Going Beyond: Steps to Enhancing the Workplace

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Going BeyondSteps to Enhancing the Workplace

• Ezra Holland, M.S.
• CEO, Ezra Holland Consulting (EHC)
• Lecturer, Recreation and Leisure Studies, San
  Francisco State University
• 415.948.7725
• ezra_at_ehcservice.com

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Good Business Leadership, Flow, and the Making
of Meaning

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Principles of Good Business

• Vision beyond the self
• Integrity of leadership
• A product that helps human kind

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Vision beyond the self

• To do ones best
• Helping people
• Build a better world

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A product that helps human kind

• Happier in the long run
• Provide social choice options
• Foster social and environmental ethic
• Responsible for the improvements of life

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Integrity of leadership

• respect
• common purpose
• personal growth of members
• Provide Opportunities for Flow in the workplace

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high
ANXIETY
FLOW
CHALLENGES
BOREDOM
low
high
SKILLS
The Map of Everyday Experience from Good
Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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high
OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE (Focused Happy)
ANXIETY (Stressed, Alert)
AROUSAL (Alert, Focused)
WORRY (Stressed, Sad)
CONTROL (Happy, Confident)
CHALLENGES
APATHY (Sad, Depressed)
BOREDOM (Depressed, Contented)
RELAXATION (Confident, Contented)
low
high
SKILLS
The Map of Everyday Experience from Good
Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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How does it feel to be in FLOW?

• Goals are clear
• Feedback is immediate
• Opportunity and capacity are balanced
• Concentration Deepens
• The present is what matters
• Control is no problem
• Sense of time is altered
• Ego is lost