Best-self activation is an all-encompassing tool that leads to immediate and long-run desirable outcomes through interaction, recursion and subjective construal between social system and social concept. Best-self activation concepts lead to improvements in employee’s productivity, emotions, resilience to burn out and stress normally associated with work environment. Creativity in problem solving, good relationships with colleagues and employers, high performance under pressure are some of the benefits associated with best-self activation.
Best-self activation influences physiology and emotions in employment relationships. There is growing evidence which suggest that apart from making workers feel good, best-self activation also makes them experience a barrage of positive emotions like
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When employees are less encumbered by reactions to threat and stress, they are better placed to marshal their cognitive faculties to meet the task at hand through exertion of self-control. Individuals who receive best-self activation are better placed to perform better and solve problems in very stressful conditions compared to their counterparts who never received the best-self activation.
Social system effects act through interaction with other environmental processes. Best-self activation gives early advantages in terms of negotiation, perpetuation and broadening of the employee’s scope. This raises creativity and engagement since they are better placed to tackle challenges and well placed to embrace new opportunities as they arise. Subjective construal and interpretation of the environment are interventions which are as a consequence to best-self activation. This has lasting effects in changing people’s narratives concerning their social environment in the work place and their associated attitudes and