Here you can find all of Happy’s blog posts, covering our Excel hints and tips, ideas for creating happy workplaces, and ways to be more productive at work — and more.
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.
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.
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.
In June, Happy hosted our annual Happy Workplaces Conference in London. Here are the top 11 take-aways from the attendees on the day.
Learn how to animate charts in your PowerPoint presentations in this two-minute video.
Many of us use Excel for analysing and presenting data, and whilst we have become adept at VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables, it is a challenge to combine large amounts of data from different sources.
What would you do if you won the lottery? The amount is up to you: one million, five million, fifty million. The question, however, is not what you would spend it on (gold shoes, obviously) but what you would do with your time?
“Appraisals don’t really work,” argues Sophie Bryan. But is there a better way?
What areas of your organisation do you monitor? In this 2:40 minute video, Simon Biltcliffe explains how at Webmart, they monitor the company’s Intellectual, Emotional and Financial return for true competitive advantage.
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.