Category: Talent management

3 actions to create a more inclusive workplace for women
Culture and change
Emma Browning

Actions you should take to mark International Women’s Day

It’s 2024 and women are still facing inequality in the workplace due to their gender – which lets be honest is rubbish! This month we celebrate International Women’s Day and we want to use this occasion to give you three positive ways to take action to create a fairer, more inclusive workplace for the women in your team. Gender bias in hiring and promotion Women can encounter bias during the hiring and promotion processes, which results in fewer opportunities for career progression. Your action: Implement blind recruitment practices, where identifying…
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Development
laurence

Strategies To Combat The Winter Blues

As the days get shorter and darker and nights get longer and more drawn out, have you noticed a dip in productivity? If so, you’re not alone. A study in the Harvard Business Review found that January is the least productive time of the year. 41% of those surveyed say their mental health gets worse during the holidays, and one in five seek professional support for managing their mental health. The report says it’s partly a symptom of how energy levels, mood and wider mental health deteriorates in the winter…
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Culture and change
elinabyrne

Want to know what our No.1 most asked question is?

How do I manage Millennials? If you want to know our 6 top tips to manage your millennial employees, read our latest blog . . . You need to understand your millennials and work with their strengths.  Today, millennials make up a huge percentage of the workforce, and so it’s essential to both appreciate how to effectively manage them and understand how to encourage their leadership skills. If your company isn’t effectively managing millennials, then even the most impressive list of benefits won’t keep them at your company. They will…
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Development
elinabyrne

Some top tips to retain your talent in challenging times

A recent study from DocuSign showed that, alongside recruitment, talent management was the main priority for 56% of UK firms this year, and it’s not hard to see why. While rising costs are, of course, a pressing issue, there are so many challenges for firms that come from the underlying issue of retaining your best talent. So, whether it’s attracting great talent to join you, or the retention of your great performers or getting the best performance from your existing team, almost every challenge that business owners currently face falls…
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Development
elinabyrne

Manager’s Checklist for Employee Check-Ins

We are often asked to discuss the topic of employee ‘check-ins’ (or one-on-one meetings, progress meetings, sit-downs, etc.) with our clients when we meet with them or visit them. Why is this you may ask? Well, it doesn’t matter how experienced you are, many managers don’t enjoy doing them, don’t feel they have good meetings with their team members, or simply dread all the paperwork that goes with them! No matter what you call them, increasing the frequency and quality of employee performance conversations remains a priority for many companies…
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Q. Should I deal with my employee’s poor performance via the disciplinary procedure or the capability procedure?

When deciding whether performance issues should be dealt with through a capability procedure or a disciplinary procedure, you need to decide whether the poor performance amounts to misconduct or is indeed best placed as capability matter. There is a difference between a capability procedure and a disciplinary procedure, and both capability and conduct are potentially fair reasons for dismissing an employee. However, whether it’s a disciplinary or a capability matter, it’s important that a fair procedure is followed for those with over 2 years’ service to reduce the risk of…
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Talking Talent – Retaining the very Best People

Even in times of recession and economic hardship, leading businesses know that if they want to excel, they need to make sure that they’re recruiting (if you are in the fortunate position and need to recruit!) but more importantly, retaining the very best people for their business. With the concept of a ‘job for life’ now being almost non-existent, and a tendency for employees to be less loyal when it comes to their career choices, you don’t just hold on to your top talent by accident. Without a robust approach…
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Employment law
Emma Browning

Sending our love to you with our special Valentine’s Introductory Retainer Offer

If you are an ambitious SME, looking to grow your business in 2023, then doing so without HR expertise will be challenging! If you’ve ever had to tackle a people issue on your own, you’ll also know just how tough and stressful it can be. Between trying to manage your business, look after your clients or suppliers, your financial and legal obligations, as well as meeting your operational requirements, it can all be a bit too much! Feeling overwhelmed with all that you have to do and firefighting can become…
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Culture and change
elinabyrne

High Performing Teams

What does 2023 have in store for your business? If we believe all the doom and gloom on the news then it could be a tough year! All I know is that personally, it’s a time for me and our team to be setting our specific goals for 2023 – once you have written them down and committed to them, the more likely you are to achieve them! Whatever your goals are, you won’t achieve them without having a great team to help you achieve them, and that’s where we…
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Policies and procedures
Emma Browning

How to recruit superstars

The first workshop we are running this year is our popular “How to Recruit Superstars”, and details of how you can come along are at the end of this blog. We wanted to share some really important things to consider when it comes to recruitment. Yes, some may seem obvious, but they also get forgotten, or maybe not enough time is spent preparing for the interview process, which is why recruitment mistakes happen! So, here are our top 5 considerations to make when you are looking to recruit superstars into…
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