Henry Stewart Speaking at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference

Henry Stewart of Happy spoke at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference about creating a happy workplace and why it's important.

Learning Nuggets from Dom Monkhouse, Happy Workplaces Conference 2014

At the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, in this two-minute video, Dom Monkhouse of Rackspace explains what he did to create a great workplace – including how he found 100 things to fix without spending any money.

Recruit for Attitude, Train for Skill in Practice – Valentina Culatti, UNIT9

Could you be missing out on exciting new talent? Try recruiting for attitude and potential ability. Find out how it works for UNIT9 in this video.

6 New Features in Excel 2019 That You May Not Know About

The latest update to Excel 2019 includes six new functions: CONCAT, TEXTJOIN, MINIFS And MAXIFS, IFS, SWITCH and XLOOKUP. In this blog, Edmund, one of our Office experts, explains what you need to know about them.

9 Benefits of Having Happy Employees

Following last week’s article on 7 ways to find more meaning at work, Elinor Schmitz-Jansen has continued her research. This week she covers the benefits of having happy employees.

Work and Happiness in South Korea

In September 2019, Henry was invited to speak at Conference Chang in Seoul, South Korea. The theme was 'Self, Work and Happiness', and Henry was delighted to spread the themes of happy workplaces and the Happy Manifesto. In this blog, Henry reflects on his visit to South Korea, happiness at work and some of the talks at the conference.

We offer a range of public classroom courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Live Online Interactive Learning courses as public dates. Each of these classroom public courses will be held at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, central London.

Following Socrates and Creating Empowerment

It’s funny when I find myself quoted and it’s a better summary than I’d do myself.

Kensington Youth Services was part of Kensington and Chelsea Council until April 2014. They changed their name to Epic CIC on becoming independent. To break free from the Council and establish themselves as an independent social enterprise, they needed to radically change their organisation's culture. Under the leadership of Brendan O'Keefe, they needed to create an innovative company that would thrive in a competitive market wile still reflecting public sector values. Happy has supported Epic CIC throughout this transformation through leadership programmes and workshops.

Happy's Apprenticeship Programmes Recognised as Good by Ofsted

The quality of Happy's apprenticeship programmes has recently been recognised as Good within the Ofsted further education and skills inspection. Ofsted reviewed the overall effectiveness of our quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and apprenticeships, giving us the Good mark on each and every category.

Brendan O’Keefe on implementing the Happy Manifesto when moving from public sector to private sector

Brendan O’Keefe at Happy Workplaces 2015

Let Your People Create Your Performance Framework, Says Brendan O'Keefe

When Brendan O'Keefe and his team formed the independent social enterprise Epic CIC, Brendan challenged his people to create their own performance appraisal at their staff conference. After much discussion and debate, the team created 8 items that are now used in appraisals and recruitment. Find out more in this short clip from Brendan's talk at the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.

Gold and Silver for Happy at the IITT Awards

IT Training Awards: Happy Computers is a “shining light”

How Many of These Mistakes Do You Make in Your Online Meetings?

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.