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Breakfast Bites: Series 3: Thinking about the impact of AI?

Here’s how to get ahead of the game and make it work for you.

Breakfast Bites: Series 3: the strength of soft skills and why they should be at the top of your priority list

What if we reframed soft skills as hard skills?

Breakfast Bites: Series 3: the top HR trends for 2023 and how they’ve evolved

At the beginning of the year, Forbes published its top HR trends for the 2023 workplace.

How to ace performance review season when budgets are tight

Performance review season The stresses of the financial year end often herald the stresses of performance review season. Your teams may have given their all recently but with budget constraints to consider, how do you retain talent and boost performance when salary increases and bonuses can’t be as generous as you’d like?

Six essential HR upskills to survive an economic downturn

Six essential HR upskills to survive an economic downturn The great HR squeeze is upon us. On one side, inflation and recession put pressure on budgets but on the other, a reduction in the workforce pool and high demand for cutting-edge skills means competition for talent remains hot.

The Hybrid Organisation : Navigating the next 6 months (and beyond…into the new normal)

As we enter into the winter months and what is almost certainly going to bring another period of restrictions and changes to working patterns for many due to the pandemic, HR professionals and business leaders’ aim is to create sustainable ‘hybrid’ organisations. Organisations where the vast majority of people are working from home, balancing many

Furlough Updated Part 7 – Your Questions Answered

On 12 June the government issued further details of the flexible furlough scheme which will commence on 1 July 2020 and run until the end of October 2020. The revised, flexible scheme allows employees to work for their employer on a part-time basis whilst employers will still be able to make claims under the Coronavirus

Getting Your People Back to Work Re-entry Part 3

As we start to see the first signs of employees returning to the workplace, albeit in limited circumstances, now is a good time to share the third of our re-entry articles to help HR and talent management professionals guide their organisations into the future. With the Chancellor announcing that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be

HR Planning Video for Re-entry Part 3

Our third video in our series on re-entry following the lockdown looks at how HR and talent management professionals can help organisations ‘getting your employees back to work’

Video Guide to Virtual Onboarding

Now we are operating virtually, onboarding will no longer be the same process. Many new recruits may never have visited your offices. Here Louise Carreras explains the process of onboarding your new staff virtually.

Furlough Updated Part 6! – Your Questions Answered

Following the Chancellor’s announcement on 29 May 2020 we are pleased to provide a further update on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough Scheme”). Please note that this note is intended to be supplementary to those we have published previously on 7th April 2020 22nd April 2020 5th May 2020 13th May 2020 27th May

Furlough Updated Part 5! – Your Questions Answered

We are pleased to provide a further update on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough Scheme”) in response to continuing guidance from the government and HMRC. Please note that this note is intended to be supplementary to those we have published previously on 7th April 2020 22nd April 2020 5th May 2020 13th May 2020

HR Planning Video for Re-entry Issue 2

Our second video in our series on re-entry following the lockdown looks at how HR and talent management professionals can help organisations shape the new normal.

Shaping the New Normal Re-entry Part 2

With some early signs of businesses moving forward following the Prime Minister’s broadcast on 10th May, and subsequent government guidance, this second article in our series of re-entry articles looks at how HR and talent management professionals can help organisations plan for the future.

HR Planning Video for Re-entry Issue 1

As people start the gradual re-entry into the workplace, HR planning has never been more important. Our MD Kerry Jarred discusses in this video how business leaders can prepare for the challenge.

Stepping Back to Move Forward Re-entry Part 1

We’re dealing with what is arguably our biggest challenge of recent times. As business leaders start to prepare their employees to return to work Human Resource professionals will be critical to how successfully organisations move on from the chaos of COVID-19. The significant economic uncertainty along with remote working or furloughed staff has led to

Furlough Updated Part 4 – Your Questions Answered

This fourth note dealing with the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough Scheme”) follows an announcement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 12 May 2020. As has been the case with previous announcements we do not, at the time of writing, know the full details therefore we will publish further updates as we get

Furlough Updated Part 3 – Your Questions Answered

We have published two previous Q&As on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough Scheme”) and this third note is intended to give a further update in response to clarifications issued by the government.

Fun Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Team

As we continue to work from home and practice social distancing, we are becoming experts in keeping in touch with each other via online formats. We have pulled together some ideas to help you create some ‘downtime’ with your colleagues, injecting a bit of light-hearted fun! These activities may also help you get to know

Top Tips Video for Virtual Performance Management

Furlough Updated- Your Questions Answered

Since we last published on the subject of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“Furlough Scheme”) there have been a number of changes. We are pleased to provide updated guidance in this note.

Top Tips for Running a Virtual Vacation Scheme

Following on from our series of top tips articles we are excited to showcase our new video. Here Louise Carreras offers some top tips on how you can manage a Virtual Vacation Scheme.

Managing Virtual Employee Relations Issues:Top Tips

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.

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