Banter in the workplace – ten top tips for navigating the fine line between ho ho ho and harassment We all like a good joke, and office banter is great for developing bonds between staff, especially over the festive period. A relaxed environment increases morale, which improves productivity and increased well-being of [...]
What's in an organisational value? What does your organisation stand for? What are the important underlying behavioural principles that form the foundation of the culture? What are your organisational values? How do they help you to differentiate and convince people that they should come and work for you? It’s incredibly rare to find [...]
When it comes to HR colleagues, we learning professionals must be right up there in our love to quote a theory. Whether it be 55-38-7 (Mehrabian), the fact that everything should now be delivered via a micro-learning session, or that images are 60,000 times better than text, the way we hone our craft [...]
Worried that the person covering my maternity leave will be better than me! For women it can be hard to hand over their job before going on maternity leave and then to return when someone has been doing the role for 6-12 months. Maternity coaching can help with the transitions. Recent CIPD article* [...]
10 tips on how to increase Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) engagement When talking about wellbeing with clients, something we often hear is, “We have an employee assistance programme (EAP) but nobody uses it”. Why is this so and how can they increase EAP engagement? There are many reasons why an employee may be [...]