Michele Zanini: How Too Much Bureaucracy Stifles Innovation
We all hate tedious paperwork. Filling out transport claim documents, internal KPI tracking documentation, expenses claims… All these things can utterly drain your soul, but we do it because we must, because it’s important. But is it? Michele Zanini would say no, or at the very least, not always, in this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Nigel Paine at Creating Happy Workplaces Conference 2013
Nigel Paine headed the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. He built an award winning Leadership programme, state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing and one of the most successful and well used intranets in the corporate sector.
Bjarte Bogsnes: Why Budgets Might Be Harming Your Finances and Your Employee’s Happiness
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Beyond Budgeting is only about, well, budgeting. However, it’s about so much more than that.
Budgeting isn’t a sole element of a business, it’s a facet that appears in every department and at every level. Whether you want to take a business trip, implement a new IT system or simply get some new stationery, that will impact, and be impacted by, your organisation’s relevant budgets. However, an organisation’s attitude towards budgeting often reflect more than just its fiscal responsibility.
In this video from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes explains how budgets might be holding back your organisation.
Happy on Sunday Times Best Places to Work list
The results are in: Happy has made the 2024 Sunday Times Best Places to Work list!
To be successfully accredited as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work, organisations must achieve a minimum 70% overall engagement score – and Happy achieved 96%!
