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 <p>                     <strong>                       But we’re now striving to be better and to drive positive                       change. We firmly believe that everyone is welcome at                       Futureheads, and we aim to demonstrate that in everything                       we do.                     </strong>                   </p>                   We’re committed to creating a culture that reflects the                   make-up of society, we believe diversity promotes innovation,                   growth and equality. We are committed to being intentionally                   inclusive by understanding who we have in our culture and how                   we can best add equity to each individual, and contribute                   towards their professional development. We are actively                   helping our clients do the same. We celebrate the difference                   and rich experience that diversity brings, and we commit to                   ensuring that everyone we interact with, both within and                   outside our business, is valued, respected, and treated                   equally, regardless of their background, identity or                   circumstances. We aim to understand every individual’s                   capabilities, and to give them what they need to succeed to                   their fullest potential.

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<strong>IT Architect, Manager - London (Hybrid) - £75-90k (DOE)</strong><br><br>Are you an experienced IT professional passionate about transforming businesses through cutting-edge architecture and technology strategy? Join a fast-growing consultancy delivering high-impact digital transformations for private equity-backed companies across Europe.<br><br><strong>About the Role</strong><br>We're seeking an entrepreneurial <strong>IT Architect – Manager</strong> to lead strategic IT projects across a diverse portfolio of clients. You will:<br><br><ul><li>Design and implement robust IT architecture strategies aligned with business goals</li><li>Advise C-suite stakeholders and investors on digital transformation opportunities</li><li>Lead infrastructure due diligence, cloud adoption, DevOps optimisation, and cybersecurity improvements</li><li>Support business development, pitch technology solutions, and build long-term client partnerships</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional experts (data, product, UX) to deliver lasting value</li></ul><br>You’ll work in small, high-impact teams to drive results, with the autonomy to shape project direction and client strategy.<br><br><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong><br><ul><li>5–6+ years of experience in IT consulting or digital transformation</li><li>A strong background in systems architecture, integration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)</li><li>A track record of advising senior stakeholders and leading technical teams</li><li>Passion for emerging technologies like AI, cybersecurity, and DevOps</li><li>A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field</li><li>Fluency in English; French or German is a plus</li></ul><br>Bonus points if you’ve worked in or with private equity-backed businesses or early-stage scaleups.<br><br><strong>What’s in It for You</strong><br><ul><li>Direct exposure to executive-level decision-making</li><li>Autonomy, ownership, and the chance to scale a growing practice</li><li>Work in a dynamic and multicultural environment</li><li>Real impact—our projects don’t end at PowerPoint</li></ul><br>If this sounds of interest to you, please feel free to reach out.<br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

IT Architect, Manager - London (Hybrid) - £75-90k (DOE)

<strong>Senior Data Engineer - InsurTech - Remote (Italy based)</strong><br><br>We have partnered with a exciting business who are in the process of growing out their Data team, with an engineering department of over 350 currently!<br><br>They’re a cutting-edge insurance company that’s transforming the industry with a customer-first approach. Everything they do is built around simplicity, transparency, and innovation—whether it’s seamless digital claims, personalised coverage, or fair, data-driven pricing. They’re growing fast and looking for passionate people to join their mission of making insurance smarter and more accessible. If you’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking team, this is the place to be!<br><br><strong>The tech stack:</strong><br><ul><li>Python</li><li>Kafka/Spark</li><li>Databricks</li><li>AWS</li></ul><br>You'll be helping bridge the gap between data science and engineering. Focusing on complex data challenges, you’ll collaborate closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build practical, technical solutions that address real business needs. Your work will drive impactful innovation and help shape the future of our products and technology.<br><br><strong>Key requirements:</strong><br><ul><li>Deep expertise in batch and distributed data processing, as well as near real-time streaming pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Spark.</li><li>Proven experience building Data Lake and Big Data analytics platforms on cloud infrastructure</li><li>Proficient in Python with strong adherence to software engineering best practices.</li><li>Skilled in relational databases and data modeling, with hands-on experience in RDBMS (e.g., Redshift, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL systems.</li><li>Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipeline management, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry-standard practices.</li></ul><br><strong>Nice to haves include:</strong><br><ul><li>Experience with cloud platforms (they are using AWS) but open to GCP and Azure</li><li>Experience with Databricks is a strong plus.</li><li>Streaming technologies (Kafka is they're go to)</li></ul><br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Senior Data Engineer - InsurTech

<strong>Data Engineer - InsurTech - Remote (Italy based)</strong><br><br>We have partnered with a exciting business who are in the process of growing out their Data team, with an engineering department of over 350 currently!<br><br>They’re a cutting-edge insurance company that’s transforming the industry with a customer-first approach. Everything they do is built around simplicity, transparency, and innovation—whether it’s seamless digital claims, personalised coverage, or fair, data-driven pricing. They’re growing fast and looking for passionate people to join their mission of making insurance smarter and more accessible. If you’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking team, this is the place to be!<br><br><strong>The tech stack:</strong><br><ul><li>Python</li><li>Kafka/Spark</li><li>Databricks</li><li>AWS</li></ul><br>You'll be helping bridge the gap between data science and engineering. Focusing on complex data challenges, you’ll collaborate closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build practical, technical solutions that address real business needs. Your work will drive impactful innovation and help shape the future of our products and technology.<br><br><strong>Key requirements:</strong><br><ul><li>Deep expertise in batch and distributed data processing, as well as near real-time streaming pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Flink, and Spark.</li><li>Proven experience building Data Lake and Big Data analytics platforms on cloud infrastructure</li><li>Proficient in Python with strong adherence to software engineering best practices.</li><li>Skilled in relational databases and data modeling, with hands-on experience in RDBMS (e.g., Redshift, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL systems.</li><li>Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipeline management, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry-standard practices.</li></ul><br><strong>Nice to haves include:</strong><br><ul><li>Experience with cloud platforms (they are using AWS) but open to GCP and Azure</li><li>Experience with Databricks is a strong plus.</li><li>Streaming technologies (Kafka is they're go to)</li></ul><br /><br /><em><em>We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.</em></em>

Data Engineer - InsurTech

<p>It has been a year quite unlike any other. There are some things which, for better or worse, have become synonymous with 2020 &ndash; banana bread and sourdough, the Zoom pub quiz, home-schooling. Against a backdrop of Covid, there have been cultural and social phenomena which have grabbed the nation&rsquo;s attention &ndash; Black Lives Matter, the Greta effect and Marcus Rashford, among others.</p>
<p>But we&rsquo;re not here to talk about the obvious. Instead, we&rsquo;ve delved deeper into 2020 to uncover a few of the lesser known trends that may have simply passed you by.</p>

<h2>Going NOLO</h2>
<p>Surprisingly,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">sales of low and no-alcohol (NOLO) drinks</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">soared 30% in the UK during lockdown.</span>&nbsp;Waitrose, for example, saw a 54% increase in low and no-alcohol ale compared to the same time last year as many consumers now choose to go dry. UK drinking habits, particularly among the younger generations, have been edging towards a hangover-free future over the last couple of years and, despite what you may think, it appears that the stresses of lockdown and homeschooling actually didn&rsquo;t end up driving everyone to drink.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>The rise of the newsletter</h2>
<p>Already starting to edge their way into the mainstream last year, the rise of email newsletters in 2020 has been supersonic. They&rsquo;ve become the go-to channel for brands and individual writers alike, thanks largely to the growth in popular platforms such as Substack and Mailchimp. In our opinion,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">newsletters offer a welcome return to a direct relationship between publisher and reader</span>, driven by good old-fashioned content and entirely unaffected by the increasingly frustrating algorithms of Facebook et al. Long may they continue.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Reaching for the past</h2>
<p>Speaking of old-fashioned, in times of crisis, it&rsquo;s a well known fact that we tend to turn to nostalgia to give us that warm comforting hug of familiarity and feeling of security. During the first lockdown,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Spotify reported a 54% increase in searches for &lsquo;oldies&rsquo; or &lsquo;throwback&rsquo; with a surge in nostalgic playlists.</span>&nbsp;And it&rsquo;s not just music that we&rsquo;ve been using as a comfort blanket; UK consumers have been revisiting dishes from their childhood too. According to Co-op, sales of packet trifle have increased this year by a staggering 738%&hellip;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Elasticated waistbands</h2>
<p>Given all that nostalgic eating, the Telegraph&rsquo;s report that&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">sales of trousers with elasticated waistbands rose by 16% this year</span>&nbsp;should come as no surprise. With most of us working from home, work smart has gone out the window and the elasticated waistband combines comfort (without going quite as far as all-day pajamas) with some level of respectability. Who would have thought that the mainstay of 1930s fashion would make such a comeback?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Surge in adult e-learning</h2>
<p>Whether down to furlough, redundancy or simply the absence of the daily grinding commute, we&rsquo;ve all found ourselves with a bit of unexpected extra time this year. Some have used it to grow their side-hustle&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">(1 in 5 of us have one apparently)</span>, others have spent hours learning entirely new skills. Enrolments on online courses have surged this year as we look to alleviate lockdown boredom or change our career path entirely, and digital is the hot ticket. The UK&rsquo;s Institute of Coding, for instance, saw an enormous jump in learners on their digital skills courses from 32,000 in January to more than 400,000 by June.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

Lesser Known Trends of 2020

<p>The thought of a job interview can be nerve-wracking, particularly for those who haven&rsquo;t been in an interview situation for a long time, years perhaps. Here are our tips to help you feel prepared for the interview, and how to follow up when that fantastic job offer comes along.</p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Prepare to stand out at interview:</span>&nbsp;Do your research! Check out your interviewers on Linkedin; get to know their background. You may have shared connections, or interests! Check out the product, be ready to give balanced feedback about what you like, and ideas for improvements. Prepare a list of questions; sometimes a great question is as good as a great answer. If you can ask them a question that really makes them think, challenges their assumptions or fuels further debate, they&rsquo;ll remember it!</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Do your reading:</span>&nbsp;Here are some of the most important technology developments around at the moment, so make sure you&rsquo;ve done your homework if the job is tech-related:</p>
<p>Healthcare: Data privacy and innovation within telemedicine&nbsp;Education: Adaptive content &amp; investment in online learning&nbsp;Fintech: strategic partnerships and marketplaces&nbsp;Insurance: AI for risk management &amp; case management<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Following up after an interview:</span>&nbsp;Sending a positive follow-up email can leave a great final impression on the hirer, but be mindful that the reader is likely to be time-poor so keep it brief. Thank them for their time and reaffirm your interest in the position. If something didn&rsquo;t go well, acknowledge it, and offer new suggestions having reflected on the question or task.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Negotiating salary following a job offer:</span>&nbsp;You performed fantastically at the interview and they&rsquo;ve offered you the job, so now&rsquo;s the time to discuss salary which many can find tricky. Try and get an understanding of the salary on offer prior to communicating your expectations, give context around your thoughts and offer some level of benchmarking to show you know the industry. Communicate other motivations for joining the business as well as financial ones; employers want to hire candidates that are invested in their brand and product; while money is important, it shouldn&rsquo;t be the primary motivator.</p>

Futureheads Top Tips series: Preparing for that interview and getting the job!

<p>Mags Hanley is a career coach, mentor and trainer, based in Melbourne Australia. She has worked in UX for over 25 years in the US, UK and Australia. Her passion is to help UX professionals find into the roles that suits them best.</p>
<p>She works with primarily with senior practitioners moving into leadership, and senior women defining their role for the next phase of their lives. She has recently launched a new 8-week programme The Way Forward for senior women in digital.</p>
<p>You can connect with Mags on&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/magshanley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;or read her latest blogs on her&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://magshanley.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website.</a></p>

<h2>What&rsquo;s the story of your career so far?</h2>
<p>I started in digital when it was called Multi-Media. I fell into the work, having trained as a librarian and graduated in a recession &ndash; no grad positions for me!</p>
<p>My first role was at Yellow Pages in Australia as a Cybrarian &ndash; so 1990s. As we were all making it up, I asked if I could look after the search engine, because I knew how people searched &ndash; and my career as an IA started.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve lived and worked in the US and UK for 15 years, and have been back in Australia for 5 &frac12; years.</p>
<p>My career has been varied; an IA, project manager, product manager, Head of UX, Executive Producer, Consultant. The one I love the most is Career coach, Mentor and Trainer.</p>
<p>In the last year, I have developed a practice supporting senior practitioners move into leadership, and women in Design to thrive in their careers.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>What&rsquo;s the most important lesson you&rsquo;ve learnt over the course of your career?</h2>
<p>Be authentic and true to yourself!</p>
<p>I love managing people and products, and seeing both grow, but I have struggled all of my career managing up. I&rsquo;ve improved over time, working relationships with the mostly male leadership, but this has been my greatest weakness.</p>
<p>To move into the higher levels of digital management I felt I wasn&rsquo;t myself; I had to be less emotional, female, and kind. I left my last job feeling disheartened, stressed and unconfident in my skills.</p>
<p>I saw Bren&eacute; Brown speak a week after leaving that job, and did the Value assessment. I realised I was not living my values of authenticity and kindness. So any new opportunity must match my values.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>How can organisations ensure they thrive, rather than simply survive, as they attempt to return to a &lsquo;new&rsquo; normal over the next few months?</h2>
<p>There are a number of realisations for organisations:</p>
<ol>
<li>The commute to the inner city office is wasted time &ndash; people love the extra time with their families.</li>
<li>Knowledge workers can be productive working from home. I&rsquo;ve had a number of bosses who have actively discouraged it, thinking we were skiving off.</li>
<li>Child care and flexibility is important to keep women in the workforce. The burden of looking after children intensified as women worked from home.</li>
</ol>
<p>To thrive, organisations should look at what worked well &ndash; with their staff &ndash; and leverage it.</p>
<p>They should:</p>
<p>Plan for the majority of staff to work from home&nbsp;Reimagine work spaces as distributed hubs where people come in collaborate&nbsp;Find the best online tools for collaboration&nbsp;Provide support for their team&rsquo;s mental health&nbsp;Used the money saved from corporate office leases to include child care in their benefits packages&nbsp;</p>
<h2>You&rsquo;ve recently written a blog about the challenges faced by women in UX and in particular by those women who are well into their careers &ndash; can you tell us more about that, and how women can really exploit the opportunities available to them in the digital workplace?</h2>
<p>Many of my peers have been 20-25 years in digital; we are now considering what&rsquo;s next. How can we use our skills and experience in work that gives us joy?</p>
<p>Interface design is commoditised, creating pixel perfect prototypes; it&rsquo;s not the space we want to play in.</p>
<p>We do deep thinking, breaking apart problems and putting together solutions. My friend Tom Coates describes it as finding the nugget of truth that the rest of the model hangs off.</p>
<p>I am introducing the concept of Elder for women in Design; someone brings a depth of experience and wisdom to a role.</p>
<p>Elders don&rsquo;t have to be a Head or Director, they are Certain of their value and place; Grown and grounded in their skills and experience, and a Model by the way they behave, speak and write.</p>
<p>Once we know who and what we offer, we can then find those opportunities.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>What&rsquo;s going to be the biggest challenge in your particular industry over the next 12 months?</h2>
<p>The biggest challenge for women in digital is learning how to blend all aspects of your life into the work you do. We need to find the right blend that gives us financial stability, life with our families, and joy in work.</p>
<p>With the ongoing instability of COVID pandemic changing the way we work, the next 12 months will be stressful. Women need to find their stable base for their lives, learning how to flex with working from home and the rest of life.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not about being a superwoman, but finding what new normal feels like and working with it. We have moved from pandemic crisis mode into living with the pandemic; therefore we need change our lives in response to it.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

Futureheads Five Stories – Margaret Hanley

<p>Mark McDermott is the CEO of ScreenCloud, a global digital signage platform helping over 8,500 businesses communicate meaningful content using screens.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>He is also the co-founder of Codegent, an independent digital product studio based in London, UK and Bangkok, Thailand.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mark spoke to Futureheads as part of our FFS series, a regular interview series where business and industry leaders share their insights and personal experience. Other articles in the series can be found here.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Tell us about the impact that Covid-19 and the lockdown measures have had on your business?</span></h2>
<p>The world has changed and it&rsquo;s unlikely it will be the same again. It&rsquo;s been tough seeing some of our smaller customers who have been with us since we started ScreenCloud being so badly affected.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the demand for workforce communication tools that help separate what&rsquo;s important from the noise is more important than ever, and we&rsquo;ve pivoted to bring features like &ldquo;Company TV at home&rdquo; quickly to our customers, which have been very well received.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">How have you adapted your operational and hiring practices?</span></h2>
<p>Operationally we&rsquo;ve always worked at least partly remotely, but we have put new initiatives in place to help everyone feel more connected like regular All Hands sessions, &ldquo;ScreenCloud Radio&rdquo; and virtual fitness classes.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">What are your top tips for successfully managing a remote recruitment process?</span></h2>
<p>We&rsquo;ve not been recruiting during this period so I don&rsquo;t have much to add here, but it&rsquo;s interesting to read about the challenges and solutions that others have experienced.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">Has this crisis made you look at your business differently or consider changes moving forwards?</span></h2>
<p>It&rsquo;s actually helped to clarify our mission more, around helping workforces to communicate better to their employees using tools that curate and collect what&rsquo;s important, rather than just adding to the noise.</p>
<h2><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25);">What advice would you give to anyone in a similar position to you at the moment?</span></h2>
<p>Clear your mind. Do what you need to do. If you think &ldquo;what would happen if I fail?&rdquo; and you&nbsp;plant that seed in your mind, then you WILL fail. It&rsquo;s time to go back to basics.&nbsp;People don&rsquo;t want &lsquo;complicated&rsquo; in tough times, they want&nbsp;simple and relatable and a narrative that fits. If the focus of your narrative in boom time is about innovation and the future, reframe it for now;&nbsp;what innovation that you&rsquo;ve done to date is useful for today? You have to be instantly relevant.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

Futureheads Five Stories – Mark McDermott

<p>Matt has 20 years experience starting and scaling business through digital media.</p>
<p>As the founder of marketing technology business&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.driftrock.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Driftrock</a>, Matt helps brands like BMW, Honda and The University of Birmingham deliver marketing that people actually want to see, whilst protecting privacy.</p>
<p>Previously, as 3rd employee Matt helped Forward Internet Group scale to over &pound;100 million+ revenue and 500 staff. He also founded top mobile phone comparison site Omio, which merged with uSwitch in 2010 as well as co-founding Forward Labs helping test and grow startups.</p>

<h2>1. In what shape has your business emerged from Covid-19?</h2>
<p>With the new Covid-19 restrictions, we&rsquo;re very much still in the thick of things. We took a hit in April, but thankfully, changes we made have had an overall positive effect on the business and our clients. We&rsquo;ve recovered revenues and now enjoying some growth this quarter.</p>
<p>We feel very privileged with the global situation to be able to resume hiring again to expand our team.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>2. What are the most important and emerging skills to work in the new normal?</h2>
<p>With the ever changing global landscape we&rsquo;ve taken time and researched how we build resilience and agility into our organisation (more on some of those changes below). One of our core principles has always been continuous improvement, but now more than ever, we need to constantly evaluate and adapt to changing circumstances.</p>
<p>Like lots of tech companies we made a decision to close our office, and migrate to becoming a fully remote organisation. This has had a huge knock-on effect on the way we work and the skills we need to thrive in the new normal.</p>
<p>After lots of research, the core skills we&rsquo;ve focused on are a results-driven culture and asynchronous working. As well as being critical skills for distributed teams, these changes have had a big impact on our productivity and focus &ndash; regardless of where we are working.</p>
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<h2>3. What changes have you made in operations and hiring that are here to stay, and what will you lose?</h2>
<p>Like many companies in 2020, we&rsquo;ve made more changes to the organisation than in any of our previous 7 years. For the results-driven focus we leveraged the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-model" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EOS</a>&nbsp;framework and&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.cio.com/article/3302036/okr-objectives-and-key-results-defined.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OKRs.</a>&nbsp;This has influenced processes across everything we do from the product roadmap to HR processes. We&rsquo;ve made strides to work asynchronously using new collaboration tools and over-communicating where we can in everything we do.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;ve completely overhauled our hiring, onboarding and ongoing HR processes too in order to do things remotely. This mainly involved more deliberate, planned meetings and connections to integrate and improve relationships across the teams. Whereas previously things happened serendipitously, we&rsquo;ve found it important to work hard on these.</p>
<h2>4. What has been your biggest key learning and how will this prepare you for the future?</h2>
<p>Our biggest learning has been the benefits of focus and a shared vision across the business. Whilst it was important before, we&rsquo;ve seen first hand how being ruthlessly focused has improved our ability to deliver more value for our clients and the company.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s resulted in some features being deprecated, huge improvements to our products and services, and new processes across the board that have been very positive.</p>
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<h2>5. What has been the biggest surprise to you?</h2>
<p>During the height of lockdown we onboarded two new teammates remotely, which was a daunting experience.</p>
<p>Thanks to some heroic work by Maryline, our Operations Manager and teammates who are always happy to jump in and help each other out, it&rsquo;s been a good experience overall.</p>
<p>One of our new teammates is having to shield, so we&rsquo;ve never met in person, yet we&rsquo;ve still managed to build bonds together. That said, we can&rsquo;t wait to meet up again as a team in person and celebrate!</p>
<p>To find out more about how Driftrock are helping clients generate more leads and grow their business through social advertising, visit their&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.driftrock.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">site</a>&nbsp;or follow them on&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 25); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/driftrock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn.</a></p>

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<p>Matthew Bagwell is a fully qualified and practicing Advanced Oxygen Advantage&reg; Breathwork instructor, coaching across elite sports to people in need of specific support addressing physical and psychological conditions including depression and anxiety. He is also an endurance athlete, currently focused on ultra-distance running events.</p>
<p>Matt teaches people all over the world how to use their breath to improve physical and mental resilience, induce deep relaxation, overcome challenges including pandemic anxiety and unlock creative energy. His work is grounded in pragmatic scientific research and personal experience. As he says himself, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not woo woo, it&rsquo;s all science.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>1. What trends have you seen in peoples mental health over 2020?</p>
<p>The headline is increased anxiety. My classes have grown and grown as well as requests for one-to-one tuition &ndash; very often, it&rsquo;s relieving stress that is foremost in their minds. Sadly, I have also had more conversations with people developing early signs of both depression and fatalistic thinking. While this should come as no surprise &ndash; we are all under extraordinary circumstances &ndash; we need to pay attention to long-term wellbeing in LD2.</p>
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<p>2. What are the most important and emerging skills to work in the new normal?</p>
<p>From my perspective, it&rsquo;s about maintaining a balance and not developing new, less positive habits. We don&rsquo;t need to move to work or around the office. We can sit for hours and oftentimes, will be on our computers for hours longer than we would have been pre-pandemic. So we have to develop new healthy habits; take a regular screen break, don&rsquo;t eat and work, see the horizon every day, start work on time (not earlier) and end on time (not later) and spend time on exercise. The new skill here? Obsess about your wellbeing.</p>
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<p>3.&nbsp;If you could change one thing in peoples behaviour, in the new normal, to benefit their health and keep them on track professionally &ndash; what would it be?</p>
<p>To breathe consciously, inhaling and exhaling through the nose only, for ten minutes a day. People can join my free classes on @lovetolearnto to learn how to do this to optimise how they breathe. Changing breathing can help manage anxiety, improve sleep and positively affect how we think.</p>
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<p>4. What has been your biggest key learning and how will this prepare you for the future?</p>
<p>That I had taken personal contact with loved ones and travel for granted. As soon as I can do either (in a way that&rsquo;s sustainable for the planet), I&rsquo;m hugging everyone, everywhere!</p>
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<p>5. What has been the biggest surprise to you?</p>
<p>Great question. For me, just how resilient nature is. With Lockdown One, I was able to closely observe it and celebrate it &lsquo;bouncing back&rsquo;. I think so many people said the same thing, bird song, insects, boundless blackberries, clear skies. There&rsquo;s something to remember and take forward in this. I really hope we do.</p>

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