Work Well Together — Building a Flourishing Workplace

The Problem

"Most leaders want their team to be a better place to work. The hard part is knowing where to start, keeping it going after the first good meeting, and telling whether it made a difference. Trying everything at once rarely lasts. Choosing one building block, practising it for months and checking the result is something a team can feel."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

Read the nine building blocks for yourself and for your team, and choose the one that matters most now
Run short, practical activities with your team in ordinary meetings, without anyone needing an account
Adapt an activity to fit your team while keeping what makes it work
Take the reading again after about six months, weigh the evidence honestly, and decide to keep, tweak or swap

The science behind it

What you'll learn

The PERMA+4 framework: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement, physical health, mindset, work environment and economic security
How to ask your team for the truth, and why psychological safety matters
A simple theory of change, and how to keep the active ingredient of an activity while adapting the rest
Five evaluation questions for judging whether what you tried worked for your team

What's included

Everything you get

62 tools across 12 modules: a personal track and a leader track for each of the nine building blocks
Four tools built for this course: Our One Block, Money and Work: The Leader's Conversation, Our Flourishing Experiment, and Keep, Tweak or Swap
A reader and a one-page card for every module, and private fillable workbooks for most tools
An audio guide for every tool, and full research references on every Learn tab

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For team leaders and supervisors, HR and people managers, and wellbeing officers who want a practical, evidence-informed way to make one team a better place to work, and to know whether it worked.

A course for one person who wants to make their team a better place to work. You read the nine building blocks of flourishing at work, the PERMA+4 framework, for yourself and for your team as you see it, ask the team one question, and choose one block. Then you run short activities with your team in ordinary meetings for about six months, with a personal track for your own practice beside them, and finish by taking the reading again, answering five evaluation questions and deciding to keep, tweak or swap. Your team members do not need an account. Built on Donaldson and Chen's Positive Organizational Psychology (Wiley, 2026) and the research behind it.

Common questions

FAQ

Does my team need to sign up?

No. You take the course; your team takes part in short activities in your ordinary meetings, and you keep the record. Organisations that want every team member to have the course can include it in the WorkSmart4Life Organisation Plan.

Do I have to do all nine building blocks?

No. You choose one block, work on it for about six months, and then decide whether to keep going or choose the next. Most leaders will work one block per cycle.

Is this HR, legal or financial advice?

No. It is management education built on positive organisational psychology. Where a conversation involves harassment, discrimination, safety, debt or someone in distress, follow your organisation's procedures and point people to qualified help.

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One building block at a time: choose it, practise it with your team, and see whether it worked

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