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The field of Human Resources (HR) in the United Kingdom (UK) is a dynamic and ever-evolving profession. As HR professionals strive for career advancement, it becomes crucial to understand the HR landscape, develop essential skills, build relationships, pursue further education, and navigate career progression. This article provides valuable insights, tips, and strategies to help HR […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Learning Digitally To support change, in a fast-evolving digital world, it is important that we have the right skills and techniques to be able to learn and develop within it. The way we learn is changing, and there is now, more than ever before, a vast amount of information we can draw on to help […]

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