Here you can find all of Happy’s blog posts, covering our Excel hints and tips, ideas for creating happy workplaces, and ways to be more productive at work — and more.
Caron has a wide array of experience across charity, regulation/law, policy, member support, and professional ethics and has been awarded with an OBE. In this video from the Happy Workplaces 2024 conference, Caron explains her management philosophy of "leading with love".
"I would have just been going through some things that required me to really think on my feet and be responsive to people and I looked back and thought, actually, this has been going on since I started my businesses." For Femi, great leadership is leadership that’s agile and authentic, that adapts to everyone’s unique strengths rather than trying to treat everyone the same way, and seeing everyone as valuable individuals. During her talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Femi talked about her long and varied career and about examples of this type of leadership she’s either experienced or provided herself over this time.
In this short video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 10th July, Henry Stewart talks about getting people to do the job in an interview. He shares examples from Happy's recruitment process as well as from Toyota.
Have you ever wanted to make a visually impressive and professional looking social media post? Perhaps you’re sick of using the slide designs available on PowerPoint and want to make something more engaging, or perhaps you just want to add something to a report to make it really pop? Canva might be the perfect design tool for you! Ben explains more about Canva and it’s great, user-friendly features in this blog.
Everyone is talking about AI at the moment, and it can be daunting. Whether you’re completely new to terms like ‘Large Language Model’ and ‘GPT’, or you just want to ensure that you know how to get the most out of the available tools, Happy is here to help. In this blog, Ben demystifies some of the riddles of AI and explains how it can be used to help you in your day to day work.
“Your Level 7 Senior Leadership apprenticeship is absolutely brilliant,” says Jason Michell of TypeFi. “One of the best things I’ve done in the last decade. It’s the best money I’ve never spent.” The Level 7 Senior Leadership programme is paid for from the Apprenticeship Levy if you have over £3 million in payroll. If not, the government pays 95% of it, so your organisation pays just £700 for a two-year leadership programme with monthly workshops and regular coaching.
We all want to get the most out of our data – to really dig deep into the numbers so we can make informed business decisions. How do you find new opportunities? How do you know where to divert your resources? In Excel, this can be a minefield – having to copy and paste data from different sources, then tweak it so it displays correctly, and then running dozens of functions to get the right information. And that's not counting on the time needed to then create graphs and charts so that you can visualise it and spot trends! What if there was an easier way? In this blog, Ben explains how Power BI can help you to create these reports quickly and easily.
“Leadership is a term, much like ‘strategy’, that is misused and misunderstood. I don’t believe that being a leader is about being the CEO, hierarchy, wielding power and control or having all the answers. Yet leaders can have a hard time breaking out of the traditional concepts of leadership and embracing a different approach. And others fail to recognise their own leadership qualities considering themselves too junior or lacking that leadership ‘title’,” says Caron Bradshaw OBE.
Learn how to use Absolute Cell References in Microsoft Excel in this time-saving two minute video.
"In every aspect of our lives — in politics, in economics, in entertainment, and in family life — we demand the freedom to decide matters for ourselves. And yet when it comes to our work lives, far too many people are stifled, constrained, hemmed in, and tied down by bureaucracy and rules that have nothing to do with allowing them to do the best they can in their jobs. These constraints leave people feeling out of control of their work lives, which, in turn, leads to stress, fatigue, and disengagement from work."