Onboarding: why new starters need a ‘travel guide’
Effective onboarding should work like a travel guide for new employees. By providing clear information about company basics, structure, tasks, teams, and culture, organizations can reduce stress and help new starters integrate faster into their roles.
Is your team suffering from innovation stress?
Innovation stress occurs when employees face continuous demands to innovate without clear guidance or adequate resources, ultimately making them less creative and productive. This phenomenon creates a mismatch between expectations and support, causing teams to worry they’re not innovative enough while remaining uncertain about what actually counts as successful innovation.
Recruitment: four common hiring mistakes and how to avoid them
Discover four common hiring mistakes employers make during recruitment, including improper criminal record inquiries, inadequate contractor screening, and GDPR non-compliance. Learn how to avoid legal breaches and ensure your background check processes meet regulatory requirements.
Leading the savings revolution: why it’s time to change perceptions on pensions
Auto-enrolment minimum contributions increased to 8% in April, marking progress in pension saving culture. However, the pensions industry must do more to change public perception about saving for retirement and implement financial education from childhood to ensure adequate future income.
Stress Awareness Month: managing stress in a modern ‘always on’ work environment
Stress Awareness Month highlights how always-on work culture and constant technology access contribute to employee burnout. HR professionals can help by promoting healthy work-life boundaries and creating supportive workplace cultures that encourage mental health awareness and reduce the pressure to be continuously available.
The future of HR: from human resources to human revolutionaries
As artificial intelligence takes over analytical tasks, human soft skills like empathy, creativity, and intuition will become increasingly valuable in the workplace. HR professionals must shift from managing resources to championing employees’ humanity and creating environments where people can thrive authentically.
Disability discrimination at work: how to protect your business and employees
Learn how to protect your business from disability discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010. Discover practical steps including employee training, reasonable adjustments, and clear communication policies to ensure compliance and create an inclusive workplace.
Leadership: confidence is king when it comes to crowning successful leaders
Confidence is essential for leadership success, with new research showing that how confident leaders appear to others matters more than how confident they feel internally. The study of over 4,000 people across 20 countries found that conveyed self-confidence strongly correlates with leadership effectiveness and is linked to better decision-making and overcoming obstacles.
Soft skills: how different perceptions impact workplace conflict
Workplace conflicts often stem from different perceptions rather than facts. By acknowledging that everyone sees situations differently and interpreting others’ behavior charitably, employees and managers can better navigate conflicts and reduce their impact on engagement and productivity.
Solving the flight risk issue: can people analytics tell the difference between employees, inmates and livestock?
People analytics tools used to monitor employees share troubling similarities with methods used to track livestock herds and prison inmates, raising questions about whether modern workforce management respects human dignity and autonomy. This comparison reveals how employment relationships have historically reflected power imbalances rooted in outdated legal frameworks.
Pursuing talent: how existing employees can help you recruit
Leverage your current employees’ data and insights to improve recruitment. By analyzing top performers’ skills and engagement metrics, HR teams can identify ideal candidate profiles and build stronger teams from the start. Employee engagement programs provide the data needed for smarter, more informed hiring decisions.
Disconnecting belonging from exclusion to create workplace harmony
Belonging often depends on exclusion, creating workplace division. This article explores how organizations can redefine belonging through a spectrum balancing individual emotions with collective harmony, rather than through opposing groups, to foster truly inclusive workplaces.
Disappointing gender pay gap results: it’s time for a fundamental cultural shift
Latest UK gender pay gap reporting shows minimal progress, with the median gap decreasing only marginally from 9.7% to 9.6% between 2017 and 2018. Experts argue that employers must implement fundamental cultural changes to advance workplace equality and fair compensation for women.
Leadership: why HR has a responsibility to build a sense of belonging among employees
Research shows that employees perform best when they feel a sense of belonging, and HR leaders have a responsibility to foster this through relationships, safe environments, and organizational identity. Belonging is rooted in small daily interactions, traditions, and community connections that sustain health, happiness, and workplace engagement.
‘Do I belong here?’ The question potential employees are asking themselves
Creating a diverse workforce is only the first step. Employers must foster a genuine sense of belonging by transforming workplace culture to ensure all employees feel welcomed, comfortable, and valued for the differences they bring.
Three ways to develop a sense of belonging in the workplace
Feeling like part of a team at work is essential for comfort and productivity. Building trust, developing rapport with colleagues, and fostering inclusion are key strategies to establish a genuine sense of belonging in your workplace.
How to measure and improve your employee experience
Learn how to measure and improve your employee experience across the entire employee journey. Discover why employee experience matters for retention and engagement, and explore best-practice models like Tell, Show, Grow, and Evolve to create a workplace where employees want to stay.
Why companies need to open up the dialogue around diversity
True workplace diversity requires open dialogue and inclusive communication practices, not just hiring people from different backgrounds. Organizations must develop conversational intelligence skills—such as reflective listening, empathy, and self-awareness—to create psychological safety and foster genuine inclusion across all employees.
Five simple stages to creating a wellbeing strategy that drive positive business results
Develop a cohesive employee wellbeing strategy aligned with your business goals to attract talent, boost performance, and reduce absence. Learn five simple stages to create a measurable plan that delivers positive business results and demonstrates your organization’s commitment to employee health.
How to create a healthy feedback culture
Build a healthy feedback culture by embedding regular, constructive feedback into workplace practice through self-compassion. Regular feedback creates learning opportunities, helps employees course-correct quickly, and drives business efficiency, but many fear feedback due to infrequent reviews and difficult emotions.
