Are you ready for Christmas 2021?

Hello my superstars,

How are you?

Random question but does some song start playing in your head when you think of Christmas? For some reason, the song- ‘Driving home for Christmas’ by Chris Rea starts playing in my head as soon as I think of Christmas! What is your song?

Sorry, I digressed there but anyway the reason why I have popped along here is to share with you our lovely Christmas programmes with you. I am honestly super excited about these activities we have created because we have put in a lot of hard work, thought and creativity into this and we can’t wait to actually run these activities over the next few weeks for our clients! It is going to be EPIC!

But our Programme guide is not the only thing I am sharing here…we have also put together an INFORMATION GUIDE to help you plan and deliver your Christmas Celebrations if you were to choose to do it by yourselves! (how could you!;-p)

See below a few quick suggestions to help you to get started with your Christmas team event planning-

Wellbeing and Resilience Strategies to help you navigate through the next phase of change

Despite the pain, loss and instability we all have endured through the past 15 months, the fact is that we all have also realised what an amazing disruption the pandemic has been for work life for some of us.

15 months on, each organisation no matter the industry, size or location is now rethinking their people strategies around this new ‘hybrid’ working style. According to me, one of the biggest upsides of the pandemic has been the mindset shift around ‘productivity and output’ based performance matrix rather than a ‘clock in at the office at 8am’ based performance matrix. That has definitely been an eye opening experience for many organisations across the board.

Saying that, I am also very aware that the pandemic has affected each community and each of us differently and that probably you and me are in a very privileged position to be even thinking about the upsides of the pandemic. All we can do is try and share the benefits that have come out of the ‘working from home’ settings to communities that are disproportionately impacted by this global pandemic.

While most companies are focusing on "how to get their people back to work," some are rethinking the problem, "how to make sure our best talent can work from anywhere". As always people, their wellbeing and their growth is and will continue to remain at the heart of any organisation.

The key to remember is that different people need a different approach and your hybrid strategy should reflect on individual needs rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. This can be difficult to put into practice if not done right and that is exactly why we have put together our top six tips to keep in mind while planning and implementing your people and wellbeing strategy.

It's raining Podcasts!!

Through lockdown, I have managed to feature in not one, not two but three amazing podcasts! And you know the best part of it all? I have met three amazing and brilliant women through this experience. Each on their own path to achieve their goals, to follow their purpose and shine brighter! I absolutely LOVE the opportunities that spark of thanks to social media (I have a love/hate relationship with it!, will explain some other time)

I would highly recommend tuning in to all the episodes (not because it features me but hey that is a great reason too!) but because it is packed with lovely and useful insights about business, pivoting, confidence and self care! All topics that are very dear to me :)

Have a listen in-

Business, Challenges, Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Growth, yorkshireMinoti Parikh9 October 2020podcasts, chapelfm, anchorfm, publicspeakingComment

How to increase Employee Engagement- Being v/s Becoming

If you are an HR manager, a People’s manager or basically anyone responsible for improving human engagement in your organisation then we are sure you would have googled this question pretty often with a gazillion articles popping up. While there are millions and millions of strategies that we can implement to keep our staff more engaged, we think that may be a slight change in perspective is all we need to make our strategies work.

A thing to remember is that employees are people, people who love to grow not as employees but as a person. Helping people in a business to be more engaged varies as every person works differently. If you have ever studied consumer socialisation, you may have come across a point by a scholar named Qvortop, who explored childhood and felt children should be called ‘human becomings’ rather than ‘human beings’ due to continuous development.

However even after childhood, people are still developing in all areas of their life at different paces. Therefore, why shouldn’t this be the case at work? If all of us as a race are constantly evolving and ‘becoming’ someone then why limit our growth and opportunities? Why stop our learning as human beings just because we are too busy just ‘being’?

At TPL Experiences, it is our constant endeavour to challenge conventional norms and develop innovative engagement and training to increase human engagement, not just with each other but with themselves too.

So here we are with our top five strategies that managers can potentially implement at their workplace-