From resistance to buy-in: Influencing the toughest leaders

Lucy and Karen get honest about one of HR’s toughest challenges: helping leaders and managers actually change how they behave. Drawing on their own “humiliations” as former HR Directors, they […]
AI coaching: The new frontier for developing managers

One of the biggest challenges facing HR is the perennial challenge of leadership capability. Despite years of investment in programmes, frameworks, and workshops, many organisations still struggle to see real […]
The AI you can actually use: real adoption and results inside HR

As we know – AI isn’t something that’s coming in the future -it’s already here, and it’s already reshaping how we hire, develop and engage our people. The pace of […]
9 Box Grid Fatigue

As the pressure to secure the best talent mounts, HR is rightly questioning the real value of one of our most favoured talent tools – the 9 Box Grid.
When one size doesn’t fit all: When to personalise your HR practices

In HR we have always tended to prefer standardisation. The instinct to make everything and to treat everyone in the same way comes from a mixture of practicality, compliance, and […]
In praise of the office: Why hybrid is broken

In this episode, Lucy digs into one of the big questions right now: if most organisations have landed on hybrid, why does it still feel so clunky? Ranya Nehmeh, senior […]
The guide to changing performance management

HR has believed what we’ve been told about performance management for decades. We have believed the accepted wisdom that if we want managers to take care of people performance, then […]
Great HR is messy!

As unpopular as it might be with leaders who often crave certainty, great HR is just ‘messy’. The HR leaders who are having the most impact, who are creating the […]
AI for HR: five simple wins you can use today

You don’t need a big budget, a transformation plan or a team of data scientists to start using AI in HR. You just need a real problem to solve – […]
Rethinking Rewards: How Virgin Group made benefits meaningful

Whilst we’re seeing tons of innovation in some of the key employee processes, reward and recognition can often be put in the ‘too difficult’ box. Recognition efforts often lack differentiation […]