Lisa and The Moose Heads: Tuff Leadership Training
Lisa Gill, founder of Reimaginaire, trainer with Tuff Leadership Training and host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, was included in the Thinkers50 Radar List 2020 for her work with self-managing teams.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Lisa talks about ways you can create more Psychological Safety in your workplace, about removing moose heads and how to avoid becoming a ‘positive stinker’.
10 Takeaways From the 2017 Happy Workplaces Conference
The fifth annual Happy Workplaces Conference took place in London on June 14, 2017. Representatives from Dutch care company Buurtzorg, industrial maintenance group ATS, digital transformation experts Foundation SP, and several others came along to offer their insights into creating and maintaining happy and engaged workplaces.
The conference looked at how engaged workplaces are more profitable and incur lower costs, as well as the tendency for happy workplaces to have higher staff retention, offer more flexibility and be more productive.
Here are 10 essential takeaways from the conference.
Mister Happiness: Arnaud Collery from Tech X Happiness
Arnaud Collery is the Tech X Happiness speaker and Chief Happiness Officer is known as ‘Mister Happiness’.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Arnaud explains the currency of personal authenticity. Using examples from his own life and the experiences of those he coaches around the world, he describes how a process of continual self-evaluation and reinvention can bring you to your ‘authentic self’ – a person that is recognised and valued both within and outside of the workplace.
10 Takeaways From the 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conference
The 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conferences brought together a number of esteemed leaders from across the business world to share their unique knowledge on how to create happy workplaces.
The conference speakers included CEOs from food company COOK, marketing agency Webmart, timber and fencing supplier Lawsons and more, who shared the workplace innovations that have not just improved overall staff happiness, but strengthened their competitive advantage.
Here are ten essential takeaways from the event.
How to Combine Multiple Answers Into One Column With CONCAT
If you had multiple records across different columns, how would you combine them into one? Rather than having to do this manually, you can use the CONCAT function. Find out how it works in this short blog by Happy’s Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart.
10 Takeaways From the 2017 Creating Happy Workplaces in the Public Sector Conference
The 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conferences brought together a number of esteemed leaders from across the business world to share their unique knowledge on how to create happy workplaces.
The conference speakers included CEOs from food company COOK, marketing agency Webmart, timber and fencing supplier Lawsons and more, who shared the workplace innovations that have not just improved overall staff happiness, but strengthened their competitive advantage.
Here are ten essential takeaways from the event.
Why Happy is a Great Place to Work: A Talk From Our Team
The speakers at conferences are usually senior leaders who praise how well things work at their organisation. For Happy’s talk, we asked three of our frontline staff to talk about their own experiences and a sense of what it’s like to work in a happy workplace.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Sal, Laura and Rebecca share what makes Happy a great place to work. This includes discussing the four-day week and how it works in practice, as well as how Happy’s staff live the company’s values.
Happy’s 4 Day Week: You Should Try it Too! (18 Month Update)
In June 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.
A year and a half has passed since then. In this blog, Happy’s Founder and Chief Happiness Officer – Henry Stewart looks at how this scheme has impacted us at Happy.
Key Messages From Alex Soojung-Kim Pang About The Importance of Rest
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is Global Programs Director at 4 Day Week Global, and a leading voice in reduced hours working. He is the author of three books exploring how companies and individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into digital-age lives and work.
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Alex focuses on the key messages from his second book, Rest: Get More Done When You Work Less, which explores the hidden role of rest in the lives of exceptionally creative and prolific people. He discusses the concepts of ‘active rest’, ‘deep play’, and the brain’s ‘default mode network’ as well as the value of vacations and the afternoon nap!
3 Important Things About Communicating Across Differences
I’ve recently facilitated a session for a large group of professional coaches with the international coach federation (ICF – UK chapter) and part of what we’ve explored in the session was participants’ identities. We’ve done an exercise where participants explored different factors of their identity and as part of that same exercise, they also got the opportunity to reflect on which of these factors are most meaningful to them and how those factors influence how they show up personally and professionally. I’ve really enjoyed this session and the engaging discussions that took place.
Read more in this blog written by Marwa Farouq.
