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.
Engage Your Audience, Please
Recently I went to a webinar on ‘how people learn’. The first slide stated “people learn by doing,” and the last slide said “don’t give a lecture.” Yet the 45 minute webinar was a lecture with no interaction with the attendees and certainly no learning by doing.
This was especially ironic because of the topic, and the message, but is true of so many webinars. What is stopping people from making online webinars engaging?
Is it Time for a 4 Day Week?
Andrew Barnes is one of the leading promoters of the four-day week across the world. As Founder of Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand, he implemented this approach back in 2018.
Andrew will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Impact Players: How to Have a Real Impact in Your Job
What makes the difference between somebody who is simply a contributor and somebody who makes a real difference? That is the question that Liz Wiseman addresses in her new book, Impact Players.
Liz was a standout speaker at our 2020 conference, and is back again for our 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Vivek Menon at Danfoss: Building a Teal Bubble in a Large Company
I am often asked whether you can build happy trust-based workplaces within a larger more hierarchical organisation. So I was very interested to hear about the eSteering team at Danfoss, a 120 person unit within a 40,000 strong company.
Vivek Menon, a Senior Director at the Danish company Danfoss, explained at the Teal Around the World Conference how they created a culture of trust and freedom. Vivek will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.
How Do You Help Your Interviewees Succeed?
Last year, Happy held our first recruitment for online facilitators. As we always do in our interviews, we avoid asking questions and get people to do what they would do in the role.
After a disastrous first round of interviews, find out how Henry and the team set up their interviewees to succeed in this blog.
How to Make a Dynamic Data Validation Drop-Down List in Excel
Are you fed up with having to continually add new data to your data validation drop-down lists? Are you also fed up with having to modify the source data to extend the list manually each time new data has been entered?
In this blog, Edmund, one of our Office experts, will show you how to make dynamic data validation drop-down lists and extend the lists automatically when new data is entered.
