Recently I had a colleague, who I believed talented, experienced and I want her to work with. Within half a year I realized that my decision to hire her wasn't right. Although I liked her a lot, she had a great humour, experinences, knowledge what I will never have, finally our cooperation didn't work. What was my expectation? What went wrong? What mistakes I made? Hopefully I will find answers and will learn from this experience. 

Shawn Achor, expert of the positive psychology, writer of the Happiness Advantage book and many others, proposes us to decrease the noise caused by news flood and let’s try to minimize both the amount and the negative news we get.

Your attitude is contagious.

Choose to be a positive project manager. Your positive thinking will influence project team members, other stakeholders around you.

If you are happy, excited about your project, others will feel and become energised as well. If you believe that problem solving is a simple step in your project, your team members will feel the same, will solve challenges and other stakeholders will trust you and your team. 

A homeless man named Chris has been reunited with his pet rat after social media users rallied together to help.

This new study says that smiling really can make people feel happier – even if they’re feeling stressed.

Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind device that can generate electricity from falling snow.

After firefighters spent almost nine hours battling the flames inside of the beloved Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, officials say that the majority of the building’s most hallowed structures and artifacts have been preserved.

Jim Allison has been the quiet hero behind some of the most ground-breaking medical research of the last quarter century—but before he won the Nobel prize for his work, he was laboring tirelessly to proves his theories against a skeptical scientific community.

These music boxes may be small, but they are having a huge impact on the families who use them.

The Music Memory Box was created as a means of using photographs, objects, and music to help people with dementia to remember their past.

In a historic feat by @EHTelescope & @NSF, a black hole image has been captured for the 1st time.

Over 1 million homeowners and gardeners from around the world have joined the fight to save dwindling pollinator populations – and you can join the team too.

Art enthusiasts and world travelers are being given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend the night with a legendary host: the Mona Lisa.

You and a lucky friend now have the chance to participate in a one-night slumber party at the Musée du Louvre on April 30th.

Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels.

It will soon be possible to reduce common indoor air pollutants using just a curtain.

A mineral-based surface treatment enables this new curtain from IKEA to break down air pollutants when it comes in contact with light.

Not many 13-year-old boys can say that they were able to buy a car, let alone a car for their mother – but that is exactly what William Preston did last week.

On a visit to the L.L.Bean flagship store in Freeport, Maine, seven-year-old Benjamin Ball asked if the store’s café had a paper straw for his lemonade. When he discovered he could only get a plastic straw, his love of sea turtles and ocean life prompted him to take action.

The Hungarian Anti-Poverty Network (Magyar Szegénységellenes Hálózat – MSZEH) held its award ceremony for its media prize called ’About poverty with dignity’ on Wednesday. The network founded the prize three years ago with the aim of recognizing journalists who report on poverty appropriately: with dignity, nuance, solidarity, and care.

Former Pop Idol coach Carrie Grant is on a mission to get the nation singing and improving their health in the process.

The revered UK publisher of world literature, Pushkin Press, who published Antal Szerb, has just released the classic Hungarian children's book by Ervin Lázár: Arnica the Duck Princess in Anna Bentley's translation.

Africa is set to receive a massive financial windfall courtesy of the world’s largest developmental banking organization.

This 8-year-old African immigrant has used his wits to score a checkmate in the game of life.

Daria Pushkareva was a successful photographer living in Russia’s capital city of Moscow when she decided to leave the bustling city life behind – which is why she now lives in the woods with over 100 rescued animals.

Jane Broadis is a teacher who shares her students’ work on Twitter. One poem she posted has received over 175,000 likes because it’s both clever and inspiring.

The remarkable love story of two long-legged birds from eastern Croatia, which has gone on for the last 17 years, continues as Klepetan arrived back home to his love Malena earlier than expected on Monday.

With more than 45 000 votes, the Almond Tree of the Snowy Hill in Pécs won the first prize, this way it is the 9th occasion that a Hungarian tree won in the Tree of the Year contest.

Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognise the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world.

Our aim is to organize a conference for you that reflects the spirit of Positive Psychology, provides growth, inspiration and handy practices you can immediately build in your everyday life. We believe Positive Psychology is the science that has the answers for the ever growing challenges of our fast changing business and social environment.

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Beata Kisszőlősi Szánthó and Krisztina Medgyesi, Hungary http://iodanet.org/?p=3457

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I’ve been delivering facilitated workshops using parables to cover the key learning for just over five years. I love this facilitation method as it is a fun and interesting way of conveying a powerful message that keeps the participants interested over the whole of a one or two day session. Furthermore, it allows a common language across the organization that is easily understood by everyone no matter what the culture.