As Halloween approaches, the world seems to be overrun by spooky creatures and monsters lurking in the shadows. While these creatures may be the stuff of nightmares in our personal lives, they also bear a striking resemblance to some of the challenges we face in the workplace.

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.

Organisational Development (OD) refers to a systematic and planned effort to enhance an organisation's effectiveness and overall performance.

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?

April was stress awareness month - this does the important job of bringing awareness to stress in the workplace.

And while we are seeing a lot of people aware of their high stress levels now (awesome first step) they don't seem to have an actionable plan in place to actually reduce them!

*Enters human everything stage left*

May is all about ways to actually reduce stress in the workplace.

It’s arrived – the start of Quarter 2 and like many other business owners, you have probably just completed your next cycle of 90 day planning. That’s awesome, we have too!

How many of those plans are directed specifically toward your people?

It’s been a long and dreary winter yet there is light at the end of the tunnel even as salad items are dropping off our shopping lists.

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.

It’s the start of a new year and coming back from a break can be a tough transition. Couple that with the seemingly never-ending “new year, new me” posts and it’s no wonder we can start to feel overwhelmed.

As a busy business owner, there’s a lot to think about – so in the whirlwind of December, let us help with you getting everything wrapped up (at least with your team – we can’t help with the Christmas presents!).

The world feels very heavy at the moment. This month at Human Everything we want to encourage everyone to look after their human, in and outside of the workplace, to stop burnout, increase happiness and boost productivity.

Whatever your business aspirations are, whether you are maintaining, growing or developing your business, you need to think about your people strategy and the sooner you do, the sooner you can start reaping the rewards.

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.

The Human Everything approach is a holistic one, and meeting the challenges listed above isn’t simply a case of knocking each one off the list until you get to the end and hey presto, you’ve finished.

Following on from the 5 biggest people challenges we talked about in our last article, our attention turns this week to how to address these challenges. How do you keep the team together?

The five biggest people challenges: If COVID has gifted us anything, it is the opportunity for others to share in our passion to place the individual at the very heart of business.

Much as physical first aid prevents further harm, promotes recovery, preserves life and provides comfort in the moments before professional help arrives, mental health first aid does the same thing when someone is at risk of experiencing a mental health crisis.

In all likelihood you will have heard about the spaghetti test. This was an experiment that challenged various groups of people to build the tallest structure possible out of stands of uncooked spaghetti, string, tape and 1 marshmallow – which had to be on the top of the structure.