People Puzzles

People Puzzles is delighted to introduce Alan Ball as its new Regional Director for the East Midlands region. Alan joins an ever-expanding team of HR experts who help ambitious businesses across the country to create high-performing teams and fast growth.

At our recent People Puzzles conference, we invited Green & Black’s founder Jo Fairley to talk to us about ESG – that is, how to improve the Environment, Social and Governance impact that we have on the world.

When we invited Jo Fairley, founder of the hugely successful ethical chocolate brand Green & Black’s, to our recent conference, she spoke about how her company’s environmental and social values drove staff engagement and loyalty.

At People Puzzles we believe that as a company, we have the opportunity to drive positive change through the way we do business. For this reason, we have been looking for ways to incorporate more ESG – Environment, Social and Governance – principles into our working practices.

Employer brand is everything. It’s your website, recruitment page, Glass Door reviews, LinkedIn pages, the salary and benefits package you offer, testimonials and sustainability policy. With many companies competing for the best talent, you want to give your business the greatest chance of winning and keeping these people.

Until relatively recently, the menopause has been discussed very little in public, let alone in workplaces. Often seen as a strictly ‘women’s issue’, many men – and younger women – are simply oblivious to the often-debilitating symptoms of the menopause.

With so many companies now adopting remote or hybrid working as a long-term prospect, there is a worry that employees will not maintain consistent behaviour or the company values while working from home.

We’ve all encountered unengaged staff – perhaps in a shop where ‘no, we don’t stock that’ isn’t followed up with an offer to order it in or find an alternative product. The business loses a sale, and potentially a customer, for good.

Some people think of team building exercises as a staff away day, building rafts across a river. But actually, team building is much more fundamental than that. It needs to be embedded into the everyday activities of your business.