International Women’s Day 2021
Let me take you back and no, it is not to Strawberry Fields! We have a wonderful leader in the shape of our Queen, an object lesson in steadfastness, duty and knowledge – think of 14 Prime Ministers. In the 1970s Baroness Rennie Fritchie was one of the first...
Mental health and wellbeing
Recent events have placed an increasing emphasis on the importance of our psychological wellbeing. A pandemic, with lockdown, time away from education, work, friends and family has had wide-reaching impact, and this will be different for each of us. The World Health...
Learning from this time of crisis – may we help?
We know that this is a time where managers, leaders and people professionals are most pressed as they need to present a calm, rational view of the situation.
A process that has had its day?
The “Nine Box Grid” seems to be invincible! How can a tool that was developed in the late 1960’s still be going strong? If HR is to be all about processes that are not transparent we are doomed to become nothing more than a transactional service that will be subsumed by the finance department.