Including stories of kindness within your internal communications has a whole range of benefits to your organisation and the individuals within it. These include: Collecting stories and telling them in ways that achieve outcomes is at the heart of the IC team’s role. That’s what I talked about at the Institute of Internal Comms’ festival, […]
I arrived to set up my stall in the exhibition area for Cath Dixon’s employment law conference, only to discover that the pole connector at the top of my pop-up banner was broken so I couldn’t use it. A week later I mentioned what happened to Mark Summers at the Woodley Business Club. His company
“As I was wandering around Cardiff (lost) I walked past Spawn Point just as a member of staff came out to let a parent who was about to walk in to the shop next door know that their child was in Spawn Point. The parent was super grateful and the assistant was so friendly and
What kind acts have you done this week? There was an error with our Sainsbury’s food delivery and they brought us 2 bunches of bananas instead of one. As I knew we wouldn’t be able to eat them all before they were too ripe, I gave some away to our neighbours. Check out even more
I heard from Caroline who was on a writing retreat in France during the extreme heat. The aircon failed in her room, so one of her fellow writers offered her the spare bed in her own room for the first night whilst the a more permanent solution was found. Extreme weather always leads to an
How do you show yourself kindness? My mental health has been up and down recently so I’ve started knitting, something I used to do years ago, as a way to relax. I even took my knitting with me on the train! Get inspired with more acts of kindness: Young Minds collects messages of support for
“I went into Tescos and I had my suitcase with me. I bought it before Christmas but they forgot to remove the security tag – I’d forgotten about that but when I went in, it set the alarm off. I went to tell the women on the till because I didn’t know what to do,
I applied to be on the Designed to Be Kind rota and their holding response came with a lovely video of their Founder thanking everyone for their passion and vulnerability, and explaining the next steps in their process. The video also had captions to make it accessible. It was such a great demonstration of how
“Dad’s been coming doing my garden weeds for me coz seeing the weeds and mess was rotting my PTSD brain further… And now he’s gonna do the mowing post no mow may coz I had severe bites just after only walking through it.” Let’s hear about the kindness in your family! Get inspired with more
“When I popped into Greggs the other day I heard one of the staff there saying to the others, ‘You’re legends. It’s been a day, you’re all amazing.’ I thought it was so lovely of her to be cheering on her team like that during a stressful day.” What a great example of kind leadership
