How to retain your best staff when the January blues hit

As staff get excited for the upcoming festive break, HR managers across the country will undoubtedly be enjoying the minimum stress associated with having a company of jubilant employees. However, it’s crucial to remember that this Christmas high is quickly followed by the extreme low of January blues. During my CEO training sessions the topic […]

Future of HR: Making diversity and inclusion real

In this series I take a look at the future of HR, not through predicting the next structure HR will adopt or giving you demographic trends but through applying a greater understanding of how our brain works and what that application may mean for how HR help organisations achieve greater performance through their people. As suggested […]

Improving employee satisfaction in transportation and logistics

A looming driver shortage could bring the £74bn transportation industry in the UK to a grinding halt – and do serious damage to the local economy. One suspected cause is the £2,000 cost of the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC), which is required for all bus, coach and lorry drivers. Yet, even when employers […]

Future of HR: Is it time we went fear-free?

In this series I take a look at the future of HR, not through predicting the next structure HR will adopt or giving you demographic trends but through applying a greater understanding of how our brain works and what that application may mean for how HR help organisations achieve greater performance through their people. As managing […]

Legal advice: fighting at the Christmas party

Layla Bunni is a senior associate, specialising in employment law at Starr & Partners LLP. She advises on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. Her legal advice column continues: this month an office Christmas party has turned into a brawl. What action should be taken? It’s that time of year again, and […]

Here’s what makes an interviewer a professional

Recruitment interviews are pivotal in the candidate selection process and play a crucial part in the assessment of professional expertise and social skills. But having a goal-oriented conversation, understanding the requirements of a position, bringing this into the interview and extracting the maximum of relevant information needed for making a good choice, is a challenging […]

Future of HR: Employee experience – HR’s new mandate

In this series I take a look at the future of HR, not through predicting the next structure HR will adopt or giving you demographic trends but through applying a greater understanding of how our brain works and what that application may mean for how HR help organisations achieve greater performance through their people. In the […]

Future of HR: Creating simplicity to deal with complexity

In this series I take a look at the future of HR, not through predicting the next structure HR will adopt or giving you demographic trends but through applying a greater understanding of how our brain works and what that application may mean for how HR help organisations achieve greater performance through their people. Creating simplicity […]

Older workers: what do they offer & need?

There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best HR researchers that tell you what they’ve found and what you need to do differently on the back of the research. Get connected to the academic sector through Academics’ Corner and […]

Future of HR: The impact of technology on thinking

In this series I take a look at the future of HR, not through predicting the next structure HR will adopt or giving you demographic trends but through applying a greater understanding of how our brain works and what that application may mean for how HR help organisations achieve greater performance through their people. Does work […]

Can an employee’s contract of employment be changed once signed?

It is not unusual for a change to employees’ terms and conditions to present itself in an employment relationship. These changes can arise due to a number of reasons, for example, an employer may wish to reorganise their business structure or workforce so that it is more economically efficient. When an employer finds themselves in […]

Will Zuckerberg’s move shake up paternity culture?

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook recently announced he is taking two months paternity leave. His move has been met with much praise, especially in the States, where neither paid maternity or paternity leave is a legal requirement. What’s happening in the world of paternity leave? Are big brand digital companies, such as Facebook, leading the way in […]

Your questions on proactive wellbeing answered

HR professionals looking to improve the wellbeing of their staff attended one of our webinars on prevention, intervention and protection and learned from our expert panel the best strategies for long-term improvement. Some questions didn’t get answered in the timeframe. Take a look below or check out the on-demand version of the webinar and get […]

Three ways best employers show their people they are valued

Top performing organisations strive for employee engagement excellence as they know they’ll be more productive, grow faster and innovate more. They develop thriving cultures and winning people practices that propel them into the upper quartile of engaging employers. But how exactly do they do this? People Insight supports hundreds of the UK’s top organisations measure […]

Time to zoom in to the future of learning?

I’m known to the readers of HRZone through my column on all things social (media) and so I’m using space to both update my status and also give a little glimpse into the future – something I’m a little bit obsessed with. The update… As Director – People & Learning at Media Zoo I’m now part […]

Can an employer dismiss an employee who is off sick?

Despite the fact that having an employee who is on long-term sickness leave can be challenging on business resources, there are certain protocols every employer should follow when deciding whether an employee should be dismissed. It is best practice for an employer to stay in contact with an employee who is off work on long […]

Standardisation is creating a massive talent hotbed

The standardised work we are all so familiar with as being a cornerstone of a Lean philosophy does not produce quality, reliability and repeatability, it generates world class skill and the basis of a talent hot bed. Read this article to understand the process of world class skill generation and give standardisation a meaning. I […]

“Talent is one ingredient in how success happens.”

This is an interview with Matthew Syed, who is the former top-ranked table tennis player in England: since retiring he has been on a mission to challenge the commonly-held assumption that talent is fixed and innate and that it is the only variable in whether we succeed or not. He has written two books around […]

Apprenticeship levy: how to get the most out of it

The Government has been very vocal in its support for apprenticeships. Over the next five years, it has promised that a further three million will be created. Moreover, new trailblazer qualifications are being introduced to increase apprenticeships’ rigour and their relevance to employers’ needs. However laudable these goals, they create a tension, particularly at a time […]

Let’s bury the ‘human remains’ stigma and build HR’s future

“We can’t build a profession from people who say they ended up in HR,” said Peter Cheese, the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). A year on from his keynote speech at the 2014 CIPD conference, does the stigma of working in ‘human remains’ still exist? HR’s existential crisis has been […]