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.
What would you do if you won the lottery? The amount is up to you: one million, five million, fifty million. The question, however, is not what you would spend it on (gold shoes, obviously) but what you would do with your time?
“Appraisals don’t really work,” argues Sophie Bryan. But is there a better way?
What areas of your organisation do you monitor? In this 2:40 minute video, Simon Biltcliffe explains how at Webmart, they monitor the company’s Intellectual, Emotional and Financial return for true competitive advantage.
An essential feature of Microsoft Excel, Pivot Tables help organise and summarise user data. The easy-to-use tool can greatly assist with interpreting key trends and drawing conclusions from large data sets. In this blog, Billy gives four reasons why Excel's Pivot Tables are an essential tool.
How do you resolve conflict between colleagues at work? In this two- and a half-minute video, Rosie Brown talks about how COOK has implemented a model for relationships at work, and how this has helped teams to work together better.
Touch typing is the ability to type using all of your fingers and without looking at the keyboard. This skill is vital for the modern world, saving you time and making you more productive.
Are you making the most of your people’s skills and knowledge? Michelle Hill talks about how the charity TLC: Talk, Listen, Change has used pre-approval in practice in this three-minute video.
JavaScript is the programming language responsible for interactivity on web pages — it is behind such prevalent features as multimedia items and form submissions.
A hefty portion of our daily working lives is spent composing and receiving mail via Outlook. A powerful and multifaceted program, Outlook is the standard email platform across a vast range of industries. As a matter of fact, in Litmus’ 2018 Email Client Market Share research they found that Outlook was the leading client for desktop. As Outlook is central to the modern workplace, we have identified a few features that could help save time and boost productivity.
There’s plenty to consider when chairing a meeting, including what format the meeting will take. While we are all familiar with meetings, we also know that many of them tend to lean so heavy on the formal side that there is little productivity as a result of them. Meeting styles are constantly being revised in the name of optimum impact. Here are a few things that meeting chairs should consider when conceiving meeting framework.