3 Ways to Improve Your Active Listening Skills
Empathetic listening requires humility. It calls for us to set aside our own vanity and judgements to create space in our minds for the perspectives of others. Too often we listen to what feels comfortable and dispute what is unfamiliar or inconvenient.
In this blog, Nicole Martins gives some advice to improve your listening skills, so you can listen and understand others better — whether it’s in a meeting, on a phone call or chatting with friends and family.
Becoming a First Time Manager: What Kind of Skills are Needed?
It can be confusing knowing where to begin when thrust into a management role.
Our Management Fundamentals workshop is a perfect way to hone the people skills necessary for anyone taking on a role of a manager, at whatever experience level.
In this blog, Happy’s Senior Facilitator Paul Gapper takes us through some of his most insightful experiences on this workshop, as well as a few simple but effective management skills.
The 4 Day Week on The Office: Re-Defined Documentary
Happy was recently featured in The Office: Re-Defined documentary, created by Inês Santos, Noopur Jambhekar and Anagha Raghunath.
In this short extract, The Office: Re-Defined explores the four-day working week. Inês interviewed Happy’s founder and Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart, about the four-day week and our experiences so far. In our ‘new normal’ following the pandemic, is this the future of the office?
How to Recruit Smarter: Stop Asking Questions and Watch People in Action
We all know how to recruit, right? Shortlist then go through our routine interview questions and choose who answers best? But is this the smartest way to recruit? Or are we just hiring the people who are good at interviews but may not be right for the role?
How to Create a Poll in Your Next MS Teams Meeting
You can add Polls to your meetings in Microsoft Teams, either before or during the event. Polls are a quick and easy way to gain insights from your meeting attendees. For example, you could use a Poll to reach a decision quickly, find out when people are available for a future event or to gain insights into people’s preferences. It’s also a great way to improve engagement and assess learning for training sessions.
In this blog, find out how to create a Poll in Teams — why not create a Poll for your next meeting?
Happy’s 4 Day Week: How is Our Progress? (A 3 Month Update)
In June of 2022 Happy launched our
Four-Day Week initiative.
We joined over 60 other companies worldwide in the trial, hoping to improve productivity as well as overall wellbeing.
How are things looking three months on, at the start of September 2022? Happy’s Founder and Chief Happiness Officer – Henry Stewart looks back at how things have progressed and the impact it has had.
Has it been a success? Find out more in this blog.
