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How much money would you trust your employees to spend, without checking with their manager first? £50? £100? How about £50,000? Helen Taylor from the London Borough of Hounslow, who is currently enrolled on the Level 7 Senior Leadership Apprenticeship Programme, explains in this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference how she has implemented a system where her staff are Pre-Approved to spend £100,000.
In this video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 9th October, Henry Stewart highlights the importance of coaching in the workplace - and asks, does your organisation have a coaching culture?
The quality of Happy's apprenticeship programmes has recently been recognised as Good within the Ofsted further education and skills inspection. Ofsted reviewed the overall effectiveness of our quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and apprenticeships, giving us the Good mark on each and every category.
Join us for a free, interactive online celebration on Tuesday, 15th October from 10am, as we honour Black History Month and showcase the incredible talent within our Global Majority leadership community.
Many years ago, an apprenticeship was something that young people did at the beginning of their careers to learn a vocation in a hands-on way from an expert. However, in the last 20 years that has drastically changed. Apprenticeships are now available to anyone, of any age and at any stage of their career, in a range of subjects. Happy has run leadership apprenticeship programmes for several years now at Level 3, Level 5 and Level 7. Emma is an alumni of Happy’s Level 5 Apprenticeship Programme for Experienced Managers which she found invaluable. Emma talked about her experience with the programme and how it’s affected how she works at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
We all hate tedious paperwork. Filling out transport claim documents, internal KPI tracking documentation, expenses claims… All these things can utterly drain your soul, but we do it because we must, because it’s important. But is it? Well, Michele Zanini would say no, or at the very least, not always, in this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Beyond Budgeting is only about, well, budgeting. However, it’s about so much more than that. Budgeting isn’t a sole element of a business, it’s a facet that appears in every department and at every level. Whether you want to take a business trip, implement a new IT system or simply get some new stationery, that will impact, and be impacted by, your organisation’s relevant budgets. However, an organisation’s attitude towards budgeting often reflect more than just its fiscal responsibility. In this video from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes explains how budgets might be holding back your organisation.
The results are in: Happy has made the 2024 Sunday Times Best Places to Work list! To be successfully accredited as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work, organisations must achieve a minimum 70% overall engagement score – and Happy achieved 96%!
Every successful organisation proudly boasts of how great their culture is and how that has enabled them to succeed. But creating a happy workplace can’t be forced, and getting rid of a bad culture can be a very challenging undertaking. In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Nigel Paine explains the hallmarks of a happy workplace and how you can emulate this in your organisation.
The world of work is changing as Gen Z are entering the workforce. With an increased belief in the importance of mental health, equality and the impact of their work, how will this change the workplace and how can we adapt best? Read more in this blog written by Colin Lee.