The perfect people strategy
Is your people strategy sitting in a shared drive – long, detailed and slightly overwhelming? Packed with priorities, values, action plans and metrics? Well-intentioned, but let’s be honest – not […]
Author: Lucy Adams
The HR and work trends that will matter in 2026
Hello 2026! As we head into the new year, we’re hearing the same thing from HR teams everywhere. Not panic.More a sense that work has shifted, but the way we’re […]
Meet the new leader of talent
Picture this leader. She has lots of people wanting to leave her team, she recently lost a couple of good people to a competitor and she neglects her high-potentials. Meet […]
How HR can help create psychological safety
No doubt you’ve heard the buzzwords ‘psychological safety’ – but what do they mean exactly? The author Amy Edmondson, who’s the acknowledged authority on psychological safety, describes it as … […]
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 […]