
Fennande van der Meulen
Co-Founder
Happy Office
location_on Netherlands
Member since 4 years
Fennande van der Meulen
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Hi! I am Fennande, living in Amsterdam with my husband and our two teenagers. We believe that being happy at work is the key to successful organizations. Therefore we help companies to work on an organizational culture where people can flourish, be happy and work together in an effective way.
For me personally, having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to my happiness. And, science supports this view. So, talking and giving workshops about the subject is definitely my favorite thing-to-do!
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How to write and design a (team) manifesto to make teams flourish?
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 1 year ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Making progress in meaningful work is the strongest motivator at work, says Teresa Amabile, scientist at Harvard. How do you – as a team – define if you are meaningful? And how do you know if you reach your goals, how do you measure progress. Writing a team manifesto is a powerful tool to unleash the potential of the team, by setting goals, making it real, tangible, concrete, visible and sticky.
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Making performance reviews most effective: play the card game for the best conversation
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Being effective, efficient and happy is a challenge. We all want to bring our best to work, but how do we thrive at work? Science shows that the way teams work together and management have a huge influence on our performance. Talking about happiness at work is for some people a difficult task. It might be awkward, too personal, or just odd. But knowing what makes you happy at work is extremely important if we want to work in flow and get the best out of our team. The card game Talking about Happiness at work, give you just the right tool to do this. This game can help you to enhance happiness levels within your team, skip the usual boring performance reviews and helps to thrive at work.
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Designing happy teams: use Design Thinking to enhance happiness at work, raise productivity and creativity
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
We all know that innovative organizations are more successful. But how does Happiness at Work fit in the equation? Definitely, there is a link between happy, creative, innovative and successful organizations. In this interactive workshop, you will experience how Design Thinking and Happiness at Work go together and how that leads to success in so many organizations. We will provide practical tips on how to develop new habits to empower your creativity, empathy and thus happiness at work.
On the basis of the theory of happiness and design thinking participants will experience step by step how they can work on more creativity and innovative thinking in their organization. The workshop will be very interactive with small exercises and mind setters.
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Play your way to success - How to use Lego Serious Play to foster team bonding and happiness at work
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
As a child, we loved to play. These years of unbound creativity, fun and flow may seem lost for some of us. Playing can be a powerful tool to unleash that creative source of fun and flow. Lego Serious Play is a well-known and tested way of tapping into that source. In this introductory workshop, we show you the power of playing, Lego and how this enhances happiness at work in your team.
About the workshop
This highly entertaining and interactive workshop focuses on playing with Lego Serious Play as a tool for a group, to discuss values, happiness, and effectiveness. In one and a half hour, we explain about the background, but we focus on you working with the bricks.
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A happy culture as the secret ingredient for successful teams
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Peter Drucker already said it a century ago: ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ If the culture sucks you won’t be able to execute your company strategy and when your organisational or team culture is building up to your goals, you will be invincible. So when you want your team or organization to succeed and your people to flourish it is very important to focus on a happy culture as the key element of your success. But how do you do that? How can you build a culture that contributes to your goals, to happiness and success?
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Hooray a mistake! How a growth mindset contributes to more happiness at work
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
The only one who can make you happy is you. And one of the most important things to be happy and resilient at work is the right mindset. Carol Dweck did a lot of research about fixed and growth mindset. This workshop in which we share scientific insights and best practices is based on her work. Besides a theoretical part there is lots of room for tests and exercises, so you can experience what kind of mindset you prefer and what a more growth mindset can do for you.
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The Purpose Journey to employee happiness and better company results
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 2 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Research shows that having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly mentioned as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. However, finding your organizational purpose is not an easy task.
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Happiness at work - become an expert in 1 day!
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!480 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Being happy at work makes us 12% more productive, research shows. Happy employees lead to happier customers and better business. In this one-day workshop, Maartje and Fennande share their knowledge and extensive experience with you on how to transform your team into a happier team. Based on the science of happiness at work, their successful approach with teams has helped many teams to better cooperation, better projects, sustainable success and better business. Learn about measuring happiness and practical steps to enhance happiness levels in your team. Train-the-trainer.
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Design Thinking: your guide to innovation and happiness at work
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!75 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
We all know that innovative organizations are more successful. But how does happiness at work fit into the equation? Definitely, there is a link between happiness, creativity, innovation, and success in organizations. In this interactive workshop, you will learn about Happiness at work and use the method of Design Thinking to enhance Happiness in your team. How can Design Thinking lead to a happier and stronger (agile) team? We will provide practical tips on how to empower your creativity, empathy and thus happiness at work.
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Get the right mindset; growth mindset enhances success in agile teams
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
How can you flourish and be happy in a world that is changing all the time? One of the most important things for success, happiness and resilience is the right mindset. The only one who can make you happy and successful is you. Carol Dweck did a lot of research about fixed and growth mindset. This workshop is based on her work. First participants will rank their feeling of pleasure, flow and purpose in work. After that we will immerse into the subject of fixed and growth mindset. Besides sharing our knowledge, insights from science and best practices, we will do a few tests and exercises so the participants can experience what kind of mindset they prefer. Besides that they get tips and tricks to work agile on a more growth mindset; because that mindset will add to their success and happiness.
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The power of purpose - How purpose drives employee happiness and company results
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Introduction
Having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. Science and business support this view. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly mentioned as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. And, people with a purpose in their life, live longer and are healthier. However, finding your purpose, your personal, team and companies purpose, is not an easy task. In this workshop we discuss what purpose means and what the key elements of a sustainable and meaningful purpose are. By playing the Purpose Journey Game, we elaborate the four steps to identify the company or team purpose and build your business around it.
Outline:
After sharing our knowledge, insights from science and best practices, we will immerse in the subject by playing the Purpose Journey Game. We play the game in small groups (pressure cooker experience). By answering questions, role-plays and discussion participants will experience the method and learn how to find the purpose of their company or team.
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From Stress to Happiness; it is all in the game
Maartje WolffCo-FounderHappy OfficeFennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Agility is necessary in our transforming and disruptive world. However, changes can also cause a lot of stress. And if we are not aware of that, it will influence our happiness at work. Keeping our level of stress moderate and learning how to deal with it, helps to keep up teamwork and -happiness. Choosing the right mindset and morale and focusing on results and relations will bring the best performance. It is all about mindset, morale and engagement, relations, results and performance. How to deal with stress and other issues that arise at work? This workshop is a 90-minutes combination of facts and figures about stress and happiness at work and a fun experience by playing the ‘serious’ game ‘Choose Happiness@work’. A great experience that you can take home to your team.
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How to build good habits in an Agile Team
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Introduction
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, said Peter Drucker. We all agree to that. If our organisational culture is not building up to our goals, we will never reach them. The main question is, how can you create an organisational and team culture that contributes to your goals, to productivity and success? The key for change is to form the right habits, within our agile teams. Like exercising regularly and losing weight you can develop habits for being healthy, happy, more productive and successful at work. Therefore it is important to understand the human nature and its potential for transformation. In this workshop participants get all the insights and best practices to develop habits for an happy and fulfilling (work)life and organisational culture.
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The Power of Purpose - workshop on How purpose drives employee happiness and company results
Fennande van der MeulenCo-FounderHappy OfficeMaartje WolffCo-FounderHappy Officeschedule 4 years ago
Sold Out!90 Mins
Workshop
Beginner
Having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. And, science and business support this view. Companies with a clear purpose perform better than companies without. Purpose is increasingly seen as the key to navigate the volatile and complex world we live in. And, people with a purpose in their live longer and are healthier. However, finding your purpose, your personal and companies purpose, is not an easy task. In this workshop we discuss what purpose means and key elements of a sustainable and meaningful purpose. We elaborate the four steps to identify the company purpose and how to build your business around it.
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