How to Customise Your Excel Reports With Slicers
At Happy we talk a lot about how great Pivot Tables are — and Slicers make your Pivot Tables and reports even better. With Slicers, you can have one Pivot Table that switches between different categories through the click of a button.
In this blog, Ian gives step-by-step instructions with how you can create your very first Slicer.
Revealed: The Most Important Management Behaviour
At our Happy Workplaces Conference last week we got to experience a Google manager induction, from Emma Rapaport. She explained that some years ago Google had discovered, from its exit interviews, that some people left the company at least partly because of their manager. Their response was to work out what made a great manager, in what became known as Project Oxygen.
Let Your People Choose Their Manager – Because it Works
Of all the proposals in the Happy Manifesto, there is one that tends to get the strongest reaction. Most people agree that its a great idea and then explain why they couldn’t possibly do it in their organisation. Indeed some have advised me to leave it out, as it might scare people off from the easier steps to creating a happy workplace.
Do You Make it Easy For Your Customers to Give Compliments?
Sitting in the reception of Central & Cecil Housing Association, one of our clients, I flicked through the information leaflets. Alongside the pamphlet on how to make a complaint was a more unusual one – a Compliments Guide. Yes, Central & Cecil had taken the trouble to create a guide to how let their people know when they’d done well.
Are you Really Listening and Valuing your Team?
I recently had the great pleasure of facilitating an event for a charity. The team I was working with had just gone through a restructure.
On the day there were a couple of things that really struck me…
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:
Why Choose Happy People For Your Soft Skills Development?
Happy People works with organisations and teams to make them more effective through truly valuing and getting the most from their people…
Classroom Training: Still the Best for Knowledge Transfer and Skills Development
At Happy we have been developing e-learning for over 12 years. More recently we have got excited about Live Online Learning, where you learn from your desk but with a real live trainer in a virtual classroom. But some of the most effective learning we deliver still takes place in the classroom.
The Happy Manifesto on Front Page of The Evening Standard
Hold the front page!
George, I Don’t Believe You
George Osborne was today reported as stating that government procurement from SMEs (small or medium sized enterprises) will rise five-fold. It is a great aspiration. It would result in big cost savings and better service if government was prepared to look beyond the likes of G4S, Capita and Serco.
But the chances of this government actually delivering on this promise? Absolute zero.
