Team Happiness at Muddy Boots

Happy teams make happy nurseries

We truly believe that a happy team results in happy children, happy families, and in turn a happy nursery. To ensure we are always achieving that goal, we utilise a system called Friday Pulse, to track, measure, and talk about everything that affects happiness, working together to create solutions and a better working environment for all.

Woman and child playing with a funnel in a classroom environment.

How it works:

  • It all starts with the weekly survey!

    Every member of the Muddy Boots team receives an email once a week, where they can say how happy they have been at work that week, rating it between 1-5. These scores are anonymous but are collated into overall room and nursery scores.

    They also have the opportunity to fill our four ‘cards’, sending personalised thankyous to any of their team, note down anything they would like to celebrate, enter in any frustrations, as well as any ideas they would like to propose to make Muddy Boots a better place.

  • Once all the data is collated, every team finds a ten-minute slot where they can meet together to discuss their team score and what has resulted in it being that. They also spend time collectively creating solutions to the frustrations, as well as anything else they want to implement to help create the best workplace.

  • Finally, once a quarter we conduct a company-wide ‘culture profile’, which uses 15 questions to tell us how we are doing in the core areas that really effect happiness. These include the relationships they have with their team, how respected and appreciated they feel at work, how empowered they are to use their strengths and to influence decisions, the feedback they get, how proud they are to work for Muddy Boots and much more!

The results

We are incredibly proud to say that when compared to other organisations in our sector, as well as organisations of a similar size to our own, we rank highly in all the core areas that affect happiness.

Here are the results from our latest culture profile:

Table comparing employee satisfaction scores by topics like team relationships, friendships, and work-life balance across categories: country (UK), sector (Education and Training), and organization size (25-99 employees). Adjustments shown as numeric differences from baseline scores.

Want to know what it’s really like?

Our Indeed Wellbeing Score

We are also incredibly proud to be ranked 88/100 on our Indeed Work Wellbeing Score, ranking highly in all the core areas that contribute to wellbeing in the workplace.

A chart showing work wellbeing scores. "What defines work wellbeing" section includes Happiness (91, High), Purpose (95, High), Satisfaction (94, High), Stress-free (74, Above average). "What influences work wellbeing" section includes Appreciation, Support, Inclusion, Trust, Management (95, High), Learning, Flexibility, Belonging (94, High), Achievement (91, High), Energy (90, High), Compensation (89, High). Overall score is 88, High.