Across Scotland folks of all ages are being urged to join in a year-long celebration of the nation’s young people.
The Year of Young People 2018 aims to give everyone aged 8 to 26 a stronger voice on issues that impact their daily lives.
Informing the many events and campaigns are six core themes – and these will certainly chime with any HR professional.
This is because they’re also an integral part of your mission to ensure employees are empowered in every facet of their working lives.
Let’s take a closer look at the themes and see how they can help employees, whatever their age.
Culture
Although this theme is aimed at celebrating young people’s involvement in the arts, culture in the workplace is also worth promoting. An HR Manager can work with colleagues to shape their shared environment, as well as promote the company’s mission, values and goals.
Education
Learning is important at all stages in life – even Granny Ina is taking a course in advanced phrenology. In the workplace, too, acquiring new skills can help improve levels of proficiency in current roles but also boost opportunities for personal development and promotion.
Enterprise and regeneration
Helping a business thrive in a sustainable way is easier when the HR team encourages eco-friendly entrepreneurship. We don’t mean selling homegrown turnips from the store cupboard. When was the last time you asked your colleagues to offer up ideas to make operations greener and the workplace more pleasant?
Equality and discrimination
It goes without saying HR is integral in helping challenge any and all forms of prejudice and discrimination. While we’re getting much better at recognising and overcoming issues, it helps the cause when everyone is involved in regular awareness campaigns.
Health and wellbeing
Leading healthy, active lives shouldn’t stop the moment we arrive at work. In fact, our resilience is often tested in the workplace. HR assistants and managers should do everything possible to promote health and wellbeing, such as providing flexible working set-ups and education programmes to remove stigmas around conditions.
Participation
Employees who don’t feel they’re fully engaged in their work tend to have lower morale – and lower productivity. As well as eternally popular team-building away days (no, really, who doesn’t like tandem sky-dives?), sharing information by email or on the noticeboard – such as an employee’s charity fundraising campaign – can help motivate participation.
Whether you’re young or not so young, there are fantastic opportunities in HR and Recruitment on s1jobs.