Culture

The last Friday before Christmas Day, known as Black Friday or Mad Friday, is traditionally one of the most popular days for the office Christmas party. This year it falls on Friday 18 December – just a week before the big day. This year in particular, after a bit of ‘blip’ we are all looking forward to celebrating the festive season.  Those of us based in Guernsey are extremely lucky…

In addition to my role at Leapfrog, I am proud to be the Sponsorship Director for Guernsey Raiders. Which in basic terms means I sit on the executive committee of the club. My primary responsibility is to not only bring new commercial sponsors into the club, but also to manage ongoing relationships with our current sponsors, as well as ensuring the agreements we have already struck are still…

Building back better following the Covid-19 pandemic is the hot topic right now, and quite rightly so. I guess the first thing to consider is whether we really are in a post Covid-19 place yet, or whether we are still en route. As all islanders are aware, Guernsey is fortunate to have had a long period of time with no active cases (as of time of writing this) so you…

Not sure about anyone else, but I really needed the long weekend to just ‘try’ and forget about everything going on locally and globally. We walked every day as a family, exploring the area around where we live. I ran with my 6 year old, who is now faster than me, and we spent huge amount of time together, at home remembering what is really important to us. The time over the weekend made me…

Covid19 means different things to all of us. For me, at the moment it means juggling my home life and my work life at the same time, which isn’t wholly new for me but what is new, is that it’s all from the same venue. Having an active 6 year old who needs to home-schooled at the same time as working full time isn’t something I would have ever thought I would be doing on a daily basis. (Huge…

We have all been discussing our working from home routines in our daily work catch up and how we all differ to keep productive.  Well, here's mine: Well, life doesn’t half throw us some curve balls does it? This month I had a holiday planned and later in the month it is my birthday, but sometimes you have to stop and take a minute to be grateful for the small things in life. Thankful that…

If pondering what to do with all your days in lockdown – how about turning that time into a positive and upskilling? There are plenty of free, online courses (digital marketing anyone?) which not only look great on your CV (shows initiative and a proactive mind-set), but also help you get absorbed in a subject you actually like. This would be a benefit to your mental health (keeping…

Our HR and Payroll Services Manager, Vicki Eppelein has looked at how outsourcing allows businesses to focus more on business growth and how, in the long-term, many can even save money. Business growth presents its own challenges, albeit welcome ones. One challenge is staying focused on maximising business growth, while still maintaining existing business activities such as HR, tax returns…

You’ll have heard it a million times already “this is like nothing we have ever seen before”. This is of course true and the impact on people’s lives from a health and economic point of view for the most part, are still to be understood.  As a local business owner and someone who has concerns over Health, both over here and in the UK where my family are, I am very positive that the…

We had the pleasure of helping sponsor the DisruptHR Guernsey event (March 03,2020). Disrupt HR is an event where 14 speakers are allowed 5 minutes each, with slide rotations every 15 seconds, to teach us something and quick–  reminiscent  of HR speed dating!  A week down the line and there are quite a few of the topics still being discussed around the office. All speakers were…