Blogs

Excel Hints & Tips - Line Breaks in a Cell & Cell Formats
In: BlogsBy: Ian BalboaRead length: 5 min read
Sometimes you may want to add text in Excel that’s spread over multiple lines. Find out how to do this, or how to remove these, in this week’s blog by Happy trainer Ian Balboa.
- IT Tips & Tricks
Delivering Transformational Training Under Pressure
In: BlogsBy: Nicky StoneRead length: 5 min read
Friday was such a joy for me. It was the final day of our TPMA Train the Trainer course which culminates in an assessment to be accredited by the Learning and Performance Institute.
- Leadership
The Future of Leadership: Humanity and Compassion
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
The June 2013 issue of Management Today includes an important paragraph, in a debate about "The Changing Face of the Leader"
Calculations on a Filtered List in Excel
In: BlogsBy: Darren AndrewsRead length: 5 min read
Auto filter is a wonderful thing isn’t it? With a few clicks of the mouse little dropdowns appear letting you filter your data in a myriad different ways.
- IT Tips & Tricks
Choose Your Manager — My Radio 4 Four Thought Broadcast
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
“49% of the UK working population would take a pay cut to have a different manager.”
Radio 4 Four Thought: Let People Choose Their Managers
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 15 min read
Catch Henry on Radio 4's Four Thought talking about why people should choose their managers.
Being a Best Practice Manager
In: BlogsBy: Cathy BusaniRead length: 5 min read
I was recently facilitating day two of a Leadership and Management programme for a group of managers and one of the things that struck me was how much they had learnt and remembered from day one! What was also impressive was just how much they had actioned back in the workplace before coming back for day two.
- Leadership
Excel Hints & Tips - Calculating Age
In: BlogsBy: Ian BalboaRead length: 5 min read
You’d think that there would be an AGE function that worked out how many years since the anniversary by passing in a date. However, life is not that easy. Our trainer Ian Balboa explains step-by-step how to calculate how many years since an anniversary – both the easy way and the hard way.
- IT Tips & Tricks
How Spiral Health Implemented The Happy Manifesto
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
Publishing the Happy Manifesto has led to a lot of organisations contacting Happy. Some call us in to help them improve their workplace and we love doing this. But there is an even bigger thrill when I get a letter from somebody we’ve not been involved with, who has taken the Manifesto and put the ideas into practice. So I’m delighted to copy the blog below, originally published on the Spiral Health site, about the work they are doing at an NHS site in Lancashire.
Happy Manifesto Conference, April 2013
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
Around 80 people came together at Google’s Victoria HQ on 24th April 2013 to share ideas and learn how to create happy workplaces. Watch video footage here.