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9 Box Grid Fatigue

As the pressure to secure the best talent mounts, HR is rightly questioning the real value of one of our most favoured talent tools – the 9 Box Grid.

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The HR and work trends that will matter in 2026

Hello 2026! As we head into the new year, we’re hearing the same thing from HR...

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...

Building a great employer brand

Building an employer brand isn’t about having the slickest careers page or some corporate spiel about...

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The guide to changing performance management

HR has believed what we’ve been told about performance management for decades. We have believed the accepted wisdom that if we want managers to take care of people performance, then […]

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 […]

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 […]

The perfect people strategy

Is your people strategy sitting in a shared drive – long, detailed and slightly overwhelming? Packed with priorities, values, action plans and metrics? Well-intentioned, but let’s be honest – not […]

Meet the new leader of talent

Picture this leader. She has lots of people wanting to leave her team, she recently lost a couple of good people to a competitor and she neglects her high-potentials. Meet […]

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