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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.
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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.
Revealed: The Most Important Management Behaviour
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
At our Happy Workplaces Conference last week we got to experience a Google manager induction, from Emma Rapaport. She explained that some years ago Google had discovered, from its exit interviews, that some people left the company at least partly because of their manager. Their response was to work out what made a great manager, in what became known as Project Oxygen.
Happy People – Executive Coaching Testimonial
In: BlogsBy: Jonny ReynoldsRead length: 5 min read
Are you new to leadership role? Have you have been an executive, leader or manager for a long time?
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Let Your People Choose Their Manager – Because it Works
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
I’ve written about it before. This is the simple suggestion that you should let people choose their managers. And the great thing is that when people do have the courage to try it, I almost always get positive feedback.
Do You Make it Easy For Your Customers to Give Compliments?
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
Sitting in the reception of Central & Cecil Housing Association, one of our clients, I flicked through the information leaflets. Alongside the pamphlet on how to make a complaint was a more unusual one – a Compliments Guide. Yes, Central & Cecil had taken the trouble to create a guide to how let their people know when they’d done well.
Are you Really Listening and Valuing your Team?
In: BlogsBy: Cathy BusaniRead length: 5 min read
I recently had the great pleasure of facilitating an event for a charity. The team I was working with had just gone through a restructure. On the day there were a couple of things that really struck me…
Happy: One of the World's Most Democratic Workplaces
In: BlogsBy: Henry StewartRead length: 5 min read
Happy is today named as one of the most democratic workplaces in the world, in a unique list of companies seeking to run organisations with more freedom and empowerment of their people. Here is the piece I have written for Huffington Post on the subject.