Harris + Hoole are one of our valued clients; they are small but rapidly growing chain of coffee shops and the brainchild of three siblings - Nick, Andrew and Laura Tolley. Their vision is to bring great tasting speciality coffee to the high street, which we believe they do – with bells on.

You may be wondering what a flourishing at work taster entails. Well we gather a group of Learning and Development gurus together and have some fun – and in this case, some amazing cake – whilst we talk about the benefits of helping individuals to flourish. We love to know what makes people happy so we asked everyone to tell us what had made them smile that day and discovered that Chessington World of Adventures have decided to ban visitors from wearing animal print in case it upset the animals. That induced lots of smiles, including our own.

Stop measuring high level employee engagement and start understanding the feelings of each individual. We have been working together with London Metropolitan University to further develop their research into the enigma that is employee engagement.

Our original academic research shows that for individuals to flourish they need to feel a combination of six things: Valuable, Autonomous, Challenged, Passionate, Safe and Connected. Our data also shows what tends to enable or inhibit these feelings.