Continuing our series of top tips, when you are unable to deal with employee relations face to face, it can add to the challenge. Here we discuss how you can manage employee relations issues when working remotely.
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Furlough – Your Questions Answered
Many clients and friends are either asking us the same question or searching the internet trying to find answers about ‘Furloughing employees’ so we thought it appropriate to ask one of our team, Charlotte Spooner, an HR expert, to give us her view on the scheme as it applies to UK based businesses in this
Conducting Effective Virtual Performance Conversations – 8 Top Tip
In these challenging times, staying connected with our teams is vital. It is vital for their well-being, for alignment to goals and of course business performance (both in the short and long term). Doing the right thing now, is critical. Experienced managers know that offering sincere feedback face-to-face is an art form; when done via
Top Tips for Converting to Virtual Assessment Centres
With the sudden need to stay at home, the idea of running assessment centres has become a more complex one. It doesn’t take much to be able to turn your current assessment centre materials into a virtual recruitment experience that shows candidates you are responsive, responsible and ready to adapt. There are some things you
8 Top Tips for Leaders to Maximise Effectiveness of Teams Working From Home
As the world goes further into lock down and more and more people are required to work from home leaders and managers are being faced with how to best manage their teams remotely. For employers used to having people physically present in the office this can add to the strain of running the business when
Top Tips for Running and Hosting Virtual Meetings
Thanks to a wide range of technology tools, virtual meetings are accessible and can be very effective. But virtual meetings are different from the face-to-face variety in many ways. For online collaboration to succeed, participants need to communicate differently than they would if everyone were gathered in the same room together. As many people are
COVID 19: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Business
As the weeks carry on into the ‘slightly’ unknown territory for many businesses across the globe people are waking up to the fact that things are different. Yet, we all still have businesses to run to support our clients and our teams. We’ve put this article together as a way of pooling some useful tips
8 Top Tips for Working from Home
Working from Home – 8 Top Tips for making it through the day and achieving all you want. This week has seen a dramatic increase in people working from home, not just here in the UK but across the globe. So how do we get used to the new (albeit) norm? The joy of not
People not Processes Breed Innovation
Innovation gives companies an edge, creates new opportunities and is critical in driving growth. Arguably innovation is critical for any organisation to survive these days. So, how can business leaders create a culture where creative thinking, questioning assumptions, and taking measured risks becomes the norm? How can they not just encourage this kind of behaviour
How do you Improve Employee Engagement?
We know engaged employees make for a more successful business. And so, quite rightly, much is made about successful employee engagement. Worryingly a recent ADP Research Institute report, The Global Study on Engagement, found that 84% of people just come to work rather than fully contributing. That means over two thirds of the workforce are
People Analytics and their Influence on Business
Following last month’s CIPD Data Analytics Conference and Workshop we decided to take a closer look at data analytics and its role in HR. The idea of data analytics in HR is not a new one. It’s about taking a data driven approach to identifying and analysing people related issues. However, over the last few
Internal Talent
We previously discussed the need for organisations to build a culture of openness and trust. By encouraging both freedom of thought and creativity across resources will flourish, thus enabling businesses to be successful and grow. With the ever-increasing demands for businesses to change and adapt to global economic circumstances, the focus on both a culture
Skills Gap Analysis
One of the top three priorities for HR Leaders in 2019, according to Gartner’s survey of 843 HR professionals, is building critical skills and competencies for the future. Although a seemingly straightforward goal, a recent Gartner report identified that 70% of employees say they haven’t mastered the skills to do the job today let alone
Strategic Importance of Leadership
A recent McKinsey report reveals a worrying disconnect between CEOs and HR leader’s overly buoyant beliefs around their talent and people development strategies compared to other leaders within their organisation. While 64% of both HR leaders and CEOs said their companies were high adopters of such strategies, only 42% of all other survey respondents agreed
Change is Inevitable. Change is Constant.
In the words of Benjamin Disraeli, “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” Whether it’s new political leaders with new (and sometimes varying) agendas. Volatile and ever-changing global relationships directing our economy’s course. Or the need to be more agile than ever in an increasingly knowledge rich, digitally savvy world, there are many challenges ahead, some