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Happy Manifesto Conference, April 2013

Around 80 people, from a range of organisations came together at Google’s Victoria HQ on 24th April 2013 to share ideas and learn how to create happy workplaces.   For videos check out Annotag and the Happy Manifesto site. Henry Stewart, author of Happy Manifesto Henry opened the conference by asking people how their organisation would be different if the … more


Excel Hints & Tips – Slicers

Slicers In his blog on Pivot Perfection, Darren showed us how to easily produce a series of Pivot Tables for each category we want to filter on. Slicers make it easy to have one Pivot Table that can switch between different categories. Let’s start with the same data that Darren used: The next step is to add a Slicer: Go to the … more


Happy Computers Case Study – Pfizer

Pfizer                           Founded in 1849, Pfizer is the world’s largest research based pharmaceutical company.  Pfizer discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets leading prescription medicines and vaccines.  Pfizer employs 1000’s of staff globally. Pfizer chose Happy Computers to develop and deliver training to support the roll-out of a Siebel-based CRM … more


Happy People Case Study – Positive East

Positive East is a community based HIV charity with over 20 years experience in providing practical and emotional support for people living with and affected by HIV in East London. Training goals Positive East were looking to enable and empower all of their staff to successfully deliver a significant proportion of their services through their volunteers. Additionally we took the … more


Boost Your Productivity in 2 Minutes a Day

Would you like to learn a new tip every day in Microsoft Office, to steadily boost your productivity? Now you can with a subscription to Happy Productivity Boosters, set to launch on 1st June 2013. Subscribe and you will receive a 2 minute video every morning, designed to show you an aspect of Excel, Word, PowerPoint or Outlook that you … more


Happy People – Executive Coaching Testimonial

Are you new to leadership role?  Have you have been an executive, leader or manager for a long time?   Your own development and behaviour is crucial to your role and your organisation.   To be the best at work all the time and be the leader you want to be, sometimes you have to stop , take stock and … more


Happy People – Are you really listening and valuing your team?

  I recently had the great pleasure of facilitating an event for a charity.  The team I was working with had just gone through a restructure. On the day there were a couple of things that really struck me… The first was that this was a group of highly motivated people who were really passionate about the work they were … more


Why choose Happy People for your soft skills development?

Happy People works with organisations and teams to make them more effective through truly valuing and getting the most from their people… Our courses & events are founded on a people based approach to working.  Our core belief is: People work best when they feel good about themselves Using this and principles like ‘Believe the best’ we take people on … more


Happy: One of the World’s Most Democratic Workplaces

Happy is today named as one of the most democratic workplaces in the world, in a unique list of companies seeking to run organisations with more freedom and empowerment of their people. Here is the piece I have written for Huffington Post on the subject: The 51 “Most Democratic Workplaces” in the world were announced today in the 2013 Worldblu … more


Happy People – Going beyond our limiting beliefs

I can’t! – Going beyond our limiting beliefs The only class I ever got thrown out of at school was art.  The teacher and I both knew I was no artist.  Although I make my own Christmas cards and enjoy photography, I have always firmly believed that I can’t draw and I’m not creative. Recently I was lucky enough to … more