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@Mentions: Make Collaborating on Email Fast and Easy

Focus on what matters by using the new @Mentions feature in Microsoft Outlook.

Being Assertive and Building Trust: Keys to Workplace Satisfaction

Your experience at work will be enhanced – in terms of performance, personal satisfaction and long term behavioural benefits – by building trust and becoming more assertive. Find out more in this blog by Billy Burgess.

Book Report: "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?" Part 1

Intelligence doesn’t secure happiness. Neither does financial well-being, creative satisfaction or a healthy marriage. Heck, even winning the lottery won’t slap an immutable smile on your face. But despite these hard truths, Raj Raghunathan argues that happiness is our natural state. The problem is that several aspects of socialisation lead us astray. In If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?, Raghunathan offers plenty of critical insights to get us back on track.

Book Review: A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax recently released A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled – we were intrigued by the book, and asked Billy Burgess to write a review of it for us. Here are his thoughts.

Four Tips to Help you Manage Change Positively

Processing the rapid rate of change in our lives can be exhausting, but we needn’t let it overwhelm us. In this blog, Billy talks about different types of change and offers four tips to help you manage change positively.

Five things I learned on Happy’s Mindfulness training course

There’s a lot of wonderfully eye-opening mindfulness literature and scholarship, but reading it can’t quite equip you to swiftly commence a thoroughly operational mindfulness practice. Taking in-the-flesh guidance from someone well versed in the actualisation of mindfulness is a far more effective way of kicking things off.

I’m sure we all know how important it is to invest in training and developing your people. Without regular investment, you’ll not be realising maximum value from your most expensive asset. It also goes without saying that in these times of austerity and challenge, training budgets are coming under ever more pressure. So how do you ensure your people get involving, meaningful and work-relevant training that you can afford?

We can all admit that our actions aren’t always entirely pleasant. This could be caused by external stresses, unsatisfied expectations or self-involved flutters of the ego. Accordingly, we often face difficult situations or somewhat fractious interactions with the people we encounter in our day-to-day lives.

Why are the right charts in Excel so important? The wrong Excel chart can not only lead to confusion but may lead to the wrong decisions being made. Which should you use? Happy's expert trainer Darren Andrews explains more in this blog.

Book review: Calm by Michael Acton Smith

Billy has read Calm by Michael Acton Smith - here are his thoughts on this mindfulness-focused book.