Managers shape more than performance; they shape emotional climate. In her second column for Employee Happiness Daily, Dr. Louise Lambert explores how emotional contagion influences team behaviour, decision-making, and psychological safety, and why the way leaders show up matters more than they realise. | Written by Dr. Louise Lambert Most managers believe they are paid to manage performance. Targets, delivery, quality, timelines. And they are. But there is something else the

Dr. Louise Lambert, Head of Happiness Programming & Policy Design at HappinessMatters.org , explores how managers shape workplace wellbeing daily through behaviour, presence, and small, consistent actions. | Written by Dr. Louise Lambert Most managers don’t wake up thinking, “Today, I will influence my team’s wellbeing.” They wake up thinking about deadlines, emails, decisions, problems to solve, and meetings they don’t have time for. And yet, whether they think about wellbei