Join us on Wednesday April 29th at 11am for an exclusive webinar brought to you by wellness expert Lorna Dunning.This Mindfulness and Stress Management Webinar is designed to inspire, motivate and will provide practical tools to help you feel calm, confident when concerns can include:• Scared about their health and the health of their loved ones • Uncertain about their…
read moreBy Paul Stark, UK Director, PassagewaysWith countries around the globe finding themselves in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of UK businesses have had to relocate to the safety of their employees’ homes to conduct their operations remotely. For some companies, it continues to be business as usual, however boards are coming under increasing pressure to ensure their…
read moreHR software provider for SMEs Breathe has revealed the cost of bad company culture: a staggering £15.7 billion per year.The report, ‘The Culture Economy 2020’, revealed that one in five (21%) of SME employees quit their job due to poor workplace culture. It also found that 33% of SME decision makers experienced or witnessed workplace bullying in the past year.…
read moreEarlier this month we gave PA Life readers the chance to win one of our course bundles free for a year – and we’re excited to reveal the winner.This bundle of 100+ courses would normally cost £890 if you bought the modules individually, with the courses covering all areas of Administration, Business, Technology, HR, Health & Safety, Personal Development and Teams &…
read morePA Life has teamed up with leading online learning specialist New Skills Academy to help you upskill throughout the lockdown via a high value, low cost courses bundle.Available via the PA Life website and specially curated by an expert team, there are more than 100 courses available to help develop your career – and yourself.And the list covers those areas…
read moreWe’ve teamed up with life coach Faye Kilgour to offer you some top tips for looking after your physical and mental wellbeing during this coronavirus lockdown.Faye, also known as The ‘What If’ Coach, is on a mission to support individuals and groups to go from feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, to feeling inspired and ready to indulge in the ‘what if…’…
read moreBy Denisse Diaz, Marketing Director for London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) and London Academy of Trading (LAT).With the current state of COVID-19 and the recent announcement from the UK government – advising businesses to adopt a work from home policy if possible – many companies in the UK followed suit, to ensure their workforce is safe.In the end, without people, there…
read moreWorking from home due to coronavirus? Thanks to PA Life’s collaboration with leading online learning specialist New Skills Academy, readers are able to upskill throughout the lockdown via a high value, low cost bundle.Available via the PA Life website and specially curated by an expert team, there are more than 100 courses available to help develop your career – and…
read moreWe asked Hira Ali, author of Her Way To The Top: A Guide To Smashing The Glass Ceiling, to explain more about presenteeism amidst the coronavirus outbreak…Why do some people suffer from presenteeism more than others?Being absent or working from home is traditionally associated with laziness. There is also a long standing office culture where the expectation is to not…
read moreRADA Business, the commercial arm of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, is relaunching one of its flagship presentation skills courses, Storytelling for Business. The organisation will be providing an extended version of one of its longest running and popular courses in London with immediate effect. RADA Business says telling stories is an essential way that we connect with each other, helping us…
read moreSearcys has bolstered its leadership team as it prepares for 2020 with a focus on upskilling staff and promoting internally via its School of Service initiative.Specifically, as part of its ongoing hospitality strategy, the company has sought to strengthen its meetings and events business, which it says experienced significant growth over 2018 and 2019.As such, it has appointed Allan Heard…
read moreNew research from recruitment specialist Hays has highlighted a big skills gap for employers looking to recruit PAs & EAs – PA Life’s Online Courses will ensure you’re fully equipped…Did you know that skills shortages are still rife for employers of PAs and EAs? According to new research by recruitment specialist Hays, more than four in five companies (86 per…
read moreBy Nicole Alvino, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Office, SocialChorusThe battle against “fake news” in the workplace will come to a headIn 2019, we saw the proliferation of “fake news” spill out of the political sphere and make its way into organisations. Companies are now battling new frontiers we’ve never seen before – from the fight against deepfakes, to “digital water coolers”…
read moreBy Pete Jones, Founder, The Soul CampThis season we worked with one of our lovely regular customers Penna, for their annual Staff Conference at our new Strawberry Fields Campsite. For team building, we created a smorgasbord of Wellbeing and Corporate Social Responsibility activities.So now, as well as our traditional Wellbeing activities like Tai Chi and Yoga, we also offer exciting activities…
read moreNew research from online bank Starling reveals that the gender pay gap is present in 2019 across all but one industry – skilled agricultural workers, such as senior farmers and landscape designers.But PAs and secretarial roles have a slimmer pay gap, the research shows.The remaining 25 industries analysed revealed men to be consistently occupying more of the higher paid jobs within…
read moreFor a limited period only, we are offering you a 20% off our Ultimate VIP membership to the PA Life Club.That means you’ll pay only £71.20 for a full year’s membership, which will give you: Invitations to FAM trips Networking events Competitions Discounts Special Offers Huge savings on e-learning courses Access to members online groups A subscription to PA Life magazine Free venue finding services…
read moreIBTM World 2019 closed on November 21st with over 74,000 pre-scheduled business meetings having taken place and a 3% increase in the number of visitors attending the three-day event. 62% of Hosted Buyers participated in IBTM World for the first time this year and 51% of them were completely new to the entire IBTM portfolio.Over 2,600 exhibitors from 150 countries attended, including over double the number of…
read moreThe PA Life Online Courses already offer unrivalled value for money – providing 100 individual courses for just £99.And from now until Friday November 29th, PA Life Club members can buy the course for just £75!Simply enter the code PACEBF19 when you check out.The courses cover everything you’ll need to drive your career forward, with subjects including:Conflict In The WorkplaceData…
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