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Happy's Trainers Recognised in 2019 Coursecheck Brilliance Awards

The quality of our training has recently been recognised in the Coursecheck Brilliance Awards 2019, with the Highest Rated Trainers award of their large learning providers.

Happy's January competition is back, with another set of fantastic prizes. In 2020 we are focusing on mental health — for a chance to win, tell us what you will do to improve your mental health this year. Closing date: midnight on 31st January.

Happy's Web Development Apprenticeship is a 2020 Learning Awards Finalist

Today we started the first Drupal pre-apprenticeship programme. The idea of the course is to find school leavers with an interest in and aptitude to coding/web development and help a young person get their foot on the ladder to employment. This intensive two week course will cover the basics of using Drupal, HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Currently four organisations have committed to taking on an Apprentice, so we will prepare this group of school leavers and get them ready to go out to an interview.

New Course: Leading Engaging Remote Meetings

In this brand new workshop, we aim to help you to make the most of your remote meetings. You will learn how to overcome common challenges, such as distraction, tackling difficult issues, managing larger groups and having hybrid meetings, with some attendees in the room and some remote.

New Course Announcement: Excel Without Maths

Explore features in Excel that don't involve any maths calculations on our brand new, one-day course.

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

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.

Introducing the New Happy Planner

The Happy Planner is a brand new planner and learning journal designed by Happy to help you to embody the values and principles of our four-day Happy Workplace Leadership Programme.

The Gender Pay Gap at Happy

Would the gender pay gap be less if salaries were transparent? The average woman at Happy is paid 1.1% more than the average man. I think that’s close enough to count as one of the 9% of companies that pay women and men roughly the same.

30 Years of Happiness

In the summer of 1987 I wrote in my diary that I could never imagine being happy again. The newspaper I had helped set up, News on Sunday, was on the verge of collapse. Our 200 employees would lose their jobs and the backers would lose their investment. I felt totally crushed, and close to a breakdown. 30 years on, life feels rather different. Happy is a thriving business. We help people become more productive with their software and we help organisations to create happy, productive workplaces. It gives me a lift every time I walk into our colourful, friendly training centre.