Happy’s Apprenticeship Programmes Recognised as Good by Ofsted
The quality of Happy’s apprenticeship programmes has recently been recognised as Good within the Ofsted further education and skills inspection. Ofsted reviewed the overall effectiveness of our quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and apprenticeships, giving us the Good mark on each and every category.
Celebrate Black History Month with Happy
Join us for a free, interactive online celebration on Tuesday, 15th October from 10am, as we honour Black History Month and showcase the incredible talent within our Global Majority leadership community.
Emma Halahan: How You Could Benefit From a Leadership Apprenticeship with Happy
Many years ago, an apprenticeship was something that young people did at the beginning of their careers to learn a vocation in a hands-on way from an expert. However, in the last 20 years that has drastically changed. Apprenticeships are now available to anyone, of any age and at any stage of their career, in a range of subjects. Happy has run leadership apprenticeship programmes for several years now at Level 3, Level 5 and Level 7.
Emma is an alumni of Happy’s
Level 5 Apprenticeship Programme for Experienced Managers
which she found invaluable. Emma talked about her experience with the programme and how it’s affected how she works at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
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%!
Nigel Paine: Why a Positive Culture is the Key Ingredient of Success
Every successful organisation proudly boasts of how great their culture is and how that has enabled them to succeed. But creating a happy workplace can’t be forced, and getting rid of a bad culture can be a very challenging undertaking.
In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Nigel Paine explains the hallmarks of a happy workplace and how you can emulate this in your organisation.
What Companies Are Doing to Make Gen Z Happy in the Workplace
Big changes are coming to many workplaces as Generation Z are joining the workforce. With a higher prioritisation of mental wellbeing and the social impact of their work, this is slowly but surely changing the world of work.
Learn more in this blog written by Colin Lee.
