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All of our course prices will be increasing by 5% in 2025. All prices will increase from 1st January, with the exception of our public leadership and personal development programmes which will change from 1st March 2025. This is the perfect time to book your training for the year ahead - you will still receive the same pricing, even if you book for June 2025.
Happy is delighted to announce that they have won the Leadership Excellence Award for Organisations in the 2024 Leadership Awards. The Leadership Awards are hosted by The Institute of Leadership, and this year's awards ceremony took place on Friday 15th November at the Hilton London Bankside. Maureen Egbe and Sheena Morris accepted the award on Happy's behalf. The Awards highlighted 85 outstanding individuals and organisations across their 10 different awards categories.
Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”
This is a great presentation from Julian Birkinshaw (London Business School, Thinkers 50 UK Top Three) speaking at Happy Workplaces 2014, covering everything from habit formation, through road traffic planning, all the way to the surprising lead indicator of employee engagement. A LOT of delegates said they would revamp their upward appraisal process after listening to Julian’s presentation.
Henry Stewart on why people work best when they feel good about themselves
Alex is the founder of Woohooinc. and one of the world’s leading experts on happiness at work. He is the author of 3 books including the international bestseller Happy Hour is 9 to 5 – How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work.
Dom Monkhouse has built two £30 million businesses on the basis of unique cultures and creating great places to work in.
In this talk from the 2014 Beyond Budgeting Conference, Bjarte Bogsnes uses engaging analogies to challenge the two main assumptions behind traditional management, that the future is predictable and that people can't be trusted, and to explain the principles of Beyond Budgeting. He summarises Statoil’s Beyond Budgeting journey, outlines some of the problems faced in implementing their ‘Ambition to Action’ strategy and answers questions from the floor.
Marion Janner, the Director of Star Wards, spoke at the recent Creating Happy Workplaces Conference about how she helped develop mental health wards through small, low-cost changes.https://www.happy.co.uk/umbraco/#tab69
Michelle Hill is the CEO of TLC: Talk Listen, Change, a charity that believes every adult and child needs to be surrounded by safe, healthy and happy relationships. They do work around counselling, therapy, domestic abuse prevention and more within that sector. In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Michelle breaks down the strategy TLC has implemented to ensure that there is an ideal culture in place and how they've maintained that as the organisation has grown.