We need to be more strategic
How often have you heard the lament that HR needs to be more strategic? If you type “strategic HR” into Google, you’ll get hundreds of millions of hits. Not a […]
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Influential HR – Lucy Adams
Influential HR: Why leaders aren’t listening to you and what to do about it The latest book from Lucy Adams, CEO of Disruptive HR and former HR Director at the […]
Lessons in influencing
HR can be a tough gig. We’re on the receiving end of some pretty negative views of our profession. There’s the ever-shifting landscape of employment regulation. We spend much of […]
Why HR impact is harder than it sounds
One of the problems with the phrase “HR impact” is that it sounds so straightforward. Of course HR should have impact. But once you get beyond the slogan, the reality […]
How to cope with the pace of change
Whilst running organisation change sessions with leaders and managers, one question comes up time and time again: “When are things going to settle down?” It’s a completely understandable question, even […]
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 […]
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 … […]
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.
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 […]