How to get the most from the Joy at Work Summit
I’m your host, Lucia Knight, founder of Midlife Unstuck, a career design consultancy dedicated to helping professionals create less stressful and more joyful careers in the second half of their lives.
The Joy at Work Summit is happening from July 8th to 11th, and you don’t want to miss it!
Head over to the Joy at Work Summit page to subscribe for free and check out our amazing lineup of speakers.
I’d love to share some tips on how to get the most out of this free online summit, delivered by private podcast, with 25 speakers giving ten minute jolts of their wisdom to increase your joy at work.
My dream for you is to take just one idea from one of the talks that deeply connects with you - and experiment with it in your next working day. The goal is to increase your joy at work by 10% in one day.
If that works, try another idea from another talk.
Who knows where it could lead? But it’s definitely in the direction of more joy at work!
It’s unlikely you’ll be attracted to all 23 speakers, even though each talk is only ten minutes max in length.
To make it easier, I’ve divided the speakers into four focus areas that contribute to joy at work.
Choose the subjects that resonate with you, whether they address your current challenges or future opportunities you feel drawn to.
Then, HIT PLAY and tune in to those sessions - over lunch, on your commute or doing exercise.
Each day, the Joy at Work team will release talks related to these four areas.
Once you’ve registered and subscribed to the Joy at Work Summit podcast, you’ll be invited to subscribe wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts.
Every day, I work with mid-career professionals who have a dream to change career “sometime in the future”. While we’re figuring out the bigger, longer-term work dreams, we always begin to immediately focus on ways to improve their current work situation.
And sometimes, that’s all that needs to happen!
Sometimes, smaller changes in the way they do their current work frees up space to bring more joy to their work-life and real-life!
In day one of the Joy at Work Summit, I introduce you to a group of people who can challenge the way you think about your current work.
Finding the right role is crucial for joy at work.
Over the last eight years, I’ve guided mid-career professionals through work redesign processes and have seen that success in health often takes a back seat to work success. Health is the cornerstone of joy at work.
In the final day of the Joy at Work Summit, we come at the idea of joy from so many different angles. and some Consider the wider influencers of joy.
I’ll close the summit with my key takeaways to provide you with list of actionable, tangible ideas that you can takeaway and implement to bring you 10% or 100% more joy at work.
And Caroline Chapple, artist and graphic illustrator will share her takeaways visually. You’ll get access to her summaries of each day via email.
Remember to check the show notes for any special downloads or links to further content from the speakers. You’ll find these wherever you’ve listened to the talks (Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, Amazon Music etc)
To take your joy at work to the next level, connect with the speakers on LinkedIn (or wherever you and they hang out). Mention that you heard them speak at the Joy at Work Summit 2024 and make their day!
Each speaker has donated their wisdom and time for free. Because they believe in the cause - increasing joy at work for all listeners.
Mention that you heard them speak at the Joy at Work Summit 2024 and make their day!
One of the central points in designing more joy at work is spreading joy in the form of kindness. Each time we give specific positive feedback to anyone at work, we receive a mini-jolt of joy ourselves. What’s not to love about that?