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What Would Your Team Be Like if Everyone Was Working to Their Strengths?

At Happy, we use the Strengths Finder by Marcus Buckingham to find out what each team member's strengths are. In each team, everyone shares their strengths and the tasks that they enjoy doing the most to ensure that everyone can work to their strengths as much as possible. What would your team be like if everyone was working to their strengths? How much more productive would they be? In this short video from the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, Cathy Busani, Happy's Managing Director, explains the benefits of working to your strengths.

The Pursuit of Joy at Work at Happy

Cathy Busani's goal for the staff at Happy is that they experience joy in at least 80% of their work. In this video from the the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, Cathy explains how she aims to achieve this by focusing on strengths-based working — asking staff to think about what they are great at and seeing how they can incorporate it into their day-to-day working.

3 Things You Can Do in Excel Without Maths

Do you avoid Excel because of the maths? As an Excel trainer, one of the most frequent comments I get from learners is that they avoid Excel because of the maths. This feedback is why we have now developed a new course, Excel Without Maths. In this blog, Rachael explores three things you can do in Excel without using any maths.

Happy's Trainers Recognised in 2019 Coursecheck Brilliance Awards

The quality of our training has recently been recognised in the Coursecheck Brilliance Awards 2019, with the Highest Rated Trainers award of their large learning providers.

Career Opportunity: Freelance IT Trainer

Happy is seeking experienced freelance IT trainers based in the south of England to work with our growing client base. You will need a package knowledge of MS Office and G Suite to an advanced level, as well as experience of MS Project and SharePoint. Software rollout experience (such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle and large SharePoint rollouts) is also highly desirable. Closing date: midnight on Sunday 9th February 2020

Happy's January competition is back, with another set of fantastic prizes. In 2020 we are focusing on mental health — for a chance to win, tell us what you will do to improve your mental health this year. Closing date: midnight on 31st January.

Career Opportunity: Account Manager

Happy is seeking an Account Manager to work within our Leadership and Personal Development team. You will have your own set of accounts and will be working in a team of five people. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 31st January 2020.

Career Opportunity: Account Manager

Happy is seeking a Customer Success Administrator to provide support to a team of four Account Managers. You will be a pivotal part of the team in helping to create customer delight. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 31st January 2020.

Career Opportunity: Freelance IT Trainer

Happy is seeking freelance IT trainers based across the UK, particularly Yorkshire. We provide end-user training to a range of individuals and organisations, covering popular topics such as MS Office, Office 365 (particularly OneDrive and Teams) and Google applications. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 6th January.

Happy's Web Development Apprenticeship is a 2020 Learning Awards Finalist

Today we started the first Drupal pre-apprenticeship programme. The idea of the course is to find school leavers with an interest in and aptitude to coding/web development and help a young person get their foot on the ladder to employment. This intensive two week course will cover the basics of using Drupal, HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Currently four organisations have committed to taking on an Apprentice, so we will prepare this group of school leavers and get them ready to go out to an interview.