The Study of Enterprise Agility Community: Global Enterprise Agility Month — People Week

Most people accept Climate change is real and threatens the future of us all.

Most people do not realise how their use of technology both socially and in the workplace are responsible for an increasingly significant volume of the worlds Co2 emissions.

In this talk, Barry Chandler (SEACOM lead) be drawing light on how our tech habits and working practices impact climate change and discuss what we can do now to reduce costs, improve our overall agility and bring us back from the brink of Techstinction.

You’re a PHP ninja. You’re a React god. You’re a magician with Sketch. But if your code is assembling HTML to get delivered to a user’s browser, how much do you know about HTML’s semantics? Choosing the correct HTML elements rather than vomiting a "div" or belching out a "span" can greatly enhance the end user’s experience, with no fragile extra code to write and maintain.

Bruce Lawson, one of the co-editors of the HTML5.3 spec will take you on a magical treasure hunt around HTML, showing you marvellous gifts and hidden wonders that will also help future-proof your code and turn you into a time-travelling front-end superhero, adored by millions*.

In the UK, mental ill-health is the leading cause of sickness absence, costing employers approximately £2.4 billion each year with 70 million workdays lost. Despite this crisis, mental health and wellbeing programmes in the workplace are often determined by anecdotal evidence rather than research, and are dependent on each individual company’s commitment to their staff.

At this crucial time in the lives of the UK’s workforce, where the disruption of the pandemic has thrown many working practices into flux, it’s now more than ever that we need robust, research-led programmes and interventions to identify the key elements of mentally healthy workplaces in order to build back stronger for the future.

Lea Milligan, CEO of MQ: Mental Health Research, the UK’s leading mental health research charity, joins us to talk about MQ’s innovative new Workplace Mental Health Research Programme. He’ll talk about the launch of MQ’s Workplace Mental Health Challenge Fund and share how the programme hopes to both guide employers on how to most effectively track and monitor the mental health of their workforce, as well as identify key factors that businesses should put in place to create working environments that enable staff to thrive.

“The humid air enveloped them, while they laid on their backs staring up at the blanket of stars.” As you read that, what was your reaction? An asthmatic may have instinctively coughed. Another person may have fanned themselves. Maybe you skimmed the sentence altogether, scrolling beyond to find a subject more appealing to you than this narrative. In any case, your brain went into motion, in a different way than what you might have originally expected.

With the many avenues of communication, it is difficult to engage the audience. In this case, the audience is our co-workers and our leadership. Competing lines of communication, an overload of data, and the commitment to deliver work get in the way of innovation and productivity. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to pause for a moment to be transformed to a place to gain a better understanding of the purpose? In this talk, we will discuss the importance of storytelling and how you can use it to help shift the lens on culture. Afterwards, you will:

• Understand how a great story can transform culture
• Craft an engaging narrative to communicate strategy
• Deliver information through stories