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Jim Barnett, CEO of Glint, discusses why creating work environments that foster a sense of belonging is essential to motivate high performance and engagement. What does it mean to feel safe at work? It’s having the sure knowledge that you are safe to take risks and to speak your mind in the workplace without undue fear of the…

Arwen Heredia, Senior Content Marketing Manager of Prezi, discusses how to best utilise presentations to improve engagement and overall success. Keeping your audience engaged when giving a presentation is no easy feat. Zoning out, napping in the back of the room, tech distractions - we’ve all been that audience member who isn’t giving…

Steve Smith, CEO of Sterling (EMEA), discusses how employers can successfully deploy their background screening in the hiring process. When it comes to background screening, one of the most essential methods, in terms of both legal compliance and safety of your organisation, is Right to Work checks. However, in a recent poll conducted…

How productive are you? It’s a simple question that most of us struggle to provide a concrete answer to. Mastering productivity has become an essential part of our daily lives - we devour books, podcasts and TV series in pursuit of becoming more organised and efficient. Keeping pace with the hustle and bustle is key to both personal and…

This year, Encore Digital Media, the programmatic advertising specialist, introduced a flexible 9-day working fortnight scheme into its business model; a first for the media industry.  Co-founder and CEO, Daniel Shaw, took inspiration from many of the conversations taking place across the UK around the benefits flexible working can have for both…

John Durant, CTO of Kaseya, discusses how important it is to make job titles and descriptions as clear as possible in order to avoid confusion and inefficiency. My mother worked at Target, the eighth largest retailer in the US, in 1974 when there were 23 stores, until 2003 when there were more than 1,000. She worked in something called…

The explosion in flexible and remote working is one of the biggest changes we've seen to our working lives in the past decade. In the UK this is largely being driven by a surge in the number of freelancers - up 46% since 2008 to two million.    When this type of remote working is done well, it can be a real enabler for workers, giving them…

Around 1.5 million people turned out to support London Pride and UK Black Pride this year. It is encouraging to see an increasing number of organisations from PwC to Tesco and Barclays join the parade and fly the rainbow flag in support of the LGBT+ community. As a society, we have made great progress on both mental health and LGBT+ issues over…

Rob Orr is Executive Director at Virgin Media Business, one of the UK’s leading communications providers, responsible for leading the enterprise, public sector, wholesale, SME and SI Channel businesses. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, including past experience at Samsung Electronics, BT and Vodafone. A…