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SUMMARY:How leadership shapes attraction and retention
DESCRIPTION:Attracting and retaining great people has never been more challenging or more critical. In this session\, Ian Harrison brings a powerful and practical perspective on how leadership behaviour\, self-awareness\, and authenticity shape the experience people have at work. \nDrawing on over a decade of experience as a coach\, author\, and business partner to leaders across the UK\, Ian explores what it really takes to create workplaces where people feel valued\, connected\, and able to perform at their best. His approach is grounded in real-world insight\, helping leaders move beyond theory to create meaningful\, lasting impact. \nAt the heart of this session is Ian’s work and his book\, Turning Up: Taking Your SELF to Work. In a world where many feel unseen\, disconnected\, or under pressure to be someone they’re not\, Ian challenges conventional thinking around authenticity and performance. He offers a practical and compassionate roadmap to help leaders and their teams show up as their true selves\, unlocking potential\, strengthening connection\, and building healthier\, more effective organisations. \nIan will also be bringing copies of Turning Up: Taking Your SELF to Work along with him on the day\, giving attendees the opportunity to explore his ideas further and continue the conversation beyond the session. \nComplementing Ian’s leadership insights\, Tina Chander from Weightmans will bring a practical legal perspective\, highlighting key considerations and potential risks leaders should be aware of when recruiting and retaining talent. This will help ensure organisations are not only creating engaging workplaces\, but are also taking a proactive and informed approach to their people decisions. \nYou’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how your leadership influences culture\, performance\, and retention\, along with practical steps to strengthen it. \nWhat Will Be Covered\n• How leadership shapes attraction\, engagement\, and retention\n• The role of self-awareness in effective leadership\n• What it means to “turn up” authentically at work\n• Removing barriers to individual and team performance\n• Creating cultures where people feel seen\, safe\, and significant\n• Building stronger connection and belonging within teams \nKey Takeaways\n• A clearer understanding of your impact as a leader\n• Practical ways to strengthen team engagement and belonging\n• Tools to help individuals perform at their best\n• Insight into creating healthier\, more authentic workplace cultures\n• Confidence to lead in a way that attracts and retains great people \nThis session will leave you thinking differently about leadership and equipped with practical ideas you can apply immediately within your organisation.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/how-leadership-shapes-attraction-and-retention/
LOCATION:Birmingham
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SUMMARY:Recruit for the business you’re building A practical session on hiring\, developing and keeping the team you’ll need in three years
DESCRIPTION:Most MDs hire for the gap in front of them. A role opens\, someone leaves\, a team is stretched\, so they hire for what is missing right now. But the businesses pulling ahead are thinking differently; they are making deliberate decisions about the kind of organisation they are becoming\, and building their teams accordingly. \nIn this interactive session\, People Puzzles Founder and Co MD Ally Maughan challenges you to think about recruitment not as an operational task\, but as a strategic one. Because the people who will drive your business forward in three years might look very different from the people you are hiring today. \n\nWhy attend?\nIf you have a growth plan but have not thought seriously about whether (or how) your people strategy can keep pace with it\, this session is for you. You will leave with a clearer picture of the workforce your business actually needs\, practical tools to close the gap\, and a sharper sense of how to hire for potential\, not just track record. It is a session for MDs who are thinking about the next phase of growth – not just the next hire. \nThis workshop is led by at Ally Maughan Founder and Co MD at People Puzzles \nHelping ambitious growing businesses unlock their potential through commercially focused\, part-time People Directors. \nSince founding the business in 2010\, Ally has grown People Puzzles into a team of 90 people supporting organisations across the UK. Passionate about the link between great people\, strong leadership and business success\, Ally shares practical insights on building high-performing teams and creating healthy\, successful organisations. \nLinkedIn \nWhat will be covered?\nUsing proven approaches and frameworks\, Ally will guide the group through the strategic thinking that sits behind great hiring decisions. Expect honest conversation about where most businesses go wrong\, practical tools for understanding the gap between where your team is now and where your business needs to go\, and a fresh perspective on what to look for when you are hiring for the long game rather than the immediate fix. \nThe session is deliberately interactive. Ally will draw on real experience with scaling businesses to make the content feel relevant to the room\, not generic. Come ready to think\, to share\, and to leave with something you can actually use. \nTakeaways\nWhat you will take away \nA clearer sense of where your people strategy is strong\, where it has gaps\, and what to do next. Ally will share practical tools you can take straight back into your business\, alongside the kind of thinking that tends to shift how leaders approach hiring for good.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/recruiting-workshop-september-2026/
LOCATION:Birmingham
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