Pause for leadership

Keith Hatter
As I’ve written many times over recent years, one of the privileges of doing this job is that I get to sit down and chat with leaders from different businesses, in different sectors and with different challenges and opportunities ahead of them. There’s nothing new there. As an inevitable part…
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Health and wellbeing at work

sam
We’ve all heard the stats. Poor wellbeing is costing the economy billions each year and millions of work days are being lost due to mental health problems. Health and wellbeing isn’t about stats. It’s about people. And unless there is a firm foundation of good health and wellbeing - sustainable &…
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Collaboration culture helps bring transparency to advertising

Chris Shambrook
Bountiful Cow co-founder Henry Daglish shares the journey of founding a fully-transparent challenger media agency. Learn about what they're working on with us at PlanetK2 to ensure everyone at Bountiful Cow are performing at their optimum and the impact its having. The beginning From the moment we set up Bountiful…
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Introducing Helen Glover MBE – our newest PlanetK2 ambassador

Chris Shambrook
We’re delighted and excited to announce our newest PlanetK2 ambassador – Helen Glover MBE. As a professional rower and a member of the Great Britain rowing team, Helen is a truly inspiring high performer from the elite sport arena. Helen is ranked the number one female rower in the world…
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Highlights from PerformanceFest Lounge 2018

Katy Jo Stanton
What do an acclaimed actor, a bomb disposal expert, two globally successful musicians and an outstanding emergency medicine consultant have in common?  When it comes to high performance, we discovered its quite a lot! If you’ve been following us on social media, you might have seen excited coverage of our…
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Team LifeReady – Aids Lifecycle

Chris Shambrook
In our quest to share our human performance expertise and do some good in the world where we can, this year we're supporting Team LifeReady, sponsoring and coaching the team as they prepare for Aids LifeCycle 2018 - our very own Keith Hatter is even off to be their roadie…
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The sideways route to success!

Chris Shambrook
Chris Voller, formerly AXA Insurance UK Claims Director and a PlanetK2 Hall of Famer. He’s always been committed to helping his people grow. People don’t normally associate ‘sideways moves’ with success. It’s usually seen more as an interruption on the pathway to greater things. Sometimes a sideways move might even…
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All present? Presenteeism in the workplace

Chris Shambrook
We were reading about presenteeism in the workplace this week. Presenteeism, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, is showing up for work without being productive, usually because you’re poorly or unfit to work in some way. Apparently it’s now viewed as more widespread and problematic by businesses than absenteeism. It’s an…
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Making high performance part of your business culture

Chris Shambrook
Jo Webb is an independent HR consultant who specialises in supporting businesses through culture change. Jo was formerly European HR Director at The Marketing Store where she led their high performance culture change programme. We had the privilege of working with Jo on this project, and for us, she’s someone…
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Festive survival tips

Matt Barker
Sing along with me please… “I wish it could be Christmas Everyday…” Blimey. Really? Every day? Imagine it… We’d all be enormous! Excessive food, too much to drink, not enough sleep... all a bit tough for people who are keen to keep performing well through December and into the new…
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