I was flipping channels idly this afternoon when I caught the last 20 minutes or so of today’s Oprah show. It featured Marcus Buckingham, a career coach and writer who’s all about bringing the happy to the workplace.

He bases his advice on what’s called “strengths training” — but having seen a few minutes of his sessions with some of the participants he worked with for the show, I think it’s more like “joy training” because the first thing he asks is “what do you love?” Then — “what do you loathe?” I think it’s a lot more useful than the “what pays better?” approach from the blogger I wrote about in this post.

I am really quite excited by this newfound embrace of online content delivery that Oprah’s web team has got going on these days. First, the Eckhart Tolle/New Earth class, now Marcus brings you an 8-session coaching workshop. Cost for each: absolutely free.

I’m going to be following along with this workshop and I’ll blog about it as I go. The first assignment: print out the syllabus and start writing down my “loves and loathes.” If you’d like to play with me, check it out at the link above! You don’t have to join to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and download the PDFs you’ll need, but you do need to sign up for a (free) Oprah.com account to do the whole online workbook thing.

Should be fun!