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Making Work Work

Posted on 31st January 202027th May 2020 by Trevor

To kick off a new decade we asked our youngest team member to write about what he thinks is needed for work to be meaningful and worthwhile for his generation. So this is written by Peter Millard, who is 19 and studying History at UCL and provides IT, social media and linguistic skills to Halo. (more…)
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Twenty Five Years

Posted on 10th October 201927th May 2020 by Trevor

Running a research business has allowed us to be given privileged access inside numerous organisations to look at how they work, where they can improve and to see what really works. (more…)
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How to make 2019 work for you

Posted on 11th January 201911th October 2019 by Trevor

Being a researcher gives privileged access to thinking, ideas and wisdom which each year we piece together to suggest the trends for the coming year. In the last year we have seen some scrappy business and public decisions overshadow the extremely good work being done and 2019 is the year where this good work needs to shine. (more…)
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Focus on the Why and the How will take care of itself

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Trevor

I remember when we were starting twenty five years ago, what is now Halo, we spent forever working out how we were going to do things, but very little thinking about why we were giving up our jobs to start out on our own. (more…)
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Measuring the Corporate Genome

Posted on 5th July 2017 by Trevor

I regularly run workshops around designing, refining and understanding measures. Through these, I meet organisations which encompass the whole spectrum; ranging from those which are strongly values led, they tend to drive a positive culture, to organisations that are more scattered, trying to meet numerous targets, often with variable success. These differences demonstrate how vital it i...
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How to Make Happiness a Team Sport

Posted on 23rd September 2015 by Trevor

We have never been exponents of the smiley face versions of questionnaires but we are interested in understanding human emotions and with happiness being a primary emotion, we wanted to investigate how to design that in to organisations. We think we know how and it is easier than one might think. (more…)
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Chasing, Pacing, Leading – You Choose

Posted on 15th May 201513th June 2015 by Craig

Our work is really all about people. We specialise in people because they are the ones who make stuff work or not. There is plenty of material about leadership, all good, but this might not the best position for every person. So this piece is about all of the three positions mentioned in the title. (more…)
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Satisfaction, does it really matter?

Posted on 10th April 201513th June 2015 by Craig

Twelve years ago this year, I hung up my customer satisfaction boots and set out to find out the answer to what actually made a difference for customers. I wanted to see if I could find something which would help businesses make better profits and for those not in the profit sector, operate more efficiently. (more…)
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