Talking Partners: A New Kind of Buddy Scheme – Henry Searle and Tarun Gidoomal

Talking Partners is a new kind of buddy scheme, supporting a co-worker to be the best they can be. Find out more in this two minute video.

What’s New in Office 365 in May 2019

Microsoft regularly unfurls new features and updates for Office 365’s assorted apps. So frequent are these updates that even regular users might not have had a chance to take advantage of the new additions just yet.

Henry Stewart Speaking at the 2019 Happiness and Humans Conference

Henry Stewart was invited to speak about the importance of happy and engaged workplaces at the Happiness and Humans Conference in May 2019, hosted by the Happiness Index. Watch his talk here.

5 Big Companies Who Swear By Mindfulness

Guest blogger Elinor Jansen updates us with a summary of Gallup’s latest (2015) study on the relationship between firm performance, organisational structures and employee engagement.

Happy: One of the World's Most Democratic Workplaces

Happy is today named as one of the most democratic workplaces in the world, in a unique list of companies seeking to run organisations with more freedom and empowerment of their people. Here is the piece I have written for Huffington Post on the subject.

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.

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.