The #1 Driver of Employee Wellbeing | Mark Crowley

Welcome to Behavior Grooves, the podcast that explores the intersection of behavioral science and life. I'm Kurt Nelson, and I'm Tim Houlihan. In each episode, we bring you insights from researchers, authors, and practitioners who help us understand why we do what we do and maybe more importantly, what we can do about it. Yeah, and our guest today is Mark. Crowley.

He is a medical doctor, turned financial service executive, turned author and podcaster. That's a lot of careers, I guess. That it is. It's a lot of careers. Now, Mark's new book is The Power of Employee Well-being, and it builds on his earlier work, Lead from the Heart, and he makes a bold case.

If we want thriving organizations, we need to stop treating engagement as a checkbox exercise and start generally, genuinely, not generally, genuinely caring about the well-being of our people. Mark argues that emotions, not rational logic, drive both our personal decision making as well as the vast majority of our workplace behavior. He reminds us that belonging is not just a nice to have, but actually the single biggest driver of employee well-being. He shows us how simple actions, from a leader or coworker asking, how do you feel this week, to tossing a bag of candy to each branch manager.

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