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Wouldn’t it be nice if your whole team could find their voice and participate in meetings? Liberating Structures can help — 33 methods of that avoid one person dominating a conversation and give everybody a voice. In this blog, Henry goes through two of the most popular methods to get you started.
Happy has just started the six month trial of a four-day working week being organised in the UK by 4 Day Week Global. We are joining over 60 other organisations in this pilot. We discussed it at a staff meeting earlier in the year, carried out a survey and our people voted 16-1 to go for a permanent four-day week, as long as the pilot succeeds.
How productive are you when working from home — do you get more work done, about the same, or less? This was the question I asked my followers on LinkedIn recently, following the recent comments from Boris Johnson and notes that Jacob Rees-Mogg left on the desks of civil servants in his office. Of the almost 500 that replied, the result was overwhelming.
Having no meetings and not checking email before 11am is the Monk Mode Morning concept that Bruce Daisley set out in his book The Joy of Work. Since my holiday I have adopted it and spend the first 2.5 hours of each morning getting stuff done. I can manage 5 Pomodoros (25 minute focused sessions) in that time. How would your day be if you could get your most important tasks done before 11?
To celebrate Learning at Work Week and to help you unlock your full potential, we have an exciting set of prizes! For your chance to win, tell us what your learning goals are for 2022. Our top prize includes £500 of Happy training vouchers, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Impact Players by Liz Wiseman, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year's access to our Happy Video Library, and more!
When people attend the Chairing Remote Meetings workshop, they often come looking for insight into the best online tools: Jamboard, Miro, Sli.do, Mentimeter, etc. We discuss them, and then we talk about the most important tool that a remote chair can use: the tennis racket.
Andrew Barnes is one of the leading promoters of the four-day week across the world. As CEO of Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand, he implemented this approach back in 2018. Andrew will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Recently I went to a webinar on "how people learn". The first slide stated "people learn by doing," and the last slide said "Don't give a lecture." Yet the 45 minute webinar was a lecture with no interaction with the attendees and certainly no learning by doing. This was especially ironic because of the topic, and the message, but is true of so many webinars. What is stopping people from making online webinars engaging?
What makes the difference between somebody who is simply a contributor and somebody who makes a real difference? That is the question that Liz Wiseman addresses in her new book, Impact Players. Liz was a standout speaker at our 2020 conference, and is back again for our 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
I am often asked whether you can build happy trust-based workplaces within a larger more hierarchical organisation. So I was very interested to hear about the eSteering team at Danfoss, a 120 person unit within a 40,000 strong company. Vivek Menon, a Senior Director at the Danish company Danfoss, explained at the Teal Around the World Conference how they created a culture of trust and freedom. Vivek will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.