Alex Kjerulf on Results and Relationships
It takes more than just fancy job titles, fruit baskets in the office and payrises to create a happy and engaged workplace. If you want to make people feel good at work, you need to focus on results and relationships, says Alex Kjerulf.
In this talk from the 2013 Happy Workplaces Conference, Alex explains how you can do this and create a sense of pride in your workplace.
Tansy Drake and Tim Dorsett describe the Innocent culture
Innocent are a very unique brand with a very unique culture. In this video from the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Tansy and Tim explain what it’s like and why they love working there.
Dom Monkhouse on how to become profitable
Dom Monkhouse at Happy Workplaces 2015
Let Your People Create Your Performance Framework, Says Brendan O’Keefe
When Brendan O’Keefe and his team formed the independent social enterprise Epic CIC, Brendan challenged his people to create their own performance appraisal at their staff conference. After much discussion and debate, the team created 8 items that are now used in appraisals and recruitment.
Find out more in this short clip from Brendan’s talk at the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Emma Rapoport: How Google ensured managers were better suited for their positions
Emma Rapoport, of Google, spoke at the Happy Workplaces conference about her experiences in management and leadership development as well as various other strengths.
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
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.
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.
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.
