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[New] hr dept Porter the Sorter
Does your business need to go on a New Year diet?
Ask our resident HR expert, Sandra Porter of The HR Dept for advice on your workplace worries.
New Year resolutions are often about introducing discipline so that you can become your ‘best self’. Whether it is stopping smoking, exercising more, eating less, - it is often about creating and sticking (or trying to stick to) habits that are going to help us be ‘better’ (whatever that might look like) in the future.
This can also be a good prompt for a review of your business habits. Where could your business be ‘better’ - more efficient, lean, healthy? Where could you create better capabilities, strengths or mindset across your team that will serve your business and customers well over the year ahead?
Think about the answers to the following questions: 1) What are your personal habits and how do they affect your business? (working long hours, unhealthy eating, poor sleep) 2) What changes could you make that will have a positive impact on your business and team around you? 3) What team habits should you introduce or protect to engage your team? (team meetings, increase recognition, great team socials, team development) 4) What team habits are not helpful and need to be addressed? (gossiping, lack of accountability, grumbling about clients) 5) What could your business new year resolutions be and what difference could they make? What would your team say?
Creating your business habits for the year ahead and getting them into your diary now could make all the difference. This can be a great idea for a team session to get the year started on a positive note.
As James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, highlights, it is often the small daily habits that if improved make a huge difference over the year, ‘not one silver bullet’.
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The HR Dept are an outsourced HR services provider supporting local SMEs with their people issues and strategy. For advice on helpful habits in the workplace and anything else people related call 0345 208 1290
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