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.
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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 – […]
Building a great employer brand
Building an employer brand isn’t about having the slickest careers page or some corporate spiel about being a “great place to work.” It’s about creating something real — something that […]
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 […]
Time to drop succession plans?
My first job was as a teacher in a college. Being new, I would put heart and soul into coming up with well-structured lesson plans filled with interesting ways of […]
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 … […]
How to market your learning and development
We’ve all been there … we want to train our managers or employees in something that we feel is important – so we create a training programme. Then we worry […]