7 Workplace Trends for 2024

7 Workplace Trends for 2024

Nearly 2 months into 2024 and we hope you’ve hit the ground running! Before we say see ya to Summer and move forward into March, let’s take a look at the workplace trends for 2024 and what that means for you and your team. As you might expect, the workplace continues to change at a rapid pace, driven by technological advancements, changing demographics, and ever-evolving societal norms. These transformations are reshaping the way we work, collaborate and engage with our professional environments. Let’s explore what lies ahead and discover how these trends may impact and evolve your business and teams...

Employee Benefits, What Staff Want & What Workplaces Can Offer

Employee Benefits, What Staff Want & What Workplaces Can Offer

Following on from our previous article regarding the importance of workplace culture, in this blog, we take a closer look at Employee Value Propositions, and how employee benefits are a critical component of that. Employee Value Proposition (EVP) An Employee Value Proposition (EVP) represents the distinct array of benefits and incentives an employee obtains in exchange for their skills, expertise and tenure within a company. Essentially, it outlines the mutual agreement between employer and employee, detailing both the anticipated contributions employees will make and the corresponding rewards they can anticipate from the employer. A company’s EVP often consists of components...

Understanding Company Culture

Building a thriving company culture is like cultivating a flourishing garden. It requires meticulous attention, nurturing, and a strategic approach to foster an environment where individuals thrive, collaborate and find purpose. A strong company culture isn’t just a buzzword – it’s the heartbeat of an organisation, shaping its identity, interactions and outcomes. Understanding Company Culture At its core, company culture embodies the essence of an organisation – how it engages with its employees, stakeholders and the wider community. It permeates through every aspect, from the mission statement and core values to the working environment and leadership dynamics. While it’s challenging...

How To Make Team Bonding Activities Purposeful and Effective

How To Make Team Bonding Activities Purposeful and Effective

There’s a lot of emphasis in today’s world on ensuring we create and maintain a cohesive team environment. We hear that having strong bonds within our team improves productivity and efficiency, as well as increases an individual’s job satisfaction levels, but how do we get to that point? An effective way to foster this sense of unity is through purposeful and well-planned team bonding activities. However, the key lies not just in organising these activities, but in ensuring they serve a clear purpose and align with the goals of the team. Additionally, fostering collaboration in the planning process, ensuring effective...

Striving for Work-Life Balance: Strategies and Advantages

Striving for Work-Life Balance: Strategies and Advantages

The concept of work-life balance isn’t new, yet achieving it seems increasingly challenging. Statistics reveal that 1 in 10 employees work over 50 hours weekly, which the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development deems as ‘very long hours’. This trend, coupled with our ‘time-poor’ reality, complicates the act of juggling multiple competing responsibilities and expectations. But is balance really possible? Must time be split evenly between work and personal life to be considered a balance? Realistically, the idea of work-life balance means something different for everyone and it’s about finding the right blend that allows you to thrive both personally...

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Icebreaker Games for Large groups seated theatre style

Large group icebreaker games in a theatre setting is a team building challenge.  You have a lack of space, large numbers, movement is constrained and you can’t form workable sub groups.    When a client asked for ideas with this “impossible” brief,  it seemed a good idea to create this post to share my thoughts. Many games emerged from the world of improvisation and will lighten the mood, energise the group and get a laugh.  I’ve chosen games that are simple to execute and brief, and where people don’t need a lot of space to move around. Introduction Game: Simple...

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Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge

The Marshmallow Tower Challenge is a simple team exercise that  is enjoyable but also encourages people to work together to practice problem solving , design thinking, resilience and agility.  It is simple to facilitate, with inexpensive simple materials. Duration: 20+ minutes (total timing depends on debrief time)  Note the original exercise allows 18 minutes, I have reduced this to 12 minutes. . Create subgroups of 4-6 people . This exercise is a great way to encourage team members to collaborate, problem solve and to model design thinking such as testing and iterating. This activity also encourages critical thinking by asking...