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Happy’s 4 Day Week: How is Our Progress? (A 3 Month Update)

How is Happy's 4 Day Week going 3 months into the trial? Happy's Founder and Chief Happiness Officer Henry Stewart looks back at how things have progressed and the impact it has had so far.

We offer a range of public classroom courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Live Online Interactive Learning courses as public dates. Each of these classroom public courses will be held at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, central London.

We offer a range of public Live Interactive Learning Online courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Classroom courses as public dates.

Happy Starts 4 Day Week Trial

Happy has just started the six month trial of a four-day working week being organised in the UK by 4 Day Week Global. We are joining over 60 other organisations in this pilot. We discussed it at a staff meeting earlier in the year, carried out a survey and our people voted 16-1 to go for a permanent four-day week, as long as the pilot succeeds.

To celebrate Learning at Work Week and to help you unlock your full potential, we have an exciting set of prizes! For your chance to win, tell us what your learning goals are for 2022. Our top prize includes £500 of Happy training vouchers, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Impact Players by Liz Wiseman, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year's access to our Happy Video Library, and more!

Five Good News Stories (February 2021 Edition)

We’re currently enduring the worst public health crisis in more than 100 years. Life on earth has undergone many dramatic changes and a return to “normal” still feels a long way off. But we do live in profoundly progressive times, with modern humans continuing to make amazing discoveries and breakthroughs. Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.

Learn About Our Brave Leadership Programme in our Free Taster Session

Join us for an inspirational look at female leadership and discover more about our one year transformational programme. Our unique blended package of events is all about uncovering, celebrating, and nurturing your power as a female leader. In this taster session we will be exploring what assertive leadership looks like and what this means from a woman's perspective. There is no charge for this 60-minute online workshop on 23rd January, delivered face-to-face online via Zoom. All welcome, with no obligation and no hard sales pitch.

Happy's January competition is back with another set of fantastic prizes. For a chance to win, tell us what challenge you overcame in 2020 and how you met it — or how you will meet it in 2021, if you didn't in 2020. Our top prize includes a free place on any of our one or two day courses, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year's access to our Happy Video Library, and more! Closing date: midnight GMT on 31st January 2021. Winner will be announced on 3rd February 2021.

Let's Get Rid of Annual Appraisals, and Replace Them With Regular Snapshots

Around three years ago, Happy organised a vote of all our employees on whether they wanted to keep the annual appraisal. As we expected, they didn’t – with 83% voting to scrap them. Of course it still makes sense to carry out a regular review, so we replaced it with a four monthly happy@happy snapshot. Find out more in this blog.

Five Good News Stories From the Last Month (July 2020 Edition)

We’re currently enduring the worst public health pandemic in 100 years. Life has already undergone dramatic change and a return to “normal” is still a long way off. But despite seeming to move from one cataclysm to another in recent months and years, we live in profoundly progressive times. Modern humans are capable of amazing things. Here are five good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.