Why a Change Pathfinder is essential to HR transformation
When attempting to implement change in an organisation, it helps to have a team member who can clear the path ahead for others to follow. These Change Pathfinders can make all the difference to a project’s success. Imagine this: You’ve just been handed an amazing opportunity to manage a large transformation project. You have the […]
Employee engagement: why it’s time for HR to step up and deliver on ‘purpose’
Organisations today aren’t just about making money – they’re about delivering on a ‘purpose’, and HR has a crucial role to play in this. There seems to be a ‘purpose revolution’ going on right now. Organisations, very often through their brands, are seeking to engage us through the difference they want to make to the […]
The impact of organisational change on the brain
This is the first in a series of four articles by Hilary Scarlett, speaker, consultant and author on Better Organisational Change through Neuroscience. They draw from her book, Neuroscience for Organizational Change – an evidence-based, practical guide to managing change. The articles explore how the brain responds to organisational change and, equipped with a better understanding […]
Why are some people more resilient when facing change?
In the first of this series of articles on Better Organisational Change Through Neuroscience, we looked at why our brains find organisational change difficult. Change that is unpredictable and uncontrollable is particularly stressful to the brain. But as anyone who has been through organisational change will know, it can be difficult to foresee how people will […]
We have hugely underestimated people’s need for social connection at work
This is the third in a series of four articles on Better Organisational Change through Neuroscience by Hilary Scarlett, speaker, consultant and author of Neuroscience for Organizational Change – an evidence-based practical guide to managing change. We have hugely underestimated people’s need for social connection at work. We understand the importance of relationships in our personal […]
How to stay calm during organisational change
This is the last in a series of four articles on Better Organisational Change through Neuroscience by Hilary Scarlett, speaker, consultant and author of Neuroscience for Organizational Change – an evidence-based practical guide to managing change. Wouldn’t we get through the world of work more easily if we were logical and unemotional? In his book, Descartes’ […]
Talent management: eight golden rules to accelerate development
When you have great people, it’s natural to want them to progress as quickly as possible – so what can HR do to help develop talent more quickly? Fast emerging as the pressing talent challenge of our age is an old, perennial issue: how to accelerate people’s development and help them learn and be ready […]
Coping with a post-truth recruitment era
For as long as CVs dominate the first stages of a hiring exercise, we’ll continue to be in a post-truth recruitment era. If there was ever a single document responsible for misinformation and recruiting missteps, it has to be the CV. Think about it. When you’re recruiting at scale, how do you find the time […]
Embracing the uncomfortable: a key step in driving business success
The path of least resistance is often the road most organisations look to travel on the way to success. But there are also clear benefits in answering the tougher questions, embracing the uncomfortable and pushing the boundaries. There is a tendency for some businesses to believe that the way things have always been done is […]
Do we need evolution or revolution to unleash potential?
Disruption is everywhere in business right now. We are led to believe that it’s the holy grail of business success. Certainly it’s the holy grail of promoting a new brand. ‘Brand HR’ threatens to be no exception. Within the function itself, we are reading lots about how we should be creating noise, deliberate damage to […]
Employee satisfaction: why should investors care?
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 […]
5 ways experience design can drive innovation and collaboration in the workplace
For the average company, 80% of costs are allotted to talent, meaning that even modest changes to workers’ productivity, satisfaction and engagement can yield demonstrable returns on investment. After all, on average, happy employees have 31% higher productivity, 37% higher sales performance and creativity levels three times higher than their unhappy counterparts. For this reason […]
HR – no longer the poor relation of the business
Increasingly, the business expects HR to deliver tangible commercial results. So why then, has HR played the poor relation for so long when it comes to investment in new tools and technologies? Every other department – from marketing to finance – seems to win the case for specialist tech. It’s time for a little queue barging from […]
“Companies will need to work harder to retain high performers.”
Fosway Group, Europe’s leading HR and learning analyst, recently appointed Carole Laithwaite as its Chief Operating Officer. With a wealth of experience in operational leadership and business strategy, Carole joins the company to focus on its HR and learning practices and support its longer-term mission. Here she gives insight on Fosway’s expertise in next gen […]
“In my view, organisations change through tiny adjustments in local climates.”
Mark Cole is Leadership Development Programme Manager, London Leadership Academy, NHS. He is also Head of Learning and Development at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Mark will be speaking at the CIPD Annual Conference 2017 on Wednesday November 8th on equipping line managers with coaching and mediation skills. Jamie Lawrence, Managing Editor, HRZone: Can you […]
Taylor Review analysis: The future of work is already here
The future of work is not a destination we’re heading towards. It’s somewhere we’ve already arrived at. Everything we’ve taken for granted about work is changing; the ways in which we forge a career, commute and learn, who we work with and how long we work for are all being transformed. What we want from […]
Insight into the financial impact of investing in people
Angelo Piccirillo is partner and co-founder at conveyancing firm AVRillo. The company ranked 12th in the Great Place to Work Best Workplaces list for 2017 and is a strong supporter of proving the value of investing in your piece. In this interview Angelo tells us about how best to go about proving the value. Jamie Lawrence, […]
Organisation design: it’s time to disrupt our approaches
Today, organisations are subject to unprecedented levels of fast-paced change driven by external as well as internal forces, often unpredictable. This scale of change throws into question the merits of the usual intensely unsettling and time-consuming approaches to organisation design. Our view is that when it comes to organisation design, these traditional methodologies no longer […]
The promises and pitfalls of hand drawn graphics
Hand drawn graphics are simple images accompanied by text. The terms sketchnoting, graphic facilitation, visual thinking and visual communication all relate to hand drawn graphics. Organisations can make use of hand drawn graphics in many areas. For example, a simple one page graphic can be used to explain a complex process; graphic facilitation can be […]
Moonshot thinking: disrupting the norm in business
Maybe you’ve thought about your core values, your mission statement or your vision but what about your moonshot? Yes, your moonshot. Mission, values and vision can often sit on a shelf gathering dust. A moonshot is different. Origins Originating from the Apollo and Soviet lunar programmes aiming to land humans on the moon, the term […]
