How to Create Truly Engaging Online Conferences
Have you, like me, been to a number of online events where you just have to sit and listen while the speakers talk? There may be people that like this approach and feel they learn well from it, but to be honest, I doubt it. You would probably be better off listening to some TED Talks.
So, what’s the alternative? In this blog, Henry provides a step-by-step account of how to create a truly engaging online conference.
Let’s get rid of annual appraisals and replace them with snapshots
Around three years ago my colleague Cathy Busani organised a vote of all our employees on whether they wanted to keep the annual appraisal. As she expected, they didn’t – with 83% voting to scrap them.
Of course it still makes sense to carry out a regular review, so we replaced it with a four monthly happy@happy snapshot. Find out more in this blog.
The Curious Case of Teams and Unconscious Competence
As the year draws to a close, thoughts naturally turn to the word of the year. If we narrow our scope to the workplace, “Teams” has to be high on the list.
But while those of us who have been working on computers for years could adapt to MS Teams with very little difficulty, we shouldn’t neglect those whose roles previously required little or no IT knowledge.
In this blog, Darren looks at how a simple application like Teams is not always so simply explained to newcomers.
Overcoming the Fear to Lead
Kill Your Fear With Servant Leadership: How a 1970s essay can help you do this and become happier too.
Servant Leadership is an approach very close to what we at Happy believe to be the role of leaders in an organisation. Here is a guest blog from
Alex Holland
on the subject.
