happy people

Henry Stewart – people work best when they feel good about themselves

Henry Stewart on why people work best when they feel good about themselves

Bjarte Bogsnes at Beyond Budgeting 2014

In this talk from the 2014 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes uses engaging analogies to challenge the two main assumptions behind traditional management, that the future is predictable and that people can't be trusted, and to explain the principles of Beyond Budgeting. He summarises Statoil’s Beyond Budgeting journey, outlines some of the problems faced in implementing their ‘Ambition to Action’ strategy and answers questions from the floor.

Marion Janner - Changing systems within your company

Marion Janner, the Director of Star Wards, spoke at the recent Creating Happy Workplaces Conference about how she helped develop mental health wards through small, low-cost changes.https://www.happy.co.uk/umbraco/#tab69

TLC: Talk, Listen, Change: Maintaining Culture in a Growing Organisation

Michelle Hill is the CEO of TLC: Talk Listen, Change, a charity that believes every adult and child needs to be surrounded by safe, healthy and happy relationships. They do work around counselling, therapy, domestic abuse prevention and more within that sector. In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Michelle breaks down the strategy TLC has implemented to ensure that there is an ideal culture in place and how they've maintained that as the organisation has grown.

Happy is Now an Accredited Living Wage Employer

It is Living Wage Week, where the Living Wage movement is celebrating over 15,000 accredited members who are devoted to going above and beyond for their staff by paying them a real Living Wage. In order to qualify for the Living Wage Certification, the company applying needs to be verified by the Living Wage Foundation to commit to fair pay and good quality of life for their staff, ensure that they are paying a Living Wage to all directly employed staff as well as sub-contracted staff and show a responsibility as an employer to the people employed to the company.

Shannon Banks: Why friendships in the workplace are vital

People with a best friend at work are seven times more likely to be motivated and productive – and yet only 42% of people in the UK say they have a friend at work. Find out the importance of connection in this talk from the 2016 Happy Workplaces Conference by Shannon Banks, coach and consultant at Be Leadership.

Why You Need to Make Friends at Work – Shannon Banks, Be Leadership Ltd

How important is it that you make friends in your workplace? Find out in this talk by Shannon Banks, with results from the Harvard Grant Study.

Valentina Culatti: How UNIT9 use the principles of the Happy Manifesto

UNIT9 has had the best ever staff survey we’ve ever seen – and Valentina Culatti, Managing Director, explained how she achieved it using the principles from the Happy Manifesto in this inspiring talk from the 2016 Happy Workplaces Conference in May. Watch the full video of her talk (20 minutes).

As Commander of a nuclear submarine, David Marquet determined to make no decisions and instead to coach his staff to be their best. The Sante Fe became the best performing submarine in US navy history. He talks about how he did it in his book Turn This Ship Around. At the 2021 Happy Workplaces Conference, David joined us for an Ask Me Anything session. Questions were crowd sourced from the audience at the event, with David answering the best ones. Watch David's video and read the transcript here.

Simon Fowler, Board Member at the John Lewis Partnership Talks Happy

Simon Fowler, a Board Member of the John Lewis Partnership, talks about their unique culture that aligns very closely with The Happy Manifesto principles in this video from the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.