Out of sight, out of mind?
We’ve spent a lot of time recently worrying about what our post Covid workplace will be like. We’ve wrestled with much flexibility we should offer, should we change our contracts, […]
Category: Blog
How can I find the best HR talent?
We recently surveyed around 200 HR professionals to find out about their experiences of being recruited. We wanted to know whether we put our money where our mouth is and […]
Fresh Approaches to Diversity & Inclusion
Despite tons of effort and investment, our progress in creating truly inclusive and diverse organisations remains pretty slow. Whilst there are numerous contributory factors, the ineffectiveness of traditional diversity and […]
Forget leaders, we trust ‘people like us’
When you look at the research into who we trust, there are some challenging implications for HR. So much of our current approach stems is based around our leaders being […]
Let’s stop compensating for poor managers
HR’s desire to compensate for poor managers can end up making things worse. It’s time to stop compensating for poor managers.
Four key HR skills of the future
So much is demanded of HR and yet we continue to do things in quite traditional ways. We’ve summarised the four key skills that we in HR need for the future, in order to thrive in this disrupted world.
Making the future workplace – work!
Right now, management teams all over the world are debating what they should do with the future workplace. Some, like DropBox are getting rid of offices for individual working completely. […]
Principles not policies
I was reading in the news today about a guy who had just won a legal claim against unfair dismissal. He’d called in sick complaining of a bad chest infection […]
How To Decide on Your Future Working Arrangements
Right now many leadership teams are trying to work out what their future workplace will be like. Will it be: all back to the office 2-3 days a week at […]
Don’t Waste Your Time on the Resistors
I had a colleague once – a fellow board member – who was sort of my nemesis. Whenever I wanted to introduce any changes to the way we did HR […]
