Moroccan author and Chief Happiness Officer Mounia Tazi launched a book titled “Happiness in the Balance: Achieving Harmony in Work and Life.” Morocco World News interviewed the author for an in-depth look at the book.

Moroccan Author Mounia Tazi Highlights Importance of Work-Life Harmony

Rabat- Moroccan author and Chief Happiness Officer Mounia Tazi launched a book titled “Happiness in the Balance: Achieving Harmony in Work and Life.” Morocco World News interviewed the author for an in-depth look at the book.

The book emphasizes the significance of striking a balance between work and life. It also explains why workplace happiness is an important issue for businesses today, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, the book provides managers and executives with useful tools to boost productivity and improve business performance. The power of gratitude is also one of the themes tackled in the book.

The Moroccan author’s personal search for happiness has inspired her to write the book. Tazi told MWN: “I started studying strategies and tools to use in my personal life in my quest for happiness. I then implemented them while successfully coaching managers to improve their productivity and the work environment in their companies.”

The author shared her motive for writing the book explaining how she wants to share the knowledge that she gained through research and “to help people find happiness.”

Morocco’s first Chief Happiness Officer

Tazi is Morocco’s first Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) as she advocates for the importance of happiness in the workplace.

She explained that CHOs “act as the liaison between management and employees to create an environment that will increase overall happiness,” she continued. “They have a specific budget to invest in various activities that promote employee well-being and happiness” citing training courses and group yoga classes as examples.

The Moroccan writer founded Happy Nation Boost to raise awareness about workplace happiness and its benefits to employee health and company success. The movement also serves as a platform for sharing best practices and tools for finding happiness.

Tips and tricks for happiness

The Moroccan author recalled holding workshops in universities and businesses in 2017 to teach students, managers, and employees how to adopt a positive mindset.

She stressed that having a positive mindset is key to a successful and long-lasting career saying that “you can rewire your brain and train it to have new positive habits such as solving issues and creating rather than dwelling on why the problem happened.”

A positive mindset can be developed by practicing positive habits, she reiterated, adding that “happiness does not happen by chance,” and that a strategy is necessary to achieve happiness in personal life or at work.

“We have created an HPNS application to measure employees’ happiness and help them build positive habits with daily exercises,” Tazi told MWN. “The application will be launched in October and will be available for companies hoping to include happiness at work in their management strategies.”

The Moroccan author also touched on the importance of communication among coworkers and workplace democracy. She explained that when employees feel heard and valued, they are more likely to be engaged and happy in their jobs.

When asked to share the most effective tips for achieving work-life balance, Tazi urged people to have a plan, focus on individual strengths, take action, celebrate the results, and keep moving forward.

“It has become my mantra. I am sure it will work for everyone,” she said.

Tazi graduated in leadership and management and studied positive psychology. In 2017, she volunteered as a facilitator at The Happiness Summit in Miami, where she met Alexander Kjerulf, one of the world’s leading experts on workplace happiness.

Her meeting with Kjerulf inspired her to apply for CHO training. She later graduated as a Chief Officer of Happiness from the Woohoo Academy of Happiness at Work in Copenhagen, Denmark.