to a LinkedIn post from Dan Pink, about the highest form of intelligence, metacognition. Thinking about your thinking. I’ve practiced this for over a decade, and share parts of it in my keynotes. Tired of being hijacked by your emotions? Looking for more self-awareness and self-control? Practice a…Spirit Week?Every Week!
I read an article this week?from one of my internet Google Alerts.? It was one of those articles that struck me ? instantly.? It was by Kim Smith and it was titled Sometimes we could all use a little spirit week.? Kim shared her findings from asking her daughter about?her favourite part of spirit week.?…
Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I recently returned from The First World Congress on Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.??In keeping with the P theme -?one word encapsulates my experience there: Powerful!? What follows is a summary of a few of my key?take-aways from the Congress. Ed Diener spoke on ?New Findings on Happiness?: there is a difference between wanting and…
Leadership is about Asking, not Telling
A client emailed me last week.?? ?Deri, I can?t stop thinking about what you said in the workshop?about how leaders often talk too much, when they should just be quiet and listen instead.?? During the workshop ?Emotional Intelligence: The Leader?s Advantage? I shared with the group something that Marshall Goldsmith shared with a thousand or…
Abundance or Scarcity?
A colleague sent me an email the other day.? It was a ?thank you? note for my generosity.? This colleague had asked me to speak with one of her contacts who is planning to start a speaking, training and consulting business such as mine.? My colleague was impressed at how freely I shared my experience…
The Positive Psychology of ?Meaning?
I dragged my butt over to the school to set up for Staff Appreciation Week.? ?How come it?s always the same people who volunteer for these things?? I muttered to myself, a bit resentfully.? My children?s school has over 600 students, and yet it appears that it is the same small group of parents?volunteering for…
Happiness, Productivity and The Law of Attraction
I believe that most of us understand that, generally, happier employees are more productive; they achieve better results for themselves and for the organization.? There is a lot of research to support the importance of positive emotions at work.? Much of my work is with leaders in organizations, who certainly understand this connection; and who…
Mentoring Magic
I have delivered workshops and keynote presentations?on the?topic of Mentoring for the last 5 years.? My clients, like any organization today, are realizing that there are tremendous benefits to be derived from having a formalized Mentoring program in place.? Some of the benefits are: addressing gaps in knowledge management/corporate memory, as older workers plan to…
Smile; and the World Smiles WITH You!
I have always been fascinated at this time of year.? People are generally pretty happy as the holiday season approaches; although we are busy, we tent to more often smile at each other and wish each other a ?Merry? this or a ?Happy? that.? Have you noticed that when someone smiles at you, the urge…
How Positive Psychology can Work at Work
Check out Martin Seligman talking about Positive Psychology on Ted.com.? I had the privilege to see Dr. Seligman speak at an Appreciative Inquiry conference last year and I was impressed with his ability to simplify what could otherwise be a complicated subject.? I believe we have enormous opportunities to integrate the results of his research…


