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4 Ways of Preparing For and Coping With Change

How do you cope with change? In this blog, Billy highlights four ways to manage change positively, both at work and at home.

4 Tips for Giving Positive, Constructive Appraisals

While there has been a lot of buzz around removing appraisals and changing to a coaching culture, there are some areas where this just isn’t possible. In this blog, Billy gives his four tips for how you can ensure you have a positive, constructive appraisal.

How to Transform Diminishing Behaviours into Multiplying Ones

Could you be an accidental diminisher? In this blog, Billy looks at some of the ways that managers can reshape their behaviour to multiply their team, giving their team more autonomy and trust.

Five Successful Organisations That Recruit for Attitude

At Happy, we ‘recruit for attitude, train for skill’ when hiring new people – and we’re not the only ones. In this blog, Billy reveals five successful organisations that use this method for their recruitment too.

What Would You Do If You Had More Free Time?

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?

Why a Non-Profit Scrapped Their Appraisals Process

“Appraisals don’t really work,” argues Sophie Bryan. But is there a better way?

4 Things to Consider When Chairing Meetings

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.

The Calming, Remedial Influence of Mindfulness

Mindfulness, put simply, is an exercise in attention. It’s a practice that revolves around calming the mind through meditation.

Supercharge Your Teamwork With Superengagement

What would life be like if your employees were so engaged that work didn’t feel like work?

The Secret to Constructive, Positive Appraisals

For many people, an appraisal is an annual event where a form is filled in (often at the last minute), there’s a ‘well done’ and a ‘try not to do that so much,’ and it’s accompanied by some sort of beverage with a biscuit.