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Happy Leadership Programme

Are you ready to inspire, empower, and create a thriving workplace where people love to work? The Happy Leadership Programme equips you with the tools, mindset, and skills to build a high-performing, motivated team — all while fostering a positive and supportive culture.

With practical insights, proven strategies, and a focus on people-first leadership, this flagship course is your step toward becoming the kind of leader who leaves a lasting impact. Your journey to happier, more productive leadership starts here.

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The

Happy

Leadership Programme

Inspire a Thriving Team Culture

Transform your team into a highly motivated, collaborative, and results-driven group by fostering trust, autonomy, and engagement.

Master Leadership with Practical Tools

Equip yourself with actionable strategies to tackle challenges, improve team performance, and confidently lead with clarity and purpose.

Create a Happier Workplace

Learn proven methods to boost team morale and engagement, leading to greater productivity and a thriving organisational culture.

Course Overview

What you will learn

This programme equips you with essential leadership skills, personal insight, and practical tools to understand and enhance your impact on others. Inspired by top workplaces like Google, it’s designed to help you become the kind of leader people want to follow. Ideal for anyone with line management responsibilities, this programme is a unique opportunity to grow, inspire, and build a team people love being part of.

Duration

16 weeks | 24 weeks

Class size

12 approx

Location

Online| Classroom

Why choose the

Happy Leadership Programme?

Programme Curriculum & Key Themes Covered

Workshop Prep

Pre-program Registration & Preparation

Preparation

  • Complete an online self-reflection questionnaire around your confidence to lead, and your leadership style

 

Workshop 1

Introducing Leadership

What You Will Learn

  • The core of an effective culture: why put people at the heart of what you do?
  • Identify who you are as a leader and your leadership attitudes and skills
  • Find a buddy to work with, to support and to hold to account for actions through the programme

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Setting your intent
  • Online questionnaire to identify your communication style

Workshop 2

Communication Styles

What You Will Learn

  • Understand your communication style, how you may be perceived by others and how to adapt it to work successfully with others
  • The core of an effective culture: why put people at the heart of what you do?

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Be Productive, Not Busy: Discover how to be more productive and less ‘busy’ by identifying and changing your reflection, prioritising, email and meeting habits.

Workshop 3

Psychological Safety

What You Will Learn

  • Create Psychological Safety at work to enable high performance
  • Build trust and credibility within your organisation
  • Find a buddy to work with, to support and to hold to account for actions through the programme

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Understanding your brain: Introducing your inner chimp

Workshop 4

Emotional Intelligence

What You Will Learn

  • Develop your Emotional Intelligence through understanding how your brain works

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Working adult to adult — understanding transactional analysis and the effect it has on your relationships and within the workplace
  • How good is your listening?

Workshop 5

Introduction to Coaching

What You Will Learn

  • Listening to understand rather than be understood: how to do this mindfully with the aim of valuing the other person
  • The core of great leadership: coaching your team to success by empowering them to discover their own solutions
  • Your role as coach and understanding what works and what doesn’t
  • Why, and how, to use TED invitations to develop your coaching skills
  • Practice coaching and being coached

Workshop 6

One-to-Ones and Feedback

What You Will Learn

  • Effective 1 to 1’s – what are they, why do them, who sets the agenda, what should you discuss
  • Holding team meetings that get everyone to contribute and be heard
  • The benefits and steps to providing positive feedback
  • How to prepare, behave and present yourself assertively when giving feedback

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Introducing conversations that matter

Workshop 7

Conversations That Matter

What You Will Learn

  • Practise a proven technique to prepare for important situations
  • Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue
  • Make it safe to talk about almost anything
  • Be persuasive, not abrasive
  • Improve your professional working relationships through your conversations

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Complete management behaviour questionnaire
  • Identify the truth about what motivates us
  • Discover the power of Purpose

Workshop 8

Becoming a Multiplier

What You Will Learn

  • Learn the skills to become a multiplier of your people’s talents and potential

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection and application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Discover your top five strengths through a robust on-line questionnaire developed by Gallup & Clifton Strengths
  • Understand your strengths and how well you are currently using them in your role
  • Discover the four domains of leadership strength
  • Review how well you know your team’s strengths and how much they are using them in their roles

Workshop 9

Autonomy

What You Will Learn

  • Who makes the decisions currently and what might you change about this?
  • Enable trust and autonomy, within clear guidelines to create true job ownership
  • Be open and transparent in the information you share — what is off limits to staff?
  • Discover the difference between accountability and responsibility
  • Review your delegation habits and understand the key steps to delegating successfully
  • Identify what stops you delegating and challenge these behaviours
  • Pre-approval — what is it, what are the benefits of it and how to implement it?

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)
  • Generate ideas to make your recruitment processes more inclusive

Workshop 10

Recruitment & Induction

What You Will Learn

  • Discover the key to recruiting the right team members and ensuring their induction is a motivating experience

 

Self-Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Workshop 11

Creating Resilient Teams

What You Will Learn

  • Leading from afar: discover the benefits and risks of a remote team, tools to help you make connection at a distance and real life examples to inspire you.
  • Build and nurture the resilience of your team
  • Recap on all the elements from the programme that can set your team up for strengths and success
  • Understand the five ways to wellbeing and the practical steps we can take in each area

 

Self Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Workshop 12

Leadership Purpose

What You Will Learn

  • Leading from afar: discover the benefits and risks of a remote team, tools to help you make connection at a distance and real life examples to inspire you.
  • Build and nurture the resilience of your team
  • Recap on all the elements from the programme that can set your team up for strengths and success
  • Understand the five ways to wellbeing and the practical steps we can take in each area

 

Self Study

  • Reflection & application (individually, with buddies, or with wider cohort if applicable)

Learning Experience That Suits You

Most Popular

Online

Blended Programme (12 x 2-Hour Sessions)

Structure:

12 live online workshops (2 hours each), held fortnightly.

Learning 
Style:

Access interactive live sessions, self-paced resources, videos, and articles through the Happy learning platform.

Collaborations:

Partner with peers or form study groups for extra support and engagement.

Benefits:

1. Bite-sized learning over time for deeper understanding.
2. Build strong, supportive relationships with your group.
3. Perfect for balancing learning with a busy schedule.

In-Personx

Standard Programme (4 x 1-Day Sessions)

Structure:

4 full-day sessions, one month apart (10 am - 4:30 pm).

Learning 
Style:

Immersive live workshops complemented by assignments and resources on the Happy platform.

Collaborations:

Join breakout sessions and small groups for shared learning and support.

Benefits:

1. Deep-dive into key topics in a focused environment.
2. Reflect and apply new skills between sessions..

Course Pricing

We currently have public dates available for the 12 x 2 hour online sessions, held fortnightly, and the 4 x 1 day sessions, held monthly in the classroom at Happy. See the full list of dates below.

How to claim discounted rate

Standard

Standard course investment for all

£3,500

/person

SME

Companies with less than 250 staff

£2,500

/person

Public Sector

Public Sector

£1,980

/person

Charity

Charities with 31+ staff

£1,740

/person

Small Charity

Charities with less than 31 staff

£1,500

/person

Upcoming Enrolment Date

See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options for bookings over 8 spaces or corporate training.

Date Commencing

Availbility

List of Dates

24th February 2025

6 spaces left

10th March 2025

11 spaces left

Date Commencing

Availbility

List of Dates

10th December 2024

6 spaces left

15th January 2025

11 spaces left

The happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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