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Darren Virassammy: CliftonStrengths-smiles | Incite Tax

11 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Darren Virassammy highlights Gallup's recent initiative to quantify employee smiles as a proxy for workforce happiness. He describes how simply asking employees whether they have smiled at work elicits strong emotional reactions—people often break down, revealing prolonged job misery. Virassammy then extends this insight to parenting and entrepreneurship, prompting listeners to consider how distressing it would be if their own children reported never smiling at school or work, and what responsibilities these roles carry in fostering environments where people can genuinely smile.

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So Gallup has actually started measuring how much smiles people are having because that's actually— workforce happiness is actually becoming a critical indicator in how often are people smiling at work. And they've taken measures of this sort of stuff and then find out, like, they just ask that question to people, it goes silent, and then people start tearing up and breaking down crying, saying they don't remember the last time they've smiled in their job in years. Because it's that miserable. And you think about that for a moment, because you're smiling right now, for those of you that can't see me. And that is something that's a huge tell. Think about it. We were talking about parenting before we got on here. Think about if you ask that question to your kids and they were to give you a response, well, I haven't smiled in a long— how would you feel as a parent? How would you feel as an entrepreneur?