Managements' Fear to address 'Soft Issues' is Demoralising British Business

Added: (Fri Oct 28 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Managements’ Fear to address ‘Soft Issues’ is Demoralising British Business

Join the final Corporate Heart Wellness Debate 2005, 0900 hrs on 22th November, Ironmongers Hall, London


28 October 2005 - Managers should follow their hearts and trust people to work better if they want to achieve high levels of performance. That is the challenge Pauline Crawford, leading corporate wellness guru, will set at the final Corporate Heart Wellness Debate 2005 - exploring Wellness as a strategy for competitive advantage and a key indicator of financial success.

“Management fear to address so-called ‘soft’ areas of work life has lead to mistrust and demoralisation in British business,” states Pauline Crawford. “Wellness is people behaving well at work as well as being healthy at work. The implications of unwell work because people feel tired, undervalued and uninspired are becoming a serious health hazard to the nation and deterrent to financial success.”

Proposer: Stephen Gates, managing director of Denplan, who will define Wellness as a key part of his strategy behind Denplan reaching no 17 on the Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for.

Opposer: John Freeman, managing director, Business Analytics, international trouble shooter at board level with over 20 years experience as CEO of companies and previously operational board director at Electrolux, will suggest people only make the difference when leadership, strategy, products and processes are aligned to satisfy customers’ needs.

Panel Experts: Sir John Whitmore, world-class performance coach; John Taylor, futurist from Canterbury University; Nic Marks, New Economics Foundation and Nigel Crouch, DTI, will debate whether Wellness really counts.

Corporate Heart research verifies that organisations where managers have overcome the fear of listening to their people and inspired employees to engage from their heart, rather than telling them what to do, have delivered consistently higher performance.

This final Wellness Debate 2005 takes place on Tuesday, 22nd November at Ironmongers Hall, Shaftsbury Place, off Aldersgate Street, Barbican, London: 0900 hrs for a 0930 start. A wellness buffet lunch follows the debate and there is an optional afternoon workshop. To join the debate or for more information call Corporate Heart tel 020 8998 7032, email thedebate@corporate-heart.co.uk or check out www.corporate-heart.co.uk

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Editorial contact for more information: Rosemary Vaux at Ravenstone Public Relations Limited
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