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 […]
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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 […]
HR Business Partner: The toughest role in HR?
When looking to hire a new HR Business Partner, I was often tempted to advertise for a Superhero with strong sense of humour. If I was being honest about what […]
Lessons from a scandal: Should bonuses be paid for ‘just doing the right thing’?
If you live in the UK then, like me, you have probably been engrossed in the scandal at the Post Office that has dominated headlines for some time. If you’re […]
Health and Wellbeing: Less Zoom Yoga, More Trust
It’s hard to argue that investing in for our employees’ health and wellbeing is anything other than a good thing. And I’m not going to. Argue I mean. But I […]