
How to make the most of #cipdace 2019
My thoughts on how to make the most of the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition - #cipdace - 2019, including by coming to the fringe event on Modern Slavery!

Anne Cooper – True Strength Podcast – Episode 15
As part of my True Strength project, I’m featuring interviews that dig deep into how people succeed and I was delighted to interview Anne Cooper and provide a space for Anne to share her story. Clifto ...

My personal reflections from Street Wisdom at #CelebratingPeople19
As a coach, I spend much of my time helping other people to pause and reflect but - ironically (or perhaps hypocritically) - I don’t do quite enough of that myself. So, I was delighted to book onto a ...

Nicky Ingham – True Strength Podcast – Episode 13
A podcast interview with Nicky Ingham about her journey, about overcoming challenges, about strengths, weaknesses, resilience, and wellbeing.

Time to Talk – My perspective and personal experience
My experiences of the value in making time to talk, both on resilience workshops that I run as well as my personal experiences whilst dealing with grief.

Jennifer Hulme – True Strength Podcast – Episode 12
As part of my True Strength project, I’m featuring interviews that dig deep into how people succeed and I was delighted to interview Jennifer Hulme. The interview has lots of insights into how Jenn su ...

#HRD18 – HR’s Essential Role In The New World Of Work – Josh Bersin
Josh opened by saying that what HR are doing today is more important that it has ever been in the 25 years that he’s been working. 47% of today’s jobs will be gone in 10 years, 41% of the workforce pa ...

#HRD18 Engaging Workforce Cultures – Kevin Ames – O.C. Tanner
We can’t ‘drive engagement’ and force people to engage, but we can influence greatness. Kevin opened with the story of Alex Scott, a young girl who was diagnosed with cancer and started a lemonade sta ...

#HRD18 – Getting their Mojo Back: Heathrow’s Journey to Becoming a Great Place to Work
Becky Ivers (People Director – Expansion, Heathrow) started by talking about ‘The magic of mojo’; about how Hetahrow is a complex area (the size of Reading, with a large number of employees and lots o ...

#HRD18 – Putting OD at the Heart of HR – Lesley Swarbrick- Time Inc
We star with an interactive session, dividing into groups based on which of the following four topics we feel drawn to: Discuss what Organisation Development means to you HR practitioners shou ...

#HRD18 – The Power of Onlyness – Unlocking Purpose and Wild Ideas – Nilofer Merchant – @nilofer
Nilofer Merchant opens her keynote with a very personal story of how her family demanded that she have an arranged marriage, and of rebelling against her family’s desire to put her in pre-defined boxe ...

The truth can set you free
Feedback is key to improvement for both people and teams, but seems to be an elusive commodity at times. My model of compassionate truth helps to make sense of what needs to be said.