Management 3.0 - Practice: Happiness Door

Management 3.0 Practice - Happiness Door

The Happiness Door is a simple tool that was created by Jurgen Apello to support Management 3.0, which is a series of leadership and team collaboration workshops, a book, and an international movement.

The practice of the Happiness Door combines team collaboration, employee engagement and open and honest feedback. Like the Feedback Wall, the Happiness Door is often comprised of Post-It notes with feedback written on them Like the Happiness Index it assumes that people can act as the best gauge of their own happiness levels.

The Happiness Door practice is an excellent exercise and is worthwhile using if you want to use to close your retrospective meeting and/or to get feedback from people within your team.

To use the Happiness Door, you simply put it on the door and / or wall will a scale from 0 to 10. From there, you ask your participants / team members before they leave the physical or digital room of the retrospective meeting to leave you feedback.

By doing this, it’s creates the opportunity to improve your next retrospective meeting.

It is extremely important that you asked your participants / team members to leave you both qualitative and quantitative feedback.

This is critical because if they only leave the “Post It” note of the door and/or wall.

Because, if they put the “Post It” note on the Scale – Level 1 they are only saying that they “hated” the retrospective meeting, and if they put the “Post It” note on the Scale – Level 10 will “loved” the retrospective meeting - you cannot learn anything about it because basically they are telling you what they either “loved or hated” about the meeting.

It is important to create the opportunity for them to explain what they either “loved or hated” about the meeting.

It's vitally important for you to ask qualitative and quantitative feedback by asking them to write on a “Post It” note the reason why they “love or hate” and then request that they put the ““Post It” note on the door and/or wall before they leave the room.

This is valuable information and feedback you can use because it’s relevant, meaningful and timely feedback from your participants and team members.

It’s a great way to build trust and rapport as the Happiness Door creates the opportunity for your participants to give you honest feedback if they either “love” or “hate” the meeting. You can then use this information to improve your next meeting and/or event to get better at what you do.

Using the Happiness Door practice allows feedback, communication, team work and collaboration to occur quickly, easily and naturally within the group of participants.

Management 3.0 is the belief that management is too important to be left to the managers, and that everyone together can improve work-life, employee empowerment, and results. It is a belief that more can be learned in half an hour of a game than a month of meetings.

For more details on Management 3.0 go to https://management30.com/practice/