The h2h blog

How The Art Of Active Listening Can Unlock Success In Your Organisation by Sarah Tiffany

September 27, 2023

Both our professional and personal lives are filled with a constant and relentless streamline of communication- emails, briefings, WhatsApp, notifications, podcasts, memos, meetings, adverts – the list goes on and on. Everyone has something to say and, in a world where everyone is talking loud and fast, the leadership skill of active listening can often be overlooked. In our latest blog we look at the key benefits that active listening can promote within you organisation and why this skill should never be underestimated:

Why psychological safety is a non-negotiable for successful teams by Caryn Douglas

August 22, 2023

Often the language of safety in organisations only relates to physical safety. Of course, the cost of getting physical safety wrong is highly visible; both in terms of potential harm to employees and in reputational damage, never mind fines or criminal charges. However, getting psychological safety wrong can be equally damaging to an organisation in far less obvious, but equally ultimately commercially devastating, ways.

How can we further open up the workplace? by Susan Binnersley

August 3, 2023

The Work & Pensions Committee have recently published their report on Plan for Jobs and Employment Support with the aim of finding ways to support people who are economically inactive to move into the workplace. Between May and July 2022 this accounted for over 9 million working-age people who were neither employed or unemployed. In our latest blog we look at the key initiatives in the plan that really resonate with h2h and outline some of our other thoughts on how to further open up the workplace and tap into all of this potential.

Why a change at the top can improve your business performance? by Sarah Tiffany

July 20, 2023

Well-established leadership within any organization undoubtedly has many benefits including experience and expertise, consistency and organisational stability. However, if not well managed, it can also bring with it a degree of complacency, a stagnation of ideas and management techniques as well as posing some difficult questions around succession planning. Here are our thoughts on the key benefits that a change in leadership can bring when handled correctly:

Tapping into your creative potential one step at time by Caryn Douglas

July 17, 2023

How often have we heard someone say, “Oh, I’m not creative”, or even said it ourselves. There is a pervasive belief that creativity is a talent that some people are born with and other are not. Education systems don’t help here, offering few opportunities to practice creative thinking or even treating creativity as a developable skill in its own right.

Proactively Managing Your Career – Our Top 10 Recommendations

June 21, 2023

A recent study by Indeed, of over 1800 organisations, found that 1 in 3 UK employees are unhappy in their current role. Given that the average person spends over 9 ½ years of their life at work that results in a lot of people spending a lot of time doing something that they don’t enjoy. This can have a massive impact on their quality of life, health and wellbeing and also the people around them