Billy has been writing blogs for Happy since 2017, covering mindfulness, stress management, confidence building and emotional intelligence as well as offering handy tips for Office 365 users. He's also an established arts, culture and lifestyle writer.
While there has been a lot of buzz around removing appraisals and changing to a coaching culture, there are some areas where this just isn’t possible. In this blog, Billy gives his four tips for how you can ensure you have a positive, constructive appraisal.
Could you be an accidental diminisher? In this blog, Billy looks at some of the ways that managers can reshape their behaviour to multiply their team, giving their team more autonomy and trust.
At Happy, we ‘recruit for attitude, train for skill’ when hiring new people – and we’re not the only ones. In this blog, Billy reveals five successful organisations that use this method for their recruitment too.
An essential feature of Microsoft Excel, Pivot Tables help organise and summarise user data. The easy-to-use tool can greatly assist with interpreting key trends and drawing conclusions from large data sets. In this blog, Billy gives four reasons why Excel's Pivot Tables are an essential tool.
JavaScript is the programming language responsible for interactivity on web pages — it is behind such prevalent features as multimedia items and form submissions.
A hefty portion of our daily working lives is spent composing and receiving mail via Outlook. A powerful and multifaceted program, Outlook is the standard email platform across a vast range of industries. As a matter of fact, in Litmus’ 2018 Email Client Market Share research they found that Outlook was the leading client for desktop. As Outlook is central to the modern workplace, we have identified a few features that could help save time and boost productivity.
There’s plenty to consider when chairing a meeting, including what format the meeting will take. While we are all familiar with meetings, we also know that many of them tend to lean so heavy on the formal side that there is little productivity as a result of them. Meeting styles are constantly being revised in the name of optimum impact. Here are a few things that meeting chairs should consider when conceiving meeting framework.
Mindfulness, put simply, is an exercise in attention. It’s a practice that revolves around calming the mind through meditation.
Microsoft Excel is certain to improve your life at work. Microsoft Excel is one of the modern workplace’s most indispensable computer programs. The daily operations of a huge variety of businesses – from travel adventure companies and art dealerships to retail stores and sports broadcasters – would be considerably tougher without the utility of Excel. It’s no exaggeration to call Excel the preeminent spreadsheet program, but for those unfamiliar with its workplace contributions, here’s a look at some productivity-boosting features.
Office 365 subscribers will know that Microsoft regularly unfurls new features and updates for the software’s constituent apps. But given the frequency of these updates, there’s a chance you either haven’t caught up or are yet to take full advantage of the exciting new additions. Here’s a look at some attention-grabbing features to have shown up in recent months.