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Today, more and more companies are coming to see employee wellbeing as being essential to their long-term strategy. A happier and healthier workplace makes for a more productive...

by Molly Thomas 299 days ago I did my final Level 3 exams. Who knew at the age of 18, with my family living over 1,000 miles away, training my replacement, starting a new role and...

As we get towards the end of January, I sit here reflecting on the first month in my new role of MD here at PDW Group and I have got to say I am pleasantly surprised. After the...

Remote Coaching & How to Bring Out Your Best Thinking Have you ever had the experience of a remote coaching session? There have actually been few studies conducted around remote...

"John, I have some feedback for you." "I want to have a conversation about your performance." You can imagine the sense of dread you would feel hearing this. You're immediately...

Whenever I work with leaders, even those who are more self aware, when unpicking their organisations they inevitably begin grumbling about the quality of their middle management...

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford When I was a child, from the age of about seven upwards, I was the fastest runner in my year, and often...

Employee engagement is a term used in organisations as both a people measure and an ideal outcome. Employee engagement is a psychological state in both individuals and the...

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood” - Dr Stephen Covey Though there are problems in terms of sheer scale when leading a large team, sometimes leading a smaller one...

At PDW Group, we love helping young people get a foot into the world of work; the skills and principles we teach are as relevant to them as it is to the delegates who come through...

HR software, sometimes referred to as Human Resources Information Software (or HRIS for short), is usually a web based application that allows users to access key information...

NPS, or the ‘Net Promoter Score’ is a globally recognised metric that measures (most often) customer satisfaction or ‘advocacy’. NPS is an output measure used by thousands of...

It’s Monday morning and the difficult conversation about your team’s performance that you should have had last week is still sitting on yours to-do list from Friday. Managing...

By Molly Thomas Four years ago, in March 2015, I was in year 10, and was part of like all the students in my year the mock interviews that took place at our school Carlton Le...