Yes, as a group or team leader you can lead associates towards enjoyment and happiness through daily activities!!!!

This will not only make your group more productive but also will make your job much easier and more rewarding.  We will introduce you to five practical steps, or actions, to continue learning, focus, and commitments among associates by demonstrating reflection, attention, and intentions respectively.

We subscribe to the formula of Pleasure + engagement + meaning = happiness.  For more on this formula visit our learning lens at http://www.squidoo.com/RecipeforHappiness/ .  

• For one to find pleasure they must become interested in an activity.  This often does not happen naturally but because we take the time and trouble of paying attention.  To control attention means to control experience.  We are only conscious of information which we attend to.  Attention acts as a filter between external events and our experience of them.  

In his book "Finding Flow", Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi provides the example of how one has to pay attention in order to experience the simple pleasures of parenting.  To know what the child is "proud of" and "into" one has to devote more attention to share those activities.  "Only when there is harmony between the goals of the participants, when everyone is investing psychic energy into a joint goal, does being together become enjoyable.  The same holds true for any other type of relationship.  "For instance, when there is reason to think that we are appreciated, job satisfaction is usually high".

• How do you as a leader/manager continually engage (involve with heart and mind) team members through daily operations ? 

"Only engaged associates can keep customers engaged and only engaged customers can keep associates engaged"

• When we find meaning through our experiences and relationships we can easily make commitments.  By demonstrating intentions one communicates and solidifies their commitments to others.  While a group leader can take actions to lead intentions, it is difficult to manage them.  When one attempts to manage the intentions of others it most often comes across as scripted and less than sincere to others.