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As a lecturer, counsellor and trainer I have devoted my career to supporting people grow and develop and all of these activities have been done face to face….until now. I
This article is written in April 2020 and builds on an earlier blog by the authors for Long Finance Pamphleteers. It discusses the role of foresight in exploring some of
Where we are now The world is a very different place to this time last month. Sometimes you have to pinch yourself to believe that this is really happening. What
Professor Brad Hooker University of Reading The Covid-19 pandemic poses new worries, stresses, and questions. Very many of these new questions are biological, medical, economic, or logistical. Many possible answers
Professor Philip Stratton-Lake University of Reading Both Government and employers are increasingly concerned with their employees’ well-being. For instance in May a government report recommended that individual well-being should replace
With our Trees for Reading initiative, we aim to bring more than 3,000 urban trees to Reading over the next five years. To make this possible, we’re looking for local organisations to sponsor their planting and care and inviting Reading residents to donate to our community tree planting fund.
In the spring I had the privilege of leading a discussion for Ethical Reading on the idea of ‘ethical leadership’. Initially I wasn’t quite sure in what capacity I had
Business delivers things societies want or need, from goods and services through to things like wealth creation and employment. However, businesses also enjoy a range of benefits from society (such
When I presented the theme of Unwritten Ground Rules (the UGR concept was developed by Steve Simpson) to the group at the launch event, I noticed a lot of nodding
The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT) organised a debate at the IT Hall on 2 April and drew about 50 people. The event aimed to cut through the hype
As part of Ernst & Young’s ongoing activities to support the economic prosperity and wellbeing of businesses and citizens across the Thames Valley, they held an event on 20 March
A breakfast workshop was organised by Lichfields, supported by Shoosmiths and Ethical Reading, on Wednesday 27 February 2019. The aims were to explore consensus among professionals on good and bad
Directors, HR Professionals and Senior Managers were invited to attend the #WellbeingatWork business breakfast seminar on February 8th, held at IKEA in Calcot and organised by IKEA and BalanceTime http://www.balancetime.co.uk/ . The focus was on helping organisations unpick
There’s no doubt that respect plays a central role in our interactions with each other. But at the November meet up we also learned that respect affects the way in
We were delighted to be invited to Leighton Park School on 30th January to meet with a group of sixth formers and discuss ethics. We worked with a real life
This is the time of the year when we look forward and ask – what might the New Year bring? It is easy to be gloomy, with headlines about chaos
I was privileged to be invited to talk about Ethical Reading at this conference, held at Friends House by Euston Station on 5th December. The theme of the conference was
We were set up as a company in the autumn of 2017, and we started to be visible with our launch at Reading’s Thames Tower on January 24th to over
Ethical Reading Director Gill Ringland asked Dr Kleio Akrivou of Henley Business School to share some of the insights she had from teaching ethics to international students. “Dr Akrivou, you
Most people are familiar with George Santayana’s famous remark that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” and, with the ten year anniversary of Lehman Brothers
A really enjoyable session where I presented the subject of stress and burnout by firstly exploring a diagram I presented called the Human Function Curve. In this initial discussion I spoke about how we need activity in our lives in order to thrive and how having nothing to do is actually detrimental to our mental health.
The following sort of answer will not suffice ‘I am moral because being moral helps me achieve my goal (of being happy, wealthy, popular or whatever).’ The reason it will
The University of Reading is very helpful to us at Ethical Reading as those who have been to our evening meetup sessions will know. Ethical Reading also has two University
I was recently asked about the impact of transactional leadership on business. Given that a part of Ethical Reading’s vision is to reduce workplace stress through better leadership, I thought
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