The ideal New Year’s present: happiness as a gift
3 billion people do not feel happy. Our New Year’ s resolution: we are going to do something about that! [...]
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11, 2016
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11, 2016
Help! Stress! The 5 best ways to get rid of it.
Your breathing is shallow, you suffer from a headache, feel tension around your neck and shoulders and your bodily reserves diminish and your immune system weakens. As a consequence you can’t enjoy the things that you normally love to do. Maybe you experience a lack of energy because of the over 100,000 words and [...]
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11, 2016
How stickers solidly boost productivity at work
In our previous blog, Gustaaf shared his story on how he came up with the idea of handing out stickers to improve his own happiness, and that of others. This blogpost provides you with even more in-depth information, written by Assistant Trainer and Designer Cheron, about our great rewarding system and how and [...]
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11, 2016
The Benefits of Happiness that Sticks
My 5-year-old niece asked: ‘Hey, what are those stickers on your laptop?’ She had discovered the, 2 cents a piece, childish stickers on the cover of my very professional Macbook Pro. ‘Oh, my colleagues gave me those because I did some things well!’ She immediately got it: ‘Oh wow, then you did [...]
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11, 2016
Named as a forerunner in the field of sustainable employability
We are proud! Power2Improve has been named as a forerunner in the field of sustainable employability [...]
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11, 2016
How future-proof are you?
The future, and yes, also the labor market, is quite unpredictable. How helpful would it be to show up well prepared and to be able to tackle every possible change [...]
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10, 2016
How to easily earn thousands of euros more
It always felt inappropriate to me to negotiate about the price in a store. There is already a price on the article, so why negotiate? That completely changed when I bought a new couch for my apartment. Lured in by attractive commercials and awesome deals, I walked into the store. Not realizing I just [...]
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10, 2016
Why you should thank your boss more often
Getting a compliment or a pat on the back from your boss is always a great thing. But how many times do you actually show your gratitude and appreciation towards him or her? Why you should do this more often and how this contributes to your success and that of your colleagues? Read on! [...]
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10, 2016
The 8 best tips to work effectively with the most difficult people
Unbearable people, who doesn't know them? That one colleague who always brags, that neighbor who parks her car in an antisocial way again and again or your supervisor who always interferes with your work just a little too much. In these situations frustration, gossip or discomfort often arise faster than you'd like. According to research by the American psychologists Alan Cavaiola and [...]
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09, 2016
Make your colleagues happy on Character Day!
Today is Character Day. On this day, more than 85,000 groups of people from 121 countries pay attention to the value of Strength Creators, the qualities, which make you strong and up to four times as successful. We are amongst them. During this third Character Day, people from all over the world, on all continents, [...]