Upcoming Public Live Online Courses with Happy
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.
All of our courses are available for private group bookings. Just get in touch for details of our pricing and availability.
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Upcoming Live Online Public IT Courses
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 18th March and 1st May.
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 23rd January and 27th January.
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 21st January and 27th March.
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 sessions are 4th February and 15th April.
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 29th January and 9th April.
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 February and 19th June.
Canva Whiteboard 2 Hour Online Course
In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to 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 is 5th February.
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 session is 18th March.
Maximise Your Productivity with Copilot for Microsoft 365
By the end of this course, you will learn what is possible with Copilot in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. We will give you tips of where it works best and where it doesn't, based on our own experiences at Happy and from best practice.
Our next interactive online session is 13th February.
Upcoming Leadership and Personal Development Live Online Public Courses
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.
We have cohorts beginning on 27th January and 22nd September.
Building Self-Confidence 1 Day Workshop
In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to work 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 could do to increase it.
Our next online session is 4th February.
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 3rd February and 10th June.
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 20th March.
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 19th March.
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.
Our next interactive online session starts on 1st 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 interactive online session starts 3rd June.
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 19th March and 5th August.
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 12 x 2 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 (12 x 2 hour sessions) starts on 24th February.
Happy Leadership Programme Taster Session
If you aren’t ready to book one of our longer programmes, why not try out this free one-hour online taster. You will have the opportunity to road-test Happy and learn key lessons from the world’s great workplaces.
Our next interactive online sessions are 27th January and 29th April.
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 is 21st May.
Assertiveness for Women
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. The content of this female-only workshop is identical to our mixed-gender Assertiveness one-day workshop.
Our next interactive online session is 26th February.
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.
Once a week for nine weeks, join us at 12.30pm on Monday afternoon for 45 minutes and discover this week's management technique. The following week will start with 15 minutes sharing how it all went followed by 30 minutes on the new topic and challenge for the coming week.
Our next public cohort (open to all) starts from Monday 2nd June.
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 sessions are 11th February and 9th April.
Chairing Meetings
This course will explore the role of the chair in getting the best out of meetings. The workshop will provide information on carrying through the role of chair and will consider some of the difficulties that can confront 'the person in the chair'. In addition, we will look at how to chair an online meeting.
Our next interactive online session held as 2 x half days, is 1st April.
Assertiveness 1 Day Workshop
This Assertiveness course will help you to analyse your current behaviour patterns and situations where you are experiencing difficulty. We will look at the challenges of being assertive with colleagues online and communicating with those around you.
Our next interactive online session held as 2 x half days, is 3rd June.
