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How to Tackle the Biggest People Challenges in Your Organisation

As Willow & Puddifoot launches our new website, we’re excited to offer a range of services designed to help you navigate the complex people challenges that come with managing teams. People challenges can make or break the success of your organisation. Whether its leading teams, keeping employees engaged, or dealing with stress and uncertainty, these issues can slow down progress and cause frustration. But with the right approach, you can turn these challenges into opportunities for growth and high performance.  Here are some of the most common people challenges businesses… Read More »How to Tackle the Biggest People Challenges in Your Organisation

Team Building: Eight Ways to Build Exceptional Teams

There’s a lot of buzz about teamwork and endless models on how to achieve it. However, this blog is all about eight simple, practical things you can do to build exceptional teams in your workplace. These ideas are easy to implement and make a significant difference. What is Team Building and Why Does it Matter? Team building refers to various activities, exercises, and practices that aim to enhance relationships between team members and improve performance. The benefits are numerous: improved communication, increased trust, better problem-solving, and a stronger sense of… Read More »Team Building: Eight Ways to Build Exceptional Teams

Developing Leaders: How to Develop Leaders in 12 Steps

The development of effective leaders is crucial for organisational success and growth. This blog post delves into a comprehensive 12-step process for developing leaders, ensuring your efforts in leadership development are as impactful and efficient as possible. Preparation Step 1 – Define Leadership Competencies or Behaviours Start with a clear definition of the competencies and behaviours your organisation values in leaders. These could include strategic thinking, effective communication, emotional intelligence, change management and the ability to inspire and motivate teams. Tailor these competencies to reflect the unique values and goals… Read More »Developing Leaders: How to Develop Leaders in 12 Steps

The Five Characteristics of Wellbeing

Do you ever think about what it is in life that really, fundamentally, makes you happy – or indeed unhappy? ​In 2010 Gallup (the American analytics and advisory company) did a comprehensive study on wellbeing covering 150 countries globally, asking people hundreds of questions about health, wealth, relationships, jobs, and communities. Across borders and nationalities, they identified five universal elements that are seemingly essential to wellbeing the world over – whatever your age, social class, employment, nationality, and race. Of course, these broad categories don’t cover every nuance of what’s… Read More »The Five Characteristics of Wellbeing

Live 😊 Laugh 😄 Work 🤷‍♂️

In this month’s blog we have exciting news, and we share our thoughts on worklife balance. It’s also National Inclusion Week from 26 September, so we’ve been looking at our inclusivity workshop and thinking about what inclusion means to us.  An announcement!  We are so excited to announce that we are sponsors of the Sifted Summit at Magazine London on 5 and 6 October! With hundreds of founders, start-ups and investors, we’ll be taking our management and wellbeing programmes out to the world! We look forward to meeting some cutting-edge… Read More »Live 😊 Laugh 😄 Work 🤷‍♂️

Happy New Year!

A RAY OF LIGHT Happy New Year! Does it feel like an exciting start for you? Are you happy to look at the year ahead? I think there’s something about the bustle of festive season, some light in that very dark time of year, for relaxing and contemplation after all the hard work of the year. In the UK it’s been cold, damp and dark this winter, but those could be said to be perfect conditions for some deep thinking. Time to cosy up with a hot drink and decide… Read More »Happy New Year!

Employee Knowledge Sharing

Unlock Hidden Potential: Enhance Employee Knowledge Sharing There’s an abundance of untapped knowledge within your business—valuable insights, experiences, and skills that remain siloed. Sharing can significantly enhance your team’s performance and innovation. So, what’s stopping you from sharing that knowledge more effectively? Imagine how much more successful your employees could be if they had the tools and opportunities to tap into each other’s expertise. Employee Knowledge Sharing is not just about increasing efficiency, but also about fostering collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving across teams. While formal training plays a crucial role… Read More »Employee Knowledge Sharing

Time to be picky: How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business

It’s an exciting time: you’ve started scaling your business, progressing from upstart start-up to fully-fledged business success. But as your business grows, you soon realise you need to increase the number of people managers in the team. The early days where everyone simply reported to the leadership team is no longer sustainable: as a properly-functioning larger business you need another layer of management – responsible for people as much as process. You might recruit externally, with careful work by your HR team to attract the right candidates. Or, you might… Read More »Time to be picky: How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business

How to select the right people to be managers in a fast-growing business