Stories, advice and inspo to guide career journeys
Do you need outplacement support for a small restructure?
Only one or two roles going? Outplacement still matters. Here’s why small changes hit team morale hard and how to support everyone well.
How to build career development into your performance review process
Performance reviews rarely lead to real career development. Learn how to separate evaluating from coaching so both conversations land.
Support in a Restructure: Why EAP and Job Market Readiness Aren’t Enough
EAP and outplacement alone won’t carry a restructure. Here’s how to map support to every stage, from leader prep to the team that stays.
Your values vs. their values: Why you may be missing a critical piece of the engagement puzzle
We are fully on board with organisational values. They play an essential role in defining the culture you want to create and can serve as a powerful tool to differentiate your employee experience.
The trick most organisations are missing is failing to uncover what their employees value—and how those individuals can live their core values at work.
Performance coaching. A minefield or goldfield?
Performance coaching succeeds or fails long before any framework or template is used. The leader's mindset often determines whether performance coaching feels like a goldfield full of opportunity, or a minefield best avoided.
The retention secret: how helping your employees map their careers keeps them with you
Good people leave when they can't see a future with you, and pay and perks rarely fix that on their own. Helping people map their career inside your organisation, with managers who can run a real career conversation, gives them a reason to grow with you rather than around you.
Stop focusing on underperformance: why your managers need to start coaching their average performers
Managing underperformance soaks up a lot of a manager's time, while the solid people in the middle of the team barely get any real attention. That middle group is where the biggest productivity lift is waiting. Give your managers a coach approach they can use in everyday conversations, and you'll lift engagement and hold on to the good people you can't afford to lose.
Managing a restructure: An HR guide to looking after the people who stay
Managing a restructure? Learn why we think it’s as important to plan for reintegrating those who stay, as it is planning the change itself, to avoid a long post-change slump and keep good people engaged.
Most leadership programmes miss essential practical skills
Most leadership programmes cover self intelligence through to vision and strategy but skip the everyday conversations that actually lift performance. The practical skills leaders need crucially are a coach approach to performance and development conversations, a feedback culture, and enough practice to use them on Monday.
In this post, you’ll learn which practical skills most leadership programmes miss, and what your leaders actually need to lift performance and develop their teams.
