Category: Employee wellbeing
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Is Gamification the Future of Employee Development and Retention?
Employee Retention: In the modern corporate landscape, an employee’s journey is more than just a hiring process followed by years of service. It’s an intricate, evolving dance between the individual’s aspirations and the organisation’s goals. A pivotal element of this employee lifecycle is training – and not just any training, but the kind that fosters…
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Beyond 9 to 5: Crafting a Workplace Where Belonging Truly Matters
In the modern professional landscape, the concept of work has evolved beyond the traditional 9 to 5 routine. Employers and employees alike recognise the significance of crafting a workplace where belonging is a cornerstone. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into 9 strategies that empower businesses to foster an environment where every individual feels valued…
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How to build trust in a virtual team
The world of work is a continuously evolving environment, recently changing faster than ever before. As more organisations adopt a remote working policy, the employees who make up those organisations must adapt to being part of a virtual team. While there are a host of benefits to working at home for both the employee and…
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Improving your presence and surroundings on virtual meetings and video calls
In such a short amount of time, virtual communication and video conferencing have become such a huge part of the professional world globally. It doesn’t take long to figure out that this is a direct result of lockdown and social distancing measures enforced by governments in the majority of countries worldwide. While employees would usually…
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Tips and advice for bankers returning to the office
After several months in lockdown and growing uncertainty about the future of the UK economy, many businesses are now beginning to integrate their employees back into their typical working environment. In particular, leading banks across the country are putting plans for the safe return to work in action for a large number of their workers,…
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Graduate and intern training programmes during COVID-19
At this time of the year, our specialist consultants would usually be flying across the world, delivering in-house, experiential learning solutions for graduates, interns and new hires alike. Although this is of course not possible due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we firmly believe that learning and development should not be paused in the age…
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Preparing for the future of business management in insurance
The insurance industry is facing mounting pressures to change policies, review premiums and address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic head-on in terms of financial backing. In light of the extensive support laid out by the UK Government, including various loans and the increasingly popular Job Retention Scheme, many have called on the insurance industry as a…
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Improving internal communications among the remote workforce
It is safe to say that nobody could have accurately predicted the impact that COVID-19 would have on both our lives and livelihoods. As we all know, the pandemic has caused widespread upheaval in our working lives – many teams are now facing an indefinite period of working from home, and leaders are still facing…
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Why you shouldn’t press pause on learning and development during COVID-19
As we continue to live in a world where businesses are in disarray, public spaces are closed, and most of us spend the majority of their time indoors, there is no doubting the fact that corporate sectors are facing their biggest crisis in years. Financially, this has led to culls in budgets across businesses of…
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4 key statistics on remote working
Now that a significant number of the UK workforce are working from home as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the remote policies and strategies set out by businesses across the UK and beyond will be put to the test more than ever. For so many companies, this will be the first time where…