Isaac Getz: What Makes Progressive Organisations So Successful?
Happy workplaces have many key similarities, such as giving their people more trust and autonomy. From studying and learning more about these similarities, all organisations can become happier and more successful. This is something that Isaac Getz has dedicated his career to, studying what makes progressive organisations successful, both in his home country of France and around the world.
Isaac shared his experience and his findings during this talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Nigel Paine: Why a Positive Culture is the Key Ingredient of Success
Every successful organisation proudly boasts of how great their culture is and how that has enabled them to succeed. But creating a happy workplace can’t be forced, and getting rid of a bad culture can be a very challenging undertaking.
In this video from the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference, Nigel Paine explains the hallmarks of a happy workplace and how you can emulate this in your organisation.
Caron Bradshaw: Why You Should Try Leading With Love
Talk of love in the workplace can be an uncomfortable topic, but should it be? This was a question at the core of Caron Bradshaw’s talk at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Caron Bradshaw OBE is CEO of the Charity Finance Group. She has also been a member of the NCVO’s National Assembly and has set on a number of government working parties. Caron was honoured with an OBE for services to charity in the New Year’s Honours list in 2021.
Why Canva is the Perfect Design Tool for Non-Graphic Designers
Have you ever wanted to make a visually impressive and professional looking social media post, but you’re not a graphic designer? Perhaps you’re sick of using the slide designs available on PowerPoint and want to make something more engaging, or perhaps you just want to add something to a report to make it really pop? Canva might be the perfect design tool for you!
Ben explains more about Canva and it’s great, user-friendly features in this blog.
How to Understand and Use AI to Your Advantage
Everyone is talking about AI at the moment, and it can be daunting. Whether you’re completely new to terms like ‘Large Language Model’ and ‘GPT’, or you just want to ensure that you know how to get the most out of the available tools, Happy is here to help.
You might be thinking “I don’t understand AI” or “I don’t need AI!” and that’s entirely understandable but you might benefit from it far more than you’d think. ChatGPT and similar tools can be great for things like getting writing prompts, summarising documents and e-mails and many other tasks.
In this blog, Ben demystifies some of the riddles of AI and explains how it can be used to help you in your day to day work.
How Power BI Can Help You Create Reports Quickly and Easily
We all want to get the most out of our data – to really dig deep into the numbers so we can make informed business decisions. How do you find new opportunities? How do you know where to divert your resources?
In Excel, this can be a minefield – having to copy and paste data from different sources, then tweak it so it displays correctly, and then running dozens of functions to get the right information. And that’s not counting on the time needed to then create graphs and charts so that you can visualise it and spot trends!
What if there was an easier way? In this blog, Ben explains how Power BI can help you to create these reports quickly and easily.
Love, Kindness and Patience are the Keys to Leadership, Says Caron Bradshaw
“Leadership is a term, much like ‘strategy’, that is misused and misunderstood. I don’t believe that being a leader is about being the CEO, hierarchy, wielding power and control or having all the answers. Yet leaders can have a hard time breaking out of the traditional concepts of leadership and embracing a different approach. And others fail to recognise their own leadership qualities considering themselves too junior or lacking that leadership ‘title’,” says Caron Bradshaw OBE.
Caron will be speaking at the 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference on 15th May on the topic of Leading with Love.
