Well, we are among strange times at the moment and businesses are trying to navigate their way through the maze that is COVID-19! It's changed a lot of working practices with wide-ranging effects on all businesses. We too at Prestige have had a lot of thinking to do on how we move forward as a business to best serve our clients and candidates. Alongside this, we really needed to look at where our marketing focus would be, we have always liked to help people with our information-driven output, so we decided that it would be nice to expand this concept.
Reflection
We sat down as a business and thought how could we bring value in these times? There are lots of blogs out there and we run one, but we wanted to make more of a personal connection with people. Around a year ago we all discussed how it would be great to start a podcast, something that would be informative and interesting for our clients and candidates, that would deal with the issues they face within their lives and work. At the time we shelved the idea thinking it would take a lot of time to do it properly, and if we could not do it justice we would not do it at all. Then Lockdown arrived so we revisited the idea of this as a form of communication. We wanted something that would give great value, be personable in format and really dig into interesting topics, we decided to focus our resources on this as we felt it is a better medium for these challenging times!
The New Podcast
So, here we are, the Prestige Podcast is born! Our vision is that every month we aim to cover a wide variety of interesting topics of investigation within business, research and lifestyle. From BioTec and the new digital horizon - to self-help and mind body and spirit. The aim is to help and inform, covering interesting topics for business and personal challenges.
The first episode is out! I'll give you a guess what it's about? Well, it's 'The Guide To Survive and Prosper in the world of lockdown and homeworking.' Yes, we know it's a bit predictable, but all the news has been dominated by COVID-19 and there is a lot of adjustments people have had to make. So we thought it would make sense that our first guest would be someone that could really make a difference and help people with her advice.
Our First Guest
Sandra Marston has been an esteemed counsellor and life coach for the past 18 years. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Counselling, and as well as being a practitioner of NLP, she has numerous certificates to her name in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Critical Incident Debriefing, and a PGC in Supervision of Counselling and the Helping Professions.
Her passion in life is to help you live a happier, more fulfilling life by conquering your fears and achieving your goals in life. To realise this, she works with people on all the psychological aspects of counselling, such as self-belief, anxiety, depression and stress. We thought Sandra would be the perfect first guest to advise us on the potential pitfalls of working from home and to give us all some help in managing anxiety and stress in these challenging times. We talk about how to deal with the new world of homeworking and the general psychological effect of lockdown, giving plenty of advice on how we can overcome some of the common psychological problems this can bring. We really hope you enjoy the first show, you can find it here - First Show.
We wish everybody well at this time.
All the best
The Prestige Gang