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Shannon Banks: Why friendships in the workplace are vital

Happy Workplaces 2016

Shannon Banks is a consultant, facilitator and coach with 20 years of experience working with organizations in the commercial sector through her company Be Leadership. Prior to her current work, Shannon spent 17 years as a business and HR leader at Microsoft. At the...

Why you need to make friends at work – Shannon Banks, Be Leadership Ltd

Happy Workplaces 2016, Short Videos

In 2013, Harvard released a study called The Harvard Grant Study, the results of it. You might have heard about it: it was a 75-year longitudinal study into what makes us happy and satisfied. And two out of the five core findings of that study were related to...
Connecting for Happiness – Guest Blog by Shannon Banks

Connecting for Happiness – Guest Blog by Shannon Banks

Happy Workplaces 2016

Eighteen months ago I left Microsoft, where I had spent 17 years. It was a huge decision for me and one I struggled with. I was really scared of the change. But do you want to guess what I was most afraid of? It wasn’t loss of income, it wasn’t status, it...
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