Do Your People Get to Do the Job in the Interview?
In this short video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 10th July, Henry Stewart talks about getting people to do the job in an interview. He shares examples from Happy’s recruitment process as well as from Toyota.
Why Canva is the Perfect Design Tool for Non-Graphic Designers
Have you ever wanted to make a visually impressive and professional looking social media post, but you’re not a graphic designer? Perhaps you’re sick of using the slide designs available on PowerPoint and want to make something more engaging, or perhaps you just want to add something to a report to make it really pop? Canva might be the perfect design tool for you!
Ben explains more about Canva and it’s great, user-friendly features in this blog.
How to Understand and Use AI to Your Advantage
Everyone is talking about AI at the moment, and it can be daunting. Whether you’re completely new to terms like ‘Large Language Model’ and ‘GPT’, or you just want to ensure that you know how to get the most out of the available tools, Happy is here to help.
You might be thinking “I don’t understand AI” or “I don’t need AI!” and that’s entirely understandable but you might benefit from it far more than you’d think. ChatGPT and similar tools can be great for things like getting writing prompts, summarising documents and e-mails and many other tasks.
In this blog, Ben demystifies some of the riddles of AI and explains how it can be used to help you in your day to day work.
How TypeFi is Creating a Happy Workplace with the Level 7 Programme
The
Level 7 Senior Leadership programme
is paid for from the Apprenticeship Levy if you have over £3 million in payroll. If not, the government pays 95% of it, so your organisation pays just £700 for a two-year leadership programme with monthly workshops and regular coaching.
“Your Level 7 Senior Leadership apprenticeship is absolutely brilliant,” says Jason Michell of TypeFi. “One of the best things I’ve done in the last decade. It’s the best money I’ve never spent.”
How Power BI Can Help You Create Reports Quickly and Easily
We all want to get the most out of our data – to really dig deep into the numbers so we can make informed business decisions. How do you find new opportunities? How do you know where to divert your resources?
In Excel, this can be a minefield – having to copy and paste data from different sources, then tweak it so it displays correctly, and then running dozens of functions to get the right information. And that’s not counting on the time needed to then create graphs and charts so that you can visualise it and spot trends!
What if there was an easier way? In this blog, Ben explains how Power BI can help you to create these reports quickly and easily.
Love, Kindness and Patience are the Keys to Leadership, Says Caron Bradshaw
“Leadership is a term, much like ‘strategy’, that is misused and misunderstood. I don’t believe that being a leader is about being the CEO, hierarchy, wielding power and control or having all the answers. Yet leaders can have a hard time breaking out of the traditional concepts of leadership and embracing a different approach. And others fail to recognise their own leadership qualities considering themselves too junior or lacking that leadership ‘title’,” says Caron Bradshaw OBE.
Caron will be speaking at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference on 15th May on the topic of Leading with Love.
How to Copy Formulas in Excel Using Absolute Cell References
When copying formulas in Excel, you’ll find that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The key to making sure your formulas work every time is Absolute Cell References. This makes sure that your formula uses the same cell reference each time — wherever it is copied to.
Learn how to create an Absolute Cell Reference in this video with Senior Facilitator Gill — understanding how to use Absolute Cell References will allow you to confidently and efficiently expand on your Excel skills!
Giving Your Employees Freedom is the Key to Success, Says Isaac Getz
“In every aspect of our lives — in politics, in economics, in entertainment, and in family life — we demand the freedom to decide matters for ourselves. And yet when it comes to our work lives, far too many people are stifled, constrained, hemmed in, and tied down by bureaucracy and rules that have nothing to do with allowing them to do the best they can in their jobs. These constraints leave people feeling out of control of their work lives, which, in turn, leads to stress, fatigue, and disengagement from work.”
Isaac Getz is an author, senior business advisor and professor at the ESCP Business School. He is an instrumental figure in the modern corporate liberation movement and has worked with numerous companies across Europe and in Canada. Isaac will be speaking at our 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference on Wednesday 15th May.
How You Can Create a Culture of Trust in Your Workplace by Using Pre-Approval
Find out from Henry Stewart how you can create a workplace culture based on trust by using Pre-Approval.
In this 30-minute video, recorded from his live session on 10th April, Henry gives examples from Happy and from Netflix about how Pre-Approval has been used in practice. He also hears from people attending and how Pre-Approval could work in their organisation, and what the barriers are to using it.
How Michelle Hill Has Maintained TLC’s Culture Whilst Growing
“We’re a relationship charity, and we want to invest as much time in our team and their relationships at work as we do with our clients,” says Michelle Hill, CEO of TLC: Talk, Listen, Change. “We want them to have a workplace where they feel valued and where they want to do their best work. I think the more we invest in wellbeing and the team being happier, the better the results are.”
Michelle will be speaking at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference about maintaining your organisation’s culture whilst growing.
