A friendly reminder that culture is about what happens in the office, not the antics that happen outside of it such as work drinks, or work/life balance allowing you to, say, surf at lunch. These are perks, not culture. Culture is about what happens in the office and how people engage.
A follow-up to WFH Home Truths, here is some insight into working from many satellite offices and home environments and the challenges of the two-night HQ visit over the Christmas period.
After their 2021 conference was cancelled due to COVID, Spotlight were keen to bring the four-day event back with a bang in 2022. Gillian Brooks, People Manager, Spotlight Retail Group said ‘It blew everyone away’. Read on to see how we did it.
As many people start to settle into working from home as their ‘new normal’, we thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of someone doing since 2009. It’s a great insight into finding the right balances of productivity and development.
While working arrangements might be formalising, by no means are they like they used to be. Working from home, in the office and a hybrid of the two means we’re at a critical junction for thinking about office design moving forward.
The most important consideration when managing remote and hybrid teams is that we all experience these different working arrangements in different ways. Therefore, as leaders, we need to think about job satisfaction and motivation on an individual level, not across the board.
In early June the Be Challenged team escaped to Kalinya Luxury Estate, just over an hour drive from Sydney CBD. Like many, our team is spread across the country so all meeting up in an offsite location is a great way to get the team to build connections, away from an office environment.
In supporting our Giving Partner, B1G1, we have created several activities you can participate in to facilitate a giving, from booking a program, to referring a colleague, or reviewing us on Google, among other things discussed in this article.
At Be Challenged, we spend much of our working hours helping other teams celebrate, let their hair down, and have fun with their colleagues. However, we also practice what we preach, and every year hold the Be Challenged Gala Dinner and Awards to reflect upon and celebrate the previous year.
We are seeing a very different business landscape to that which we left pre-pandemic. Here are six of the most common trends and challenges businesses are facing in 2022, and how they are dealing with them.
