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Find your perfect corporate gift at PA Life’s next Masterclass

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Are you looking to find the perfect corporate gift this festive season? Look no further as PA Life will bring together a luxury brand showcase during its upcoming Masterclass. The third Masterclass of 2018 will take place at JJ Media Group’s Perseverance Works on October 17, and will boast a revised format to include a […]

Tried & tasted: Statement restaurants

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Finding a stand-out restaurant among a sea of venues in the city can be a tricky task. To help, we’ve highlighted four statement restaurants that boast exceptional interior and design elements to make guests’ jaws drop. HIDE Piccadilly, London 0203 146 8666, 85piccadilly.co.uk Three floors make up the recently opened Hide, which includes two restaurants […]

PA Life Club: Experience a night at the luxurious Luton Hoo

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Located a short five-minute ride from Luton Airport, the luxurious hotel has hosted everyone from businessmen to royalty and is now offering PA Life Club members a chance to enjoy its famous dining experience and stay at the picturesque hotel. On November 1, PA Life Club members will be given an exclusive opportunity to stay […]

Celebrate Christmas at Indian Accent

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Take a break from turkey this season and celebrate Christmas at the critically acclaimed Indian Accent in Mayfair. Following its success in Delhi and New York, ‘India’s best restaurant’ landed in London at the beginning of the year and is set to be the place to be seen this Christmas. The elegant restaurant is spread over […]

Take your Christmas party to new heights

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Light up Christmas at Skylight A party up at Skylight really is the ‘icing’ on the Christmas cake. If you want to treat your team to something a little different this festive season, head up to Skylight, London’s largest rooftop bar, situated above the iconic Tobacco Dock. Available for both shared and exclusive hire, it’s […]

Checking in: Stanbrook Abbey

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What once was a monastery for over 150 years, now sits an extraordinary country house hotel with buckets of history and character. I’m talking about Hand Picked Hotels’ Stanbrook Abbey, a Grade II listed building that still features its original architecture, dating back to the early 16th century. From the Gothic stained-glass windows to the authentic […]

How using your brain can make your meetings more effective

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The ‘Four Cs’ model can help leaders host more effective meetings where all the brains in the business are engaged according to Kate Lanz, psychologist, leadership coach and CEO of Mindbridge. Many of the best brains in the business spend much of their days in meetings. So it’s important to create a brain-friendly meeting environment […]

Dyslexia at work: The challenges and solutions

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Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) such as Dyslexia and Dyscalculia are not uncommon among adults, including those within the PA world. Jade Burke speaks to some industry members and PA Life readers with and without an SpLD to gauge their thoughts on how the workplace should adapt to support anyone affected. Do you have dyslexia or […]

Top stories of the week

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As we continue to keep you informed on what’s happening in the events world and keep up to date, don’t forget to check us out on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. PA Life joins forces with Arctic Fox Events, the new venue finding and event management firm With over 20 years’ experience. the company strives to work with clients to […]

Penelope Alice visits the elusive London venue, Toy Room

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This week PA Life Club members got to visit the exclusive underground London venue, Toy Room. Based within the vaults of the London Palladium, the Toy Room main doors are hidden on Argyll Street, less than a minutes’ walk from Oxford Circus tube station. Upon arrival, I walked down the stairs, greeted by the Toy […]

How not to be a horrible boss

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Believe it or not, most bosses don’t want to come across negatively to their staff, however being the boss means that you end up coming across as a bit of scrooge office figure. Alex Moyle, author of ‘Business development culture – taking sales culture beyond the sales team’, offers some help and advice about how […]

Do working parents lose out?

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UK businesses need to do more to help working parents balance their professional lives and family commitments without making staff feel unfairly judged, stressed and anxious. A major new survey of 1,400 working parents by CIPHR.com has revealed that 75% of working parents are suffering from stress and anxiety as a result of trying to […]

Employers urged to bridge the skill gap for young employees

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Employers must do more to stop young people missing out on work opportunities due to not having the right skills, Business in the Community (BITC) has said. BITC has found that many people who have been in employment did not learn skills at school that they feel would have been useful in their working lives. Top […]

How much time do you actually spend working over a lifetime?

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Do you feel like you spend more time at work than at home with your family and friends? Well statistically, the hours you spend at the office over a lifetime, may actually confirm this. The average Brit will spend 3,507 full days hard at work during their lifetime – including 204 days of overtime, it […]

What are the worst questions to ask in a job interview

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Right up there with going to the dentist and sitting an exam has to be the great tradition of going for a job interview. Particularly now it’s September, and recent graduates will be gearing up for this. You sit there, being asked probing questions by someone you’ve never met, trying hard to impress them and […]

How to succeed in HR

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HR isn’t an easy job, it’s about learning the rules and making sure people stick to them, this however also involves a degree of human understanding. To be good at the job often means you aren’t always liked but the consequences of being bad at the job can have devastating effects on a company.  Recently published […]

PA Life Club: Win a weekend away to Windsor

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PA Life Club members will get the chance to take part in a weekend FAM trip to the Royal Borough of Windsor next month. Taking place on October 12 to October 14, members will be able to experience all the town has to offer corporate clients, while also visiting various hotels. Courtesy of The Agendo […]

Workplace discrimination effects one in four employees in the UK

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Workplace discrimination has unfortunately been a thing since time began, but with more people than ever speaking out about how they have been discriminated against at work, why are the numbers still so high? Nearly one in four UK employees (23%) have said they have experienced an incident in the past 12 months where they […]