How to Identify and Engage Stakeholders With Happy’s Workshop
Learn about Happy’s Stakeholder Engagement workshop and the topics you will cover on it in this quick three-minute video by Rachael.
The Power of Dreams: Rachel Law from PossAbilities
In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Rachel talks about the power of dreams to create a happy workplace, and motivating and retaining staff in a notoriously difficult sector. Rachel discusses the importance of trust, listening to staff and linking with local communities, as well as gardens, a miniature Shetland pony, holidays, and Duvet Days.
Building a Culture of Trust at CoppaFeel!
Natalie Haskell is the CEO of CoppaFeel!. CoppaFeel! is a renowned breast health awareness charity with a commitment to enabling happy workplace ideas. Natalie has fostered a unique culture with CoppaFeel! where the ways of working are designed to support productivity and individual needs.
In this entertaining talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Natalie shares how her enthusiasm for implementing a four-day working week turned to disappointment and how she worked with her team to bring about a solution that worked for everyone.
3 Top Tips to Take Your MS Teams Meetings From 0 – 100%
I want to show you three mind-blowing MS Teams Meeting tips that are now an unconscious standard practice in my working day. It has helped me work in a better way when I use MS Teams to host meetings/training sessions, let’s hope it helps you work better too.
Why Stakeholders Matter When You’re Trying to Make a Change
When making a change it is always important to consider how it will impact others. There are those impacted that may be able to directly influence, help or hinder you along the way in making these changes – the stakeholders.
In this blog Rachael talks about the need to communicate and engage with these potential stakeholders to help ensure the changes you are making can take place smoothly and productively.
Would You Like Excel to Use AI to Write Formulas For You?
AI is big news at the moment, and it is going to change the way we use software forever. Microsoft is adding Copilot to Microsoft 365, and we’re seeing the first hints of what it can do.
Copilot will offer AI driven help to all parts of Microsoft 365, from helping you manage your email inbox, to refining a report and polishing a PowerPoint presentation and, yes, even write Excel formulas for you!
This type of AI-driven help has been turning up in Microsoft products for some time, especially in Excel. But how does it work? Darren explains more in this blog.
New Workshop: LEGO Serious Play has Arrived at Happy
At Happy, we are always looking for new ways to create more impact and value for our amazing clients.
We are therefore really excited to now offer LEGO Serious Play as part of our facilitated experiences.
If you are:
Aiming to create a high-performing team
Introducing major change
Developing your strategic direction
Heading towards a more empowered and agile organisation
Wanting to generate more diverse thinking
Needing to energise your meetings, training or other group based activities
Then LSP could help you move towards your goal.
Read more in this blog by Jo Holliday.
How The Public Sector Gives its People Trust
I have asked thousands of people when they work at their best. For over 90% of them it has been when they have been given the trust and freedom to make their own decisions.
I have also asked whether they like “complete freedom” or “freedom within guidelines”. While there are a few anarchists who like complete freedom (especially entrepreneurs) most people – again roughly 90% – choose freedom within guidelines.
People like to know what the overall framework is, but to have freedom within it.
I also ask whether people like to be told what to do. Fewer than 2% go for that option.
5 Simple Ways to Build Your Resilience and Reduce Stress
“A healthy mind in a healthy body”
We hear this so often these days. It’s become such a hackneyed phrase that we take the truth of it for granted – until something goes wrong. Maybe an injury or illness hits. Anxiety starts to take hold. You lose sleep. You lose mental clarity. You physically can’t do what you once did. Stress starts to take its toll and you start to suffer muscle injuries, headaches, unexplained illness. Suddenly, you don’t have any spare physical or mental capacity to cope with everyday knock-backs. Stress multiplies. You are, to put it bluntly, in trouble.
Managing stress is key to building resilience, and resilience is a key strength that can help you and your teammates (to quote another corny old phrase), to keep calm and carry on!
Written by Fenella Potter.
4 Things That Nonviolent Communication Improves
What I love about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is it enables me to let go of any judgement or fear of punishment. It enables me to ground myself in a world that is beyond right and wrong, beyond good and bad. It enables a deep understanding of myself and others.
Read more in this blog written by Marwa Farouq.
