January
Supporting women’s health at work As a trusted advisor to the government, we held an exclusive ‘Menstrual Health Matters’ roundtable to help shape our recommendations for the government – and employers - to better support employees in the workplace that are struggling with their menstrual health. During the roundtable people professionals – including senior leaders and managers - tackled the stigma and taboos around periods and whether paid period leave would work in their organisation.
Championing northern talent We hosted some exclusive
regional launch events for the 2023 CIPD People Management Awards (PMAs) to inspire northern people professionals to champion their successes and achievements by making a stand-out entry to the PMAs. Held virtually and in Newcastle - in collaboration with the CIPD North East Branch – a strong turn- out of delegates heard inspiring stories from former shortlisted entrants and winners about their exemplary entries and the benefits of entering the prestigious awards. The sessions proved a great success with twenty northern HR and people development teams shortlisted for the 2023 PMAs.
This inspiring insight has helped to strengthen our suite of wellbeing
guidance to support women’s health at work. Catch-up on the session – hosted by our Northern Policy Forum – here .
February
Yorkshire’s young rising stars We were delighted to support the Insider’s inaugural Yorkshire Young Professionals Awards, which recognise the region’s young rising stars – across a range of sectors - aged 35 and under. As the sponsor of the Young HR/Recruitment Professional of the Year accolade, Daphne Doody- Green, Head of CIPD in Northern England presented the award to the winner, Navdeep Walker, an in-house recruiter at Hydrock. She was credited for personally saving the business £300,000 in recruitment costs, by recruiting 77 people with only seven identified through an agency. The black-tie ceremony also provided a great opportunity to showcase the new awards to our Yorkshire-based HR Leader network. Find out more about the
The hybrid boost An online Hybrid working - where are we now session gave people professionals and managers
an opportunity to learn about our policy influencing work and guidance to support businesses with the move to hybrid ways of working. Guest speaker, Stuart Price FCIPD, Chief People Officer at Zenith Vehicles spoke passionately about
how hybrid working is benefiting the business and its people, with 75% of internal promotions going to female talent since implementing more flexible ways of working. Catch-up on the session – hosted by our Northern Policy Forum – here .
“We’ve got some phenomenal female leaders who are
now running significant operations within the business because we’ve enabled them to successfully balance family and work, said Stuart.”
winners here and the shortlist for the 2024 Yorkshire Young Professionals Awards here .
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