As the festive season approaches, it’s easy to get tangled up in tinsel and deadlines! Make sure you aren’t forgetting to also prioritise the wellbeing of your teams. Beyond the glittering lights and celebrations, this period can bring about stress, fatigue, and a sense of overwhelm for many. It also marks the end of a year and the beginning of another, making it an opportune time for reflection and planning.

In this blog, we'll explore strategies to promote employee wellbeing during the festive period while encouraging reflection and planning for the upcoming year.

Culture is the heartbeat of an organisation, the essence that shapes its identity, and the driving force behind both its achievements and the satisfaction of its employees. Read on to see how you can take steps to build your own positive culture in your workplace.

In the context of organisations, values represent the core principles and beliefs that define the organisation's identity, culture, and purpose. Organisational values provide a framework for decision-making, guide behaviour, and shape the organisation's relationships with stakeholders.

Collaboration in the workplace is essential for driving innovation, improving productivity, fostering positive relationships, and delivering superior outcomes for both employees and customers. By promoting a collaborative culture, organisations can create an environment where individuals thrive, teams excel, and the business succeeds.

As April is in full swing, let's take a moment to shine a spotlight on something pretty important: Stress Awareness Month.

Now, if you're in the HR world like us, you know that stress isn't just a buzzword—it's a real deal affecting millions of hardworking souls in the UK every year.

So, let's chat about how stress impacts us, both personally and professionally, and what we can do to tackle it head-on.

There are mince pies in the supermarkets.

That’s right. Mince pies.

Summer is over.I guess that means that for most of us, the routine is now officially back in action again. Kids are back at school, uni students are heading back and the world of work rumbles on.

It’s the great British summertime (if you can believe it!) which means the usual working cadence often changes for a lot of businesses. The summer season can sometimes lead to a dip in employee engagement, so this summer make sure you are keeping your people motivated, engaged and supported.

It never fails to surprise us that when the majority of business plan their business growth, the considerations of their People Strategy are (usually) pretty non existent.

We’ve said it before and we’ll keep saying it.

A business will succeed or fail because of the people in it.

So what are the 9 things stopping your business growth and what do you need to do about it?

L.O.V.E is in the workplace! This month we are challenging you to commit to bringing more L.O.V.E to YOUR workplace. Read this month’s blog to find out all about what L.O.V.E in the workplace can look like, then follow us on social to discover tips and hints to bring this all to life.

Well, we can cut out the apocalyptical scare mongering that science fiction gives us and deal with the issue head on. The issue of being human in the workplace.

Basically, we want more of it, and I’m going to tell you why.

Human beings while unique, share something in common. We are all insecure. Some may be better at hiding it than others, but its there in all of us.

This week we wanted to introduce ourselves – at least the humans in Human Everything – to show how we have used our workplace reports to interact with each other.

Mediation is all about mindset. Whether it is going to work or not, is entirely down to the people in the room. Whether you are going to win or not – well, if that is your mindset, then mediation is most likely not going to work. So no, you won’t win. But the other person won’t either.

We all have mental health. It’s important to understand that mental health doesn’t immediately equate with mental illness.

No matter how great your team is, we can always keep working on how we can improve team collaboration and communication. Now that many teams are experiencing remote working or hybrid working, feeling part of a team has never been more important, or more difficult to do.