Industry Insights & News
Value and treasure your furloughed employees
Peter Cheese, the CEO of CIPD has written 1 to UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, asking for more flexibility for furloughed staff to allow short-term working whilst on furlough. I was delighted this morning to hear of CIPD’s action and hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
What people need now are motivational, short-term goals
How do we achieve productivity during this pandemic crisis? This is the critical question that leaders are grappling with as we come to grips with home working at a time of isolation and confinement. I am not claiming to have any magic answers, but here are my top...
Leadership with compassion and empathy is the future
Leadership is not a one size fits all. It is very much about context. It is also quite personal; personal to the leader and the person, or people with whom they have a relationship. These are challenging times. Leaders must be able to show sensitivity, understanding...
What businesses need now is strong leadership
The Change Curve model, generally attributed to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has long been a useful management model and is of special relevance now as we adjust to the new reality of homeworking and social distancing.
Bias in a Leadership Pipeline: sign up for Pinsight’s research report
As an organization striving for excellence and success, it is important that the people that make the place are qualified, diverse, high performers, and great leaders.
Six steps for drafting an impactful leadership strategy
Selection decisions in our digital era need to be based as much on potential to meet the, often unknown, challenges ahead, as to fulfil current needs. When it comes to strategic leadership roles, talent shortages mean it is once again imperative to grow your own, rather than hire in.
The factors driving employee engagement: latest research
Just published research from Gallup concludes that the primary driver of employee engagement is how organisations develop their employees.
Parting is such sweet sorrow… Europe
I was deeply moved by a post on LinkedIn by a colleague in Europe saying she had learned a lot from CIPD and their resources and training and from UK HR Managers.
Learning from mistakes is well understood but it needs to go further
We progress by learning from our mistakes. If we don’t learn from them, we don’t progress. Simples, says the meerkat. Or is it?
Resilience and the employee experience: please take this survey
Is “resilience” the latest buzz word for recruiters, or is it critical to our wellbeing and that of the organisations we are part of?
Your talent strategy challenges for 2020?
These are the top HR Priorities for 2020 and just some of the issues covered in our exciting New World Talent online toolkits
The value of international development centres – personal development
A development centre must be the start of someone’s development journey. You might think this is a well-known and well-trodden path.
The value of international development centres – achievements
Continuing our last discussion on the value of development centres, I was struck by how much the event achieved, over and above its main aim of giving people development that was relevant to their new roles.
The value of international development centres
The enormous value of an international development centre was brought home to me last week. We had nine senior managers from around Europe who were each to be the country manager of a new department formed by a multinational manufacturer.
Who is most important when you need to drive change?
I had a thought-provoking conversation yesterday with someone whose new boss is charged with driving change in the organisation. The need for this change is more than anything to keep up with intensifying competitive pressure. What will this change look like? How will...
Why is culture so important to job satisfaction?
According to recent research by Glassdoor, 57% of UK employees regard company culture as a bigger contributor towards job satisfaction than their salary. What does that mean? The notion of company culture is somewhat nebulous. A search on ‘what does it mean to favour...
Identify and discuss cultural tensions
This week we feature a great reflection piece on organisational culture that was first published in HBR. I was especially struck by the comments the authors make about the tensions that can make the culture move in a different way from that intended. I have...
The benefits of flexible working
CIPD handily produced a report about the benefits of flexible working just as I was working on this issue with a client. We were analysing the results of their first employee engagement survey, which shows that people are unable to cope with their workload without...