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.
Quick Analysis is one of the features introduced in Excel 2013. It allows you to visually spot trends and information in your spreadsheets, with just a few clicks. This is a really simple trick that even those of you brand new to Excel will be able to use. In this video, Nicky will show you how to use Quick Analysis and some of the Formatting tools - and how to clear it if you don't want to see the information anymore.
Many people are working from home during this pandemic. For many, shifting to this alternative pattern of work can be an easy step, but for others it can prove daunting. In this blog, Joseph offers a few observations to help you stay fit mentally, emotionally and physically while working from home.
Master Slides enable you to update all of your PowerPoint slides in a presentation at once. This ensures that all of your slides have the same formatting, making your presentation look more professional and consistent. In this short video, Nicky explains how to update your Master Slides, including the background, font and text size.
People making the transition into working remotely will be pleased to know the technology for seamless remote working is readily available. You’re probably familiar with a number of leading services already, as even companies that don’t promote flexible working models have augmented their workspaces with various apps. In this blog Billy explores 6 easy-to-use services that will improve your remote working experience, that you may not have heard of.
We’re currently enduring the worst public health pandemic in 100 years. Life has already undergone dramatic change and a return to “normal” is still a long way off. But despite seeming to move from one cataclysm to another in recent months and years, we live in profoundly progressive times. Modern humans are capable of amazing things. Here are four good news stories to provide respite from the doom and gloom of a regular news bulletin.
New features are regularly added to Microsoft Office 365’s assorted apps to improve user experience. The updates are so frequent that even regular 365 users won’t necessarily be up to date with all the new additions. In June 2020, some of these new features included allowing users to make private annotations on Word files in MS OneDrive and to share links to specific slides in PowerPoint presentations. Learn more about these and other newly added features in this blog.
WorldBlu CEO Traci Fenton believes we’re all meant to live our fullest potential. Through WorldBlu, Traci’s spent the last two decades working with clients in 80 countries, teaching them freedom at work. In this short video from the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference Traci explains that a freedom-centred mindset is essential for building a freedom-centred culture. "The root issue that stops world-class cultures from happening is fear. It’s the number one thing," she says.
Over the last couple of years, Happy has undergone a transformation. Happy was losing a lot of money a couple of years ago, but thanks to the transformation the London training company went from £185k loss to £166k profit in the space of one year. In this short video from the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, Chief Happiness Officer Henry Stewart explains that he took inspiration from David Marquet, a leadership expert and former commander of the nuclear-powered submarine, USS Santa Fe. Marquet says, “If you want your people to think, don’t give instructions, give intent.” Henry followed suit. “It isn’t enough to not be the tyrant; you have to step out,” he says.
Did you know that there is a shortcut for the Autosum formula in Excel? In this short video, Nicky shows you how to use this great timesaver, both for simple and more complex spreadsheets. You can even use Autosum on the whole table at once!
WorldBlu’s freedom at work model directly opposes fear-based work cultures. There are three crucial components to the freedom-centred approach. The first is a freedom-centred mindset. The second is freedom-centred leadership—leaders with a fear-based mindset create command and control management structures. To build freedom-centred cultures, Traci says top leadership must have high self-worth. “Self-worth is being secure with who you are,” she says. The final component is organisational design, which Traci focuses on in her talk at the 2019 Happy Workplaces conference. Watch the complete talk in this blog.