How Bluebird Care is Creating a Happy Workplace with the Level 7 Programme
Our Level 7 Senior Leadership programme is about significant change in how you run an organisation. It takes place over two years and is designed for senior leaders who want to make a real change to the culture of their organisation. Practical and hands on, you will learn how to increase trust and autonomy in your workplace.
Melanie Cohen, Director of Bluebird Care (Bournemouth & Poole), started the programme in April 2021. This is her story.
How to Colour Code Your Data Validation Dropdown List in Excel
Simple acts such as colour coding can have a huge, positive impact on how your spreadsheet looks and the ease with which it can be understood. Conditional Formatting and Data Validation are two ways to make important data stand out.
For example, you can use Conditional Formatting to colour code cells that meet certain criteria. This will enable people to find specific cells quickly.
In this blog by Happy trainer Ebbie, we will look at how adding colour to certain elements within a spreadsheet can create visual appeal and increase user accuracy when it comes down to interpreting your data.
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.
