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Top 3 Take Aways for SMEs: engaging Millennials in the workplace
Over the past few years the HR180 blog pages (and numerous other articles) discussed Millennials not really engaging with traditional workplaces. If your workforce is not allied to your business culture, what will keep employees coming to work? And if by 2020, 50% of the workforce will be Millennials, how can SME employers motivate this massive sector […]
August 24, 2017
10 ideas to guide a successful mentoring programme
This spring Claire Morley-Jones helped start-up business founder Emily Forbes through the Plusnet Pioneers mentoring programme (see our earlier blog). What about for your business – could a mentoring programme work for you? Claire tells us more about what a good mentoring programme might look like for an SME. By Claire Morley-Jones A mentoring programme can […]
August 22, 2017
How employee engagement can add £££ to your bottom line
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment that an employee has towards an organisation. Quite easily confused with employee satisfaction, Claire Morley-Jones (with help from Korn Ferry Hay Group’s Talent Q) looks at how employee engagement can truly be aligned to business goals and culture. By Claire Morley-Jones As an SME owner or manager looking to […]
August 16, 2017
Ten building blocks for a better business team
With team building being good for business, there are many ways and means to bring people together to work better. The team at HR180 had an amazing ‘away day’ in the woods led by Ecotherapist, Hayley Gillard, this spring, for example. On a day-to-day basis, what can SME owners and managers do to make their […]
August 8, 2017
Treating employees as adults: unlimited holidays?
As schools are in the midst of the 6 week break, many people will have their focus set on their summer holidays – one or at the most two weeks away from work in the sun… What if you could choose to take the whole 6 weeks off? Or perhaps a month off at Christmas to […]
August 2, 2017
Ten Tips for Summer Friday Fun in your SME business
With the summer firmly upon us, a few of the team have already enjoyed a week or two in the sun and it has been suggested in the office that, after a holiday break, employees could really do with a phased return to work to get back into the swing! Whilst we’d be up for […]
July 28, 2017
I’m not your mate, I’m your work colleague!
HR180’s HR Assistant, Simon Underwood, has had a wealth of experience working with and managing others. Here he shares some experiences and points out why it might not be such a good idea for bosses and employees to be over friendly! By Simon Underwood Many years ago one of my workplaces recruited a new manager. Some […]
July 26, 2017
5 (or 10!) a day: What role should employers play in employee health?
In part one of his health related blog, HR180’s HR Assistant, Nuhman Sharif, took a wry look at the most up to date Government guidance on the correct number of portions of fruit and veg we should eat daily. In this, part 2 in the mini series, Nuhman considers the role employers should play in […]
July 24, 2017
You mean there’s HR on board a Cruise Ship? Closing a ship.
In this two-parter HR Partner, Becky Mee tells first hand all about life on board a cruise ship from an HR perspective, in association with her friend, former Celebrity Cruise colleague and current co-worker, Tim Frear. In this blog, Becky outlines the stages of ‘closing’ a ship and the lessons for any business, especially where a […]
July 20, 2017
You mean there’s HR on board a Cruise Ship? Opening a ship.
Following Becky Mee’s blog post detailing her experience of ‘closing’ the Celebrity Mercury, (an 1,890 passenger and 850 crew cruise ship) and transferring her to a sister brand, TUI, our HR Partner, Tim Frear, gives us a mirror image – opening a ship – with Reflecting on Reflection! By Tim Frear What ‘opening’ a cruise ship taught me about […]
July 20, 2017
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