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5 Really Simple Ways to Improve Any Meeting You Run

Love them or loathe them, we go to more meetings than ever, especially as more work is done in collaborative cross business teams. There are some simple steps we can all take to improve these group conversations dramatically and create leaps forward in clarity and progress. Meetings are surprisingly complex human interactions so making them more purposeful, more honest and easier to follow can have a seriously helpful effect. Try these five simple ideas to start with.

New Course: Leading Engaging Remote Meetings

In this brand new workshop, we aim to help you to make the most of your remote meetings. You will learn how to overcome common challenges, such as distraction, tackling difficult issues, managing larger groups and having hybrid meetings, with some attendees in the room and some remote.

4 Tips to Help You Understand and Build Your Self-Confidence

Having self-confidence and belief in your own abilities impacts on every aspect of life. If you have self-confidence, you will have the courage to pursue your passions and try new experiences — without it, you can become depressed or stuck in a rut. In this blog, Billy looks at what self-confidence is (and what it isn't!), and gives some advice on how you can build your confidence.

How to Build Your Self-Confidence at Work

How can you improve your self-confidence? In this blog, Happy's Senior Facilitator Paul breaks down self-confidence into thoughts, feelings and behaviour. This technique can help you to find different ways to approach a new experience that you might be worried about.

A 4 Day Week? Let’s Start With a 4 Day August

Some organisations have found that a four day week improves both wellbeing and productivity. If that sounds a bit daunting, how about a four day week for August?

30 Steps to Joy at Work: Get More Done by Being Less Busy

Could we get more done if we were less hectic and overwhelmed? Bruce Daisley, former EMEA Vice President of Twitter, will be speaking about the Joy of Work at the 2021 Happy Workplaces Conference on 22nd July. His new book, The Joy of Work, promises "30 ways to fix your work culture and fall in love with your job again".

How to Develop Resilience and Maintain Wellbeing

Developing resilience is essential for prospering in our work and private lives. This blog by Billy Burgess looks at a few factors that’ll help furnish resilience and maintain mental wellbeing.

Improve Your Productivity With These Five Apps

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of apps out there that claim to save you time and increase your productivity. In this blog, Billy takes a look at our favourite top five – all of which are available to download and try for free.

Receiving feedback is a skill. People commonly struggle with being open to feedback and responding to it. In this blog, Billy gives four ways to improve how you receive (and accept) feedback from others, both positive and negative.

At Happy our aim is that staff find joy in at least 80% of their work. (And, yes, we do measure it.) So I was delighted to find that an NHS Trust, indeed the one our training centre is based within, has come to the same conclusion and sees Joy in Work as a key driver for improving quality.