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SPARKING JOY
INVESTING TIME IN the tasks and routines that
bring the most joy has been shown to improve
both home and work lives, according to Cassie
Holmes, chaired professor at the University
of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson
School of Management (Los Angeles) and author
of " Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction,
Expand Your Time, and Focus on What
Matters Most. "
In her opening keynote session at the 2024
HCD Conference, she discussed how people
spend their time and shared ideas with attendees
on how to prioritize happiness and
use time at work more optimally by designing
schedules with purpose. " It makes us more
creative, more adaptive in our problem solving.
Happy people are more engaged and better
performers. They're less likely to call in sick or
leave the company, " she said.
Using empirically based insights, she told attendees
that spending two hours a day doing
what makes them happy can improve not only
their lives, but also their work. " When you feel
happier, it allows you to show up better in the
work you do and for those around you. ... There
is plenty of data showing that happiness has
positive consequences across our daily lives,
in the workplace, interpersonal relationships,
and in respect to health, " she says.
However, there is such a thing as having too
much time, she added. Using her own research
conducted at UCLA, Holmes shared with attendees
that having more than five hours of
discretionary time also makes people less happy.
The " sweet spot, " she said, is between two
and five hours of free time daily.
In closing, Holmes discussed strategies to
help people experience greater joy, including
identifying worthwhile ways to spend time by
tracking activities over the course of a week
and rating those activities on a 10-point scale
for happiness.
She also said that people can " buy better
time, " by outsourcing with time-saving services
such as a meal-prep subscription. Homes
noted that happiness is not about the quantity
of time, but the quality of time.-Robert
McCune, senior editor
a new scholarship dedicated in Jones' honor).
Thompson challenged every attendee in the
audience to be a mentor and bring a mentee to
next year's conference. " Mentors don't have
to be the same race or gender as their mentees;
they only need the willingness to help, "
she said.
Building on that idea, Architect Roderick
Walton, principal at Moody Nolan (Atlanta),
said that " positioning architects as trusted
advisors at a very early age is important " and
POWER OF MENTORSHIP
FOR THE DAY-TWO keynote presentation, industry
leaders joined HCD Brand Director
Jennifer Kovacs Silvis on stage for a panel discussion
on " Nurturing the Next Generation of
Talent to Innovate Health Equity. "
" I am here today as a licensed architect
who enjoys a successful career in healthcare
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design because I had a mentor named Walter
Jones, and he invested time with me, " said
Tammy Thompson, director of experience
engagement, education, and design at East
Carolina University Health (Greenville, N.C.),
referring to architect and diversity champion
Walter B. Jones. (Read more on page 33 about
can be achieved through summer programs.
" Our responsibility as practitioners is to
make the industry's intentions and motivations
more transparent for a new generation, "
he said. " Having more diverse voices
in the room as we position the future of
healthcare design is incredibly important. "
For a recap of the panel discussion, visit
hcdmagazine.com.-RM
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