At the recent CIPD L&D show I attended a session about developing a coaching culture, where both the Hilton Group and Cineworld Cinemas were talking about their experiences. Stuart from Cineworld set the context for their business. Historically reliant on ... View Article
Article by 15 May 2014
If you’ve experienced burn-out for yourself or had time off for stress or anxiety, then you know it isn’t a pleasant place to be. Similarly, if you’ve seen it happen to somebody else then you will know that it isn’t ... View Article
Article by 8 May 2014
Exit interviews are on my list of pointless tasks. Why? There are several reasons why I don’t really see the point of exit interviews, but the main one has to be what is done with the data. Or in my ... View Article
Article by 8 May 2014
It’s common practice now to identify what ‘excellence’ looks like and to attempt to clone that. We are all advised to section off your best examples and concentrate on them. The wonderful quote from Marcus Buckingham that ‘if you study ... View Article
Article by 28 April 2014
Please suspend your disbelief for a moment and join me on a thought experiment… Just after a UK General Election at some point in the future, the new Government announces that it is going to come down hard on employment ... View Article
Article by 14 April 2014
Yes, it scarily, definitely is. And although this was raised as a blog topic which needs redress through increased productivity, I couldn’t help but notice an HR update email that came through last week. In this one email update there ... View Article
Article by 8 April 2014
In a recent article in The Financial Times, a consultant who advises strategy consultants on strategy (no, really, that’s what it said) informs us that the two buzzwords on every organization’s lips at the moment are strategy and execution. As ... View Article
Article by 7 April 2014
The latest news from the USA courts is that America’s giants in mobile technology has agreed to attend mediation ahead of their court battle over smart phone patents. They are locking horns in a battle that ultimately is about global ... View Article
Article by 4 April 2014
In July last year, the government introduced fees in the employment tribunal. Previous attempts at reducing the amount of claims heading into the tribunal service didn’t have much impact. Remember the misconceived statutory disputes procedures? They had the same aim, ... View Article
Article by 31 March 2014
It used to be that HR, as the custodians of the people policies, wrote them, reviewed them and held on tight to them. Highly knowledgable and clinging to that power of knowing what to do in any people-related situation. Over ... View Article
Article by 17 March 2014