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Podcast: Do you know?
09.17.2023
Every month Rachel Shackleton will talk to individual professionals for 45 minutes about particular concepts or topics relating to the modern workplace. The underlying focus will be on achieving a greater insight regarding the learning, wellbeing, development, recruitment, retention and productivity challenges faced by UK and global businesses
Rachel Shackleton of Green Key Personal Development On How To Listen Effectively To Succeed Personally And Professionally
04.19.2023
Builds trust and respect — This point connects to the previous point as well as to point 3. Respect is something that we earn, it is not something that is given automatically, especially when we are leading others. Trust comes from respect. If I respect you I am more than likely going to trust you and your opinion. The foundation to trusting someone is effective listening and showing interest in what the other person is saying and perhaps even what he or she is not saying?
Uncovering the Impact of Your Organisation Wellbeing Strategy
04.02.2023
We were delighted to be hosting todays session on "Uncovering the Impact of Your Organization's Wellbeing Strategy: Moving Beyond Surface-Level Solutions".
We were very grateful to Rachel Schakleton who is our guest speaker and subject matter expert on this topic. Rachel is the Director of Green Key Personnel Development who are employee learning and development specialists that focus on wellbeing, leadership, customer excellence and communication to improve business performance.
Do any of these resonate with your company or team?
❔ Decreased productivity
🙋 Unsupportive leadership
❔ Poor communication
🤒 Increased sickness and absenteeism
❔ Lack of desire to take responsibility - blame culture
❎ Negative outlook
❔ Lack of work life balance - stressed employees
🚶♀️ Increased staff turnover
There are so many great takeaways in this webinar presentation from Rachel, we received somey lovely messages re the content and value of your presentation.
We know how important the retention of our talent and teams is for everyone in the coming years, with a reducing and aging workforce
It isn’t always the knowing but it is the doing, there are some great ideas, thoughts, tips and strategies here to help start or move your wellbeing initiative.
5 Lifestyle Tweaks that will Help Support People's Journey to Better Wellbeing
06.07.2021
Working from home, I have found has many benefits, but there are also some disadvantages, and when it comes to procrastination, it becomes easier to put things off by cleaning under the kitchen sink, dealing with the washing, ordering the weekly groceries etc. To help avoid these distractions, I have implemented a regime that works for me, only allowing myself the possibility to do any of these things when I have “Eaten the frog” (Brian Tracy)...
As a part of my series about the women in wellness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton.
Rachel Shackleton, founder of Green Key Health is a health practitioner and corporate health specialist. As a qualified medical herbalist, naturopath and kinesiologist she works with individuals to restore full health and wellbeing, not only through treatment, but also through coaching so that clients can manage both personal and work-life occurrences with increased resilience, self-compassion and a lifestyle that supports maximum energy.
Rachel speaks to Authority Magazine about Emotional Intelligence
20.02.2021
Parveen Panwar, Mr. Activated: Can you recommend five things that anyone can do to develop a greater degree of Emotional Intelligence?
Rachel:
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Listen attentively and empathetically.
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Change your response pattern by identifying your triggers.
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Show empathy by putting yourself in another person's shoes.
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Train yourself to connect first on a human level.
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Look for the positives in everything.
To read more of this interview between Parveen Panwar and Rachel Shackleton discussing emotional Intelligence, click here.
Rachel Shackleton of Green Key Personal Development: “Lead with integrity and show your vulnerabilities — be yourself”
12.01.2021
Lead with integrity and show your vulnerabilities — be yourself. Divorcing your heart from your leadership role, for me is almost impossible. Team members are not assets as in a piece of furniture or equipment, they are human beings who have hearts, they hurt, they feel and they bleed, as do all leaders. A leader who is open, shows his or her vulnerabilities as a human being. The pay off in my view, is respect for who you are, demonstration to your team members that you are approachable and not infallible...
As a part of my series about about how leaders can create a “fantastic work culture”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton. Rachel Shackleton is the founder of Green Key Personal Development and Green Key Health. She is a business trainer and corporate health specialist with over 30 years training experience providing solutions in leadership, communication, customer excellence, and corporate wellbeing. Working in Russia for 20 years she founded a successful business that she later sold to an international organization. Clients include JTI, Intermedia and DellEMC.
Rachel Shackleton of Green Key Personal Development: Five Things Business Leaders Can Do To Create A Fantastic Work Culture
17.12.2020
As a part of my series about about how leaders can create a “fantastic work culture”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton.
Rachel Shackleton is the founder of Green Key Personal Development and Green Key Health. She is a business trainer and corporate health specialist with over 30 years training experience providing solutions in leadership, communication, customer excellence, and corporate wellbeing. Working in Russia for 20 years she founded a successful business that she later sold to an international organization. Clients include JTI, Intermedia and DellEMC.
Rachel has been featured in Thrive Global, Up Journey, and has also been interviewed by Rick Nuske on the My Future Business Show and UK Health Radio. In September 2020, she was a guest speaker at the 2nd International Health Congress in Geneva on Non-Communicable diseases. Rachel presented on “The key to wellbeing, productivity and performance.”
Personal Development: Giving Feedback; How To Be Honest Without Being Hurtful
17.11.2020
Feedback very often reflects a company’s values, such as openness, integrity, honesty, transparency, teamwork and so on. If you as a leader are unable to demonstrate coherence with the company values and give direct and honest feedback, you are not leading by example and in effect are violating those values. Therefore, what message are you giving out to your team members?
As a part of our series about “How To Give Honest Feedback without Being Hurtful”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton.
Rachel Shackleton, founder of Green Key Personal Development is a business trainer with over 30 years training experience providing solutions in leadership, communication, and customer excellence. Founder of a successful training business in Russia with 25 employees, working with local and international companies. A pioneer in the Russian market in learning and development she trained her own team to give and receive honest and open feedback, as well teams in her client’s organizations.
Interview on the Rick Nuske My Future Business Show
04.11.2020
On today’s My Future Business Show I have the pleasure of spending time with founder of Green Key Personal Development and Green Key Health and Wellbeing, Rachel Shackleton, talking about the relationship between leadership, productivity, and the health and wellbeing of employees.
Rachel is a business trainer and corporate health specialist with more than 30 years training experience providing tailor made solutions in leadership, communication, customer excellence, and wellbeing.
Some of Rachel’s clients include JTI, DellEMC and Sheraton Hotels. Additionally, Rachel has featured in Thrive Global, Up Journey, and was interviewed on UK Health Radio. More recently, Rachel has presented at the 2nd International Health Congress in Geneva.
Rachel Shackleton: “Be genuine with all your customers”
14.09.2020
Train all team members about the importance of the customer, both internal and external, and give them the autonomy to be individual and shine in each and every customer interaction, going that extra mile not because they were told to, but because they want to. Provide parameters in which they can take things into their own hands to support the customer.
As part of my series about the five things a business should do to create a Wow! customer experience, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton. Rachel was trained as a hotelier by Sun Hotels in South Africa and then Hilton Hotels, working at the flagship 5* London Hilton on Park Lane, which was the start of her love for wowing the customer. Working around the world for different hotel groups including Couples group in Jamaica, Windjammer Landing in St Lucia, Grand Hotel Europe, St Petersburg, Russia and several other properties she specialized in training hotel employees in how to provide excellent customer service through being yourself, enjoying what you do and enjoying interacting with the guests irrelevant of the reason.
5 Things Anyone Can Do To Optimize Their Mental Wellness
29.07.2020
As a part of my series about the “5 Things Anyone Can Do To Optimize Their Mental Wellness” I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton.
Rachel Shackleton, founder of companies Green Key Personal Development and Green Key Health is a business trainer, providing value through training in the spheres of leadership development, communication and customer excellence. She is also a practicing Naturopath working with executive management on creating strategies for implementation of corporate wellbeing. Her long-standing clients include JTI, Intermedia and Novardis.
5 LIFESTYLE TWEAKS THAT WILL DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE ONE’S WELLBEING
27.07.2020
Dr. William Seeds: "In your opinion what are the 3 main blockages that prevent us from taking the information that we all know, and integrating it into our lives?"
Rachel:
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The readiness to change — is it the right time for that person?
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The willingness to change — is the person ready to make the effort needed to remove some things and replace with others, or do they have a vested interest in being ill?
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Western life style and fear of not being a part of the “norm”
To read more of this interview between Dr. William Seeds and Rachel Shackleton discussing the five lifestyle tweaks that will dramatically improve one's wellbeing, click here.
STRONG IMMUNE HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE, POST COVID-19
29.06.2020
Strong Immune Health in the Workplace, Post COVID-19 As we begin to relax the lockdown restrictions and some head back to work, there is the concern that many work environments are just not well suited for continuous hand washing, never mind keeping at a 2 metre distance.
In this video, I’m going to discuss the steps you can take to create strong immune health in order to protect yourself from any pathogen as you return to work.
These are also strategies you, as a leader, can support your team in implementing.
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