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.
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.
Caron Bradshaw: Why You Should Try Leading With Love
Talk of love in the workplace can be an uncomfortable topic, but should it be? This was a question at the core of Caron Bradshaw’s talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Caron Bradshaw OBE is CEO of the Charity Finance Group. She has also been a member of the NCVO’s National Assembly and has set on a number of government working parties. Caron was honoured with an OBE for services to charity in the New Year’s Honours list in 2021.
Daniel Dzikowski: Why You Should Learn With Happy
Daniel is a champion of Happy’s leadership and management programmes, as he explained during this talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Daniel learned of Happy two decades ago, when he had set out to start his own business and wanted to undertake some learning to ensure that he would have the skills and knowledge to make it a success.
Femi Otitoju: How Agile Leadership Can Get The Most From Your People
Femi Otitoju founded her equality and diversity consultancy in 1985 and has dedicated her career to advancing diversity and inclusion. With over 35 years of experience, she combines her scientific background with persuasive training, facilitation and coaching skills.
In this talk from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Femi shares four key experiences from her career that she believes demonstrate the value of agile and authentic leadership.
Simon Biltcliffe: How to Run a Marxist Business Within Capitalism
Webmart was founded 21 years ago by Simon Biltcliffe, based on the principles of Marxism within capitalism. They use capitalism to create profit and the Marxist principles of redistribution of wealth to share it out between their people.
Webmart’s key benchmarks for success are the Intellectual, Emotional and Financial returns of the business. In this talk from the 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conference, Simon explains how these three measurements ensure that the their people are happy and fulfilled.
COOK: Creating Growth by Placing Relationships at the Heart of Business
Six years ago, Rosie Brown entered COOK for the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For list, which is measured through a staff survey — and was shocked to find that they didn’t make the list.
In this 20-minute video from the 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conference, Rosie talks about COOK’s journey to become a happy workplace.
