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Learn About Our Brave Leadership Programme in our Free Taster Session

Join us for an inspirational look at female leadership and discover more about our one year transformational programme. Our unique blended package of events is all about uncovering, celebrating, and nurturing your power as a female leader. In this taster session we will be exploring what assertive leadership looks like and what this means from a woman's perspective. There is no charge for this 60-minute online workshop on 23rd January, delivered face-to-face online via Zoom. All welcome, with no obligation and no hard sales pitch.

Happy's January competition is back with another set of fantastic prizes. For a chance to win, tell us what challenge you overcame in 2020 and how you met it — or how you will meet it in 2021, if you didn't in 2020. Our top prize includes a free place on any of our one or two day courses, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year's access to our Happy Video Library, and more! Closing date: midnight GMT on 31st January 2021. Winner will be announced on 3rd February 2021.

How often do you struggle to find an email that you need in Outlook? In this short 2 minute video, Nicky explains how you can use the search tools in Outlook to speed up finding emails in your inbox. These handy tools search all folders, and allow you to enter in as much information as you remember about the message.

How to Group Dates Together in a Pivot Table in Excel

Pivot Tables are a fantastic way to make sense of complex tables of data. In this two-minute video, Nicky explains how your Pivot Tables can show group your data by Month and Year with just a few clicks.

How to Use the Quick Analysis Tool in Excel

Quick Analysis is one of the features introduced in Excel 2013. It allows you to visually spot trends and information in your spreadsheets, with just a few clicks. This is a really simple trick that even those of you brand new to Excel will be able to use. In this video, Nicky will show you how to use Quick Analysis and some of the Formatting tools - and how to clear it if you don't want to see the information anymore.

How to Quickly Update All of Your PowerPoint Slides at Once

Master Slides enable you to update all of your PowerPoint slides in a presentation at once. This ensures that all of your slides have the same formatting, making your presentation look more professional and consistent. In this short video, Nicky explains how to update your Master Slides, including the background, font and text size.

How to Speed up Using Autosum in Excel

Did you know that there is a shortcut for the Autosum formula in Excel? In this short video, Nicky shows you how to use this great timesaver, both for simple and more complex spreadsheets. You can even use Autosum on the whole table at once!

Did you know that when you are interrupted, it takes an average of 5 minutes to get back to the same level of concentration you had before? The worst culprit for interruptions are email notifications. We recommend that you only check your email three times a day, or only after you have completed a task. In this short video, Nicky explains how you can turn off that distracting email alert in Outlook so you can focus better and be more effective.

Transparency and Job Ownership at ATS UK Ltd

This year at Advanced Technology Services UK Limited, Derek Hill and his team have focused on increasing transparency and job ownership. This is particularly important as ATS has 185 locations across the globe, primarily in the US, Mexico and UK, and need ways to maintain and strengthen their company culture across borders. In this short video from the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, Derek explains what ATS has done to increase transparency and job ownership across the business.

How to Use Flash Fill in Excel

Flash Fill is one of the best tools in Excel - but not many people know about it! It's only available in Excel 2013 and 2016. Learn how it works in this two-minute video.