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Making Workplace Wellbeing a Reality

Employee wellbeing is essential for a resilient and productive workforce. When people are genuinely supported and valued, they’re more engaged, motivated, and loyal. Historically, most workplace wellbeing initiatives have focused on Support, offering help only once employees start experiencing challenges. While support is essential, we’re seeing that this reactive approach alone isn’t enough to create a resilient workplace culture. To make workplace wellbeing a reality we need to embed it into the core of our organisations – and we find our Prevent, Enable, Support model helps provide a continuous, structured… Read More »Making Workplace Wellbeing a Reality

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

Managers Make or Break Wellbeing

In today’s work environment, where stress levels are high and uncertainty is the norm, the role of managers in supporting employee wellbeing is critical. It’s no longer enough to have a few token wellbeing initiatives in place – what really matters is the day-to-day impact that managers have on their teams. Whether it’s managing workloads, creating a positive work environment, or being a supportive presence, managers make or break employee wellbeing. Why Managers Matter We often hear that people leave managers, not companies. This is backed up by research showing… Read More »Managers Make or Break Wellbeing

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

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 🤷‍♂️

Is it time for your summer stocktake?

With things slowing down for many of us at this time of year, it’s an opportunity to review how you feel about your work and what you need to do to keep on track with your goals. Time for reflection I used to work in a college library and the summer at work was very different to the rest of the year, transforming from a buzzing, busy hub (yes, libraries have changed!) to a calm retreat, with just one or two of us working. It was a time to have… Read More »Is it time for your summer stocktake?

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!

Giving off the right vibe: keeping a common culture as you grow

‘Culture’. We’re not talking about high-brow art galleries and opera here – or even mysterious organic matter cultivated in a petri dish. We’re talking about the common values, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions shared by the people in your organisation: the things that consciously and unconsciously define the character and personality of your business – the ‘vibe’ it projects. As a start-up you probably found your culture and vibe established itself quite naturally, reflecting the ambitions and values of the founder(s) and becoming a bonding ethos without having to define or… Read More »Giving off the right vibe: keeping a common culture as you grow

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It’s good to talk…

It might have become a cliché during that memorable BT ad campaign in the 90s, but it’s true: talking is good, and it’s something we don’t do enough of when it really counts.   This Thursday (6th Feb) is Time to Talk Day, an opportunity to encourage everyone to be more open about mental health – to talk, to listen, and to change lives. But sometimes it’s hard to know how to talk. Starting a conversation can feel awkward, particularly if you are concerned about someone’s wellbeing or mental health. Sometimes… Read More »It’s good to talk…

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