Our blog contains the thoughts and musings of top HR and D&I professionals. Some of our posts will be practical, others look at future trends, and some will consider what we can learn from the past.
Learn more from our expert contributors and discover how we shape our own workplaces.
Performance
How do you know if an employee is working ‘properly’ from home? And more importantly, does it even matter? Some organisations are completely comfortable with remote work, whilst others are […]
Recruitment & Selection
Don’t worry. This isn’t going to be yet another long read about inclusive recruitment that tells you all about how diverse workforces are more likely to outperform their peers, and […]
Strategy
What’s the difference between strategy and planning? Well, Peter Drucker, godfather of modern management, distinguishes the two as external and internal focuses. Drucker’s definition of strategy is: “A pattern of […]
Policies & Procedures
Read Ali’s story, which provides a practical, relatable guide for HR leaders like you, demonstrating the benefits of external investigations.
Policies & Procedures
We all know that a welcoming and inclusive workplace can make a massive difference in employees’ happiness and the overall success of an organisation. So, how can we practically apply […]
Policies & Procedures
The move to widespread hybrid working has not been easy, and employers are still grappling with several challenges that need to be addressed.
Diversity & Inclusion
The gender pay gap remains a significant issue in most UK workplaces, and the most recent statistics indicate that women still earn 14.9% less than men.
Policies & Procedures
I hope you didn’t spend too much on your home office.
The corporate fightback against working from home is in full swing, led by corporate landlords, Elon Musk, and weirdly, the Daily Telegraph,
Diversity & Inclusion
D&I has never been more on the minds of our organisation’s senior leaders.
Nonetheless, whilst the desire to take action is there, that doesn’t mean our leaders have the expertise and skills to actually deliver D&I progress.
Policies & Procedures
The invasion of Ukraine is an important reminder for us HR professionals to always expect the unexpected. Very few organisations, even those operating in multiple countries, will have plans for dealing with invasions.
Diversity & Inclusion
Whenever a government tries to create change, the finest minds in the affected organisations will find a loophole that maintains the status quo.
Policies & Procedures
With the removal of all legal restrictions in England, employers are having to tear up the rule book from the past two years and start again.
Training & Development
The world moves fast. Yesterday’s priorities are superseded by new initiatives by lunchtime. No wonder then that we buy in the skills we need on a project-by-project basis.
Strategy
What’s on the horizon for 2022?
Plus, download our interactive Diversity Calendar.
Diversity & Inclusion
It’s 25 years since the UK introduced reasonable adjustments in the workplace. Part of 1995’s Disability Discrimination Act, these measures made employers responsible for making changes in their workplaces to remove the effect of an employee or candidate’s disability.
Reward & Recognition
Apparently the word ‘unexpected’ is out. Instead, everything is ‘unprecedented’. It’s a great example of linguistic gymnastics – unexpected presumes a failure to identify a risk, whereas unprecedented suggests no reasonable person would have contemplated it.
Diversity & Inclusion
October is the UK’s Black History Month.
Which makes it the ideal time to look back on the impact of almost 18 months of Black Lives Matter being in the public eye.
Policies & Procedures
Your organisational values determine the employees you attract and recruit.
Your employees determine the culture in your workplace.
Your workplace culture determines your organisational values.
Repeat.
Health, Safety & Wellbeing
If you asked any HR professional at the beginning of 2020:
“How do you see your role changing in the next year?”,
None of them would have answered with:
“Protecting the employee population from a global pandemic.”
And yet…
Strategy
Tired of meaningless vanity benchmarks? Luckily, there’s another way.
It’s time to discover ISO 30414. Demonstrate that you and your function are delivering the highest standards of HR.
Strategy
Working in HR is a predominantly reactive, rather than proactive, role. Whilst we begin each week with plans, aims and objectives, it doesn’t take long before the first piece of urgent business comes in. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to land on Monday morning without a pile of work waiting for you!
Strategy
At the beginning of 2020 I was once again discussing how work was changing.
It was a conversation I’d had many times over the years. Employers would have to change to meet the needs of employees, I would say. And employees were telling us over and over again that they wanted more flexibility in how, when and where they worked.
