Employee experience: why feedback is habit-forming
How an effective feedback process puts employees in the driving seat.
Employee feedback: your secret weapon for business success
Employee feedback is often overlooked despite being invaluable for business success. While companies invest heavily in customer surveys, they frequently ignore staff insights—yet employees understand organizational operations best and can identify problems before customers do. Integrating both employee and customer data creates a stronger foundation for strategic decisions.
Leadership: how to maintain employee engagement during a time of change
Employee engagement is critical during organizational change, requiring leaders to communicate both the what and why of transitions while empowering staff through genuine, continuous dialogue. Building a strong company culture centered on purpose and belonging helps organizations improve agility, confidence, and productivity during uncertain times.
Interview: Dr. Matthias Reuter on the changing face of leadership development
How digital technology is enabling organisations to optimise the potential of their people.
How to become an inclusive leader who values diversity
Inclusive leadership rooted in organizational consciousness evolves through distinct developmental stages, from traditional hierarchies to values-driven cultures. Understanding these stages—from red to green organizations—helps leaders intentionally build diversity and inclusion efforts that align with their organization’s maturity and complexity.
Ten steps to making apprenticeships work in a small business
Small businesses can successfully integrate apprenticeships by following practical management steps that minimize disruption while building talent. Key strategies include establishing a clear business case, adapting recruitment processes, providing tailored induction, setting development objectives, and committing adequate time to learning and mentorship.
All in! Diversity and inclusion programmes aren’t just for big businesses
Diversity and inclusion programs aren’t exclusive to large corporations. McKinsey research shows companies with greater racial, ethnic, and gender diversity are significantly more profitable, making D&I initiatives a smart investment for businesses of any size seeking competitive advantage.
Winning the war for global talent: how to improve your employee value proposition
Multinationals struggle to attract relocation candidates due to weak employee value propositions. The SAFE global mobility model helps organizations improve their EVP across strategic, operational, and personal dimensions to win the talent war and address critical skills shortages.
Employment law: how to comply with immigration laws when recruiting staff
UK employers must verify workers have legal immigration status before employment begins, as knowingly hiring someone without permission carries criminal penalties up to two years imprisonment and unlimited fines. Employers must conduct thorough visa checks and retain documentation, while continuously monitoring time-limited visas to ensure ongoing compliance.
How to make it easier for people to speak up
Leaders can encourage people to speak up by understanding how power differences, personal risk, and political dynamics affect communication. Five key factors—personal conviction, risk awareness, political savvy, social awareness, and judgment—influence whether employees share their views, and leaders can take practical steps like meeting people on neutral ground and recognizing how their status creates distance.
Reimagine excellence: manage performance to free sustainable value
Modern corporations must move beyond shareholder primacy to align performance management with sustainable value creation. Companies need to redesign workplace excellence and performance evaluation to balance profit with positive societal and environmental impact.
World Mental Health Day: achieving equality between mental and physical health in the workplace
One in four people experience a mental health issue annually, yet 56% of employees are unlikely to discuss mental health with their manager. Employers must create supportive workplace cultures and consider appointing mental health first aiders to achieve equality between mental and physical health support.
Employee wellbeing: how to look after a multigenerational workforce
Today’s workforce spans five generations with vastly different needs and preferences. Employers must move beyond one-size-fits-all wellbeing programs to address specific challenges—from Generation Z’s mental health concerns and student debt to older workers’ health issues and the “sandwich generation’s” caregiving responsibilities.
HR for small business: why everyone needs a mentor
HR professionals in small businesses often juggle diverse responsibilities that can dilute their core focus. With only 13% of employees having a mentor, HR leaders—especially in SMEs—benefit from mentorship to regain perspective, manage culture effectively, and prevent burnout while maintaining strategic impact.
Wellbeing at work: managing the £37 billion sleep epidemic
Shift Work Sleep Disorder affects up to 30% of shift workers, disrupting circadian rhythms and costing the UK economy £37 billion annually in lost productivity. Misaligned sleep patterns linked to non-traditional work hours increase risks of obesity, heart disease, anxiety, and depression while damaging employee wellbeing and performance.
Financial wellbeing: the high cost of falling ill
Employees facing serious illness like cancer often experience financial hardship nearly as significant as the disease itself, with research showing those diagnosed are typically £570 monthly worse off. Yet most workplace financial wellbeing support focuses on crisis intervention rather than building resilience, leaving workers unprepared for life’s major challenges.
Employee experience: has a ‘job for life’ become a thing of the past?
Nearly half of employees are unsatisfied with their current job, and the desire to change careers isn’t limited to younger workers. Research shows that businesses can retain talent by fostering a culture that encourages growth, learning, and personal development opportunities.
How HR can champion diversity and inclusion within a small business
Small businesses can champion diversity and inclusion by implementing practical HR processes, eliminating bias in recruitment and promotions, and fostering inclusive cultures where all employees feel valued. Key actions include using structured systems diligently, giving decision-makers adequate time, and regularly gathering employee feedback to drive meaningful change.
Recruitment: four hiring challenges for small businesses
Small businesses face four key hiring challenges: establishing a consistent recruitment process with clear decision-making roles, removing unconscious bias to build diverse teams, setting competitive salaries aligned with market rates, and allocating adequate budget for recruitment resources and tools.
HR for SMEs: why small business can’t ignore employee wellbeing anymore
UK SMEs are falling dramatically behind larger businesses on employee wellbeing despite 82% lacking a strategy. With two-thirds of SME staff experiencing work-related stress and absence costs reaching £8,000 per week, business leaders can no longer afford to ignore this critical HR function.
