25 August 2017
“Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” – Henry Thoreau
Did you hear recently that over 6.3 million adults aged 40-60 don’t manage to achieve 10 minutes of continuous, fast-paced walking over the course of a month, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed. My goodness are you one of them? We are massive advocates that walking helps to stimulate thinking and this is why we […]
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20 July 2017
EXCITING NEW RE-FRESH EVENT LAUNCHING IN SEPTEMBER
Introducing a fresh new monthly event hosted by Pro-Development. Each session will refresh your people skills and leave you feeling re-energised, re-engaged and re-motivated. Why should I attend? Have you been worn down by the daily challenges you face? Do you sometimes feel like a lone voice and would value talking to like-minded people? It […]
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11 July 2017
What part can we all play to increase productivity?
A recent report by the BBC noted that the productivity of UK workers has dropped back to pre-financial crisis levels. The Office for National Statistics stated that hourly output fell 0.5% in the first three months of the year, and Economists have warned that the UK’s productivity continues to lag behind its major trading partners […]
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26 June 2017
ARE YOUR EMPLOYEES ENGAGED?
We are currently undertaking many employee engagement surveys around Yorkshire identifying what’s working for companies and what might be getting in their way. It is by understanding this kind of information that you can truly make a difference as your efforts and actions are focused on doing the right thing, not doing what you ‘think’ […]
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15 June 2017
How well do you listen?
We were really excited to hold another of our Employee Engagement workshops yesterday. People often ask us what we mean by Employee Engagement. The definition we like to use is “a workplace approach designed to ensure that employees are committed to their company’s goals and values, motivated to contributing to success and able at the […]
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6 June 2017
Combatting Monday morning blues
We have just had another bank holiday and many people we spoke to couldn’t wait for another Monday off work – but why do we find Mondays such a drag? Is it the sense of loss of freedom or the mundane routine of it all, the treadmill of life! Or maybe it’s the people you […]
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23 May 2017
A curious week
Last week was Learning at Work week, with the theme, ‘Curious and Creative’, and was also International Coaching Week. Coaching York, an organisation with the aim of making York the coaching capital of the UK, promoted running coaching sessions to businesses in York, and to celebrate both initiatives, we ran a ‘Curious and Creative Coaching’ […]
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16 May 2017
The Colour Purple
Have you seen the amazing displays of bluebells this year? As we were wandering through the woods at Hazelwood Castle last week, observing our amazing management development programme delegates performance managing their colleagues through a variety of challenges, we came across a swathe of bluebells. It was truly beautiful and stopped us in our tracks. […]
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9 May 2017
Learning at Work Week
Learning at Work Week takes place 15th – 19th May 2017. This coincides with International Coaching Week which is supported by Coaching York, an organisation committed to York becoming recognised as the coaching capital of the UK. To celebrate both events, Pro-Development are running a free group coaching session on Monday 15th May with the […]
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