Questions people ask

No. HappyFirms is a library of playbooks you run yourself. There is no booking form, no sales team and nothing to enquire about.

Yes. Run anything here with your team, adapt it, put it in your internal documentation. No permission needed.

Because event costs vary enormously by country, group size, season and supplier, and a figure that was true when it was written looks current forever. Activities are tagged with a budget tier instead — no budget, low, or moderate — which stays true.

Ranking suppliers honestly would mean running comparable events with comparable teams and measuring the difference. Nobody has done that, including us. Lists that claim otherwise are advertising with a table in it.

Each activity lists a working range. Below about four, most group activities stop working and a conversation is better. Above about thirty, the activity has to split, rotate or run in parallel — the 'large group' collection is filtered for exactly that.

The virtual collection, and the guide on virtual sessions. The short version: anything where people contribute in parallel rather than taking turns in a queue, and anything built on writing.

For most of these, no — that is what the run sheets are for. Bring in an outsider when the session is about a conflict the manager is part of, when the group is above about forty, or when there is a genuine safety dimension like water, height, vehicles or power tools.

A common shape that works: one short ritual every week or fortnight that costs ten minutes, and one substantial session a quarter. The weekly ritual does most of the work. If you have to cut one, cut the quarterly event.

Let them, without comment, and look at the design rather than the person. Mandatory attendance at something framed as fun produces resentment that outlasts the day. An activity where a reluctant person can take a low-exposure role without being conspicuous solves most of this in advance.

Yes, for internal use at your own organisation — copy it, adapt it, translate it. Please do not republish it as a public page of your own.