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Welcome to our HR News, Views & Advice.
Employee Retention - it’s not just about a pay rise
Martin Nicholson encourages you to consider ways to mitigate the risk of staff leaving you in 2024.
Feeling SAD this winter?
Martin Nicholson, our co-founder and Managing Consultant, reflects on his own experience of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Everybody’s Talking About Neurodiversity
Joanne Hobbins, our co-founder and in-house psychology expert, considers the challenges faced in the workplace by the neurodiverse, and what an organisation might need to consider to enable everyone to shine.
Launch of 2024 Awareness Calendar - to enhance your employee engagement
Awareness days, months & weeks are a great opportunity to engage with your employees and our 2024 Awareness calendar makes it easy to do this.
Awareness Calendar - Ideas for Employee Engagement
Awareness days, and also months & weeks throughout the year are a great opportunity to connect with your employees, and show you care about what your people care about. Our Awareness calendar makes it easy to do this.
Embrace the Joy and Boost Your Work Life!
Get ready to break out those smiles, crank up the joy levels, and celebrate the International Week of Happiness at Work 2023, coming up in September.
The Recipe for Workplace Happiness
Just like a mouthwatering dish, creating a happy workplace requires the perfect blend of ingredients and a dash of creativity. Here’s the perfect recipe!
2023 Events Programme
Discover our ProAction HR 2023 Events Programme of free to attend taster sessions - August to November
Something for nothing in a world where everything has a cost?
As an added employee benefit that costs you the employer nothing but some cash flow, and gives your employees an additional benefit, the often under utilised Cycle to Work scheme is a clear winner in the war to retain top talent.
5 Tips for Implementing Employee Engagement + Breakfast 26 July
An opportunity to discover the 5 essential tips to implement employee engagement PLUS a free breakfast!
Tasty ways to improve employee engagement with chocolate, cheese, and wine!
Our Employee Engagement Specialist, Andrew Gordon, offers some tasty ideas for engaging with your employees over the Summer.
Pride - What’s all the fuss about?
Have you ever wondered what all the Pride Month fuss is about and why LGBTQ+ people spend June at rainbow-themed events, waving flags and generally having a fantastic time? It’s also an ideal opportunity for employers to demonstrate support for their LGBTQ+ employees too.
HR Trends for 2023 Part 2
The team at ProAction HR have identified what we believe to be the eight key HR trends for 2023. This is Part two of our findings which focuses on employee experience, diversity & inclusion, benefits, and also recruitment & onboarding.
2023 Awareness Calendar Launch
Awareness Days, months & weeks give you an opportunity to connect with your employees, supporting important events can show you care about what your people care about. Our 2023 Awareness calendar makes it easy to do this.
Cheers to you!
“Small” business may be our label like so many others, but there is nothing small about every achievement, every client, every new customer, every product development, every new staff member acquired, and every objective met by employees. For EACH and every step forward each small business has taken over the past 12 months, we salute you.
Do you need any more apples in your HR basket?
Do you have dedicated HR resource, or is area of managing your business assigned to your managers? A key 2023 HR trend is employee experience, so informed people management is critical.
Engaging People Through Change
How do you achieve change, and ensure everyone within your team continue to pull in the best direction for the organisation?
Employee wellness - more than a pandemic driven tick box exercise!
Wellbeing at work has been one of buzz words of the past 18+ months so all organisations have had to evaluate their wellness provision.
What Does Employee Wellbeing Look Like Two Years On?
If you own or run a business, your people are your greatest asset . As we learn to live alongside Covid their wellness is paramount, always.
How does it really feel to be made redundant? An employee’s perspective
An employee's perspective demonstrating that there are supportive and sympathetic ways to manage redundancy by using an outplacement programme.