Happy’s Culture Recognised With Leadership Excellence Award
Happy is delighted to announce that they have won the Leadership Excellence Award for Organisations in the 2024 Leadership Awards.
The Leadership Awards are hosted by The Institute of Leadership, and this year’s awards ceremony took place on Friday 15th November at the Hilton London Bankside. Maureen Egbe and Sheena Morris accepted the award on Happy’s behalf. The Awards highlighted 85 outstanding individuals and organisations across their 10 different awards categories.
Kate Grimes – Autonomy and Patient Care in the NHS
Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”
Henry Stewart – people work best when they feel good about themselves
Live blogging presentation #5 by Henry Stewart at Beyond Budgeting
Bjarte Bogsnes at Beyond Budgeting 2014
In this talk from the 2014 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes uses engaging analogies to challenge the two main assumptions behind traditional management, that the future is predictable and that people can’t be trusted, and to explain the principles of Beyond Budgeting. He summarises Statoil’s Beyond Budgeting journey, outlines some of the problems faced in implementing their ‘Ambition to Action’ strategy and answers questions from the floor.
Julian Birkinshaw – The Surprising Lead Indicator of Employee Engagement
This is a great presentation from Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School, Thinkers 50 UK Top Three) speaking at Happy Workplaces 2014, covering everything from habit formation, through road traffic planning, all the way to the surprising lead indicator of employee engagement. A LOT of delegates said they would revamp their upward appraisal process after listening to Julian’s presentation.
Clive Hutchinson – Using your employees strengths to determine their role
Clive Hutchinson is the CEO of Cougar Automation, and he spoke to us during the Creating Happy Workplaces Conference about his focus on sustainable, profitable growth through customer service.
TLC: Talk, Listen, Change: Maintaining Culture in a Growing Organisation
Michelle Hill is the CEO of TLC: Talk Listen, Change, a charity that believes every adult and child needs to be surrounded by safe, healthy and happy relationships. They do work around counselling, therapy, domestic abuse prevention and more within that sector.
In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Michelle breaks down the strategy TLC has implemented to ensure that there is an ideal culture in place and how they’ve maintained that as the organisation has grown.
Happy is Now an Accredited Living Wage Employer
It is Living Wage Week, where the Living Wage movement is celebrating over 15,000 accredited members who are devoted to going above and beyond for their staff by paying them a real Living Wage.
In order to qualify for the Living Wage Certification, the company applying needs to be verified by the Living Wage Foundation to commit to fair pay and good quality of life for their staff, ensure that they are paying a Living Wage to all directly employed staff as well as sub-contracted staff and show a responsibility as an employer to the people employed to the company.
Isaac Getz: What Makes Progressive Organisations So Successful?
Happy workplaces have many key similarities, such as giving their people more trust and autonomy. From studying and learning more about these similarities, all organisations can become happier and more successful. This is something that Isaac Getz has dedicated his career to, studying what makes progressive organisations successful, both in his home country of France and around the world.
Isaac shared his experience and his findings during this talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
