Working life after Covid…

The pandemic has hit many people hard and heading back to work involves a huge mental shift. With so many unprecedented challenges, organisations around the world have had to act swiftly to safeguard employees and move to new ways of working. Working life after the pandemic was never expected to fully go back to what…

Parallels between Sport and Business

Sports and business have a lot in common in terms of motivation, values and vision. This might explain why so many great athletes become great businesspeople. Just look at how sport captures the attention of the world and you’ll quickly understand its power. Sport has the ability to bring culture, people and passion together. Sport shows…

MyPeople Meets … Reg Agyeman

MyPeople Meets is a series of articles featuring influential business people embracing workplace change. Uncovering their unique experiences, industry insights, what motivates them, why they do what they do and their views on team trust. This month we meet Reg Agyeman, Chief Revenue Officer at StoryShare Learn. After an unusual personalised remote onboarding, having started his…

The power of values

Values underpin company culture and describe the behaviours we exhibit as a team and what is important to us. Values are not just feel-good catch phrases, they are an integral part of the framework we use in our day to day interactions. As well as; hiring, development and rewarding the team. They are our ‘How’.…

How are people coping

When we saw in the New Year with fireworks and celebration, no one expected that 2020 would bring us a global pandemic and throw our entire lives into limbo, and yet here we are almost 12 weeks in. Covid-19 or coronavirus has seen the world grind to a halt, and many countries, including the UK,…

MyPeople Meets … Namrata Sarmah

MyPeople Meets is a series of articles featuring influential business people answering questions about what motivates them, their views on organisational values and high performance cultures along with personal insights on why they do what they do.  This month we meet Namrata Sarmah, a strategic and delivery-focused Digital Product Leader with over 12 years’ experience in…

The benefits to working from home

If you were asked, “What would you prefer: Working from home or going to an office?”, what would your answer have been, prior to the corona virus outbreak? According to FlexJobs 2019 Annual Survey, when asked, most people said they would want the advantage of working from home. Remote working remains the flexible work option…

Keeping remote employees engaged

When it comes to running a successful business, there is one element that needs to be understood among all others; knowing how to engage your employees. It’s important to recognise why people do the work they do, and what drives them to do it. When managers understand the level of dedication their employees have for…

MyPeople Meets … Charlie Hodgson

MyPeople Meets is a series of articles featuring influential business people answering questions about what motivates them, their views on organisational values and high performance cultures along with personal insights on why they do what they do.  This month, we meet Charlie Hodgson, founder and CEO of Charlie Hodgson Performance, which aims to help business…