Positive HR Forum

As we look ahead to our 2025 forums, we need your input to help us make them truly valuable. What topics would you like to see covered? We’re looking for suggestions aligned with the forum's focus on employee wellbeing and engagement. We would also welcome topic ideas related to supporting HR leaders. Whether it’s new approaches to boosting engagement, strategies for enhancing wellbeing, or even personal development topics like overcoming overwhelm, we’d love to hear your thoughts. 📣 Drop your topic suggestions or speaker recommendations in the comments below. #HRLeaders #EmployeeWellbeing #Engagement #2025Forum #LeadershipDevelopment #HRCommunity #2025Planning

We're excited to share this month’s Positive HR Directory Spotlight is Corinne Christou from WPA Healthcare Practice PLC. Corinne operates the local office for WPA, a ‘not-for-profit’ specialist UK insurer. WPA are the only health insurer who are recommended by Which? With a heritage of over 120 years. WPA offer private medical insurance, health cash plans, dental insurance, remote GP appointments and employee assistance programmes that include a free Human Resources Toolkit courtesy of Health Hero. Corinne can review existing benefit schemes or help businesses investigate options when they are considering setting up employee benefits. Her advice is free and non-obligatory; she has 13 year’s industry experience and is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute pledging to always offer the best advice. If you would like to learn more about how WPA can support your staff, reach out to our wonderful Positive HR contact Corinne Christou. Remember that you can find out more about all our Positive HR Directory members on our website, linked below: https://lnkd.in/eWBEiwF5 #positivehrforum #businessspotlight #forum #hrleaders #hrprofessionals #hr #employeeheath #healthcare

We're excited to welcome Stephen Watson FCIPD as our guest speaker at the upcoming forum, where we'll be discussing HR's Voice in the Boardroom. Stephen brings extensive experience in change management, organisational design, leadership and talent development, having led large-scale change programmes in his previous businesses. Most recently, as Exec Director of People at a private equity business leading his organisations' people agenda and winning a number of people awards at the same time as increasing the organisations engagement score by over 40%. Having recently completed his master's degree in strategic HRM allowing him to become a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Stephen regularly supports and participates in developing and growing the next set of HR leaders through mentoring and coaching. Stephen is offering a free coaching session to all attendees of November's forum! We're looking forward to seeing you for this insightful and engaging session. If you would like to join us we have a handful of places remaining - Book your spot today! https://lnkd.in/eE_Bs9tw #PositiveHRForum #Events #HRLeadership #Boardroom #HRInsights #PeopleStrategy #HRProfessionals #HRCoaching

We only have a handful of places left for our November forum exploring HR’s Voice in the Boardroom. If you would like to join us book your spot today! https://lnkd.in/ejqCJgwt #PositiveHRForum #Events #HRLeadership #Boardroom #HRInsights #PeopleStrategy

This month’s Positive HR Directory Spotlight is the Wonderful Helen Dos Santos NLPMP MPSA of Horizons Coaching! Horizons Coaching offers support to staff suffering with any emotional or mental health problems. They offer a FREE consultation and on average see clients for 3 appointments. Fun, interactive Bite Size Workshops are available to build the emotional & mental resilience of your staff, preventing presenteeism and reducing or preventing sickness absence & associated costs. In addition, Everything DiSC profiling and training is also offered to assist in greater team communications to reduce stress and frustration when conversations go wrong. If you'd like to learn more about how Horizons Coaching can support your staff and increase well-being in the workplace, reach out to our wonderful Positive HR contact Helen Dos Santos NLPMP MPSA. Remember that you can find out more about all our Positive HR Directory members on our website, linked below: https://lnkd.in/emb6y6Ah #positivehrforum #forum #hrleaders #hrprofessionals #hr #hrwellbeing

📢 Announcing our next Forum! 📢 A big thank you again to everyone who joined us at Port Vale Football Club last week for our fascinating session exploring the world of AI with Benedict McManus. A session which I'm sure still has you thinking! It’s now time to announce our final forum of the year! On the 14th November our session will focus on HR's Voice in the Boardroom. During this session we will be exploring strategies for amplifying HR’s voice in the boardroom, ensuring that people-focused insights shape key organisational decisions. As always, we’re back at the fantastic Port Vale Football Club for the meeting, and we hope to see you there. Tickets for our forums always sell out ahead of the event, so be sure to book your place whilst we have spaces available! https://lnkd.in/ejqCJgwt #PositiveHRForum #Events #HRLeadership #Boardroom #HRInsights #PeopleStrategy

It was so good to be back with our fabulous HR Community at the Positive HR Forum yesterday. 😍 Thank you to Benedict McManus for a truly interesting and engaging session exploring the world of AI. Ben talked through the different AI tools out there and how these can be used to benefit our roles and lives. We also looked at the fast advancing AI technologies and how these will change our way of working in the future. It is fascinating and exciting to think about how these technology advances will reshape the world of HR - hopefully freeing is up from policies and processes to enable us to focus on the positive elements of people leadership which make a real difference to our teams. Thank you to everyone who came along and the committee members who supported this session. #hr #ai ##hrfuture

We hope everyone had a fantastic summer, filled with sunshine and memorable moments! September has the familiar feeling of "back to school," bringing with it a "back to work" mindset. Whether it’s tackling new projects, setting fresh goals, or reenergising your team. This time of year feels like a reset, do you agree? It’s now also only a couple of days until we meet again at the next HR Forum. We’ll be joined by speaker, Ben McManus, the Founding Director of Wavemaker Stoke (the leading digital transformation company in Staffordshire), who is going to help us to explore the fascinating world of AI and the positive impact this will have on our businesses, and the role of HR. Ben believes that AI will completely revolutionise how we work, play, and connect and will be sharing with us insights on how it will reshape industries and enhance our daily lives. It's going to be an informative session with lots of takeaways, we look forward to seeing you there! #PositiveHR #HRForum #HRLeaders #HRProfessionals

Our Positive HR Directory Spotlight this month is on....Acorn Occupational Health Ltd. Founded in 2005, Acorn has been providing occupational health services to a wide range of businesses throughout the UK. Acorn supports the safety and overall well-being of employees by offering a wide range of mental and physical health assessments to help employees remain happy, healthy and productive whilst at work. They can help to identify potential risks in your business and provide you with solutions to protect employees from work-related ill health. They are very proud to be SEQOHS & RISQS registered and offer the full range of Occupational Health services. These include: Sickness absence Mental health & wellbeing Health surveillance PTS Rail Track medicals Health Needs assessments Ergonomic Assessments Occupational therapy Vocational rehabilitation Drug & alcohol screening Counselling & physiotherapy referrals Resilience Training Manual Handling training If you'd like to learn more about how Acorn can support your organisation or if you have any questions, reach out to our wonderful Positive HR contact Hayley Rhodes. And remember that you can find out more about all our Positive HR Directory members on our website, linked below: https://lnkd.in/emb6y6Ah

In addition to having a fabulous guest speaker lined up for our next in-person forum meeting, we are delighted to offer all September forum attendees the opportunity to join a bonus online session which will be hosted by another great speaker, Carolyn Shepherd. This exclusive session (which will be held online on the 18th September) will focus specifically on AI for HR. Carolyn is a qualified Barrister and HR professional with a strong background in HR and employment law. She has served as a Head of People and Transformation Project Lead, combining legal expertise, strategic people management, and leading-edge knowledge of generative AI to drive transformative change. Carolyn is passionate about helping individuals and businesses navigate the AI era, fostering innovation and sustainable growth. Her approach begins by taking HR leaders on a journey with an engaging 45-minute introduction, exploring the transformative possibilities that AI offers them, and setting the stage for a future-ready approach to people management. #positivehrforum #forum #events #hr #AI #hrleaders #hrprofessionals