The New HR Business Partner

The HR Business Partner role has been evolving since the 1990s and is now firmly established and well understood within the HR function.  What is perhaps less well understood is […]

Getting Your D&I Intentions Right

Whilst of course great diversity and inclusion should lead to action, there is an important stage before that which, if we get it right, can help ensure those actions are […]

Engineers Are Human Too

At Disruptive HR we’re often told that taking an innovative approach to people practices is not possible when you’re working with managers from sectors which tend to be more rule […]

HR Team for a Disrupted World

We keep looking for the next alternative to the ubiquitous “3-legged-stool” model for HR. We have almost given up trying to find enough outstanding (and affordable) HR Business Partners. We […]

Busting Bonus Myths

Despite HR’s progress in lots of other areas in reward, getting rid of bonuses has proved almost impossible. I think that’s because we, and our leaders, cling onto a number […]

Better Normal Award Winners!

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Better Normal Award Winners We have a winner! Well, actually we have five winners! Five HR teams who have shown amazing resilience, innovation and agility. Five companies who have used […]

Leadership communications

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In HR we’ve been banging on about the importance of leadership communications for decades. But pre-crisis, much of that communication was still quite sterile – logical and informative – but […]