Blue Monday, the name given to the 15th January 2018, has traditionally been recognised as the day when our moods are at their lowest. Here are a few top tips to engage your staff as you begin to plan for the coming year. B You breathe 22,000 times every day. How many are you […]
Bring Your Child to Work Day – what’s it all about?
It’s a hugely successful initiative that Employees Matter has rolled out across major UK corporates over the past few years, and as word spreads, momentum is growing. If you’re new to the BYCTWD concept, here are a few key points: Why should we hold one? It’s an engagement tool with a huge impact that can […]
Gen Y Men and the City
Organisations must develop HR policy which recognises young men’s desire for greater work-life balance and more equal share of parenting if they are to achieve their objective of a more gender diverse workforce. This is the key finding of new research from the Executive Coaching Consultancy, specialists in helping employers nurture and retain their female […]
Encouraging our children with STEM
Lucy, what is your background and why are you so passionate about STEM? From a really early age I was fascinated in ‘making stuff’, whether craft, LEGO, needlework or elaborate paper, card and cellotape inventions (which mostly fell apart)! A couple of books on why and how things work and an inspiring teacher steered this […]
Bring Your Child to Work Day coverage in the FT Adviser
If the Queen is doing it, it is definitely something you should be considering! Read all about our days in the FT Adviser The engagement levels of staff for a Bring Your Child to Work Day have proven to be very high both for parents bringing in their children as well as the actual staff […]
LGBT At The School Gates – meet Anna Carlile
What project are you working on at present? I’m doing some really interesting interviews with teachers and children in primary and secondary schools around the country to look at the impact of the work of a charity called ‘Educate & Celebrate’ (http://www.educateandcelebrate.org/) . They work on challenging homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in schools and they also help schools […]
Financial education for staff? Why?
Providing your employees with financial education makes good business sense. If your staff are spending a lot of time worrying about their cash flow and how they will manage to pay their bills, they will be much less focused on their work – which can have huge implications for a business. There are said to […]
Everyone needs a Dream Team
We were privileged to be joined by 3 very ‘real’ people at our annual business breakfast hosted by UBS this year to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. We talked of the leaps and bounds that have been made in the arena of mental health which has been accelerated by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, […]
Graeme Douglas – speaker at our mental health breakfast
Last year, my best friend betrayed me. It wasn’t a spontaneous betrayal; quietly yet deliberately, it had been going on for quite some time. It was insidious. In fact, I should really have seen it coming. Others did. Looking back now, there had been rumblings for a long time, a lifetime perhaps – but, as […]
Interview with Deborah Stone, eldercare expert
What did you find was the biggest challenge caring for your mother? The biggest challenge was getting my mother to accept help. She was very negative about having another person in her home and was worried about losing her independence. What advice would you give to those people that work but know that their parent/s […]
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