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 […]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
The 3 key questions that data should answer
The data and insights you capture should help you answer these three questions which should form a part of your people strategy.
The third evolution of HR
HR has been through a number of stages since its humble beginnings in the 1950’s and 60’s. For those of you who are as old as me, you’ll remember our […]
Making time to invest in ourselves
The Head of Customer Service of London Underground once told me about the nightmare of delays at rush hour. Each tube train carries around a thousand passengers and run every […]
Building an adult-to-adult culture
Dress codes, return to work interviews, mandatory training, appraisal forms, emergency time off approvals, and back to the office mandates .. just a few of the ways we let our […]
What can we do about poor managers?
In our recent LinkedIn poll, we asked about the biggest challenge you have to face in HR. Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost half of you said ‘poor people managers’. Almost everything we […]