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‘As managers we can make a real impact – staff need to know they’re not alone’

High street
Tom Parry
27 October 2023

“As shop managers, we don’t always realise what kind of an impact we can have on our teams – when things happen in life, our staff need to know they’re not alone.”

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"I wanted to prove I could be a mum of two sets of twins and run a successful travel agency"

For Hays Travel’s Hayley Gadd, named Manager of the Year at the Travel Industry Awards by TTG last month, her own advice couldn’t ring truer this past year. Alongside a number of major achievements for her team in Weymouth, the agency has faced a series of deeply challenging personal circumstances.

“We’ve had member of the team lose her husband this year, while another had a heart attack. One lost her boyfriend to suicide, and we had a member of staff become a single mum to two young children – we’ve had to take care of each other,” Gadd tells TTG.