Nigel Paine at Creating Happy Workplaces Conference 2013
Nigel Paine headed the BBC’s Learning and Development operation. He built an award winning Leadership programme, state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing and one of the most successful and well used intranets in the corporate sector.
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.
10 Takeaways From the 2017 Happy Workplaces Conference
The fifth annual Happy Workplaces Conference took place in London on June 14, 2017. Representatives from Dutch care company Buurtzorg, industrial maintenance group ATS, digital transformation experts Foundation SP, and several others came along to offer their insights into creating and maintaining happy and engaged workplaces.
The conference looked at how engaged workplaces are more profitable and incur lower costs, as well as the tendency for happy workplaces to have higher staff retention, offer more flexibility and be more productive.
Here are 10 essential takeaways from the conference.
10 Takeaways From the 2017 Creating Happy Workplaces in the Public Sector Conference
The 2017 Happy Workplaces CEO Conferences brought together a number of esteemed leaders from across the business world to share their unique knowledge on how to create happy workplaces.
The conference speakers included CEOs from food company COOK, marketing agency Webmart, timber and fencing supplier Lawsons and more, who shared the workplace innovations that have not just improved overall staff happiness, but strengthened their competitive advantage.
Here are ten essential takeaways from the event.
Is it Time for a 4 Day Week?
Andrew Barnes is one of the leading promoters of the four-day week across the world. As Founder of Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand, he implemented this approach back in 2018.
Andrew will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on 12th May.
Vivek Menon at Danfoss: Building a Teal Bubble in a Large Company
I am often asked whether you can build happy trust-based workplaces within a larger more hierarchical organisation. So I was very interested to hear about the eSteering team at Danfoss, a 120 person unit within a 40,000 strong company.
Vivek Menon, a Senior Director at the Danish company Danfoss, explained at the Teal Around the World Conference how they created a culture of trust and freedom. Vivek will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.
Teach For All: A Global Self-Managing Organisation
Five years ago staff at Teach For All came together and proposed dismantling the senior team, changing the role of managers and exploring new ways of working. “The senior team was abolished on the spot!” explains Marwa Farouq, Global Head of Operations.
Marwa will be speaking at the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference on May 12th about Teach for All’s journey towards self-management. It is a remarkable story with a lot to learn from.
Happy Workplaces 2019 Speaker Announcement
We are very excited to announce our speaker line up at our 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference.
What Would it be Like to Deal With People in a Human Way?
“The idea is to make our onboarding process human-centred, not HR-centred.” Tracey Waters explains how she was inspired by Agile Methodology and Design Thinking principles to improve Sky’s onboarding experience, in this interview with Henry Stewart.
How to Use Liberating Structures to Energise Your Meetings
Would you like every meeting, workshop, brainstorm or event you attend to feel energising, involving and fulfilling?
