Webinar: Helping Your Managers Navigate the New World of Work
- Written by Beth Halliday
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This session is for People & Culture Leaders, HR Business Partners, People Managers, Team Leaders, and L&D or Employee Experience Professionals who want to understand the latest shifts shaping the workplace—and how to support managers in driving engagement and connection. Join Hive’s Head of People Science, Jen Southern FCIPD, and Connection Heroes Founder, Di Gates, for practical insights and proven strategies.
In this video, you’ll find:
- Introductions (00.07)
- What has changed? (02:34)
- Why has the workplace changed? (06:24)
- The impact on your managers (11:18)
- Connection blockers (19:05)
- Ways to respond (27:49)
- Listen and act (28:28)
- Connection skills (37:05)
- Team rituals (45:46)
Want even more?
This guide helps you get clear on why you’re listening in the first place. It’s a starting point for setting real goals, like cutting turnover or boosting inclusion, and making sure feedback leads to action that counts. No fluff, just a practical way to turn listening into impact.
Your hosts:
Jen Southern – Head of People Science at Hive HR
Jen leads a team of specialists who partner with clients to turn insights into action, improving engagement, experience, and culture at scale. Drawing on her background as a Business Psychologist, Jen brings rich insight into what drives employee voice, what gets in the way, and how leaders can create real, lasting change by listening better.
Di Gates – founder of Connection Heroes
Connection Heroes is an innovative training provider that helps organisations strengthen human connection and improve communication and collaboration across distributed teams. Through her work, Di gathers rich insights about how human connection impacts people and profit, what blocks connection in our fast-changing workplace, and how leaders can improve connection to create happy, healthy high-performing teams.
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