News and stories

Appreciating People is thrilled to have been part of the team that won a Patient Safety Award earlier this month, for the training work we’ve done alongside Emma and Adrian Plunkett and the team at the Patient Safety Collaborative of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network. The awards are in their 9th year, and recognise outstanding practice

  As we increase the numbers of followers we have on Twitter and Facebook, we’re coming across all sorts of fascinating research, insights and news that we like to share across our accounts. So we’ve decided to round them up each month, looking to see what proved popular, and what people enjoyed reading and sharing.

We’re looking forward to a busy summer, as our work on Learning From Excellence gathers pace, and we get into the production of three new training resources and journals. Building on the Learning from Excellence work we’ve already done, six organisations in the West Midlands have asked us to do a two-day in-house training session,

By 2020, over 40% of the world’s workforce is expected to be freelance, an independent contractor or a solopreneur. But independence brings its own challenges, and, often, flexible working can mean fewer interactions with the clients, colleagues and friends that we take for granted in day-to-day office life.  For many of us working from home