The Key to Being a Top Performer? Being Happy
Recent research confirms that happiness and wellbeing have a huge impact towards success in the workplace. Here at Happy, creating a culture where people feel good about themselves is one of our key principles.
How can you develop and nurture happiness within your workplace?
Sarah Pugh Shares 15 Tips for Creating a Happy Workplace
At the 2021 Happy Workplaces Conference, we had a fabulous presentation from Sarah Pugh. I ask the speakers at our conferences to share ‘nickable’ ideas that people can put into practice and Sarah came up with no less than 15 of these.
Sarah has just become Chief Executive of Whizz Kidz, so a lot of this relates to when she was CEO at Heart of Kent Hospice.
Happy Starts 4 Day Week Trial
Happy has just started the six month trial of a four-day working week being organised in the UK by 4 Day Week Global. We are joining over 60 other organisations in this pilot.
We discussed it at a staff meeting earlier in the year, carried out a survey and our people voted 16-1 to go for a permanent four-day week, as long as the pilot succeeds.
Could a 4 Day Week Work in Your Sector? Yes!
At Happy we are engaged in the UK four-day working week pilot, with 70 UK companies testing the idea from June to November 2022.
We’ve had huge interest, with my blogs on LinkedIn getting up to 10 times as many views as my other posts. But some respond by saying that it wouldn’t work in their sector.
So I was very interested to read the book Shorter: How Smart Companies Work Less, Embrace Flexibility and Boost Productivity by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This gives a whole range of examples from different sectors.
How to Create Partial Absolute Cell References in Excel
In this two-minute video, Nicky explains how to create Partial Absolute Cell References in Microsoft Excel. Using Partial, or Mixed, Absolute Cell References, you can fix certain elements of a formula — either the row or the column reference, or both. This quick tip will save you lots of time when creating formulas in future!
How to Stop the Same Few People From Dominating Your Meetings
Wouldn’t it be nice if your whole team could find their voice and participate in meetings? Liberating Structures can help — 33 methods of that avoid one person dominating a conversation and give everybody a voice.
In this blog, Henry goes through two of the most popular methods to get you started.
We Are More Productive When Working From Home
How productive are you when working from home — do you get more work done, about the same, or less?
This was the question I asked my followers on LinkedIn recently, following the recent comments from Boris Johnson and notes that Jacob Rees-Mogg left on the desks of civil servants in his office. Of the almost 500 that replied, the result was overwhelming.
Increase Your Productivity With No Meetings or Email Before 11am
Having no meetings and not checking email before 11am is the Monk Mode Morning concept that
Bruce Daisley
set out in his book The Joy of Work.
Since my holiday I have adopted it and spend the first 2.5 hours of each morning getting stuff done. I can manage 5 Pomodoros (25 minute focused sessions) in that time. How would your day be if you could get your most important tasks done before 11?
Learning at Work Week 2022 Competition
To celebrate Learning at Work Week and to help you unlock your full potential, we have an exciting set of prizes!
For your chance to win, tell us what your learning goals are for 2022. Our top prize includes £500 of Happy training vouchers, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Impact Players by Liz Wiseman, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year’s access to our Happy Video Library, and more!
Closing date: midnight BST on Sunday 22nd May 2022. Winner will be announced Wednesday 25th May.
How to be a Great Chair for Your Next Online Meeting
When people attend the Chairing Remote Meetings workshop, they often come looking for insight into the best online tools: Jamboard, Miro, Sli.do, Mentimeter, etc. We discuss them, and then we talk about the most important tool that a remote chair can use: the tennis racket.
Paul explains more in this blog and how you can be a great chair for your next online meeting.
