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Few things are more important than developing good management and leadership skills: it's one area that really shouldn't be left to chance! So we have written the Happy Manager site to help you invest in your own development.

Before exploring the site in detail, spend a few minutes reading this page. Let us show you what the Happy Manager can do for you:


The site takes a fresh look at better ways to manage. It is an excellent resource for those who want to create the conditions where work is a dynamic, enriching activity for all - managers, colleagues, customers, shareholders and wider stakeholders.

Why use this site?

To develop as a manager effective techniques and tools need to be combined with intellectual skills and insight. There are many places on the web that will provide the former, few that address the latter, and not many that do both.

At the Happy manager we aim to bring the two together, helping provide a firm foundation with techniques and tools, and the skills to build better organizations with intellectual skills and insight.

We also encourage you to think differently about management, to see it in the context of building happier more productive and meaningful workplaces. In doing so, helping you to be a happier manager and to helping you create the conditions for a happier workplace.

We do this because there is growing evidence that happiness isn't just good for you, it's good for business.

What's in the Happy Manager?

There is something for everybody at The Happy Manager.com. It's an extensive, growing site, with a wealth of free articles, tips, tools and resources. You'll find the site packed with:


Follow these links for a brief overview of the main themes on the site:

How to use it

There are numerous ways that you can use the resources on this site. Here are a few suggestions:

Your personal development

Gain regular insights, ideas, and inspiration.

Bookmark the site and your favourite articles.

Keep your favourite articles handy, to keep you motivated.

Send a link to friends or family, to help foster their happiness or growth.

Click our RSS feed so that you get our latest postings.

Subscribe to the free newsletter and join the growing number of people who keep up to date with the Happy Manager (and get special offers on our store products).

The Happy Manager Store

The store contains an excellent choice of professionally developed resources. Our wide range of tools will help you apply techniques, build better practices, and improve ways of working. These are a low cost way of gaining high quality resources which are downloadable immediately.

Our published resources are based on our extensive experience of working with managers - both at a UK Business School, and more closely with managers in organizations. We recommend three ways to use our store products:

Using the Happy Manager with your team

As a manager you can use the site to give you ideas to support team development, away-days/off-sites, and any other activity. The Happy Manager can be a great source of ideas and inspiration to inform your preparation for these activities.

Our wide range of articles, tools, tips and techniques can provide a ready-made answer to what you might want to use at an away-day/off-site, or at a team training event you may be holding. We can provide material for use at any of the above events or any other activities you're planning.

Contact us to arrange a very cost effective solution with a multi-user licence agreement for our web articles and resources, published or customized material.

Here are some ideas for using the site with your team:

Send the links of your favourite articles or pages to your team.

Incorporate some of our free downloads into staff development or training sessions, to keep people growing.

Post one of our free downloads or free introductory e-guides on notice boards, to get people thinking.

Bring one to your next coffee or water-cooler break, to get people talking.

Pass a link on to your manager or other teams, to get wheels turning.

Using the resources with others

If you are a trainer, consultant or HR manager you may want to use some of the resources to support courses and interventions you may be running in an organization. Please contact us to discuss our full range of services to business. We can tailor resources for your specific needs, at very comeptitive rates.

Don't forget that you can introduce the Happy Manager to your team and/or course delegates, showing them how to access the range of free resources throughout the site. This will benefit them and can increase the perception of value to your in-house training and development.

Whether you use the store to help with your personal development, or as a resource to develop others, they are still great value. Remember, all of our e-guides are backed by our 30-day money back guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied with the product, we'll give you a refund in full, with no questions asked. Just contact us within 30 days from the date of your purchase.

Who uses the Happy Manager?

The site contains resources to help managers develop but it's also helping a wide range of other users. Our visitors include:

Our Expertise

The Happy Manager is owned and maintained by Phil Higson and Anthony Sturgess, directors of the business and management consultancy Apex Leadership Ltd. They are both experienced management educators and developers, and former Business School department heads.

Their business was established to bridge the gap between knowledge and ideas that are so often not put into practice in the workplace. They have a long track record of developing innovative and challenging management and leadership development interventions, including programmes which have won national awards. From several MBA programmes to tailored, client specific programmes, Anthony and Phil have worked with new and experienced managers, in a wide range of organizations, across a breadth of management and leadership roles.

Anthony has previously developed resources with the Pearson Group's management development business for their corporate clients. Managing large projects to create published management and leadership development resources, he has also developed a knowledge portal approach. This has enabled businesses to more effectively link a wide knowledge base to help them manage their specific issues, challenges and opportunities.

What the Happy Manager can do for you - and your business!

What else can the Happy Manager do for you? It is designed to help with your development and to make your life as a manager easier! So, why not ask your boss if there is anything we can do to help!

Use the enquiry form below if you want the Happy Manager to help your organization. Our services to business are a key part of our mission to help promote happier, more effective workplaces. Why?



If your staff are happy, they're more likely to make your customers happy. And if your customers are happy, that's got to be good for business!

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