24 April 2020
The ABC’s of keeping our people and teams engaged – Authentic and Inspiring leadership
Whether people are working from home or furloughed, they are still part of your team and it is key to continue to support them. We know from research, being part of a team is a key element to feeling engaged and motivated at work. Your main aim now is to ensure, when you come out […]
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17 April 2020
Success of People Panel supporting local business
People Panel Week 4 and we’re back for more! Gosh, was it only 4 weeks ago when we set up the FREE online support group with four other local businesses, Joanne Clendinning from Twenty Twenty Consulting, Natalie McMillan from McMillan & Associates, Denise Jennings from Athena HR and Tiggy Clifford from Torque Law! We have […]
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6 April 2020
Engaging and managing your virtual/remote team
Never before have we seen such a change in the way most people work. For many years, people have worked from home on an odd occasion and some people who work virtually have done this for years. But, for the majority of people, working from home and remotely from the rest of the team is […]
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31 March 2020
Circle of control
Don’t sweat the…. stuff you can’t control Recently we have been talking as a team about how we found the news to be feeding our fear and increasing our anxiety around the recent situation. What will it mean for our health, for parents, children’s education, the financial situation? We recognised in ourselves that this was […]
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26 March 2020
People Panel Virtual Group – Successes for week one
Every day this week, four local People Experts joined forces with Pro-Development to run daily interactive Zoom sessions to support businesses with the people aspects of work during this unusual time. Partnering with Twenty Twenty Consulting, Torque Law, McMillan & Associates and Athena HR , we now have 50 plus people signed up, and this […]
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23 March 2020
Engaging your teams in challenging times
We were asked to speak at a CIPD event earlier this month on employee engagement, a topic very close to our hearts and something of which we are truly passionate about. With the unimaginable turn of events recently, we were reflecting on how quickly things change but that despite this, engagement of our people is […]
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20 March 2020
Helping local business – FREE People Panel Daily Zoom sessions
As local Business Owners and Leaders, we are all finding ourselves in a situation that none of us could have imagined. From speaking with many of you and with each other this week, we understand the worries, concerns and questions that we all have. Whilst we don’t have the answer to everything, what we can […]
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17 March 2020
How we can work from home and stay productive
We are currently experiencing some unprecedented times now and many of us are being asked to work from home. We’ve agreed that today will be our last day together in the office for the foreseeable future and we will be working from home, perhaps with a meet up together for a walk at some point […]
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26 February 2020
How to say no when the work needs to be done
Oh my goodness, how often do we hear this! Sometimes at work we feel overloaded. You may have the best time management system and organisational skills and then someone asks something of you left field and you stop what you’re doing and focus on the new task, to the detriment of your own work and […]
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