The long-term outcomes for businesses are going to be tightly interwoven with how their people are managed through and out the other side of this crisis. Arguably, people management has never been so complex, and leadership never more challenging. This global crisis...
The concept of ‘employee engagement’ is often subject to misperception. ”It’s just for big businesses with hundreds of employees”. “We don’t have the budget to give our employees any more benefits”. ”Our employees are well paid and we have no complaints”. That sort of...
You can put all the main safeguards of risk in place, but people make the magic happen. And if people are not feeling particularly magic about your business, all of the de-risking strategies you’ve put in place could very easily go wrong. If your employees don’t...
There was a time when computerised staff records were a fantasy for all but the largest of employers, and SMEs were expected to carry on with a haphazard system of spreadsheets, paper records and post-it notes. Thankfully that time has gone. Today, a world of...
If you’re a busy small to medium-sized business owner, or hoping to become one, the words ‘Human Resources’ may make you want to run a mile. Policies (ugh!), employment legislation (yawn!), procedures (aargh!). But, the reality is that not taking HR seriously can...
You’ll notice that I’ve used the phrase ‘creating a network’ rather than ‘networking’. I don’t know about you, but when I used to think about networking it always conjured up visions of ‘selling’, of highly confident, established people ‘doing business’ together...
