Dawn Smedley – True Strength
As part of my True Strength project, I'm featuring interviews that dig deep into how people succeed and I was delighted to interview Dawn Smedley of O.C. Tanner alongside her manager Ian Feaver. The i ...
Feedback would happen all the time if we spoke the truth with positive intent
Feedback would happen all the time if we spoke the truth with positive intent. My contribution to the #FeedbackCarnival
True Strength? Only one person has your success secrets – you
How do you find success secrets? Well, you can't as success depends on who you are and what you want. However, we can find inspiration in real stories of success and I'm working on a project - True St ...
Mental Health First Aid
Some reflections on attending the MHFA England Standard course, training in Mental Health First Aid.
Be grateful – Real stories of gratitude in Britain
This 30-minute documentary from The Jubilee Centre for Characters and Virtues is well worth watching, and contains a great mix of real stories of gratitude interspersed with an academic reflection on ...
Apprenticeships – Ambitions realised
Originally published at theHRDIRECTOR, three personal experiences of working with Apprentices.
HRevent15 – How the Red Arrows develop a high performing team
My blog post on a session at #hrevent15 where Jas Hawker shared his experiences as Red Arrows team leader, looking at what we can learn from those experiences to develop really high performing teams.
HREvent15 – Staff engagement and wellbeing – is it core business?
My blog post on a session at #hrevent15 where Dame Carol Black (Expert adviser on Health & Work, Department of Health and Public Health) talked about the importance of wellbeing and what we can do to ...
Victim to Victor
How do we know if we have a victim in our midst during our coaching interactions? In fact, what do we really mean by the term 'victim'? We are used to hearing this in connection to crime, but in coach ...
Diversity: Valuing people for what they are
There is a real lack of diversity in many organisations, which is a serious issue. We need to take action to fix the root cause of this, not just the symptoms.
Performance Management role-play
Performance Management is really important but no amount of process will make the right conversations happen. Managers need to be equipped to have great conversations with people. These role-plays pre ...
Performance Management is broken? OK, what do we do about it?
There are a myriad of articles, blog posts and research reports suggesting that performance management is broken. Something that is of vital importance to people and organisations is often done quite ...