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Having our people “happy, healthy and here” will have a positive effect on them as individuals, on our colleagues and customers, and on the business as a whole.  A happy and healthy employee is more likely to be engaged in the Company’s purpose and values, which means that this will be reflected in their performance […]

Our Forward-Thinking Career Consultant Penny explains all. As we start to emerge from the pandemic, more people are going to experience redundancy as organisations fight for survival. Fortunately we’ve seen a compassionate response from the business community where many organisations are doing all they can to support their employees as they move back onto the […]

Continuing with this week’s theme, Vision, Mission and Values, I want to focus on an unusual, eye-catching and, some might say, controversial set of values.  These values belong to healthy food manufacturer, Huel. Looking at Huel’s website, one of the first things you see is their mission statement: “To make nutritionally complete, convenient food, with […]

In my last blog, ‘Vision, mission and values: what are they and do we really need them?’, I talked about the important role that a clearly articulated vision, mission and values statement plays in engaging your people (and also your customers for that matter). If you want your employees to enjoy working in and care […]

In our series of webinars, ‘Back to the Future of Work Again’, we talk about (re)defining how we should do HR as we head towards the post-pandemic recovery period.  When thinking about the changes that may need to be made, we ask how we can take our people with us on this challenging journey (sorry, […]

At present, employees must have 26 weeks’ continuous service with their employer before they can make a request to work flexibly. Requests can include working from home, altering start and finish times and their working days. The Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development has today reported that it believes the right to request flexible working […]

It’s a really challenging time for employers; trying to balance the boat, whilst keeping as many employees as you can in it. How do you feel as an employer right now? Responsible? Worried? Scared? Or calm, in control, confident that you will weather the storm? When times are tough, some leaders develop a coping strategy […]

It seems a lifetime ago that lockdown was first announced.  As a result of the pandemic, fewer people have been travelling to their usual holiday destinations and you may have employees who have been reluctant or unable to take annual leave.  It may also be that you have employees who have been furloughed and not […]

Do your people managers lavish their teams with praise, recognition and trust?  Or do they rule by the rod, discipline as soon as someone “steps out of line”?  Or, perhaps arguably the worst of all, do they do neither of those and instead have very little engagement with their people, preferring to bury their heads […]

I really feel for those couples who planned to get married this year, probably several months, if not years, ago when the coronavirus didn’t exist, and they had visions of celebrating their special day surrounded by friends and family.  The rules have changed several times over the last few months, from weddings having to be […]