Welcome to your daily HRD Connect update.

When do you work best? Work habits of famous writers (and great employees)

What do Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut and Maya Angelou have in common with your employees?

They all have their own unique ways of working that enable them to be at their most productive.

Find out what the work habits of the most successful writers can teach you about the potential of your workforce, with Kerri Hollis, Modern Communications Product Manager, Microsoft.

Read more here.

Stress Awareness Month – taking stress out of the workplace

April is Stress Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the root causes and serious effects of stress, and how we can tackle stress within our organisations and as a wider society.

Jeanette Wheeler, HR Director, MHR, has been taking a look at what makes us stressed and how HR teams can effectively engage their employees to help them relieve stress and become more relaxed and productive workers.

Read more here.

The People Leadership Survey 2019

What does leadership mean to you? Are the qualities we traditionally associate with leadership outdated and in need of radical revision?

Share your views on leadership with us by taking part in the HRD People Leadership Survey 2019.

Subscribe to the HRD Live Podcast on iTunes!

We’re thrilled to announce that the hugely popular HRD Live Podcast is now available on iTunes!

You can find all our previous conversations with the likes of Dave Ulrich, Becky Thoseby and Josh Bersin, with more to come very soon.

Click here to listen and subscribe.

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