D&I isn’t dead, it just smells funny
The desire to make workplaces more diverse and inclusive has been going on for at least as long as I’ve been in a job. As a Personnel Officer, one of my early tasks was completing diversity returns to...
View ArticleFast news is bad business
When I was starting off in business, we didn’t know a lot about what other organisations were doing. Of course there were newspapers, there were magazines and there were conferences, but the speed at...
View ArticleThe big admin blob that drains us all
I was struck the other day by a post that Tim Baker shared on Linkedin suggesting that one in three HR professionals in the UK were considering leaving the profession, with 41% suggesting unnecessary...
View ArticleIn praise of personnel
I started working in the profession in 1996, the year that saw Take That split and the airing of the last episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air – although I don’t remember either of these things in...
View ArticleIf you want fairness, you might need to give something up
I came into business on the back of studying Psychology many light years ago before it became such a hot topic for undergraduates. Fortunately for me, back then you didn’t need three straight As to...
View ArticlePoor decision making doesn’t get better in time
Five years ago in the UK, on 16 March, the Prime Minister of the UK uttered the following words, “…now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary...
View ArticleMistakes are the things that make us
One of the questions I often ask in interview is around mistakes in the past that have made people who they are. The way in which people talk about them, the way in which they react and the learning...
View ArticleLet the lawmakers make law
I hesitated before writing this post, there are some topics that I’ve seen over the years tend to draw the wrong kind of audience, the ones that want winners and losers, the ones that want to blame...
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Thirty years of HR-t
A letter came through the door last week with a certificate from the CIPD marking 30 years since I first joined. Alongside inclusion in the HR’s Most Influential Hall of Fame, this was clear proof...
View ArticleEverybody hates your project name
One of the strange things about the corporate world is the love of a project name. We create these with the stated aim of confidentiality, rather than call something what it is – we give it a “project...
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