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
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Management & Personal Development Courses – 2-for-1 Offer
2-for-1 on Bookings made by Friday 8th March 2013 Did you know Happy has a full range of management and personal development courses? From Health and Safety to Project Management and Managing for the First Time, we hope we have a course of interest to you. We’d love you to try them out. So for any bookings taken in the … more
Infographic: Happy Employees are More Productive
My first Infographic, produced using www.piktochart.com. Easy peasy. Click on the image to see it at its best. We will be creating a course in how to create infographics. Email happy@happy.co.uk to find out more.
Excel Hints & Tips: The LARGE Function
How do you list the top 8 values in each row? This question came from a data analyst in a school. A key measure of students is the value of their top 8 GCSEs. Given a spread-sheet of student results, how do you extract the best 8, given they will be different for each student. The grades (A*, A, … more
The Happy Manifesto on front page of The Evening Standard
Hold the front page! Fantastic to see our book The Happy Manifesto, written by our CEO Henry Stewart, on the front cover of The Evening Standard. Ok, so it’s not headline news (yet) and it’s at the bottom of the page but we are very excited to see it there none the less. If you are interested in finding out … more
Last Minute Offer – 33% Discount on MS Excel 2003 Levels 1, 2 & 3
We are offering a massive 33% discount on all of our extremely popular MS Excel 2003 courses on Wednesday 20th March here at Happy HQ, London. Starting with the basics right up to advanced, our courses are designed to be practical and easy to understand. On average our clients gain an extra 38 minutes productivity after attending our courses. … more
Excel Hints & Tips – More Pivot Perfection
Get your pivot table to put your filtered data on different sheets I think we’ve all declared our love of pivot tables haven’t we? If you’re still undecided let us offer you another inducement. In the screenshot below we’ve created a pivot table from our staff database. We’ve created this because we want to be able to see all the … more
LVSC Courses from 14 Feb to 25 March 2013
Great value learning in partnership with LVSC It’s the start of the year and a great time to think about training your staff and volunteers to be the best they can be in 2013. Did you achieve your training goals last year? Have you identified any skill gaps within your organisation? Take a look at the courses we are running … more
Excel Hints & Tips – Timeline
Timeline – a very nice Excel 2013 feature We all like a good pivot table don’t we? But to get the full range of summary option we sometimes need to add more than we’d like. For instance, in my personnel database I want a summary of salary and bonus for each department. But I also want to be able to … more
Excel Hints & Tips – Florence Nightingale & Excel
What on earth has Florence Nightingale got to do with Excel? Well believe it or not she invented the pie chart, if you don’t believe us go Google it. Pie charts are great! They can be big, bold and simple… but they can also be muddled, messy and confusing. What makes the difference is the data you are trying to … more
