CIO Bulletin

Moodally – Providing Evidence-Based Performance and Well-Being Solutions to Boost Morale and Performance

Stress puts us in a bad mood. When this happens, the part of our brain that does our best thinking and helps us manage our moods is disabled. This affects our ability to think and causes impaired problem solving, an increase in mistakes, and difficulty in learning new information, increased distraction, and hyper-reactivity. This results in damage to our productivity levels, our willingness to be helpful to others, and our sense of job satisfaction. Because of brain plasticity dynamics, when we repeat behaviors - including thought patterns or emotional reactions - the brain wires itself to make these behaviors automatic. Basically, anything we do repeatedly - get mad in traffic, roll our eyes at our boss, get stressed at calls from a certain colleague - gets hard wired into our brain as a default reaction. As a result, a series of bad moods can become a fixed mindset over time, leading to burnout.

This is when Moodally comes into the picture. The company provides an innovative science-backed mood management programs, especially for stressed workers. The company also offers workplace mood transformation solutions that help employees reduce stress, boost performance and improve well-being. The company gives employees the skills they need to improve performance, well-being, morale, and engagement – all with minimal organizational investment.

Leveraging Innovate Performance and Well-Being Solutions

Keynote Sessions: Whether your team is 20 or 2000, the keynote sessions offer information that will open a whole new world to your employees. They’ll learn vital facts about how their bodies, brain, and behavior impact their mood, and vice versa. Believe me, there is so much that they don’t know that they need to know. Protect your people by giving them an in-depth look at the hidden dynamics of stress. The information in this presentation will teach your people things that many doctors won’t even know. This session will teach your people everything they don’t know they need to know about their mood; how it influences physical well-being, how it affects their relationships, how it affects the quality of their work. They don’t just teach them a bunch of technique that they may like or not like. They teach them the principle and dynamics so they can find what works for them. As mood management is highly subjective, this approach is an evidence-based best practice.

Group Training: In smaller groups of 10 Moodally goes in depth into the concepts introduced in the speaking sessions. In addition to the theory, groups will participate in activities to learn mood management techniques first hand. Group trainings can be customized according to the needs of the organization. Sample group trainings. After looking at the neuroscience & psychology of cognition, they will work on how to maximize thoughts, motivations and habits for optimal performance. After looking at the neuroscience & psychology of conditioning, the company will dig into what causes us to flare up and why. They will draft a future strategy of how to respond instead of react. They also go through the neuroscience of stress & moods and put into practice a wide range of techniques to find what is most comfortable for them.

The EI Fast Track: Of course the gold standard in skill retention is always 1:1 training. This allows me to design the right tools for their specific needs and with repeated sessions, they work to reinforce good habits together over time. Individual coaching offers a great ROI because studies show that when you train a manager in these mood management skills, the whole team shows positive improvement as a result. here is endless data that proves the important role that emotional intelligence plays in creating leaders and happy teams at work. Investing in training the manager/team leader has an exponential effect and one well-trained manager can 20x your investment. This course will teach the foundation in self-awareness, self-regulation, mood detection, and intentional mood contagion. This course teaches three of the most important skills required to be a good leader. Managers can see improvement in their team performance and in their relationships with their team. Companies that invest in emotional intelligence training see results of 320% more over their competition. It sends ripples through the organization and not the best kind. Sending your employees a lifeline when they most need it is a win-win-win. They benefit, you benefit, the organization benefits.

The Stalwart at the Helm of Moodally

Erika Ferszt is the Founder of Moodally. She was raised in New York City, where she graduated from The Dalton School and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Erika is now currently based in Europe, where for the last 17 years she was a senior advertising executive. She had the incredible luck and honor to have won, together with her team, over 70 awards during her time as the Global Advertising, Media & Digital Director at Ray-Ban. There's even a pair of sunglasses named after Erika.

Under Erika's leadership Moodally has really resonated with the public, especially in this delicate moment in time. She was selected as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Ventures and Moodally and have been featured in numerous global publications like British Vogue, Nasdaq, Reader’s Digest, and Thrive Global.