We help you develop your most valuable resource: your team.

We provide a highly tailored process that suits your organization’s unique goals and needs. Our work can take the shape of a single team workshop, an extended collaboration, or anything in between.

Pulling from evidence-based research in organizational psychology, strengths-based leadership, and agile project management, we partner with businesses like yours to assess core challenges and implement thoughtfully designed solutions. 

Our process will help you:

  • Develop a team of active problem solvers who feel invested in the success of your business
  • Strengthen your team’s communication and operations to increase productivity and engagement
  • Co-create personalized learning and development plans to promote retention
  • Prioritize time and energy for high-level business strategy and operations—the foundation of organizational performance
  • Build habits of exploration and continuous improvement to help overcome new challenges as they inevitably arise

“Our work with Happy Strategy has been invaluable. It has helped our hiring, retention, project management process and tools, our workflow, and most importantly has been a huge aid to me in the management process of inspiring my team and getting them to participate more in the business decisions and responsibilities. Having someone to talk to from a support position helped me identify patterns with employees and turn feelings into growth actions.”

— Kate Scherer, Owner and Creative Director of Product 360 Creative

Our Process

While not every partnership takes this form, we’ve found the most success when we divide our work into three-month phases, each with a different focus area:

Developing a Growth Mindset

Inviting everyone to learn and improve

In Phase 1, we work with your team to develop openness and investment in our process together. Through 1-on-1 conversations with team members, we gain a deep understanding of every aspect of your company. We translate these learnings into an action plan that provides a comprehensive view of how your team can best work together to address challenges and improve your everyday experience at work.

Developing a Collaborative Action Mindset

Creating a bias towards action

In Phase 2, we invite your team to be active problem solvers with us. We know there’s magic when you combine institutional knowledge with fresh ideas in a truly collaborative environment. Together, we develop solutions that turn ideas into action. Some past examples include:

    • Creating tailored project management strategies to improve efficiency
    • Creating new meeting formats to improve internal communication
    • Identifying your team’s values and how they can be used to guide business decisions

Developing an Adaptability Mindset

Practicing the art of continuous improvement

Very few ideas are perfect from the beginning. In Phase 3, we test and refine the solutions we designed together in Phase 2. Through a lightweight structure rooted in agile project management, we work together to adapt our original solutions to make sure they work well for you and are easy to maintain.

Developing an Accountability Mindset

Sustaining inspired, engaged teams

In the final phase of our work together, we’ll teach your team how to continue practicing and refining new ways of working on your own, while holding each other accountable.

Who We Work With

We partner with teams like yours to improve your everyday experience at work, while helping you develop daily practices that take the shifting landscape of work into account. Improving remote collaboration, keeping up with new technology, and adjusting to changes in employee expectations are just a few examples.

We have specific expertise in working with:

Creative and Marketing Teams

Creative and marketing teams face specific challenges, operating under intense pressure and immediate deadlines. We help by:

  • Creating a culture that prioritizes higher-level strategic and creative thinking
  • Streamlining project management processes and tools
  • Workload forecasting and resource planning

Small Businesses

Small business owners deal with the extra challenge of managing every single aspect of the business, often without any human resources support. We help by:

  • Providing external support to think through complex challenges
  • Clarifying individual responsibilities and creating an organizational structure that promotes growth
  • Recruiting and onboarding employees who contribute to the team’s culture and growth
  • Designing processes for hiring, onboarding, and retaining employees who are invested in helping to support and grow the business

Teams Within Larger Organizations

Teams or departments within larger organizations are often responsible for quick and creative problem solving, but are frequently hampered by the larger culture of a slow-moving bureaucracy. We help by:

  • Defining the team’s shared set of core values that co-exists within the larger organization’s culture
  • Creating workflows to manage processes and communication across multiple departments
  • Maintaining a growth mindset to spark innovation within the team, even in the face of external politics and bureaucracy

Individuals

Issues with workplace culture are felt first by the people on the front lines. If you’re a member of a team looking to improve your own ways of working or to address a difficult situation at work, we offer flexible and affordable coaching options. Or, check out our free resources and sign up for our newsletter filled with tips and ideas to practice on your own.