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Day 3. Influencing workplace wellbeing in the new normal
Our retail panellists discuss what they are doing to ensure their workplaces are safe and comfortable post-Covid-19 and how we can contribute to this.
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Day 3. Panel: Mental health matters: finding balance
Senior retailers share how they are nailing work–life balance. Learn how they structure their days and what they do to separate work from home.
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Day 3. Mental health: Good stress, bad stress and when to get help
This session, led by an expert on mental health, will talk you through recognising when it’s time to get help and where to go to find it.
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Day 3. retailTRUST welcome and morning meditation
Following a welcome from the retailTRUST, join in with a morning meditation guided by Will Williams of Beeja Meditation to get Wellbeing Wednesday off to a great start.
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Be Inspired: What makes a good leader during a crisis?
Resilience, overcoming obstacles and crisis management were core themes of day two of the Be Inspired virtual conference. RWRC heard from retail and business executives on how they’re navigating challenges in this difficult period and the positives they have taken from it
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Day 2. Panel: Navigating challenging times
Our panellists share first-hand experience of hard times and offer their top tips for making the right decisions at the right time.
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Day 2. Fireside chat with Maria Hatzistefanis: #MotivationMondays… and Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial, explains how to motivate yourself, keep up your momentum and make things happen.
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Be Inspired: How to use your strengths to get results
The Be Inspired virtual conference kicked off today and a key message was that strong management is more crucial than ever. Retail Week delves into one session that explored how understanding the leadership colour wheel can help people maximise their strengths and get the best out of their teams
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Day 1. Panel: Be your colourful self: using your strengths to get results
Retail leaders from across the leadership colour wheel discuss how to get the best out of a varied team.
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Day 1. Charlotte Williams of SevenSix: How to support black people right now and effect real change
Charlotte Williams, influencer and founder of SevenSix agency, shares advice on how to support black people now and going forward, to effect real change.
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Day 1. Opening keynote by Samantha Renke: Rock the boat, it’s time to make waves
Actress and activist Samantha Renke shares her story on dispelling stereotypes, pushing through barriers and challenging perceptions.
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Day 1. Chair opening: Welcome to Be Inspired
Charlotte Hardie, chair of Be Inspired, opens the conference and explains why Be Inspired is a force for change.
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Analysis: Retail must address its shocking race problem
Just 3% of retail’s leaders are BAME. As the Black Lives Matter movement shines a light on racial inequality, is it time for the industry to take a long, hard look at itself?
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Retail 100 exposes lack of BAME industry leaders
RWRC’s annual ranking of the industry’s 100 most influential people has been published and features just one black retail executive. With the Black Lives Matter movement dominating headlines and conversations in boardrooms, Megan Dunsby asks: where are all the BAME leaders in retail?
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Be Inspired: Coca-Cola European Partners’ Catherine Gillespie on leading with inclusion
Ahead of her appearance at RWRC’s Be Inspired virtual conference, Europe’s largest diversity event, HR director Gillespie explains why diversity and inclusion are “mission-critical” for businesses – particularly in the pandemic situation when company culture is more important than ever.
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Be Inspired: What effective communication looks like during a pandemic
With workforces across the UK operating remotely, communication between retail leaders and their teams has become paramount. Retail executives from Farfetch, Pets at Home, John Lewis Partnership, Lucky Saint and Hallett Retail explain how they have been keeping staff informed and engaged during this challenging period.
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Be Inspired: Advice from retail execs on managing stress and mental health
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, RWRC spoke with senior retail leaders from Ocado, John Lewis Partnership, Lucky Saint, Pets at Home and Secret Sales to understand how they embrace ‘good stress’ and deal with ‘bad stress’, and the measures they have taken to stay resilient during the coronavirus crisis.
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Pandemic pastimes: what to watch, listen to and read to keep your head in the game
Before coronavirus, separating work and home was, for the most part, an easy task. Now, for many of us, our living room, kitchen or bedroom has become synonymous with our office, making it harder to switch off.
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Listen: ‘If you are striving for money alone, it is soul-destroying’
Toast chief executive Suzie de Rohan Willner describes how vision and purpose have made her the leader she is today
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Be Inspired: Why self-care is an important leadership skill
Retail chiefs including Lucky Saint’s Emma Heal, Beaverbrooks’ Anna Blackburn and Air & Grace’s Claire Burrows extol the benefits of investing in yourself during this difficult time.