Author: Natalie Ellis

It’s Friday! Happy Friday greetings to you all, I cannot believe how fast this week has flown by!

Your 5th and final challenge is a tough but simple one but I think we can all do it together! 

Say one nice thing to everyone you see or speak to today.

Your songs choices will be played throughout the day starting at 10am to get you through the workday so keep your eyes peeled! 

Have a fabulous Friday and I will round up #HRActsOfKindness later today, thank you all for taking part. 

Can you believe that we’re on challenge 4 already? This week has flown by!

Ok two things I need from you all today, and tomorrow you’ll have a surprise as a result! 

Challenge 4

Sincerely compliment your manager, who probably doesn’t often get feedback

For the freelancers:

Give yourself some credit! Think about your achievements and how far you’ve come. Sometimes we can be the harshest of critics so why not pat yourself on the back for a change.

For tomorrow:

Send me a work related song on your choice, pop them into the comments below and tomorrow I’ll pull together a fantastic playlist with all of your songs so we can fly together through our final challenges and review what we’ve been up to all week.

So yesterday everyone was very quiet about the initiative so do let me know how you got on. Today we are picking up the pace!

Challenge 3

Support a positive culture or on boarding process by asking a new (or newish) employee in your business how they are getting on and offer any assistance in helping them settle in.

For the freelancers!

Be encouraging to someone’s idea or project and offer any guidance that may help them

Good morning!

How did you all get on yesterday with challenge one? I had some fantastic messages and saw some great positive messages on Twitter! Do keep letting me know how you’re getting on!

So today’s challenge is a bit of a step up…

Challenge 2

Be encouraging to someone who you think needs some support/help.

 

Don’t forget to use the #HRActsOfKindness

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be bringing back #HRActsOfKindness this week for you all, I have had so many messages, emails and tweets from all over and I’m so pleased at how many of you want to get involved!

A warm welcome back to those who joined in last year, I loved hearing your stories from all over the world and it showed very quickly how together we can all make a difference just by being positive. I even had messages from people outside of HR who had been helped by their HR department as a result of the initiative.

For those joining us the first time around, a huge welcome to you and believe me, together we can achieve incredible things. It’s easy to follow, there is a challenge set each day for five days and all you need to do, is do them!

This initiative is not just for HR professionals, it is for everyone. The reason it was branded this was is because I believe that HR can be a function which challenges the status quo and leads by example. Secondly, it is simply what I do for a living!

Kindness is not a fluffy term by any stretch of the imagination, it is a carefully considered and purposeful selfless action that people do often without thought and without expectation.

The challenges I set for you each day at 8am are set with the purpose of simply passing kindness around from one person to another and spreading that through our organisations, to our friends and family.

Please feel free to share your stories with me by either commenting below or you can tweet me or even email me at natalie@ellishr.co.uk. Don’t forget to use the #HRActsOfKindness to get more people involved.

So are we ready to rock?! Of course you are!

Challenge 1

Send three positive messages to three different people that you are connected with.