Fifty HR professionals from across the Eastern region attended the latest HR Energy event hosted by Pure and Mills and Reeve.

The HR Energy breakfast sessions, founded by Pure’s Senior Managing Consultant Becky Wilson and Mills and Reeve’s partner James Kidd, provide learning and networking opportunities for those in the HR sector.

The latest session, held on Tuesday 10 March at Mills and Reeve’s offices in Norwich, was based on the topic of Relationship Intelligence.

The aim was to explore how HR professionals can enhance alliances across organisations by building stronger relationships and how to maximise the impact and influence of HR to positively influence people and engage action.

Guest Speaker Joe Mills, MD and Founder of consultancy firm The Tree Academy, helped to bring the subject of Relationship Intelligence to life. Joe explained how Relationship Intelligence is the applied awareness of people’s motives and strengths to communicate in the right style and achieve goals faster.

Becky, who specialises in HR recruitment, said: “This was another fantastically inspiring event and Joe was a really engaging speaker. Understanding people’s emotional responses and their main motivators is a powerful tool for maximising the impact of HR. It builds more effective communications, as well as helping to create and maintain a culture of psychological safety and trust which increases employee engagement. This resonates even more in our current challenging times.”

Joe explained how understanding the motivations and reasoning behind someone’s decisions enables people to communicate more effectively, and more emotionally, leading to faster results and stronger relationships. Delegates also explored the three main motivators which influence people’s emotional responses; people and wanting to help others, performance and wanting to achieve results or process and wanting to establish order.

For more information about future HR Energy events contact Becky Wilson on becky.wilson@prs.uk.com or 01603 216 450.

Dynamic Print was established in Norwich by Barney Phillips back in 1999.Barney spends his days designing and thinking of type. He prides himself in his typeface knowledge and is known in the trade for his ability to identify various fonts. He is even sad enough to go on-line and enter a competition recognising different fonts; his score being in the top 25 in the country!The team at Dynamic Print thought it was time to explain why hestill loves to print, even after a lot of years. This is where Eye Film could help, we love telling stories. Together we have created this hopefullythought provoking video, explaining very simply Barney’s motivations – somemany of us may connect with ourselves. Shot over a a couple of days, out on his bike, at home and at work, the result was’Type’.

Naked have designed and delivered a brand new website for Carrow Road, home of Norwich City Football Club, to bring the post Delia’s Canary Catering transformation to life.

From legacy brand to modern experience

The Carrow Road rebrand needed a digital experience worthy of its ambition. This wasn’t simply a website redesign, it was about rethinking how a wide range of events could be discovered, booked, and enjoyed online. Naked was brought on to lead the creative direction, user experience and interface design with Bigfork handling the technical build and support.

The new Carrow Road website needed to position it as Norfolk’s premier venue while recreating the sense of possibility guests feel when stepping into the stadium itself. Every part of the user journey was created to mirror the experience of visiting in person, clear, welcoming, and full of inspiration. The result was a digital experience that didn’t just inform, but evoked the excitement of planning something special in such an iconic setting.

The design team at Carrow Road had created the foundations of a beautiful new brand, our job was to translate it digitally and get it out there for the world to see.

Perfect planning

Naked began by stepping into the shoes of Carrow Road’s audiences. From local businesses looking for flexible spaces, to couples dreaming of a wedding with a city landmark as their backdrop, each journey was mapped with clarity.

We developed detailed wireframes to give structure to these journeys, ensuring the site would deliver not only engaging content but also effortless navigation across devices. With our research and advice, the wireframes gave the team at Carrow Road a structure to follow when creating new SEO rich descriptions of the events, rooms and venue details.

The new site was built on WordPress with a content block system to give the Carrow Road team freedom to create and edit pages easily, while maintaining consistency and design quality.

The “Find a Room” feature enables visitors to filter by event type or guest numbers and instantly see tailored recommendations, making event planning quicker, easier, and more enjoyable.

The project wasn’t only about what users could see. From day one, SEO was baked into the build: keyword research, optimised metadata, structured data markup, and integration with Google Analytics 4 and Tag Manager ensured the site would perform as well as it looked.

A new era for Carrow Road

The result wasn’t just a new website. It was a complete digital transformation, one that honoured a legacy while pushing a new brand firmly into the future. Today, Carrow Road’s online presence serves its entire community, whether that’s a couple planning their big day, a company hosting a conference, or university hosting a graduation ceremony.

Fosters Solicitors is delighted to confirm the appointment of Paige Gouldthorpe as head of its Lowestoft branch.

Paige joined Fosters two years ago and during that time has become deputy head of their Wills, Trusts & Probate team and the firm’s Court of Protection specialist. Through this additional role, Paige will help drive initiatives and focus on Fosters’ services available in Lowestoft and help them continue to be a key contributor to the town.

Commenting on the news, Paige Gouldthorpe, said: “I am thrilled to have been appointed as Head of Lowestoft at Fosters Solicitors and look forward to helping support and drive our reach in the area. We have a great team of people who are based at our Regent Road branch, and many more of our wider colleagues who provide additional support from our Norwich and Wymondham offices. We are also privileged to have such a loyal base of clients and partners within the town, who I look forward to working closely with.

“We are hugely excited for the year ahead buoyed by us building new relationships, as well as cementing established ones. Last year, we celebrated a decade of partnership with Lowestoft Town FC, which we’re hugely proud of – and we are in the process of planning several activities with them and other partners in the town.”

Fosters Solicitors has had an active presence in Lowestoft for over 15 years, and just ahead of the pandemic moved to new premises in the town at 14 Regent Road. Members of its Residential Property and Wills, Trusts & Probate teams are permanently based at this branch, but as an all-service law firm, all of its wide-ranging legal services for both individuals and businesses are also available through its Lowestoft office.

The firm is also a community partner of Lowestoft Town FC, with the club’s ground named the Fosters Solicitors Community Stadium and the firm organising with the Blues some community activities for the coming year. Fosters’ Lowestoft office are also seasoned participants in the town’s annual pumpkin trail and pancake day race.

Chris Brown, Chief Executive of Fosters Solicitors, added: “The pandemic unfortunately frustrated the official launch and development of our new Lowestoft office on Regent Road. We are therefore excited about Paige’s appointment and that her natural drive and enthusiasm will add extra focus on us increasing our presence and reach in Waveney and throughout Suffolk.”

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