Eugenio Pirri, Chief People and Culture Officer at the Dorchester Collection
March
Inspiring students to be their best
Invest North: Unlocking the North
Our Head, Daphne Doody-Green was delighted to join a panel at Invest North’s virtual conference - sponsored by EY - to address how the North can bounce back post pandemic. As part of this, she urged employers to prioritise and invest in the health and wellbeing of workers, in order to benefit from a more productive, engaged workforce. Daphne was joined on the panel by EY representatives, along with Simon Holden (Group Chief Operating Officer at City Fibre) and Stephen Church (UK market leader for the North), who chaired the panel. The event
Daphne Doody-Green (Head of CIPD Northern England) Chaired our very first online student conference. It attracted an impressive turnout of over 1300 CIPD students and early career professionals, not only from the North and wider UK, but also from Europe, the Middle East and North America! We were delighted to have a range of HR experts and influential business leaders join us - from organisations such as BBC, Liverpool Business School, NHS, NatWest Group and Northumberland County Council - to share best practice, insight and helpful resources to inspire students. Eugenio Pirri, Chief People and Culture Officer at the Dorchester Collection delivered a powerful session on how to ‘Be the Change you wish to see in the world.’
was curated by TheBusinessDesk.com and you can read their write-up on the panel event here.
Supporting carers in the workplace
April
With an estimated 3.7 million working carers in England and Wales, a growing number of people are playing a dual role in balancing their jobs with their caring responsibilities. To help employers create a culture that supports carers in the workplace, we held a ‘Supporting Carers in the Workplace’ webinar which proved popular, having attracted over 300 views. Our speakers included Claire McCartney (CIPD Diversity & Inclusion Advisor) Catherine Wilson (head of employers for carers) and Mary Bright (Special Adviser to the Business Champion for Older Workers).
Launch of Soft Skills in Hard Times
We joined forces with ACAS and the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter to produce an insightful guide -’Soft Skills in Hard Times: the importance of good people management’ - full of resources for line managers to strengthen their people management skills. We followed this up with a collaborative podcast on ‘Why good people management matters’, which explored how employers can help their people achieve a better work-life balance and improve their health and wellbeing. Together, the guide and podcast have attracted close to 900 downloads.
The session sparked some heart-warming discussions around the growing demands on carers and the need for employers to step up their support and is still available to watch here.
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