Publishing the Happy Manifesto has led to a lot of organisations contacting Happy. Some call us in to help them improve their workplace and we love doing this. But there is an even bigger thrill when I get a letter from somebody we’ve not been involved with, who has taken the Manifesto and put the ideas into practice. So I’m … more
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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
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
Celebrate International Day of Happiness: 20th March
Today, Wednesday 20th March, is the first UN International Day of Happiness. Take the pledge to bring more happiness to others at the World Happiness Day web-site, add your Happy Heroes and see what events you can attend on the day. Yesterday Richard Layard, the inspirational author of the book Happiness, launched the Happy Heroes. A dozen people were given Heroes of Happiness … more
