In such a time of uncertainty and both personal and professional challenges, how can HR teams keep their line managers positively engaged, especially when so many are remote managing (possibly for the first time)? Danny Harmer from Aviva and Steph Davies from...
What is agile leadership? How do you identify companies that deliver it and what types of characteristics do they have? Stephen Sidebottom and Clare Hayward explore this in the latest edition of 'In the Spotlight,' a HR podcast brought to you by the Guild of HR...
How resilient is your payroll offering? In today’s volatile business environment, payroll teams face unprecedented challenges that demand innovative solutions. In this video, Chris Howard discusses these issues with Adam Morris from the HR transformation team,...
In the second of a two-part HR on the Offensive podcast with our partners Norton Rose Fulbright (you can read part one here), we discussed the issues of furlough and redundancy for HR teams and the businesses they operate within. Once again Cathy and Chris from LACE...
What legal considerations do you need to make when bringing back furloughed workers? How much notice do you need to give to inform a furloughed worker of a return date? What can those workers do when on leave and what are the logistics of part-time working? What about...
How have businesses reacted to their resource plans during the global pandemic? How important will employer brand be post the current crisis? What creativity in resourcing has this global pandemic delivered? Andrew Wilkinson from Peoplescout and Sally Talbot from Per...
In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners sat down (virtually) with Paul Griffin, Head of Employment at Norton Rose Fulbright, to talk about some of the challenges HR teams are facing from a legal perspective as organisations return...
How has the covid-19 crisis impacted the search for leaders? How have views on leadership and identifying leaders changed during this time? Is 'trust' the new frontier for businesses when it comes to empowering their leaders and line managers? Which leaders have...
How do you adapt the workplace to meet your colleagues' needs in this current climate? Do you have a hybrid wellbeing offering? How do you make home-based workers feel fully included in wellbeing programmes? What are your plans for holiday rollover and how do you deal...
A recent McKinsey article reported that ‘we have vaulted five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption in a matter of around eight weeks’. With the event of Covid-19, workforces have suddenly been required to adapt to remote ways of working. Many need...
How much of what the government has set out for returning to work are 'rules' and how much are 'guidelines' for HR teams and employers to deliver on? What happens to those people with childcare arrangements that are concerned with going back to work? ...
Master of the Guild Paul Hucknall talks to Chris Howard and Annette Andrews about how his business - Quilter - has adapted quickly to moving from an office-based environment to a remote workplace, touching on policies, support, but also how their leaders have adapted...
Change is afoot! Business, and society at large, is on the cusp of a new and never seen before challenge; a challenge that will create unprecedented levels of uncertainty and will alter organisations as we know them. To navigate these stormy seas, businesses will need...
What will the office of the future look like when everybody returns back to work? Will there be creative and news ways of utilising space? Will businesses need as much space? How can you social distance in a lift designed to get 20 people in it and up to the 20th...
In the second episode of the 'In the Spotlight' series from the Guild of HR Professionals, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, talks about how HR needs to position the 'human' at the centre of the business after the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to subside. HR needs to come...
