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We are very excited to announce our speaker line up at our 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference.

Beyond Budgeting: A New Management Philosophy for Your Organisation

Anders Olesen is the Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute, and in this full-length video, he talks about the 12 Beyond Budgeting principles and the benefits scrapping the annual budget has to your organisation.

Managers: Will you take the Happy challenge and make no decisions for three months? Here, Henry explains what happened when he took our ‘no decisions’ challenge and why you should do it too.

Improve Collaboration for a More Productive Workplace

Would you like to collaborate and work better with your colleagues? In this blog, Billy gives his five tips to improve collaboration, starting with working on your Active Listening skills.

Are You Suffering From Email Overload?

In 2012, office workers spent an average of 13 hours a week replying to emails — and with statistics reporting that in 2018 approximately 281 billion emails were being sent everyday, this number is only likely to increase. Many people on our courses report feeling overwhelmed by the number of emails in their inbox, and that managing this takes up a huge chunk of their day. Here are our three top tips to beat email overload and take control of your inbox in 2019.

“The idea is to make our onboarding process human-centred, not HR-centred.” Tracey Waters explains how she was inspired by Agile Methodology and Design Thinking principles to improve Sky’s onboarding experience, in this interview with Henry Stewart.

How to Use Liberating Structures to Energise Your Meetings

Would you like every meeting, workshop, brainstorm or event you attend to feel energising, involving and fulfilling?

How to Build Trust and Credibility in the Workplace

Being promoted to manage the team you were once a member of can be one of the hardest situations a new manager can face. How do you build credibility within your team in your new position? How can you be seen as a capable and trustworthy leader, that your team will want to be led by? Happy’s Senior Facilitator, Paul Gapper, explains more.

18 months ago things were not looking good at Happy. In 2017, we made a loss of £180k. Rather than cutting costs, we took a look at our culture and values, and transformed the business. Here’s how we did it.

The conference will be held on 13th June at the Light in Friends House. This beautiful venue is directly opposite Euston Station in central London, and just a stone’s throw away from King’s Cross and St Pancras station.