Have you recently graduated? Are you grieving the loss of your old student life? Are you wondering what it will be like to be a fully-fledged member of the working world? Yes, and yes? I hate to break it to you, and as patronising as it might sound, you really are about to enter the ‘real world’ – one that will bring a whole load of new lessons. So, remember, just because the relentless exam process has finally stopped for you, your learning hasn’t. Far from it. Continue reading 13 ways to transition from student life to working life
Most of us spend far more time with our work colleagues than we do with our friends and family. It’s no wonder, then, that we become good friends with the people that work both with and for us – even our bosses. Many of us often make lifelong friendships at work. But, while that may be a great thing for improving your happiness at work, and even making us feel more fulfilled, could these friendships be inadvertently acting as a barrier to career progress? Continue reading Work friendships are great, but could yours be inadvertently holding you back from finding a new job?
The world of work has been and continues to be transformed by technology. It’s an extremely exciting time and one filled with change and opportunity. Every organisation in every industry in every part of the world now has the chance to benefit from all the value this technology can bring.
Technology can help us reach new customers and engage with existing ones. It can help us develop new products and services and optimise internal processes to make them faster, more efficient, and more agile.
Technology has the power to bring lots of good to our working lives. However, if it’s not managed and used properly, it can have potentially damaging consequences, particularly on our mental health. Many people feel that because the technology is available 24/7 they should always be available and responsive.
So today I’m joined by Sarah Churchman, Chief Inclusion and Wellbeing officer at PwC. Sarah is here to talk to us about how business leaders and employers can help their employees have a positive relationship with technology in a way that maintains good mental health.
The world of work has been and continues to be transformed by technology. It’s an extremely exciting time and one filled with change and opportunity. Every employee in every industry in every part of the world, now has the chance to benefit from all the value that technology can bring. It can help us to do our work more effectively from anywhere – technology can help us with the more repetitive aspects of our jobs and certainly has the power to bring lots of good to our working lives.
However, if it’s not managed and used properly, it can have potentially damaging consequences, especially towards our mental health. So today, I’m joined by Sarah Churchman, Chief Inclusion and Wellbeing Officer at PwC. Sarah is here to talk to us today about how we can all establish healthy digital technology consumption habits to enable us to thrive both inside and outside of work.
Continue reading Podcast 26: How to have a mentally healthy relationship with technology
Compassion isn’t a trait that has been traditionally associated with effective leadership in the world of work. After all, it isn’t being gentle, nice and compassionate that really gets things done in business, or that turns humble start-ups into industry-leading organisations, is it? Continue reading Four key traits of the most compassionate leaders
The start of a new year is often a time when many of us to decide the moment has come to look for a new job. After all, the holiday season often feels like a natural time to reflect on where life is going. Combine this with the back-to-work January blues, and it’s no surprise that job search activity, and thus competition among jobseekers, is typically high at this time of year. In fact, a recent survey* of ours found that a staggering 80% of people intend to search for a new job in 2020. Continue reading Seven ways to make yourself instantly more employable in 2020
Have you ever noticed how many of the metaphors of talent are linked to water? We’ve had talent pools, talent pipelines, talent flow, talent leakage, talent waves… and I’d like to now add another, the talent puddle. Continue reading Four ways to expand your talent puddle to a talent pool
