[Fan Favorite] Where Joy Hides: Building a Happy Business, with Ingrid Fetell-Lee

Before In Good Companies returns next week, we'd like to help you finish January on a high note; so we're bringing back one of our favorite episodes on joy. Recent research by Oxford University found that workers are 13% more productive when they’re happy. And yet, another study by BCG found that most company leaders aren’t building their strategies around how their employees feel at work. So joy? It’s a real business question.In this episode, we are joined by designer and joy specialist Ingrid Fetell Lee, to find out how to make our workplaces, our jobs, and ourselves more joyful. A former design director for IDEO, Ingrid is a self-starter with a decade’s worth of research into the science of joy. Her findings made it into a book: Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. Today, she helps us answer the hard questions: how do we get to feel joyful? Our surroundings, the objects in our homes, the things and people we interact with every day… Why do they influence our emotions? And crucially: what does that mean for our companies? Together, we discuss how to make our workplaces more enjoyable and productive, and what joy means for leadership, teamwork and our business philosophy. Join Ingrid and Ari to spread joy today and make it an integral function of your organization.Highlights:When Ingrid first stumbled upon Joy (2:45)Universal joyful patterns (4:54)The evolutionary explanation for joy (7:32)The difference between joy and happiness (9:33)The Aesthetics of Joy in the Workplace (10:29)How physical space can impact our mental health (13:32)The branded environment: “No one wants to work inside the corporate logo” (15:30)The case of joy contagion at Coca-Cola (16:34)Adopting a new joyful leadership (18:56)“The biggest mistake that I've seen employers make is inconsistency” (20:56)Undoing the corporate bias against joy (22:03)Signs that we have changed our team for the better (23:23)Finding joy while working remotely (25:57)Embracing joy in the present (27:46)Gen Z: a new philosophy of joy (29:27)Links:Cadence Bank WebsiteCadence Bank X (Twitter)Cadence Bank LinkedInThe Aesthetics of Joy WebsiteThe Aesthetics of Joy InstagramIngrid Fetell Lee X (Twitter)Ingrid Fetell Lee LinkedInIngrid Fetell Lee InstagramIngrid Fetell Lee PinterestTed Talk: “Where Joy Hides and How to Find It”Research: Oxford University - “Happy workers are 13% more productive” Research: BCG - “Joy at work matters more than you realize”Feedback:If you have questions about the show or topics you'd like discussed in future episodes, email our producers, Natalie.Barron@cadencebank.com, Eydie.Pengelly@cadencebank.com, or Danielle.Kernell@cadencebank.com.

Om Podcasten

Starting and running a business or managing one isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re balancing internal and external forces in a continually changing landscape. You’re building strategies, and banking on the future – no matter what it holds. This is where Cadence Bank’s In Good Companies comes in. We share our wealth of knowledge, and insights from noted industry experts, to guide you through the forces shaping business today. We’re back for Season 6, and this time, we’re setting our sights on the future of work. We’re asking the big questions, like: What will your career look like in 2030? Or 2050, even? How is ESG shaping the future of companies? And how can we leverage AI to our advantage? We bring together experts from across the board, from Silicon Valley to multinationals like EY, to help you stay on the cutting edge of business. And we get to know those who are building the future of our companies; because at Cadence Bank, we want to hear the human side of every success story. Hosting our stellar range of guests this season is our new host, Ari Marin. He is a Cadence Bank Senior Vice President and family enterprise advisor, whose specialty is consulting with family-owned and small businesses. Ari’s idea of “good company” is being around creative, insightful people with unique and inspirational stories. For Season 6, he brings in his curiosity and ambition to In Good Companies, to lead discussions with our guests, and bring listeners across the U.S. all the information they need, in one place, in under 30 minutes. Ready to launch into the future? Then join us!