Category: Culture and change

Culture and change

How am I going to get this people stuff delivered?

A recent study found that small business owners are on the brink of a burnout due to their heavy workload. SME leaders and managers are close to hitting boiling point because of the stress and pressure that comes from running a small business. Just under a half (47%) of the business owners cited their lack of time as the main source of the work stress and pressure. So, I always say a problem shared is a problem halved. You don’t need to struggle on, breaking your back. There are alternatives,…

1st November 2018

Culture and change

Team building + Volunteering = Business win

I’ve been doing my bit! Click here to donate today to my Muddy Race for Life… If I told you that approximately 70% of FTSE 100 companies have a volunteering programme, would you be surprised? I know I was! So, there must be a compelling reason why our biggest and most successful corporates do this. After all, they have budgets and performance targets like the rest of us. So how do they justify this ‘charitable’ financial commitment to their returns-hungry shareholders? Because they know that engaged employees make better…

1st October 2018

Culture and change

A four day week. Really?!!

Crikey. The TUC has called for a shorter, 4 day working week. Did I go to bed last night and wake up in 1974?!! Surely this would be an unmitigated disaster for a small business? But according to the accompanying TUC survey, 4 out of 5 people want to cut their working hours without loss of pay – people are feeling over-worked and taken advantage of. Given the phenomenal advances in technology that are yielding businesses big financial gains, employees are feeling, not surprisingly, a little narked that they aren’t…

11th September 2018

Culture and change

Improving Performance is as easy as 123

Ok, maybe not! But it doesn’t take a business guru to tell you that if you want your company to thrive, you need to make sure that your staff are firing on all cylinders. Of course though, as is often the case when it comes to the tricky business of managing people, this can be much easier said than done. If you want to achieve big things, you need clear and effective processes in place to help you to get there. Your line managers play a huge role in creating…

2nd July 2018

Culture and change

Summer staff shortages – might flexible working policies for your staff be the solution?

The sun is shining and it’s July. Which means that the whole country is poised for their summer holidays, family day outs, festival trips, the World Cup and Wimbledon on the TV ….….lots of marvellous reasons not to be in the office!! Great news for your staff, but probably less than great news for you if you are facing staff shortages in the office or are trying to plan holiday cover over the Summer. I’ve recently blogged about how to tactically plan staffing cover over the Summer, so hopefully you…

2nd July 2018

Culture and change

Shared Parental Leave

The Government has just finished its £1.5m advertising campaign to promote shared parental leave (SPL) after just a 2% take-up of the policy since its introduction. So did you and your employees get the memo? Probably not! Despite being 3 years down the line since launch, many companies still know little about it and don’t have the right systems and infrastructures in place to manage SPL well, and research shows that around half the population aren’t even aware that SPL even exists. The introduction of Shared Parental Leave in April…

8th June 2018

Culture and change

Donut disturb……

With National Doughnut Week (yes, really, it’s a thing!) looming, expect a glut of doughnuts, cakes and other delicious patisserie in the office. A host of businesses take part every year, including bakers, coffee shops, offices and educational establishments, baking delicious confection to raise funds for The Children’s Trust – which is undoubtedly a great cause. Cakes and sweet treats in general are an office tradition that plenty of us enjoy, but have you stopped to think about the potential health implications? Most of us are pretty familiar with so-called…

9th May 2018

Culture and change

Holiday year

Tax year end is on the horizon and every year I marvel at why it is that despite 365 long days ahead of me, it seems that there is always a last minute rush when a deadline looms large?! It’s a basic fact of life, if we are given a deadline, we work to it, and it will always cause a glut or a backlog, often when we are at our busiest! Unfortunately, none of us can change the date of tax year-end, unless your name is Phillip Hammond of…

9th April 2018

Culture and change

Are you showing some self-restraint this Lent?

The year is charging ahead and already Lent is fast approaching us; a time traditionally for taking stock and giving up a luxury or two. Granted those luxuries are often alcohol or chocolate based – although the really savvy amongst us will give up things they never really liked anyway (so that’s no celery for me for a month!). We all know that bad habits in our personal lives can lead to serious problems. From trying to adopt a healthier diet through to kicking caffeine or nicotine, most of us…

1st February 2018

Culture and change

Show your employees some love this Valentines

While Valentine’s Day is traditionally the time to show your sweetheart how much you care, it has always seemed like an ideal opportunity to me, to take a moment to reflect on my employee relationships and ask myself whether I show their employees just how much I value them. How about you? We all want our employees to reach their full potential and go above and beyond every day don’t we? So consider the findings of the latest research conducted by employee services provider Personal Group, which has revealed that…

1st February 2018

Category: Culture and change

How am I going to get this people stuff delivered?

Team building + Volunteering = Business win

A four day week. Really?!!

Improving Performance is as easy as 123

Summer staff shortages – might flexible working policies for your staff be the solution?

Shared Parental Leave

Donut disturb……

Holiday year

Are you showing some self-restraint this Lent?

Show your employees some love this Valentines

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Your people | our passion | your success

© 2022 Meraki HR Solutions Ltd, Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Cookies | Sitemap

Meraki HR South:
Registered Address:
Unit 5 - The Workshed,
London Street,
Swindon
SN1 5DG

Meraki HR North:
Office Location:
Suite 4, Kendal Business Hub,
South Lakeland House,
Angel Yard, 21-23 Highgate,
Kendal, LA9 4DY

Meraki HR South:
Unit 5 - The Workshed,
London Street,
Swindon
SN1 5DG

Meraki HR North:
Suite 4, Kendal Business Hub,
South Lakeland House,
Angel Yard, 21-23 Highgate,
Kendal, LA9 4DY