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- HR articles and news archive
HR articles and news archive
- 23.04.2021 How to... keep your staff engaged
Engaged workers perform better and give extra discretionary effort. But keeping high levels of engagement in uncertain times is tricky.
- 18.02.2021 How to... set up incentive programmes
For an employee incentive scheme to work effectively, it must be relevant, measurable, open, fair and available to all.
- 13.08.2020 How to... address poor performance
Poor staff performance is one of employers’ most common complaints. Managers faced with difficult conversations about work standards and potentially litigious staff often avoid dealing with it or don’t handle it very well.
- 17.09.2019 How to... write a good career plan
HR is increasingly being called upon to use career planning as a means of retaining and developing key employees. Managing the talent pipeline in this way can also help to deliver the business strategy.
- 07.02.2019 How to... tackle absence
Responsibility for dealing with absence in a fair and consistent manner sits not only with HR but with managers
- 10.06.2020 How to... successfully embed change
With many change initiatives failing to achieve their objectives and the government set to step up the pace of change in the public sector even further, employees are now at risk of becoming resistant to change.
- 20.06.2018 How to... identify skills gaps
Employers often say they have skills gaps in the workforce. But identifying exactly where these gaps are is another matter
- 02.06.2016 How to... do more for less
Times will be tough for a while yet and HR will be asked, and asked again, to do more for less.
- 10.05.2016 10 Common Leadership and Management Mistakes
It's often said that mistakes provide great learning opportunities. However, it's much better not to make mistakes in the first place!
- 06.03.2013 How to... manage performance
With many employers fighting for survival there is increased pressure to get the best out of staff
- 02.01.2013 How to... make your workforce happy
Happy employees are more productive, friendly and successful at work. This isn’t just positive psychology, it’s scientific fact.
- 08.02.2012 Starting a New Job
Getting Used to Your New Role
- 13.10.2011 Management By Wandering Around (MBWA)
Staying in Touch with Your Team
- 25.02.2011 How to... train managers as coaches
Coaching is frequently recognised as a key tool in helping individuals, teams and organisations to improve performance and develop skills.
- 10.02.2011 How to... succeed at team-building
An effective team accomplishes more than individual members alone. But how do you create an effective team?
- 19.10.2010 How to... build authenticity
Building authenticity is a choice and a journey. And given the past three years of economic uncertainty, the choice is clear: the need for authenticity has never been more pressing.
- 05.10.2010 How to... recruit temporary staff through an agency
With more than one million temporary agency workers in the UK, businesses are well aware of the advantages that a flexible workforce brings, especially in times of, to use an adage, "economic uncertainty".
- 08.09.2010 How to... write a business case
Money. People. Time. Most senior HR professionals want more of those, so they can do the things they need to do: recruitment, internal campaigns, change programmes.
- 09.07.2010 How to... spot bullying at work
Identifying bullying, particularly in managers, is a difficult skill. The problem with bullying is that it can’t usually simply be spotted – it’s a much more insidious set of toxic behaviours displayed by a person who uses their personal and professional power to crush the power of others.
- 07.06.2010 How to... calculate the return on L&D
For many learning and development (L&D) professionals, the primary criteria used to measure the success of learning and development programmes are the “happy sheets”
- 22.04.2010 How to... manage leaders’ anxiety
Anxiety is a natural and unavoidable emotion and can be a key driver of dysfunctional behaviour.
- 12.03.2010 Homeworking
Practical tips on how to ensure that homeworking will benefit your business.
- 12.03.2010 Preventing insider fraud
Most fraudulent acts are committed by employees. How to avoid it?
- 12.03.2010 Create a climate for innovation
Leaders at all levels can manage the complexity of total organisational innovation by the way they lead their people.
- 11.03.2010 Middle managers motivation
Middle managers are often overlooked when it comes to training and development and can feel forgotten about.