Introducing the New Happy Planner

Each planner has an embossed yellow faux-leather cover and high-quality 100gsm paper. It has daily, weekly and monthly pages for you to write out your to do lists, gratitudes and lessons learnt, as well as space to reflect on your goals, achievements, important lessons and how you can challenge yourself to do even better. It is full of great advice including the Happy Manifesto principles, inspirational quotes and even has a habit tracker. Each planner lasts six months and is undated so you can start anytime.

Here is a preview of what you can expect to find inside! (You can click each image to view a larger version.)

The Happy Journal has a leather-look, soft-touch yellow cover with Happy’s logo embossed on the front. Inside, it has three ribbons and monthly tabs to help you to easily find your place. We have also included a pocket inside the back cover, and a yellow elastic to keep the journal closed while it’s in your bag or briefcase.

The first page has a welcome and introduction message from Happy’s Founder and Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart, and then the 10 principles from Henry’s book, the Happy Manifesto.

There are pages explaining how to use the journal and each of the different aspects, including tips for being more productive, your leadership purpose and 13 behaviours which help build trust. The back also has tips for holding an effective meeting. All of these areas are covered in more detail in our four-day Happy Workplace Leadership Programme but this serves as a great day-to-day reminder!

The journal has provisions for six months’ worth of daily pages, which have space to note your four frogs for the day (or your to do list), what you want to be today, three things that you are grateful for, your important appointments and space for lessons learnt. There are also check boxes to note your water intake and track your 321zero. The whole journal is undated, so you can start using your journal at any point in the year.

Each week has a summary page with space to reflect on what went well, what you could have done even better, what your most important lessons were and who you have thanked, coached or empowered during the week.

Every month has a two-page monthly summary — giving you space to reflect on your goals for the next month, what your radical disruption this month will be (what small change you can make, to improve and disrupt your work life) as well as room to reflect on your achievements and lessons from the period.

The weekly and monthly review also have a hand-selected motivational quote to help inspire you on your leadership journey.

At the back of the journal, we have included a Habit Tracker (with space for six months of tracking!), a reading list to keep track of books you have read or wish to read and some lined note pages for you to write any extra thoughts. The lined pages are also perforated, so you can remove them easily if you need to.

We’d like to give a big thank you to tothepoint, the branding agency who were responsible for the amazing design work, and Bookblock, the printers who brought our idea to life!

How to Get a Happy Planner and Learning Journal

The Happy Planner and Learning Journal will only be available to learners on the four-day Happy Workplace Leadership Programme, our Level 3 Management Apprenticeship programme for first-time managers, supervisors and team leaders and our Level 5 Management Apprenticeship programme for more experienced managers and heads of department.

Learn More Leadership Skills in These Upcoming Workshops

A happy workplace leads to greater productivity and tangible business results. We have developed a range of leadership programmes focusing on the skills you need to develop a happy workplace, based upon our own practical experience at Happy and learning from some of the world’s great workplaces.

Here are just some of the public course dates coming up in the next few months:

• Management Fundamentals — a two-day workshop designed for new managers to help you understand what makes a great manager and the practical steps you can take to make it happen. Learn at Happy on 10th December over 2 days, or from 9th January as 4 half days.
• The Happy Leadership Programme — our flagship four-day leadership course. Join us from 10th December (4 days held monthly at Happy), or from 24th February for 12 x hour sessions, held online.
• Brave Leadership — this is a one-year leadership development programme for women. This programme is about unleashing your brilliance, as well as identifying and enabling greatness in others. It will also create, and connect you to, a network of inspirational women. Our next programme starts from 22nd January, for 12 sessions held monthly.

All of these programmes are also available to book as private group courses for your organisation. Get in touch with our friendly team to find out more details including pricing and availability.