Year: 2023

4 Key Insights From “Rest” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang is one of our speakers at the online Happy Workplaces Conference on 15th June. He is a key player in the four-day work week movement and has also written a book called Shorter about that topic.

At the conference, he will be talking about his first book,

“Long hours are an expression of our identity and proof of our seriousness,” Alex suggests. “They don’t necessarily make us more productive; they make us look more productive.”

How to Be a Multiplier and Why it is Important

I recently did a podcast with Liz Wiseman, the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (and Impact Players).

Her book, Multipliers, has had a transformational impact on Happy and on our programmes. All of our ‘people managers’ are Multipliers, who enable their people to do their best work, and we’ve began training others on how to be a Multiplier on our leadership programmes.

6 Ways to Receive and Respond to Feedback Positively

Appraisal time! I don’t know about you, but I used to hate that. I used to presume it would all be negative, fault finding, with a good helping of ‘mansplaining’ thrown in. I now see that attitude was a confidence issue rather than based in fact – apart, maybe, from the mansplaining! But dealing with negative feedback at work – or indeed in any area of life – can be challenging.

In this blog Fenella Potter outlines some of her tips for ways to receive and respond to feedback positively.

How Happy’s Level 7 Senior Leaders Programme Has Ignited Change in Organisations

Our aim with our

was to not just teach a few leadership tips, but to ignite real change in their organisations. As an apprenticeship qualification, the focus is on implementing ideas and on-the-job learning rather than sitting in long, dull lectures.

Our first Level 7 cohort has recently finished the programme. In this blog, Henry speaks to people who attended the programme and how it changed both their leadership style and their organisation.

6 Tips to Improve Your Self-Confidence

Low confidence prevents us from getting on with stuff, limits risk-taking, career progression or even career choice, and personal growth. (It’s even taken me a bit of time to get on with writing this, as I didn’t feel very confident!)

Find out six tips to improve your self-confidence in this blog by Fenella Potter.

How Asana Can Improve Productivity and Collaboration in Your Team

Asana is a user-friendly work management tool. Using Asana, teams or groups of people can organise their work, keep track of their progress and manage projects easily. In this blog, our IT expert Gill explains why she likes to use Asana for project management, and how Asana can help to improve your team’s productivity and collaboration.

Happy People – Executive Coaching Testimonial

Are you new to leadership role? Have you have been an executive, leader or manager for a long time?

The Importance of 2 Tracks For Promotion

A colleague at a client told me, when they started with the organisation, that their manager said to them:

“I’m not really a people person.”

“I probably won’t remember your name.”

“I would much rather be writing reports at my desk.”

What should that person be doing? They should not be managing people, and if they are good at writing reports, they should be well paid for it.

4 Ways To Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Work. How does that word make you feel? Motivated? Challenged? Excited? Stressed? Depressed? Angry? Happy? The world of work is an emotional maelstrom. Recognising your feelings is the starting point to managing your responses and using them in a way that serves you best. And that, in a nutshell, is what Emotional Intelligence (EI), is.

What Are the Benefits of Employees Being in Control?

Last month I wrote a

suggesting that staff should decide the CEO’s salary, based on my own experience of doing just that.

So far it has received 344,000 views and 505 comments. And it seems to have been controversial.