Why the corporate world won’t adopt best practice from the Olympics
What can Team GB teach us about delivering performance excellence at work?
How a strategic human capital operating model can get the best from your people
When it comes to building capability and skills within organisations, the traditional models are no longer practical.
How to develop a performance mindset and navigate change
Three actions to improve your performance in the face of unpredictability.
How will performance management evolve in 2021?
How will HR transform performance management in 2021?
Eight steps to engaging senior leaders with 360 feedback projects
By engaging senior leaders with the 360 feedback process, you can ensure the smooth running of the programme throughout the organisation.
The rise of check-in culture: why HR must transform the appraisal process
The annual appraisal is dying – but what will take its place?
Leadership: why employee autonomy means giving up control
Leaders, it’s time to relinquish control and let employees think for themselves.
How companies can build a high performance, people-first culture
Culture is key when it comes to navigating the current crisis.
Performance management: why linking goals directly to bonus is doomed to fail
Why linking goals directly to bonus is an outdated approach to incentivising employees.
Employee relations: how to manage grievances remotely during Covid-19
There are unique challenges to handling performance management and grievances when working from home.
The HR power shift: the new reality of performance management
The future of work depends on performance management that has workers at its heart.
Performance management: how to get the best from your team
How to improve team performance by 22% in just six months.
Why people analytics is the platform for an effective Covid-19 response
How people data is helping HR teams battle the pandemic on the front line.
How can HR boost performance and productivity in 2020?
The UK’s productivity levels are continuing to drop. How can HR transform its approach to performance management?
Three reasons why your annual appraisal process is failing your employees
Annual performance reviews are no longer fit for purpose and here’s why…
Employee experience: why feedback is habit-forming
How an effective feedback process puts employees in the driving seat.
Reimagine excellence: manage performance to free sustainable value
Shareholder value has a long history as the yardstick of corporate performance. The underlying legal principle dates back to a 100-year-old ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court, in the case of Dodge v Ford. Henry Ford learned that the Dodge brothers, who were investors in Ford Motor Co., planned a rival firm. This prompted Ford […]
Company culture: the single issue at the heart of organisational failure
Almost every organisational failing – from Oxfam to Barings Bank, from Arcadia to Boeing – can be linked to a single issue: toxic company culture. Despite this, most businesses don’t understand how to accurately measure culture, let alone change it. It is now possible to measure the genuine behaviours within a business and establish the leading […]
Managers and workplace culture: a precarious symbiosis
It’s a universally understood concept that managers play a crucial role in workplace culture. As key people to implement policy, ensure team effectiveness and productivity, and promote a mentally healthier working environment, we ask a lot from our organisations’ managers. Asking them to be a leader, change facilitator, disciplinarian, visionary, motivator, HR process implementer, counsellor […]
Performance management: time to ditch the annual appraisal
HR professionals are starting to harness new technology to streamline their processes and improve employee experience. Performance management is an integral part of the role of HR departments, yet current practices often involve laborious annual appraisals – dreaded by all those involved. Performance management processes, like a lot of things in the sector right now, […]
