HR: Helping leaders to move with the times
Many HR professionals share a common dilemma. Their leaders often moan about the things HR ‘makes them do’ – but are also the most reluctant when it comes to trying […]
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#nobullshithr
Every profession develops its own language, and we’re no different in HR. However, the prevalence of ‘HR Speak’ can do some serious damage to our credibility. It doesn’t make sense […]
We need HR Products not Services
There’s a great scene in the film ‘Gosford Park’ when Helen Mirren, who plays the housekeeper Mrs Wilson, is describing what makes her great at what she does. It goes […]
Get your entrepreneurial mojo back
“We started out with real agility and entrepreneurialism. Then, as we grew, we started to bring in lots of policies and process. Now we feel slow and less creative. We […]
How do I get rid of ratings but keep bonuses?
The “no more ratings” argument seems to be winning. Which is fantastic. Those organisations who have moved to ratings-free conversations show no signs of wanting to go back and the […]
Closing the HR Credibility Gap
Worrying about our credibility can be a bit of an HR obsession. We worry that we still haven’t got that seat on the Board. We worry that our opinions aren’t […]
HR Transformations Don’t Transform HR
Like many HR Directors, I used to believe that things would really start to change once we had completed our HR Transformation. Our faith in these long, exhausting programmes appears […]
Books to disrupt your (HR) thinking #2
Welcome to Part Two of the Top 10 books that helped to disrupt my approach to HR
Books to disrupt your (HR) thinking
There’s a few reading lists doing the rounds so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and give you my personal favourites.
HR: Let’s stop making the irrelevant more efficient
If you’ve been in HR a while, you’ll have your own collection of cringe worthy moments. Those memories of when you launched a new process that achieved absolutely nothing.
