
The importance of Pride in Engagement
We were recently very proud to sponsor an art exhibition at a local school. We provided canvases and new painting materials for all of the pupils aged 4-11. It was a feel good exercise for us and a great way of giving just a little back locally. We supported the event by hanging the artwork in a mobile gallery and inviting people to come along, view them and if they wished, bid on the work. I had thought that this was just for fun, an interesting diversion from the usual da

New Year, New Job? It's what one third of your people are thinking!
At Peopletopia, we were delighted to take on new people to join our team at the start of the year. It felt like an injection of energy, of potential and surge of excitement for the new things yet to come in 2020. What a great beginning. I compared this sense of excitement with a report by the Korn Ferry Institute, (recently published here https://shar.es/a3xUK5 ). The report shows that according to their survey, one third of your professionals are probably thinking of lea
Keeping up the New Year Enthusiasm for Resolutions.
It's been a while since the champagne corks stopped popping and the fireworks announcing the new year fizzled out. It's an interesting moment - the start of a new year, isn't it? On the one hand there are those that look back and reflect on the year that has now ended, thinking about what we did, or didn't achieve, and there are those that look forward with great gusto and energy about the year yet to come, with all its unknown possibilities. For those people who do make res

Is it just luck? There's no point in keeping fingers crossed for great performance.
On a recent Management Skills course that we ran, one of the delegates was engaged, enthusiastic and full of great examples of what was working well for their team. We could see from their results and the engagement levels of their team that they were doing a good job of focusing on the activities that enabled their team to be their best. The interesting thing about this delegate was that when asked about their team, their response was "I'm really lucky with my team, they're