Month: May 2019

Culture and change
Emma Browning

Never mind e=mc2.  Wellbeing2=profits10

I need to clear something up! What do we actually mean by employee wellbeing? To this day, wellbeing remains a hotly contested word, with various definitions and spellings and still remains “conceptually muddy.  What I can assure you though – it definitely isn’t ‘wellness’. “Workplace wellness” is usually linked with the word “health” and unsurprisingly the focus is mostly on employee physical health such as being at a healthy weight, nutrition, exercise, gym membership and stopping smoking etc.  All extremely worthwhile and creditable for sure, but they alone, will not…
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Culture and change
Emma Browning

Give your staff a ‘hygge hug’ today

Hygge, the art of enjoying everyday life, is credited with making the Danes the world’s happiest nation in the world – despite having to endure endlessly long dark winters and one of the highest costs of living in the world! Hygge roughly translates into cosiness and is oft thought to derive from the English word hug. In practice, hygge is about creating cosy and congenial environments that promote emotional wellbeing. Given that happy employees are not only more helpful, engaged and motivated, but also more creative, calmer and less likely…
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Uncategorised
Emma Browning

Is there a Doctor in the house? The HR Clinic is now OPEN

I understand that when you are running a small business, not a day goes by without an HR niggle or issue arising. It can be wearing, time consuming (hello, recruitment!)  and it can be daunting, as it is often really important to get things done efficiently as well as legally and compliantly if you want to avoid further issues down the line and keep your HR healthy. So, I’m donning my stethoscope and white coat and playing doctor, and hosting an HR Clinic in Oxford and London in July. Feel…
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Strategy
Emma Browning

Is your business in a period of structured growth? If so, read on

If your business is in a period of  growth and expansion, you probably know that your future success will heavily rely on making  significant changes to your people strategy; be it recruitment, employment processes, training, lines of internal communication, management structure and such like. Specialist stuff. Ideally, you’d pass this all on to your own specialist HR Director to take care of for you, but at this early stage of the growth game, the costs of recruiting your very own permanent HRD are pretty inhibitive. So, it’s jolly good news…
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