Friction-Free Team Collaboration: Meetings and Beyond

Meetings. Email. Group chat. Direct messages. Notifications. Voicenotes…. &%#@!!

Meetings and other comms are essential to work in teams, but woah there - it’s got out of hand! Teams are burning out with the sheer volume of communication. And people are STILL not feeling clear and aligned.

You need to create your own collaboration system: how you make keep each other updated, spot problems, make decisions, hit milestones and learn together.

In this one-day workshop, you'll learn a simple system for streamlining your meetings and collaborating efficiently.

Course Overview

Prices

  • Standard Price

    £450*

  • SME
    Fewer than 250 staff

    £385*

  • Public Sector Price

    £330*

  • Large Charity
    Over 31+ staff

    £250*

  • Small Charity
    Fewer than 30 staff

    £195*

  • *Per person, excluding VAT

  • Duration

    1 day

  • Location

    Interactive online sessions delivered via Zoom. The link is sent to you after booking.

    Online

  • Requirements

    This workshop is for you if you lead a project or team and there are lots of internal meetings, or you can influence how this team or project works together. This workshop is about transforming how YOUR project or team works together — whatever the rest of the organisation is doing.

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Course Overview

What you will learn

What you can expect to learn through this simple, human-centred way of collaborating:

  • You'll release 4-8 hours of previous wasted meeting time per team member.
  • You’ll learn new collaboration techniques, for meetings and other channels, that you can use to transform how you work together immediately
  • People will become empowered, taking responsibility for solving problems
  • Productivity will flow and you'll start hitting targets and milestones with ease
  • The team will become more positive, supportive and committed — and less frustrated and overwhelmed
  • You'll become expert at resolving to blockers to issues that lie outside the team

This workshop is for you if:

  • You lead a project or team and there are lots of internal meetings
  • You can influence how this team or project works together

This workshop is about transforming how your project or team works together — whatever the rest of the organisation is doing.

You’ll be harnessing insights from:

  • Agile and Lean
  • Open space technology and Unconferences
  • Lean start-up
  • Clean communication, radical candour and servant leadership
  • Managing Your Chimp with Steve Peters
  • The academic research and evidence on meetings and collaboration

We are able to offer both online or classroom sessions for private bookings. Please get in touch for availability.

Our approach to online delivery

The learning will be through a combination of interactive workshops delivered live through Zoom and self-guided assignments over the day.

You should reserve out 10am to 4:30pm in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact.

Next steps

You might be interested in these workshops covering similar themes:

  • Five Day Productivity Blitz — Do you feel that you are terribly busy, but not as productive as you'd like to be? Learn a new technique each morning in a 15 minute session, try it out, and report back in the afternoon how it went.
  • Productivity Masterclass (90 minutes) — A 90 minute version of our Blitz, giving you lots of tips and tricks to be more productive and get more done.
  • How to Manage Your Email Inbox (half-day) — This half-day course will give you a radical new approach to your emails that will help you to free up time for the big things you want to achieve.
  • Be the Best You Can be at Work — This comprehensive workshop covers assertiveness, stress management, active listening skills and time management, to help you work more effectively.

We also offer 1-to-1 Executive Coaching which can provide you with an insightful and structured space to discover and develop yourself further in order to achieve even more positive results.

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Group Learning Events

Looking for a private group event for your team, or even your whole organisation?

We can organise a date that works for you, and we can tailor the content to your team. Our private workshops can be held online, inhouse at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in London.

Find out more and enquire now

What's it like to learn with Happy?

We offer complete individual involvement and participation on all of our workshops. In this video, Nicky delivers a short session about the different Communication Styles, and how they affect the way you work with and manage others.

About your facilitator, Dr Carrie Goucher

Carrie has been at the forefront of developing new ways of working for two decades. She has delivered culture and collaboration transformation in over 120 companies including Pfizer, Google, Microsoft, BBC Worldwide, Kraft, Fujitsu and Pearson. She did a PhD in meetings and collaboration at Cambridge University and is completely obsessed with getting people out of collaboration overwhelm and into team flow.

Book now

See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options.

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There are currently no upcoming public course dates available. Please email our team on hello@happy.co.uk and register your interest for this course. We'll let you know as soon as a date is available.

Not sure if this workshop is right for you? Call us:

020 7375 7300

Why choose Happy?

  • Learn the skills you need to succeed
  • Fun and interactive workshops, whether online or face-to-face
  • Learn in a confidential environment with our experienced facilitators
  • Small class sizes to give personal one-to-one support
  • Private group options available
  • No quibble money-back guarantee on all courses

The Small Print

For Face-to-Face Live Online Learning

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Please reserve the session in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact. 

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera — if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:30pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Coronavirus Policy

We are monitoring the Coronavirus pandemic and are following all current Government guidelines. Please see our Coronavirus Policy for more details and the latest information.

If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with our friendly team.

Did you know...

...private and public sector organisations around the world are adopting the principles of Holacracy?

That's because giving power to self-organising teams instead of traditional management hierarchies has given rise to far greater productivity.

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