Right now, Boyd Glover, head of skills, Dixons Retail, is justifiably being labelled as one of the learning and development (L&D) community’s trailblazers. Its online learning platform, The Edge, is...
This time last year, HR magazine revealed a home-grown success story: UK HR consultants truly were ruling the waves. In a survey by learning and development consultancy Global Edge, 68% of those...
He’s fidgeting. Stolen glances at his watch have been replaced by full-blown dial gripping. My time is up, and he’s desperate to leave. “That’s your half hour, isn’t it?” It is spoken cheerfully, but...
Is it the sign of the times – or the mark of the profession – that an HR director, leaving the profession forever, would rather talk about the people she has developed that discuss her own career...
Charlie Mullins, CEO, Pimlico Plumbers, the UK’s largest independent plumbing company, has become something of a flag-waver when it comes to employing older workers.
Depending on what you read, Dr Ros Altmann, who was an adviser to the Number 10 Policy Unit and an ex-Chase Manhattan banker, is either “a thorn in [Gordon] Brown’s side” or an “indefatigable...
The results this year’s HR Reward Survey are marked by ennui and inertia. Business is not communicating the benefits message to employees. It needs to get its act together.
Before launching startup company Incahoot.com six months ago, its CEO (and, by default, HRD), John Evans had a significantly larger headcount to oversee than the eight staff he currently employs. In...
When most businesspeople glibly boast about ‘ripping up the rule-book’, you can bet your bottom dollar that in reality they do not. For Fil Adams-Mercer though (pictured), the straight-talking,...
Is leadership a procession of passing fads, or a rare bird HR can never capture? From Sony to Yell, companies are seeking to create waves
You almost couldn’t write the script. On one side of town – at County Hall, on a cold February day – employees at Norfolk County Council are digesting news that 750 posts (1,000 staff) will be cut, as...
According to Chan Abraham, CEO of social housing company, Luminus, all of his staff say Sunday is the best day of the week. Why? “Because it means tomorrow they go back to work.” Where, naturally, the...
