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.
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.
Billy has read Calm by Michael Acton Smith - here are his thoughts on this mindfulness-focused book.
Writing is a key part of life in the modern world. Whether you are sending emails to a client or writing a Facebook post, the written word is an important part of how we present ourselves. Making simple spelling and grammar mistakes can have a huge impact on your credibility, and change people's impression of you. In this blog, brush up your grammar skills and start writing better emails, reports and social media updates.
So, you have put all of your data into Excel. But what is it telling you? You need a chart, probably several charts. But which chart?
We recently attended a free seminar hosted by Herman Miller and Office Principles, with talks by Bertie van Wyk and Hannah Nardini. The theme was based around the idea of creating more productive and profitable workplaces by improving general staff happiness and wellbeing. They had some brilliant ideas about how this can be achieved – and many of their ideas are easy and can be implemented straight away. Here were our five favourite tips from the day.
How well do you know your business? Do you know how well you’re doing? What your costs are? How happy your customers are? How happy your staff are?
In If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?, psychological researcher and happiness coach Raj Raghunathan argues that happiness is our natural state. Several aspects of socialisation can lead us astray, but Raghunathan aims to remedy this by identifying the “seven deadly happiness sins” and resolving each of them with a corresponding habit of the highly happy. Here’s the second half of our easy-to-read distillation of the book’s key arguments – check out Part One first if you haven’t read it yet!
Beyond making companies earn more, happy and engaged employees also help firms to significantly reduce costs.