Insightful Reflections to Increase Happiness by 5%
Defining Happiness
This was a project created to potentially assist with a hypothetical company's initiative to promote wellness as a part of the company culture. This was designed to be a 30 minute Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) which could also be implemented in person at a later date.
Background Information
Audience
Company employees from all departments including employees from the management level.
Additional Deliverables
PowerPoint Slide and Facilitator Guide
Problem
This mid-sized company had an initiative to promote wellness as a part of the company culture they wanted to nurture.
Tools
Apple Keynote, Zoom Survey feature
Solution
This training session equips employees with an opportunity to utilize insights from researcher Tal Ben-Shahar in his book "Happier" to find small ways to improve life contentment.
The Design Process
This 20 minute Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) was created after careful consideration of employee personas that I also created as a part of the Analysis phase of the ADDIE design process. During this phase, I considered the experiences I had with the employees as a starting point and gathered other information about them from the appropriate channels.
In the Design phase of ADDIE, I established an appropriate learning objective for the VILT and considered Robert Gagne's 9 Events of Instruction to map out an outline of what would transpire during the time allotted for the training. I referenced the notes I had taken while reading researcher Tal Ben-Shahar's book "Happier" to find one of the useful exercises offered in the book that I could modify for employees to practice as a Structured Exercise during the session.
In the Development phase of ADDIE, I structured a modification of an exercise in the book, wrote a lecture script to accompany my Apple Keynote presentation slides, and created a few surveys that would help employees gauge their transformation during the training.
In the Implementation phase of ADDIE, I implemented the course over Zoom, utilizing the platform's screen share and survey features
During the Evaluation phase of ADDIE, employees were given a Google Form questionnaire that I created with Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Model in mind.
Slides
Facilitation Guide
