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We’ve had an amazing start to 2016! We now have Drupal Apprenticeship groups running in Carlisle, Manchester and London. All groups will be completing the Drupal Web Developer Apprenticeship qualification.

Timpson: 11 Steps to Creating a Great Workplace

“It’s all about the people and making them feel valued” At a recent conference John Timpson inspired attendees with the remarkable story of his company, Timpson. Read more on Henry's blog.

Reinventing leadership – John Seddon at Beyond Budgeting 2015

John Seddon is an occupational psychologist, researcher, professor, management thinker and global authority on change, specialising in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985.

Buurtzorg: No Managers, Just Great Care From a Nurse-Led Service

Imagine a company with 9,000 staff and no managers. Imagine annual sales of 280 million euros and no Chief Financial Officer, with only six people working in finance. Imagine it has grown to that size from, 8 years ago, having just four staff – although it is not-for-profit and has no venture capital investment.

Andy Copsey, COO, Handelsbanken: the UK’s fastest growing bank

Andy Copsey is the Chief Operating Officer of Handelsbanken in the UK, where he has overseen the bank’s unprecedented growth following the financial sector crisis in 2008.

Jesper Krüger on Driving Performance at AP Moller Maersk

Jesper Krüger is Head of Group Performance and Analysis at AP Moller Maersk. Jesper’s Performance and Analysis team is responsible for driving the company’s short-term and long-term planning cycles, and for analysing, tracking and challenging the performance of business units within the APMM Group against their strategic ambitions.

Ulrich Gammelgaard: Transparency and Demand Response at Velux

Ulrich Gammelgaard is Head of Global Financial Management at Velux, a roof window and skylight manufacturer, and one of the strongest brands in the building industry. Ulrich has played a major role in the transformation of the Velux planning model which has improved transparency and the company’s ability to act on demand changes globally.

Learning Nuggets from Dom Monkhouse, Happy Workplaces Conference 2014

At the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, in this two-minute video, Dom Monkhouse of Rackspace explains what he did to create a great workplace – including how he found 100 things to fix without spending any money.

Julian Birkinshaw from London Business School: Bureaucracy, Meritocracy and Adhocracy

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor and Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK), and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He is co-founder with Gary Hamel of the Management Lab (MLab). At Beyond Budgeting 2015, Professor Birkinshaw explored how organsations must adapt to the post-knowledge work era.

First Happy Workplace Ireland Conference

The first Happy Workplace Ireland conference took place in Dublin on 29th October. This was jointly organised between Happy Ltd and locally-based happiness entrepreneur Stephen Dargan of Wake Up!.