John Lewis #1 UK retailer puts people first. Nandos feels that the happiness of staff correlates to profitability of branch. These two businesses have record growth but are ensuring that the happiness of their employees are at the top of their radar – and for good reason. Henry explains in this talk about the importance of happiness when it comes to having a thriving and successful business.
Happy Staff isn’t having board games and pizza nights, but instead is about job satisfaction and job placement. Empowering your employees and ensuring that they have a good amount of satisfaction from the job they are doing can make them more interested in doing their best at their job. Being more interested in their job, in turn, can make them more productive, benefiting the businesses as a whole. This talk has a bunch of easy takeaways that can make your staff happier.
What you will learn in this video:
- The Key Happy principals that can create a better workplace.
- What happy staff looks like in practice and examples to use in your business.
- Statistics of when people started feeling less satisfied within their job and how it effects the greater business.
- How to deal with mistakes within the workplace in a better way.
Related resources:
- Happy Workplaces Have Higher Share Growth – This blog post breaks down facts around how happy workplace can benefit a business.
- Kate Grimes – Autonomy and Patient Care in the NHS – Kate Grime’s talk explores how engaged employees can save lives.
- Why Happy’s Henry Stewart Stopped Making Leadership Decisions – This talk by Henry explores giving leadership and management more control in the workplace.
