New reading in positive psychology

Speakers at the Applying the Science of Positive Psychology to Improve Society symposium at Claremont Graduate University are touting their new books.

Cameron, Kim (2008). Positive Leadership: Strategies for extraordinary performance. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. "Shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Cameron calls 'positively deviant performance' — performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational development and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron shows that to go from successful to exceptional, leaders must learn how to create a profoundly positive environment in the workplace."

Diener, Ed (2009). Well-Being and Public Policy. Oxford Press. Presents the case for national measures of subjective well-being to be used for policy purposes. Available April 2009.

Diener, Ed and Robert Biswas-Diener (2008). Happiness: Unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing. This father and son team presents scientific evidence revealing that happiness is not overrated, and is good for people's health, social relationships, job success, longevity and altruism.

Serve on OSR 15 Degree Committees

OSR 15 students are seeking graduates to serve as field advisors on degree committees. Graduates of cohorts 1–12 are eligible to participate.

A quick refresher about a field advisor's role. Field advisors:

• Serve on a degree committee to support, challenge and guide an OSR student in navigating the Master's program to reach academic and specific area-of-focus goals.
• Attend four formal meetings, approximately two hours in length, between now and graduation in June 2010.
• Prepare for each meeting, often investing at least two hours to read student work and formulate questions.
• Are available for informal discussions as appropriate to support a student's degree process.
• Attend the cohort's graduation brunch on Sunday, June 13, 2010.

If you have an interest in serving as a field advisor,

• Visit the OSR web site to view students' Degree Committee ads in Job opportunities. (You will need to sign in to My OSR before accessing the ads; the user name is your email address and the password is your first name unless you changed the password).
• Update your contact information and make sure your visibility preferences are set to "all."
• And update your bio/resume so that students can find a good match. 

For help or more information, contact Paula Brekke.

Community Consulting Partnership seeks non-profit client

The Community Consulting Partnership (CCP) is seeking a client for their February cycle.  CCP is an organization devoted to training volunteers to conduct organization development consultations by putting them to work with not-for-profit organizations. 

If you know a not-for-profit organization that could use the services of CCP, please have them visit the CCP web site. 

Caroline Fu heading to Gonzaga

OSR 7 graduate Caroline Fu recently accepted a position as assistant professor joining the faculty of the Leadership Studies doctoral program at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.  She begins teaching in September of 2009.  Congratulations Caroline!

"I consider OSR to have been a profound contributor to my growing up to become a professor!" — Caroline Fu