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Wellbeing - Being Your Authentic Self

Join Guy Lewis and Zoe Nichol from McMillan and Associates HR for our conversation about wellbeing specifically with regards to being your authentic self at work.
Zoe is an organisational development specialist and today she talks about how we need to be our true selves if we are to perform well and look after our wellbeing at work.
Zoe talks about how individual clients have approached her about how to be yourself and how can you truly show yourself at work..
Zoe tells us that listening to your colleagues is the most important part of encouraging others to be their authentic self and to start small with conversations within your business and and with colleagues.

Team Wellbeing

Join Guy Lewis and Zoe Nichol from McMillan and Associates HR for our conversation about wellbeing specifically with regards to team wellbeing.
Zoe is an organisational development specialist and today she talks about how we need to look at the environment we create at work for our teams.
Zoe talks about how healthy our work places are, both the physical environment and also mental environment. and how wellbeing should be a thread that is present throughout the whole organisation.
Zoe tells us to start with the basics and get them right and then build on how we create a better work environment for the team.

Wellbeing and Boundary Setting

Join Guy Lewis and Liz Blount from McMillan and Associates HR for our conversation about wellbeing specifically with regards to boundary setting.
Liz is an HR and & organisational development specialist and today she talks about how we need to set boundaries to preserve a sense of control at work.
Liz talks about how this could be control of physical or emotional space and time, and how the best boundaries are those that you can control and not that you set for others.
Liz gives top tips on how to set boundaries and how you can stick to them.

Wellbeing Remote Working

Join Guy Lewis and Liz Blount from McMillan and Associates HR for our conversation about wellbeing specifically with regards to remote working.
Liz is an HR and & organisational development specialist and today she talks about how remote working has many benefits but how we need to ensure it has not having a negative effect on our wellbeing.
We discuss how setting up business routines is important along with having time for the “softer” conversations often found when working together in an office.
Liz talks about the different dimensions of wellbeing, be it physical, emotional, social, and occupational, and gives top tips of how we can both help ourselves and our colleagues with wellbeing.

Social Media Engagement

Join Guy Lewis and Caroline Wilson from Hot Toddi for our conversation about engaging with your audience on social media.
Caroline talks about engagement, and that is both posting and responding to other posts.
Caroline explains that 50% of your time should be spent planning and posting and the other 50% engaging with others.
Remember that engagement is about having a conversation.

Social Media Posting

Join Guy Lewis and Caroline Wilson from Hot Toddi for our conversation and advice for posting your social media content.
Caroline talks about what to post when to post and is there a secret formula around timing your posts.
Caroline explains that a post must either educate, entertain, or both.
Caroline talks about on one side, being on message, while on the other, looking at being disruptive.

Social Media Planning

Join Guy Lewis and Caroline Wilson from Hot Toddi for our conversation and top tips for planning your social media activities.
Caroline’s secret tactic is to plan in 4-month chunks, using a diary or calendar to plan your content for the whole period, and how capturing national events, public holidays, expos and any other events can be used as a loose structure for your content.
Caroline advises that we all book in the diary a dedicated time just to concentrate on your social media activity with the mantra “Plan, do, and review”

Social Media Setting Objectives

Join Guy Lewis and Caroline Wilson from Hot Toddi for our conversation about setting objectives for your social media activities.
Caroline is a social media expert and today she introduces the idea of setting objectives, plotting a course for your social media campaigns.
Discussing the “Algorithm” Caroline talks about how to set clear objectives and stay on course with your social media activity.

COSHH and CDM requirements for Businesses

Join Guy Lewis and Health and Safety expert Anna Maxwell as they talk about the COSHH and CDM requirements for businesses.
Anna explains what the control of substances hazardous to health & safety (COSH) and also how the construction design and manufacture (CDM) regulations apply to many activities even for small businesses.
Anna talks about how businesses must know about materials and substances, manufactured or natural that potentially has health & safety consequences. This includes any substances that you could inhale, ingest, absorb or inject. 
Anna explains that the CDM regs now apply to any project that has some form of construction in it being either domestic or commercial, and further apply to any businesses who has work done on their properties including refurbishment, decoration, new signage and many more activities. 

Business requirements for First Aid and Fire Training

Join Guy Lewis and Health and Safety expert Anna Maxwell as they talk about first aid and fire training.
Anna talks about how the guidance from HSE gives you a good base level of information on what you need to provide in terms of first aid facilities for your employees.
Anna also explains the importance of fire safety risk assessments, what they are and how they should be completed and kept up to date.