Sarah Pugh Shares 15 Tips for Creating a Happy Workplace
At the 2021 Happy Workplaces Conference, we had a fabulous presentation from Sarah Pugh. I ask the speakers at our conferences to share ‘nickable’ ideas that people can put into practice and Sarah came up with no less than 15 of these.
Sarah has just become Chief Executive of Whizz Kidz, so a lot of this relates to when she was CEO at Heart of Kent Hospice.
Happy Starts 4 Day Week Trial
Happy has just started the six month trial of a four-day working week being organised in the UK by 4 Day Week Global. We are joining over 60 other organisations in this pilot.
We discussed it at a staff meeting earlier in the year, carried out a survey and our people voted 16-1 to go for a permanent four-day week, as long as the pilot succeeds.
Could a 4 Day Week Work in Your Sector? Yes!
At Happy we are engaged in the UK four-day working week pilot, with 70 UK companies testing the idea from June to November 2022.
We’ve had huge interest, with my blogs on LinkedIn getting up to 10 times as many views as my other posts. But some respond by saying that it wouldn’t work in their sector.
So I was very interested to read the book Shorter: How Smart Companies Work Less, Embrace Flexibility and Boost Productivity by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This gives a whole range of examples from different sectors.
How to Stop the Same Few People From Dominating Your Meetings
Wouldn’t it be nice if your whole team could find their voice and participate in meetings? Liberating Structures can help — 33 methods of that avoid one person dominating a conversation and give everybody a voice.
In this blog, Henry goes through two of the most popular methods to get you started.
We Are More Productive When Working From Home
How productive are you when working from home — do you get more work done, about the same, or less?
This was the question I asked my followers on LinkedIn recently, following the recent comments from Boris Johnson and notes that Jacob Rees-Mogg left on the desks of civil servants in his office. Of the almost 500 that replied, the result was overwhelming.
Increase Your Productivity With No Meetings or Email Before 11am
Having no meetings and not checking email before 11am is the Monk Mode Morning concept that
Bruce Daisley
set out in his book The Joy of Work.
Since my holiday I have adopted it and spend the first 2.5 hours of each morning getting stuff done. I can manage 5 Pomodoros (25 minute focused sessions) in that time. How would your day be if you could get your most important tasks done before 11?
Engage Your Audience, Please
Recently I went to a webinar on ‘how people learn’. The first slide stated “people learn by doing,” and the last slide said “don’t give a lecture.” Yet the 45 minute webinar was a lecture with no interaction with the attendees and certainly no learning by doing.
This was especially ironic because of the topic, and the message, but is true of so many webinars. What is stopping people from making online webinars engaging?
Is it Time for a 4 Day Week?
Andrew Barnes is one of the leading promoters of the four-day week across the world. As Founder of Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand, he implemented this approach back in 2018.
Andrew will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Impact Players: How to Have a Real Impact in Your Job
What makes the difference between somebody who is simply a contributor and somebody who makes a real difference? That is the question that Liz Wiseman addresses in her new book, Impact Players.
Liz was a standout speaker at our 2020 conference, and is back again for our 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Vivek Menon at Danfoss: Building a Teal Bubble in a Large Company
I am often asked whether you can build happy trust-based workplaces within a larger more hierarchical organisation. So I was very interested to hear about the eSteering team at Danfoss, a 120 person unit within a 40,000 strong company.
Vivek Menon, a Senior Director at the Danish company Danfoss, explained at the Teal Around the World Conference how they created a culture of trust and freedom. Vivek will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.
