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Virtual Appreciation Cards serving as powerful engagement tool for remote workforce
Around three months ago, just as lockdown in the UK came into force in the UK, Achievers launched Appreciation Cards to allow managers or team members in any business to recognise their colleagues for free in a thoughtful way.We recognised that not every company currently has an employee engagement platform ...
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Supporting your remote workforce in unprecedented times
Working in isolation for a prolonged period can be taxing both mentally and physically, making it more important than ever that employers are visibly and effectively supporting their people. However, for more than 50% of companies, the mass working from home experiment that we now find ourselves in presents unchartered ...
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Going above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Chilton Meadows
“Going above and beyond is something that comes naturally to the staff team at Bupa’s Chilton Meadows Care Home in Stowmarket Suffolk,” says Home Manager, Tania Thompson, who has been nursing for three decades and working at the care home for the last three years.“The team’s priority is keeping residents ...
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How does the commitment culture align with recognition?
What defines a successful corporate culture? There are so many factors which come into play as well as different priorities for each individual business. The world we live in places a lot of emphasis on speed, instant gratification and getting the job done as fast as possible. The question which ...
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Busy Bees Benefits: Managing Our Way Out of COVID-19
Employee benefits provider Busy Bees Benefits believe that returning businesses to full economic activity will be a difficult task that requires business leaders to use their ingenuity.As business leaders, you need to make sure that you take the right steps to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of your employees ...
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Busy Bees Benefits: Attracting & Retaining Staff Without Straining Your Finances
As a small business owner, you are constantly faced with the question of how to stay competitive with your larger counterparts? After all, in every aspect of running a business, staying competitive can be difficult for smaller companies. How, specifically, can you attract and retain employees at the same level?However, ...
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Communications in a crisis
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexRecently, I caught up with Sian Myers – Culture Transformation Director at property developer, Countryside – to talk about how to handle communications in a crisis like the Coronavirus pandemic. Throughout our discussion, Sian honestly and sensitively shared her experiences of guiding her employees through ...
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Protecting mental health while working from home
Since the UK – and now, much of the world – moved into a state of ‘lockdown’ following the Covid-19 outbreak, mental and emotional wellbeing (which includes mental health) has come even more to the forefront for workplaces. It seems, just as organisations began tackling mental health, a new pandemic ...
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Exercise among employees is for life, not just lockdown
An active workforce is not just healthy: studies show that it is also more productive, more engaged and - most importantly – happier. Employers are in a unique position to positively influence engagement in physical activity by their staff and, encouragingly, recent Deloitte research showed that 78% of employers are ...
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8 Ways to Relieve Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work and can be made worse by sedentary lifestyles. A combination of sitting in front of a computer all day with a lack of exercise is a perfect storm. However, simple lifestyle changes can help to ease aches and ...
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Going above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Leominster
It wasn’t going to be a typical day off for two of the carers at Leominster Bupa Care Home. They often give up their free time to help and have fun with the residents they have come to love as part of our care home family, but today was going ...
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The Dangers of Selling ‘360-Degree Wellness’
A thought piece by James Shillaker, Founding MD of Incorpore Limited’I have an objection to the term ‘360-degree wellness’.At best, the term has no clinical validation whatsoever. It is simply management jargon. At worst, it could be marketing a misleading message and preventing people from accessing more accurate clinical help. ...
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Letting retention strategies slip will be damaging short-term thinking
The recent pandemic has caused a substantial disruption within the global jobs market and employers might be forgiven for focusing on other priorities than retention, perhaps more confident that employees will prioritise job safety right now. However, the strain of lockdown and navigating coronavirus means that, as the jobs market ...
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Going back to work? – Understanding your risk and responsibility?
It is June 2020 and after three months of lockdown we are starting to see some green shoots of normality creep back into everyday life. Schools have partially reopened. Non-essential shops have been advised that they can reopen and friends and families are able to reunite in small groups in ...
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Going above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Northlands
Deputy Home Manager, Annie Tolici, has been going above and beyond in ensuring residents are safe and secure at Bupa’s Northlands House Care Home in Southampton.Northlands House took the difficult decision to restrict visiting by family and friends in March and since then, the care home has been keeping positive ...
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Busy Bees Benefits: Supporting Employee Wellbeing During Uncertainty
The challenge for many employers, especially when major external events such as the coronavirus create economic uncertainty, is to ensure that your employees are protected. By providing the right level of practical and emotional support to your workforce, you also protect your business and its performance.Employers are finding that they ...
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Busy Bees Benefits: Reward & Recognition During COVID-19
The business challenges thrown up by the coronavirus pandemic for organisations are many, not least that remote working has moved from the exception to the norm.However, aside from the practical aspects of putting in place safe distancing protocols and practices, businesses must now think about how they plan for and ...
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How to Tackle and Reduce Stress
We all know what it's like to feel stressed and of course it can become overwhelming at times. It’s been reported that over 500,000 people in the UK feel ill as a result of their level of work-related stress. Identifying when and why you're stressed is the first step in ...
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7 Fitness Motivation Tips to Keep You Going
We all have days when we wake up and think ‘today is the day’. During lockdown, many of us have plunged ourselves full steam ahead into a fitness regime, which - let's be honest - we've not all stuck to. Don't put yourself down by thinking you have failed, see ...
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Transparency can build trust in a crisis – here’s how
Most business leaders would consider themselves of high integrity and would therefore be alarmed to read the statistics on employee trust. According to a survey by EY of more than 9,800 professionals across the world, more than half said that they don’t place “a great deal of trust” in their ...