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How to Create Better Pie Charts in Excel

Learn how to create a pie chart that looks great while displaying your data in a clear way in this two-minute productivity video.

How Well Do Your Staff Know Your Organisation’s Finances?

How would your organisation be different if everyone knew the organisation’s finances in detail? In this two-minute video, Pim de Morre explains what happened in a cookie factory when the Director explained the costs that went into producing each bag and why he couldn’t give staff payrises.

4 Tips for Giving Positive, Constructive Appraisals

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.

How to Transform Diminishing Behaviours into Multiplying Ones

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.

How To Use Styles To Format Your Documents With One Click

Learn how to create your own custom Style in Microsoft Word so you can format certain elements with just one click in our two-minute video.

How to build a profitable business based on Servant Leadership

‘Can the employee and employer serve each other for the greater good – while still being a profitable business?’, asked Simon Lawson in his Masters dissertation. And at Lawsons, a family business that supplies building materials to the London area, Simon has achieved that.

After ten years working as a registered NHS nurse, Liz Mouland decided to change her path and begin a journey through community nursing. Now, as the Chief Nurse and Director of Clinical Standards, at First Community Health and Care, she is making a major impact through Happy principles and a team-led feedback hierarchy.

The Value of Vulnerability at Work

Would you invite 20 of your team round to your house for lunch? That is exactly what Simon Lawson, Chairman of Lawsons, has been doing regularly for the last six years. In this short video, Simon explains how the Values Lunches started, and how they have been contributed to creating a happy workplace.

How to Minimise Data Entry Mistakes in Excel

Learn how to create a drop-down menu in Microsoft Excel, using the Data Validation tool in our two-minute video. This is a great way to save time during data entry, minimise the risk of typos and mistakes, as well as ensure that there are no invalid entries.

Five Successful Organisations That Recruit for Attitude

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.