How embracing trust can build a happy learning culture in your organisation
Helen Stuart, the Managing Director from Now You’re Talking (part of TLC: Talk, Listen Change), has done some training at Happy, particularly around management and becoming a more beneficial manager. She felt that this changed her outlook and internal beliefs on what TLC thinks “management” should look like.
How Can You Get Your People To Do What They Are Great At?
Gallup has found that in the UK, only 17% of employees get to do what they are best at everyday at work. But when they do get to do what they are best at, they are 30-40% more productive.
In this short video, taken from the Happy Workplace Round Table on 23rd October 2024, Henry gives examples about how Happy and other organisations have gotten people to work to their strengths. How can you implement these ideas at your workplace?
How can you ensure decisions are made by frontline staff, rather than managers?
How are decisions made in your organisation? Are they made by the frontline staff, or by the managers? Henry Stewart explains how you can get rid of outdated hierarchical decision-making processes in this Happy Workplace Round Table, recorded on Wednesday 6th November 2024.
Does Your Organisation Have a Coaching Culture?
In this video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 9th October, Henry Stewart highlights the importance of coaching in the workplace – and asks, does your organisation have a coaching culture?
What Companies Are Doing to Make Gen Z Happy in the Workplace
Big changes are coming to many workplaces as Generation Z are joining the workforce. With a higher prioritisation of mental wellbeing and the social impact of their work, this is slowly but surely changing the world of work.
Learn more in this blog written by Colin Lee.
Do Your People Get to Do the Job in the Interview?
In this short video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 10th July, Henry Stewart talks about getting people to do the job in an interview. He shares examples from Happy’s recruitment process as well as from Toyota.
How TypeFi is Creating a Happy Workplace with the Level 7 Programme
The
Level 7 Senior Leadership programme
is paid for from the Apprenticeship Levy if you have over £3 million in payroll. If not, the government pays 95% of it, so your organisation pays just £700 for a two-year leadership programme with monthly workshops and regular coaching.
“Your Level 7 Senior Leadership apprenticeship is absolutely brilliant,” says Jason Michell of TypeFi. “One of the best things I’ve done in the last decade. It’s the best money I’ve never spent.”
How You Can Create a Culture of Trust in Your Workplace by Using Pre-Approval
Find out from Henry Stewart how you can create a workplace culture based on trust by using Pre-Approval.
In this 30-minute video, recorded from his live session on 10th April, Henry gives examples from Happy and from Netflix about how Pre-Approval has been used in practice. He also hears from people attending and how Pre-Approval could work in their organisation, and what the barriers are to using it.
6 Years With No Decisions at Happy
It is now six years since I stopped, as a Founder, making decisions at Happy. And, no, I haven’t passed it onto anybody else. Decisions are made by those responsible or, if across the whole company, by everybody.
Read more about the thinking behind his decision in this blog by Happy’s Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart.
