A four day week is possible A six month trial involving about 30 UK employers including a number from civil society and the creative industries has just begun. Definitely an experiment to watch. The standard 9-5, 5 day working week is outdated and no longer fit for purpose. We invented the weekend a century ago…
Time to talk day – 3 February 2022 On 3 February the organisers of Time to Talk including Mind and Rethink Mental Illness are encouraging us all to have conversations about mental health. There is a wide range of activities including this great talk from Clean Break and WISH about the mental health of women…
Psychology Explains New Year Resolutions, Hits and Misses Some of the findings here will come as no surprise, but there’s some useful guidance on what works. I was very struck by the observation: New psychological perspectives suggest we need to also understand better why we tend not to look after ourselves on a daily basis,…
It’s that time of year – reflecting back on 2021 and imagining what 2022 might bring. New Year’s resolutions are flying around and unfortunately, we’re probably already setting ourselves up to fail. Some of this is driven by the many change models most of us have come across. Set a big ambition then move towards…
Thank you to all our readers for your time and for your encouraging comments throughout the year – it has been great to know that we are not just speaking into the void. Thank you to everyone we have worked and walked with through this challenging year; thank you for your trust and for the…
The January Challenge 2022 64 million artists are running their wonderful programme again. This year you can choose from ‘We are Human – 31 challenges to explore the senses, the natural world and what makes us human.We are Culture – 31 challenges to explore our identities, cultures and communities. We are Connected – 31 challenges to explore what happens…
Making hybrid work human New research engagingly presented from The Economist and Google that looks at hybrid working in its historical context and explores what it might take to make this latest forced innovation work. The success of hybrid work models depends on an organisation’s flexibility, the agency it affords its employees and its management’s…
Heritage, creativity, and mental health Wonderful new report from the Resolution Trust for the Baring Foundation as part of their Creatively Minded series. Lots of case study stories to think about. Creative recruitment I have been really inspired by two tweets on doing recruitment differently this week from Watershed and the Princes Trust. Watershed: make…
Major report on workforce diversity out: the Creative Majority Report This new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity has been written by Natalie Wreyford, Dave O’Brien and Tamsyn Dent. 27 policy recommendations on ambition, allyship, accessibility, adaptability and accountability. A must read. Personal action on climate change The Behavioural Insights Team…
Forget flexibility. Your employees want autonomy Interesting article exploring what people want from working flexibly and how to implement it through the lens of self-determination. …the flexibility [employees] want is conditional upon their ability to exercise it in a way that best fits them. In other words, it’s conditional upon autonomy. The function and purposes…
The Menopause and the Workplace Charity lawyers, Bates Wells, are hosting a free webinar on this important but much neglected and undiscussed area. Women over the age of 50 are the fastest growing demographic in the workforce, and the average age for the menopause transition is 51….. Three out of five participants in a recent CIPD…
These Things Matter Workshops Three workshops sessions available. These Things Matter is a project partnership between Museum of Colour (MoC), the Bodleian Libraries and Fusion Arts. The aim is to build a small exhibition through a collaborative process. We want to investigate the ideas and relationships that maintained systems of empire and slavery. People, Place,…
A guide to implementing a four day week As we re-think how we work a good guide from HBR on how to turn dreams into reality New Theatre Access Survey out Disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, faced by a ‘triple jeopardy’: the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease, reduced…