fun entitlement, a trailblazing Great Aunt, unlimited holiday…
Without people you don’t have a business. Higson, are a people consultancy, working with organisations to create progressive work cultures with high productivity and high happiness. Augusta Vivian, is the founder and joins us for this interview where she discusses:
- How she feels we are all entitled to have fun at work
- Her personal values of fun, kindness, curiosity, and stubbornness and how her early life shaped those
- How to go about defining your personal values
- Her entrepreneurial Great Aunt who broke the mould as a woman on her own in business
- Her experience of being told ‘what to wear to be successful’
- Her work at Higson to help businesses become more happy, productive workplaces
- The common blindspots that businesses face when creating a positive work culture
- The real benefit of unlimited holiday vs an annual allowance
- How to create your company values and design the behaviours within your org to live up to them
- The importance of practicality and pragmatism with any cultural change work
- What she’s most proud of in her Founder’s journey
- How she approaches Strategy at Higson and regularly reviews it
- The importance of feedback in all directions with radical candour
- The charities Higson supports with 20% of profits every year
- The new phase for Higson: becoming a certified Carbon Literate organisation
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