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3 Ways to Improve Your Active Listening Skills

Empathetic listening requires humility. It calls for us to set aside our own vanity and judgements to create space in our minds for the perspectives of others. Too often we listen to what feels comfortable and dispute what is unfamiliar or inconvenient. In this blog, Nicole Martins gives some advice to improve your listening skills, so you can listen and understand others better — whether it's in a meeting, on a phone call or chatting with friends and family.

The 4 Day Week on The Office: Re-Defined Documentary

Happy was recently featured in The Office: Re-Defined documentary, created by Inês Santos, Noopur Jambhekar and Anagha Raghunath. In this short extract, The Office: Re-Defined explores the four-day working week. Inês interviewed Happy's founder and Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart, about the four-day week and our experiences so far. In our 'new normal' following the pandemic, is this the future of the office?

How to Create a Poll in Your Next MS Teams Meeting

You can add Polls to your meetings in MS Teams, either before or during the event. Polls are a quick and easy way to gain insights from your meeting attendees. For example, you could use a Poll to reach a decision quickly, find out when people are available for a future event or to gain insights into people's preferences. It's also a great way to improve engagement and assess learning for training sessions. In this blog, find out how to create a Poll in Microsoft Teams — why not create a Poll for your next meeting?

Simple acts such as colour coding can have a huge, positive impact on how your spreadsheet looks and the ease with which it can be understood. Conditional Formatting and Data Validation are two ways to make important data stand out. For example, you can use Conditional Formatting to colour code cells that meet certain criteria. This will enable people to find specific cells quickly. In this blog by Happy trainer Ebbie, we will look at how adding colour to certain elements within a spreadsheet can create visual appeal and increase user accuracy when it comes down to interpreting your data.

We offer a range of public classroom courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Live Online Interactive Learning courses as public dates. Each of these classroom public courses will be held at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, central London.

We offer a range of public Live Interactive Learning Online courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Classroom courses as public dates.

How to Create Partial Absolute Cell References in Excel

In this short two-minute video, Nicky explains how to create Partial Absolute Cell References in Microsoft Excel. Using Partial, or Mixed, Absolute Cell References, you can fix certain elements of a formula - either the row or the column reference, or both. This quick tip will save you lots of time when creating formulas in future!

To celebrate Learning at Work Week and to help you unlock your full potential, we have an exciting set of prizes! For your chance to win, tell us what your learning goals are for 2022. Our top prize includes £500 of Happy training vouchers, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Impact Players by Liz Wiseman, the Happy Planner / Learning Journal, one year's access to our Happy Video Library, and more!

Case Study: Open University Students Association

The OU Students Association is effectively the student union for the Open University with 40 staff alongside student volunteers responding to the needs of the 170,000 students. "The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive for all the courses we’ve done at Happy," explains Nicola Powell, Training and Wellbeing Officer.

Case Study: Leeds Beckett University

“I would absolutely recommend Happy to any organisation looking to offer high quality Office 365 training. You’ll have access to a wide range of live sessions, guidance documents, resources and support - all with clear costs and value for money,” says Chris Pickard, OD Adviser. “Anyone working with Happy will receive great customer service, and Happy will work in partnership to ensure your needs are listened to and met.”