Upcoming Live Online Courses with Happy
We offer a range of Live Interactive Online Learning course dates from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Classroom course dates.
All of our courses are available for private group bookings, held inhouse at your workplace, at Happy's HQ or online. Get in touch for details of our pricing and availability.
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Upcoming Live Online IT Course Dates
Introduction to Excel
This Introduction to Excel course is a CPD certified course that can be held either in the classroom or online as Live Online Learning. The outline for both formats is the same, however the classroom session offers more time with the trainer to work on exercises, ask questions and complete activities.
Our next interactive online sessions are 12th June and 29th July.
Excel for Intermediate Users
Excel for Intermediate Users is our intermediate level course, designed for those with some experience of using Excel and creating basic formulas. You will learn time-saving techniques including Conditional Formatting, range names and formulas such as Average, Min, Max and Count IF. You will also learn how to create a basic Pivot Table to summarise large sets of data quickly and easily.
Our next interactive online sessions are 27th May and 24th June.
Excel for Advanced Users
If you use Excel for budgets, timesheets, reports or other data that needs calculating, this course will improve your ability to organise and analyse data. You’ll take functions further and be able to make them more powerful by nesting them.
Our next interactive online sessions are 24th July and 14th October.
Excel for Expert Users
By the end of this Level 4 course, you will feel more confident problem-solving in Excel. For example, you will be able to compare lists of data in order to spot similarities and differences, you will be able to 'LOOKUP' data and return the value of a cell in a table/range based on the column and row number using a variety of functions. You will also learn how to solve problems in fewer steps than with traditional formulas using dynamic array functions.
Our next interactive online session is 15th October.
Power BI Desktop Fundamentals
This two-day remote learning workshop is an introduction to Power BI Desktop, the Microsoft tool that enables data from various sources to be "mashed together" to create insightful reports. By the end of this course, you will be able to import data, and create and publish your own Power BI reports.
Our next two-day interactive online sessions start on 15th July and 28th October.
How to Manage Your Email Inbox
We have created this CPD certified course to give you a radical new approach to your email that will help you to free up time for the big things you want to achieve. It will also leave you with the technical skills to deal with your emails more efficiently, so you feel in control.
Our next interactive online sessions are 10th July and 19th August.
Canva
Canva is an easy graphic design for people who aren't graphic designers.
Canva is used mainly to make social media posts look professional. It has a huge variety of stock images and templates to use. You can publish your designs straight to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and create presentations and video.
Our next one-day sessions are 19th June and 18th September.
Canva Whiteboard
Canva is intuitive and easy-to-use. You can create professional Whiteboards that you can easily share with colleagues or during an online meeting. Even better, the people you share it with don't need a Canva account to access and edit your Whiteboard.
Our next interactive online session starts 3rd July.
PowerPoint for Intermediate Users
This intermediate level one-day course is for anyone who has used PowerPoint before to create and alter simple presentations and would now like to develop their skills in order to create more dynamic presentations. By the end of the course, you will be confident in using PowerPoint to create professional looking presentations using master slides for consistency and adding different multimedia such as YouTube videos.
Our next interactive online sessions are 23rd May or 27th August.
AI for Absolute Beginners Half-Day Course
Join us for an immersive journey into the world of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This beginner friendly half-day course will introduce you to the fascinating realm of AI tools and technologies. You'll get hands-on experience with popular AI applications like ChatGPT and Copilot's Image Creator, and explore the wider landscape of Large Language Models. You will delve into the future possibilities of AI tools, understand their limitations, and discuss the ethical implications of AI. No previous experience required.
Join us online on 22nd July and 20th November.
The Art of AI Prompt Engineering
Dive into the world of Prompt Engineering with this interactive half-day course, ideal for those relatively familiar with Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. This collaborative and interactive online course emphasises exploring the nuances of crafting effective prompts through direct experimentation.
Join us online on 22nd July and 20th November.
Microsoft Teams – New User
Microsoft Teams is an excellent and effective way of communicating and storing files. This half-day course is designed for users new to Teams. It will give new users all the skills necessary to use Teams to communicate effectively with individuals and groups.
Join us online on 14th August.
Free Session: Google Sheets - Enhance Your IT Skills
What's the difference between Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive — and where should you save your documents? How can Copilot and AI tools help you to be more productive at work?
Happy will be hosting free online sessions each month to answer these questions and more. In each session, our facilitators will explore a different topic, answering your questions and helping you enhance your IT skills.
Join us online on 12th June.
Upcoming Leadership and Personal Development Live Online Course Dates
Free Taster: Brave Leadership Programme
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.
Our next interactive online session is 1st July.
Brave Leadership: One Year Leadership Development Programme for Women
We are offering a unique blended transformational programme that is all about uncovering, celebrating, and nurturing your power as a female leader. 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 interactive online session starts on 21st May.
Positively Navigating Generational Differences in the Workplace
This half-day workshop is designed for leaders or managers who are keen to create a cohesive team where teams of multi-generational people can thrive. This session will provide opportunities to collaboratively share challenges and discuss how to overcome them.
Our next interactive online session starts on 24th September.
Happy Leadership Programme
In this leadership programme, you will gain personal insight and develop practical leadership and management skills to create a high performing team. You will develop your coaching skills and how to put your people at the heart of what you do.
You will learn through 8 x 3 hour online sessions. You will also have self-guided assignments to complete through our Happy Leadership Portal on Fuse, with online resources available to access throughout the programme and beyond.
Our next interactive online programme (8 x 3 hour sessions) starts on 23rd September.
Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop
In this practical one-day workshop you’ll gain hands-on experience of Liberating Structures, a field-tested, results-focused repertoire of interaction patterns which include everyone in shaping the future. You will leave equipped with a rich and adaptable toolkit to unleash the creativity and talent of everyone in your team, work group, community, and organisation.
Our next interactive online sessions are 5th August and 4th December.
Effective Group Facilitation
Our Effective Group Facilitation course is designed for anyone who wants to facilitate effective, engaging, and enjoyable events and meetings. This course will give you practical skills to get everyone participating and give you strategies to handle any difficult situations that may arise.
Our next interactive online session is 23rd September.
Effective Time Management 1 Day Workshop
This one-day time management training course explores the need for reflection, planning, organising, setting goals and responding to day-to-day activities and demands. It'll also help you decide what activities give you the biggest return at work and in life. You will consider what methods of time management are possible in your situation and learn how to make time management a daily practice.
Our next interactive online session is 29th July.
Management Fundamentals
Stepping up and becoming a manager requires a new attitude and skill set. Set yourself up to succeed with this introductory workshop to help you understand what makes a great manager and the practical steps you can take to make it happen.
Our next 2-day interactive online sessions start 3rd June and 22nd October.
Free Taster: Project Management
Happy’s Project Management courses offer a pragmatic approach that can fit alongside other business-as-usual commitments and that puts people and communication at the heart of any project. That goes hand-in-hand with a robust and scalable process.
This one-hour free taster session will give you a feeling for Happy’s approach to Project Management and the opportunity to road-test Happy.
Our next interactive online session is 11th June.
Introduction to Project Management
Suddenly everything is a project.
And yet very few people are taught the basic project management skills required to stand a chance of success.
This CPD accredited workshop is Happy’s response to the problem. It is designed for new project managers or people with projects to manage but no clear planning process. By the end of the workshop, delegates will have a simple-to-use toolkit — and may even be the start of a project plan!
Our next interactive online sessions are 5th June and 16th October, held as 2 x half-days.
Five Day Productivity Blitz
Do you sometimes feel you are terribly busy, hectic even, but are not as productive as you’d like to be? This Blitz is for you.
Each day, Monday to Friday, we will share one technique, at 8.45am, that will help you become productive. You get to apply this immediately and report back at 4.45pm on how it has gone.
These are highly interactive sessions using Zoom that will enable you to share your experience with others. And each session, morning and afternoon, is strictly 15 minutes long.
Our next interactive online session is 22nd September.
Using Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures is a repertoire of over 30 methods to make your activities fully inclusive and more effective. All have been widely tested and are focused on results. They work in live meetings and they also work for online events.
In these half-day introductory workshops, you will learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and will experience a selection of these methods in an online setting. They are perfect if you have never used Liberating Structures before and would like to learn more, or if you have used them before and would like to see how they work online.
Our next interactive online sessions are 10th June and 15th October.
Building Self-Confidence
This one-day course looks at working with thoughts, feelings and behaviour to create a greater sense of self-confidence. We also look at how self-confidence is already a part of our lives and what we can do to increase it.
Our next interactive online session is 22nd July.
Assertiveness for Women 1 Day Workshop
This one-day assertiveness workshop will help you to analyse your current behaviour patterns and situations where you are experiencing difficulty. You will learn and practice skills and techniques of assertive communication.
Our next interactive online session starts 2nd October.
Management Blitz
Would you like to become the sort of manager that your people would pick if they had the choice? This nine-week programme covers a range of simple practical steps to become more effective in enabling your people, and in stepping back to provide more trust and freedom.
This is all about implementation, experimentation, seeing the impact you have and learning from mistakes. The group and facilitator are there to help you problem solve, to offer support and to hold you accountable for the plans you make.
Our next interactive online session starts 2nd June.
Level 3 Team Leader or Supervisor Apprenticeship Programme
Happy has developed a Team Leader or Supervisor (Level 3) apprenticeship programme with a difference. Our programme has been designed for new and junior managers to learn how to create teams based on trust and empowerment. It is based around the principles of The Happy Manifesto.
Our next public programme will start in October.
Level 5 Apprenticeship Programme for Experienced Managers
Happy has developed a Level 5 programme for experienced managers who want to become modern, empowering leaders.
After completing the programme, you will understand when people work at their best and how to enable that. It is based around the principles of The Happy Manifesto and our flagship Happy Leadership Programme.
Our next public programme will start in September.
Level 7 Senior Leadership Apprenticeship Programme
Our Level 7 Senior Leadership Apprenticeship Programme is practical and hands-on — designed for senior leaders who want to make a real cultural change in their workplace.
This is a Level 7 qualification and the equivalent of a postgraduate degree or MBA. But you do not need a degree to join the programme, and as an apprenticeship qualification, the focus is on implementing ideas and on-the-job learning rather than sitting in long, dull lectures.
Our next public programme will start on 3rd July.
Wellbeing and Resilience at Work Workshop
In our Wellbeing and Resilience workshop, you will learn how to identify your strengths in managing stress as well as tools and strategies that will help to enhance your wellbeing and resilience.
You will learn simple stress management techniques including how to create a breathing space, how to alleviate signs of stress and how to say no. You will also take away your own personal action plan to use beyond the programme.
Our next interactive online session starts 20th August.
Mastering Customer Service
This one-day customer service training course will provide a depth of personal insight and enhance your ability to understand what makes excellent service. It will equip you with the skills to effectively resolve difficult situations with unhappy customers, all while remaining positive.
Our next interactive online session starts 5th August.
Be the Best You Can Be At Work
Do you need help in unlocking your true potential? Are you struggling to achieve all that you are and can be? Do you want to raise your performance and confidence levels?
This comprehensive one-day workshop will help you to feel more confident and less stressed, will enhance your working relationships, and give you the tools to manage your time more effectively.
Our next interactive online session starts 27th August.