Henry Stewart Speaking at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference

Henry talks about job satisfaction and when people work best – which isn’t just about promotions but instead is about playing to people’s strengths and trusting in your staff. Making big changes in your organisation can be as simple as listening to your people and giving them the autonomy to make changes they feel will help. Through simple changes, you can see big results in your workplace, especially when you empower and listen to your people. Henry talks about small changes and provides detailed research that supports happy workplaces. What you will learn in this video Related resources

Alex Kjerulf on Results and Relationships

It takes more than just fancy job titles, fruit baskets in the office and payrises to create a happy and engaged workplace. If you want to make people feel good at work, you need to focus on results and relationships, says Alex Kjerulf.

In this talk from the 2013 Happy Workplaces Conference, Alex explains how you can do this and create a sense of pride in your workplace.

Prices Changing for Public and Private Courses in 2025

All of our course prices will be increasing by 5% in 2025. All prices will increase from 1st January, with the exception of our public leadership and personal development programmes which will change from 1st March 2025.

This is the perfect time to book your training for the year ahead — you will still receive the same pricing, even if you book for June 2025.

Find out full details of our new pricing below.

Let Your People Create Your Performance Framework, Says Brendan O’Keefe

When Brendan O’Keefe and his team formed the independent social enterprise Epic CIC, Brendan challenged his people to create their own performance appraisal at their staff conference. After much discussion and debate, the team created 8 items that are now used in appraisals and recruitment.

Find out more in this short clip from Brendan’s talk at the 2015 Happy Workplaces Conference.

Happy’s Culture Recognised With Leadership Excellence Award

Happy is delighted to announce that they have won the Leadership Excellence Award for Organisations in the 2024 Leadership Awards.

The Leadership Awards are hosted by The Institute of Leadership, and this year’s awards ceremony took place on Friday 15th November at the Hilton London Bankside. Maureen Egbe and Sheena Morris accepted the award on Happy’s behalf. The Awards highlighted 85 outstanding individuals and organisations across their 10 different awards categories.

Kate Grimes – Autonomy and Patient Care in the NHS

Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at the 2014 Happy Workplaces Conference, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”