“Recognition right now? It doesn’t feel appropriate; it’s tone deaf to even consider celebrating achievements with everything else going on.”
How Can I….help people leave well?
With a number of colleagues leaving this month on the enhanced early exit scheme, some of you are asking: ‘How can I help someone have a good exit?’ This may […]
Loneliness at Work
This year’s theme for this week’s Mental Health Awareness Week is loneliness and its effect on our mental health.
The moments that bind us
There is a lot of talk about folk having lost a connection and belonging over the pandemic, to their teammates, to their wider working community, and to the organisation of […]
How Are You?
To start off the New Year, we are encouraging every manager to have a wellbeing conversation with their team. What does that actually mean though, and how can you do […]
The new ‘Team Toolkit’ – What is it?
When asked to develop a team toolkit for the staff re-orientation webpages my first thought was ‘where do I start?’ It needed to be something that was useful to teams […]
Creative Team Building
Our team recently piloted a short creative session facilitated by Tina Atchison-Thomas from the Arts and Culture team. Tina is an Outreach and Programme Co-ordinator and had contacted me a […]
Learning from Lockdown Teams
We hosted our first ever Virtual Staff Orientation this Wednesday and, to my mind, it was a very positive experience: no technical hitches, all the various presenters were there when […]
3 Top Tips for Winning at Work
Disclaimer: I don’t always get these things right. I am not the perfect colleague, and there’s probably lots more than 3 top tips I could have shared (feel free to […]