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With over 40 years of experience in the financial sector, Masters in Minds brings unparalleled expertise and insights to our clients. Our seasoned professionals have navigated the industry's intricacies, gaining invaluable knowledge and understanding of its unique challenges and opportunities.

 

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Drawing on our extensive experience, we tailor our training programmes, consulting services, and solutions to address financial institutions' specific needs and goals. Whether optimising processes, enhancing customer experiences, or driving strategic initiatives, our deep understanding of the industry enables us to deliver tangible results and lasting impact.

 

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July 24, 2025

New Employment Rights: What SMEs Need to Know and Why a HR Health Check Matters

The UK employment law landscape is shifting fast. From flexible working rights to new carer's leave legislation, statutory sick pay clarity, and growing demands around menopause policy, SMEs are facing more pressure than ever to stay both compliant and competitive.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s changing, what it means for your business, and how you can respond with confidence—with the support of MiM PxP.

 

1. Day-One Right to Request Flexible Working


Since April 2024, employees can request flexible working from day one of employment. SMEs must now ensure their managers are trained to handle these requests fairly and that policies reflect this shift in worker expectation and law.

2. Carer’s Leave


A new statutory right allows up to five days of unpaid leave annually for employees with caring responsibilities. You’ll need a formal process in place, especially if you’re managing smaller teams where absence impacts are more noticeable.

3. Enhanced Redundancy Protection


Employees who are pregnant or on (or recently returned from) maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave now have extended redundancy protection. For SMEs, this means added rigour is needed when managing restructures or role changes.

4. Predictable Working Patterns


Workers in casual or zero-hour roles will soon be able to request more predictable working hours. Employers will need fair, documented processes in place to handle these requests efficiently.

5. Paternity Leave & Neonatal Care Leave


Paternity leave is now more flexible, and a new neonatal care leave is being introduced—offering up to 12 weeks paid leave for parents of babies in intensive care. This has operational, cultural, and payroll implications.

6. Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) & Absence Tracking


SSP currently stands at £116.75 per week (April 2024 rate), but with increased tribunal cases relating to mismanagement of absence, now is the time to implement consistent tracking and return-to-work procedures.

7. Menopause in the Workplace


It’s not yet a standalone legal right, but tribunals are on the rise. SMEs should create a menopause policy, train line managers, and ensure workplace adjustments are available. The legal and reputational risk of ignoring this is rising fast.

 
 

This Is a Fast-Changing Space


Employment law and people expectations are evolving rapidly. If your current setup is based on how things used to be, you could be exposed.

 
 

MiM PxP: Your HR, Culture & Compliance Game-Changer


MiM PxP is a powerful, people-first platform designed to help SMEs:

  • Stay compliant with updated HR policies and workflows

  • Track and manage all types of leave, including carers’ leave, SSP and flexible working

  • Build inclusive workplaces with menopause and wellbeing policies

  • Connect performance, PDPs, and L&D in one platform

  • Get on-demand support from expert HR consultants

You don’t need a patchwork of systems. You need one place that does it all—from mindset to measurement.

 
 

Take Our Free HR Health Check and we will send you your free report within 48 hours


Start by understanding your current position. Our quick HR Health Check will:

  • Identify policy gaps

  • Highlight areas of legal risk

  • Recommend where MiM PxP can support

Click here to take your free HR Health Check

Let’s make sure your people practices are future-proof, legally sound, and human-first.

Where culture meets compliance, powered by MiM PxP.

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April 29, 2024

Masters in Minds acquires Venturehaus
 
Masters in Minds has taken over Venturehaus, the London-based Operational Excellence specialist in Financial Services.

 

Julie McCann, Managing Director of Masters in Minds, said “We are excited to bring Alan Noble and the Venturehaus team into the MIM family. Our combined experience offers the financial services sector an approach that is pragmatic and deliverable. This creates a responsible corporate culture encompassing customer-centric service, Lean continuous improvement, and reliable business success for the board and shareholders. We are different, we diagnose the problem, we analyse the culture and its openness to change, and we then create and implement change in direct alignment with the overall strategy. We don’t just find the problem, we fix it and we transfer knowledge across our clients’ organisations to ensure sustainability.”

Alan Noble, Managing Director of Venturehaus, was delighted by the takeover. “We have been talking to the team at Masters in Minds for the past 18 months about the opportunity to join forces and I am particularly pleased to make this announcement today. We share the same values and business ethics, and we both deliver transformational business benefits in the work we carry out for our clients. Venturehaus’ expertise in operational excellence has now been combined with the extensive skills in organisational, cultural, and behavioural change offered by Masters. This combination is perfect for the financial services market in which executives are not only accountable for business performance and governance but now have an additional fiduciary responsibility for their corporate culture.”

Venturehaus Ltd
Venturehaus is a specialist management consultancy and training firm which helps Financial Institutions achieve Operational Excellence through improvement in their business performance, and in their management of growth, change, re-organisation, M&A integration, customer experience, process improvement, performance assurance, and regulatory compliance.

www.venturehaus.com

 

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April 26, 2024

Gen Z: The Most Unique Generation

Are you ready for Gen Z: The Most Unique Generation?

The Diary of a CEO episode with Simon Sinek emphasised Gen Z will be facing many issues in their careers. What are those issues? 

We have said it before, and we are saying it again, Gen Z is the most unique generation. The advent of both the smartphone and social media is arguably this generation’s greatest single defining feature. It has affected every single aspect of their life, from socialising to schoolwork, entertainment to exercise, and so on, often spending 8 hours on screens a day, more than any other generation. Resultantly, they communicate digitally 74% of the time, meaning face-to-face conversations are more likely to be outside their comfort zone. 

Gen Z is also the most diverse and inclusive generation ever. 91% of Gen Z believe everyone is equal and should be treated so. They feel most passionately about social justice issues and consequently tend to support free speech restrictions more than other generations, often disinviting speakers from their university campuses who hold beliefs out with their own. Moreover, this diversity is not limited to race. Gen Z also tends to be more supportive of gender-neutral terminology and choices, with this generation containing the highest ever recorded percentage of transgender individuals.  

So, how have their lives influenced their working culture? 

Due to Gen Z’s lack of work experience, childhood within a safety culture, and extensive experience with mental health issues, they have a higher level of fear and uncertainty about the workplace. Employee well-being is also crucial to this generation. Despite the world being safer, Gen Z is 21% more prone to anxiety than previous generations, which has led to higher levels of self-harm, suicide, and confidence issues like the ones discussed above. For this reason, Gen Z expects its employers to take these issues seriously, and prioritise them. 

The safety culture that Gen Zers tended to grow up in is also very different from their older counterparts. More overprotective parents have encouraged their Gen Z children to adopt a ‘slow life strategy’ due to a reduced financial need for modern teens to transform into adults. Growing up slower, alongside parental protection from life’s adversities, has detrimentally impacted the generation’s development and ability to cope. Older generations were allowed to fail, thus, building character and resilience, which is hugely beneficial in the working world where not everything is a straight road. Gen Z tends not to be accustomed to failure. 

However, Gen X, Millennials, and Boomers have an obligation as leaders to help the younger generation build these skills. It is down to the leaders to create a culture where Gen Z feels safe and empowered. Older generations must work with Gen Z through the storms to feel supported. 

Watch The Diary of the CEO episode feature Simon Sinek here.

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Multi-Generations

April 26, 2024

A Demand for Change

A Demand for Change: What Gen Z want to see from you

Gen Z is not the first generation to demand changes from the system; Baby Boomers and Millennials are examples of how revolutionary energies can mark young generations. However, Gen Z is the most unique: their revolution takes place on the internet. Tweets, podcasts, video essays on YouTube, posts on Instagram, or short clips on TikTok are the field for protests.  

Cancel culture, or call-out culture, is a contemporary phrase, that has become increasingly popular with Gen Z. It is a form of shunning in which someone or a company is pushed out of social or professional circles, which can be online, on social media, or in person. Some critics argue that cancel culture is problematic as it does not bring real social change, increases intolerance, and causes bullying. On the flip side, some critics argue that cancel culture promotes accountability and gives the underrepresented a voice.  

Businesses are at risk of being cancelled by Gen Z. With an estimated online shopping power of up to $143 billion, Gen Z consumers predominantly disengage with brands based on ethics and poor digital experiences. 75% of younger consumers believe businesses should take greater responsibility and do more to create a better and fairer world for everyone. Cancel culture can break a business; brands need to focus on their digital customer experiences and being socially responsible, as Gen Z is becoming an increasingly powerful demographic that every business needs to gain. 

TechCrunch found that 40% of Gen Z uses TikTok and Instagram for search instead of Google – here are some of the reasons: 

  • Visual representation that is vibrant and loud.
  • Gen Z’s desire to consume fast.
  • TikTok’s successful algorithm.
  • Answers are available via short videos.

 

Videos are widely circulated via Instagram and TikTok, so once a brand has done something unethical, a video is circulated regarding them. Of course, these videos are shared with millions of users as social media reaches far more than traditional news.  

So, how can companies be ready for Gen Z? 

Watch this video to find out.

 

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