Free Leadership and Personal Development Taster Sessions with happy

We’d like to invite you to attend our Open Day on 25th September, held at Happy's HQ in London.

We will be offering a range of workshops covering IT skills, Leadership and Personal Development programmes.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to see Happy's training rooms and meet us in person, as well as to give you a feel for how we deliver interactive and engaging learning. If you’ve ever wondered what one of our courses is like, now is your opportunity to meet the team and try us out!

About the sessions

Each session is intended to give you a feel for how we deliver learning or to trial a course you may be interested in, either for yourself or for your organisation before you commit to the full workshop. If you enjoy our taster sessions, you can then go on to book the full course and receive even more benefit from your learning.

All workshops are ticketed so please make sure you RSVP in advance – spaces are limited.

We will also be offering lunch (delivered by local supplier Karma Cans) and networking drinks after the last session. These are free - just let us know you will be joining us by RSVPing below.

Due to the limited number of places, we are asking that no more than two people per organisation attend each session.

Please note that there will be a professional photographer at Happy on the day to document the occasion. Please let us know if you do not wish to be photographed!

You will receive your joining instructions after booking your place, but please contact our Account Management team if you haven't received these or if you have any questions.

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Leadership and Personal Development Taster Sessions

Happy's leadership sessions aim to help you create happy, productive workplaces based on trusting your people.

1. Happy Leadership Programme

25th September, 10:00 - 11:00

Are you motivated to create a great place to work where your team members are fully engaged and driven to provide excellence to their colleagues and customers? Do you want to create a workplace of positive collaboration, where each individual is prepared to innovate to solve the challenges of your organisation, but you aren’t sure how to go about it?

This session is a taster of the powerful changes that our Happy Leadership Programme enables.

Be challenged and learn:

  • When people work at their best
  • Understand how to get the most from your people
  • Discover the most important behaviours of managers
  • The cornerstone to coaching


2. Introduction to Liberating Structures

25th September, 13:30 - 14:30

Are you tired of boring online meetings? Would you like your online meetings and events to be involving, focused and memorable?

Liberating Structures is a repertoire of over 30 methods to make your activities fully inclusive and more effective. All have been widely tested and are focused on results. They work in live meetings and they also work for online events.

In this session, you will learn about the underlying principles of Liberating Structures and will experience a selection of these methods in an online setting. It’s perfect if you have never used Liberating Structures before and would like to learn more, or if you have used them before and would like to see how they work online.


3. Productivity Skills

25th September, 15:00 - 16:00

Do you sometimes feel you are terribly busy, hectic even, but not as productive as you'd like to be?

Discover the key tips that enabled Happy to be as productive in 4 days as 5. It is all about focus, meetings and solving email overload.


4. Effective Group Facilitation

25th September, 10:00 - 11:00

Our Effective Group Facilitation session is designed for anyone who wants to facilitate effective, engaging, and enjoyable events and meetings.

During this one-hour session, you will:

  • Identify what great facilitation looks like
  • Consider what is the role of a facilitator (and what is not!)
  • Set a clear objective for your event that will make it purposeful
  • Learn how to design your event for maximum participation 


5. Effective Coaching Skills for Leaders

25th September, 11:30 - 12:30

Learn how to develop your coaching skills and work towards becoming the sort of leader that people would choose to be led by.

After this one-hour session, you will be able to:

  • Understand when people work at their best
  • Identify who you are as a leader and your leadership attitude
  • Identify the benefits of coaching
  • Identify how to enhance your listening skills and learn how to pay absolute attention to what is being said and not said


6. Assertiveness

25th September, 13:30 - 14:30

Learn how to improve your assertiveness skills, allowing your voice to be heard. We will look at the challenges of being assertive with colleagues and communicating with those around you.

During this one-hour session, you will:

  • Define what assertiveness means
  • Analyse your current behaviour patterns around assertiveness
  • Recognise assertive and non-assertive behaviour
  • Communicate more effectively and assertively


7. Brave Leadership Programme

25th September, 15:00 - 16:00

Join us for an inspirational look at female leadership and discover more about our one year transformational programme.

According to a Harvard study into leadership, more women were rated as better overall leaders than their male counterparts. And yet, women are still vastly underrepresented in more senior positions.

In this taster session we will be exploring what assertive leadership looks like and what this means from a woman's perspective.

During this session, you will look at:

  • What are your choices as an assertive leader?
  • Who inspires you and what can you learn from them?
  • Identify an attitude you would like to be known for and what this might look like in practice
  • Share thoughts and ideas with a group of motivated women
  • Find out how the programme could help you inspire, empower, challenge and innovate in your own authentic way


8. Develop Your Organisation's Learning Culture

25th September, 11:30 - 12:30 and 13:30 - 14:30

Establishing a rich learning culture can lead to better employee engagement, innovation, and all-round improved performance — but how do you do it?

This facilitated workshop will get participants sharing current practices and exploring new ideas on how to develop a great learning culture.


9. Apprenticeships

25th September, 11:30 - 12:30pm

Happy provides a Level 3 programme for first-time managers, team leaders and supervisors, a Level 5 programme for more experienced managers and department leaders, and a Level 7 programme designed for senior leaders who want to make a real cultural change in their workplace. These programmes have a focus on trusting your people and creating a culture of self-management. They are funded by the Apprenticeship Levy.

In this one-hour session, you will learn more about Happy’s Level 3, 5 and 7 apprenticeship programmes, including:

  • How do the programmes work in practice?
  • What is the time commitment required of the programme?
  • How are the programmes assessed?
  • How do we obtain the funding?

In addition, you will experience the style and interactive approach of the programme. You will be posed a question then will have an opportunity to explore it further in break out rooms with a smaller group, before coming back to the main session to discuss further.


Lunch

12:30 - 13:30

Join us for lunch, with meals supplied by local company Karma Cans! You will receive a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes.

We will contact you the week before the event about which of the three you would like.

Networking Session

16:00 - 18:00

To close the day, we will be hosting a networking session to give you the opportunity to meet some of our other clients and chat with Happy staff. Nibbles and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available for you to enjoy.

The session is planned to run from 16:00 - 18:00. We kindly request that you book this session if you plan to attend so we have an idea of numbers to cater for but you can of course come and go as you please.

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