Leadership Wisdom

I have enclosed supporting content and inspiration for your reference!

View Brian Johnson's video on Smartcuts by Shane Snow. Learn the thought-provoking ideas from the book and how you can adapt into your leadership initiatives. The Philosopher Note is included. 

View the LinkedIn Shane Snow teaching on Storytelling and be prepared to learn inspiring insights on how stories help us build relationships and make people care. How can you apply these principles to your everyday leadership?

Read the article on Positive Psychology and learn more in-depth information on the PERMA model. 

See the Color Code blog from the Harvard Study on Happiness. Building and maintaining positive relationships is one of the most important things we can learn in our leadership journey. View the accompanying story via the link. 

View the additional content on Leadership, Lateral Thinking, Leadership Styles, and Limiting Beliefs. The Leadership Wisdom section includes some of my favorite teachings. Read the GE Healthcare story on Human-Centered Design. 

Find the link to the Yale/Coursera course, The Science of Well-Being and engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. 

The VIA Institute on Character is an excellent resource for taking a deeper look into your personal strengths. Take the assessment and view the additional resources. 

Cheers!

Lisa

Check out this awesome mini training with Brian on Smart Cuts 

Shane Snow on Storytelling

Positive Psychology

The PERMA Model - The Scientific Theory of Happiness

HARVARD STUDY FINDS RELATIONSHIPS HAVE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL EFFECT ON OUR HEALTH & HAPPINESS

Here at Color Code, we teach that life is all about relationships. Our main goal as a company is to help people understand themselves and others on a deeper level so they can improve both their personal and professional relationships. We’ve seen marriages saved, businesses prosper, families improve, etc., etc., all because people took the time to put an effort into building their emotional intelligence and relationship skills.

With that said, you can imagine how we love research that further validates the importance of what we do. Today, we thought we’d share with our readers one study we find particularly fascinating and encouraging.

Because this isn’t just any study–it’s one of the most important studies ever done on health and happiness, and the results might surprise you.

The study we’re referring to is called The Grant Study and began at Harvard University just shy of 80 years ago and continues to this day. It started in 1938 with scientists tracking the health of 268 Harvard Sophomores. They hoped the longitudinal study would reveal clues leading to healthy and happy lives.

The study has followed these 268 men throughout their lives and measures an astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits—from personality type to IQ to drinking habits to family relationships to body type to so much more—in an effort to determine what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing.

Of course, we don’t have time to go into all the details of this extensive study but if you’re interested, you can read more by clicking on the link we provided below.

We hope this will inspire you to continue in your efforts to foster healthy relationships. Because, as it turns out, your health and happiness could depend on it… read more below to see what we mean.

The following quotes are from Robert Waldinger, current director of the study, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

 “The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health.”

“Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation.”

So, there you have it! After 80 years of study and still going, scientists are more certain than ever that good relationships play a significant factor in our physical and mental health.

–The Color Code Team

LINK:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/