Your company may have a health and wellbeing strategy in place – but is it really working? Making sure employees are happy, healthy and more engaged in their wellbeing boosts productivity – and saves...
Office parties: a potential backdrop to alcohol-fuelled photocopier ‘incidents’, excruciating dance-floor displays and bleary-eyed mornings after. And many an HRD will be breathing a sigh of relief...
There’s a scene in the 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally (just before the infamous ‘I’ll have what she’s having’ moment), when Meg Ryan’s character is ordering apple pie. She wants it ‘à la mode’ and...
Does the following look familiar? “18-65-year-olds seek potential matches for mutual benefits, including career development, financial success and emotional fulfilment. Must be generous,...
An understanding of finance, sales, marketing, ethics, operations, planning and people, plus a smattering of entrepreneurship and the ability to walk on water – this is the job description of many of...
Interims have been perceived as many things – consultants by another name, retirees in search of a purpose, permanent managers who are ‘between jobs’ and even destroyers of business culture and...
Take one change of university fees policy. Stir in technology shifts that create increasing needs for new skills. Add a dash of social media, a sprinkling of emerging business nations, dollops of...
After identifying the need to shift its training from external suppliers to an internal programme, Heinz set up Learning Bitez, covering skills from Outlook to can-making.
By using interactive drama First Group has got the message across to staff that safety is not just about implementing rules and regulations, it's about people's lives.
Costain's project management academy was set up to span nine career stages. But its first step was to build up a model of what a 'good' project manager looks like.
Southampton City Council's training programme for traffic wardens is designed to give them the confidence to defuse potential confrontations with the public.
The armed forces have proved a useful source of recruits and trainees for the difficult-to-fill technical roles in companies that run the complex UK rail network.
