49 Steps to a Happy Workplace

At the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, a range of fabulous speakers shared ideas on how to create great workplaces based on trust and freedom. In this blog, Henry lists 49 of his favourite ideas from the event.

When we find ourselves stuck, there are conversations we are avoiding or not handling well that are keeping us there. This highly interactive one-day workshop will give you the skills to identify the conversations that are holding you back, understand your role in the problem, and effectively use tools and techniques to obtain immediate results, long-term benefits and positive change.

Covering both negotiation and assertiveness, this one-day workshop will empower you to negotiate with colleagues and managers at work. This will enable you to free yourself up to say yes to the projects you really want to work on, and say no to the work that you don’t have time to do – or negotiate as you choose, without putting yourself or the other person down in the process.

This one-day Mindfulness training course will introduce the concept of mindfulness and enable you to use simple practices for more creative and compassionate thinking in the workplace.

In this two-hour Assertiveness workshop, we will look at how to improve your assertiveness skills, allowing your voice to be heard. We will look at the challenges of being assertive with colleagues online and communicating with those around you.

In this two-hour World Without Email online workshop, you will have a chance to think about how email has gone beyond a form of messaging to become embedded into the work itself, leading to a constant source of distraction. You will think about the benefit of ‘Deep Work’ and options for email-free working practice.

This half-day workshop is designed for leaders or managers who are keen to create a cohesive team where teams of multi-generational people can thrive. This session will provide opportunities to collaboratively share challenges and discuss how to overcome them.

This course will explore the role of the chair in getting the best out of meetings. The day will provide information on carrying through the role of chair and will consider some of the difficulties that can confront “the person in the chair”.

Do you need help in unlocking your true potential? Are you struggling to achieve all that you are and can be? Do you want to raise your performance and confidence levels? This comprehensive one-day workshop will help you to feel more confident and less stressed, will enhance your working relationships, and give you the tools to manage your time more effectively.

A question we will explore on this course: Is it who people are, or is it what they do? And how could this distinction help us to understand the best way to move forward constructively? On this one-day workshop, we will explore different approaches to better understand and work with people whose behaviour we find challenging.

This one-day time management training course explores the need for reflection, planning, organising, setting goals and responding to day-to-day activities and demands. It also looks at deciding which activities that give you the biggest return at work and in life. You will consider what methods of time management are possible in your situation and learn how to make time management a daily practice. Effective Time Management is now CPD Certified.

The Power of Dreams: Rachel Law from PossAbilities

In this talk from the 2023 Happy Workplaces Conference, Rachel talks about the power of dreams to create a happy workplace, and motivating and retaining staff in a notoriously difficult sector. Rachel discusses the importance of trust, listening to staff and linking with local communities, as well as gardens, a miniature Shetland pony, holidays, and Duvet Days.

On this two-day course, you will learn how to use Articulate Storyline in order to build original best practice eLearning for your organisation. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the principles of good eLearning design and will know how to plan and develop an eLearning project using Storyline.

Do you sometimes feel you are terribly busy, hectic even, but are not as productive as you’d like to be? This free taster is for you. In this 1 hour session we will cover a range of techniques to improve your productivity, including how to use 321Zero effectively and how to focus by using the Pomodoro technique. This is a highly interactive session, using Zoom, that will give you proven methods to be more productive in 2025.