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Discover how learning and development can open up new job opportunities for you.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or already have a bit of HR experience under your belt, this blog will serve as your trusty compass if you’re after a career in HR in the UK but are wondering, “Where do I start?” Let’s look at the various HR career paths to help you secure your first […]

Investing in employee well-being goes beyond fostering happiness and retention – it also makes sound business sense. Because when employees are genuinely satisfied and engaged in their work, they naturally perform at their best, resulting in improved business outcomes and a healthier bottom line. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” strategy to improve health and well-being in the […]

No longer is a great employee retained through a generous salary (even in a cost-of-living crisis)! Work is where we spend a third of our lives and gone are the days when money would be enough to confirm the signature of a new employee. Now workers proactively seek more than this – they want to […]

It’s 2023; workplaces have changed forever since the pandemic and the discovery that employees do not need a shared space of four walls to work productively. When the world was thrown into lockdowns during 2020/2021, businesses had no option but to trust their employees to work remotely without a lingering watchful eye. Desks were carried […]

HR professionals today need emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, leadership abilities, effective organisation and time management, and adaptability and resilience to succeed.

Over the past decades, corporate scandals have ratcheted up in numbers, with the toxic behaviour of organisations like Enron and Uber (amongst others) hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Not surprisingly, some of the love has gone, and nowadays it’s hard to accept what many organisations claim about themselves at face value. Today’s […]

The workplace has changed – in the modern workplace employees want to be challenged, they want to be educated and they want to be developed. A decade ago, the term learning and development was relatively unheard of, however now we are seeing more and more businesses allocate resources and funds to this very topic. But […]

Arrr the good old performance review! Managers hate doing them ……… employees hate attending them…… so why do we bother? Well, it’s not that performance reviews are bad per se… it’s just that we’ve been doing them wrong! For many years the annual performance review was conducted in a formal setting, with meaningless generic questions […]