Personal development: why your mood is the great game changer
Success at work comes down to the right mindset.
Employee engagement: will Black Friday pull you in a darker direction?
Black Friday is a challenging time for customer-facing staff.
Personal development: what is ‘good failure’ and how can employers promote it?
In order to be truly innovative, we need to give our people space to fail occasionally.
Look upwards! Why L&D must shift its focus towards building the right learning environment
It’s not just about the learning itself but also the environment in which learning takes place.
Employee wellbeing: how best to support an employee through fertility treatment
Employers struggle to support those facing fertility issues.
Having learning impact, not just showing it
One of the most common questions we get from companies we advise is, “How can our learning function show impact?” But the more useful question for them to ask would be “How can learning functions actually have impact?” The enduring nature of the question indicates that learning functions feel pressure to tie learning to the […]
Leadership: how to nurture emerging millennial leaders
Businesses need to create working environments that reflect the needs of this workforce.
How can we actively sustain our personal performance at work?
Improve your physical wellbeing to boost your mental ability.
Recruitment update: uncertain times call for experienced HR professionals
The market for HR roles remains buoyant.
How good coaching can replace bad performance reviews
There seems to be increasing chatter in the HR and L&D worlds that it’s time to abandon performance reviews and annual appraisals. The claim is that these processes are a tired relic of 20th century manual work and have no relevance to today’s knowledge economy. There are certainly some obvious problems. For example, how do […]
Zero hours contracts: a short-term fix, but not a long-term strategy
Employers are using zero contracts incorrectly and creating issues for themselves.
Wellbeing: how employers can support a social wellness culture through benefits
How digitalisation has changed the way we interact with our colleagues.
Bullying in the workplace: how to monitor and manage unacceptable behaviour
What can employers do to better monitor and prevent such abuse in the workplace?
Learning culture: why we must champion curiosity and cultivate critical thinking
We are living and working in a technologically connected, digital and globalised world. And one of the main career implications of this digital revolution is a shift in demand for human expertise. There is now a premium on intellectual curiosity and what is being coined as ‘learnability’, the desire and ability to quickly grow and adapt […]
Employee wellbeing: building a psychologically safe place for all
Creating work environments that allow employees to be themselves.
Ethics in the workplace: how to tackle unethical behaviour
How to recognise unethical behaviour at work and what we can do about it.
CIPD ACE 2019: fairness as the foundation of good work
The issues of equality and fairness are fundamental to good work.
Employee feedback: are employers asking the right questions?
Is your employee survey focusing on the right things?
Blended learning: how to craft the perfect blend for boosting performance
Despite the term ‘blended learning’ being in use since the late 1990s, people often still disagree about its meaning. For me, having specialised in blended learning for years, it means choosing delivery methods which engage your learners, complement your learning culture, and suit the subject matter of your learning. As such, it’s only natural that […]
Stress awareness: five steps to improve employee wellbeing
How to manage workplace stress proactively and effectively.