How can you recognise the employee’s lifetime value, ensure that your team are still fit for purpose and still keep control of the training purse strings? This article looks at how you can be smarter with a leaner budget. As the economy struggles more and more the squeeze on budgets inevitably hits training and organisations…

I never intended to run my own business, and in all honesty, if I had thought about it too much and planned it, I am not sure that I would have done it. As Mark Twain so delicately put it, “If you have to eat a live frog, don’t look at it for too long!”…

Imagine this was the last day of your life. Would you be reminiscing about how wonderful it had been, what an exciting journey you have had, how you lived every moment with joy and had the ride of your life? Or will you regret all the things that you didn’t do because you were afraid…

Menopause is rarely a topic of open discussion in the workplace ‒ despite the fact that nearly half of the world’s population experiences or will experience this biological transition, which marks the end of a woman’s menstrual cycle and fertility. Menopause has always been around, but menopausal women are now the fastest growing workforce demographic.…

Why aren’t there enough women in Executive Teams? And what can women do NOW to ensure the storming of the boardroom happens? As a coach to many senior women and the founder of the RISE Empowering Women’s Programme, this is a key debate that I regularly encounter. In a whole variety of organisations that we…

How can we really encourage men to be allies to women in a world where everyday sexism is still rife? There is a lot of discussion around being allies at the moment. Some of this has emerged due to #Blacklivesmatter and the realization that being anti-racist is critical, rather than just ‘not being racist’. Following…

As the world starts transitioning from lockdown home working to returning to the workplace, is Hybrid-working the Holy Grail we have all been looking for, or is it riddled with pitfalls for HR and Leaders? Here are our 5 steps for making it work. As organizations begin the change into a hybrid or agile working…

Female breadwinners. Is this the future in working partnerships? Or will the ultimate juggling act prove to be too much for mothers? A steady shift is occurring, where women are gradually outearning their male partners. A study by the Office for National Statistics showed that the percentage of households in which the female partner earns…

Generational differences in the workplace are a particular type of diversity that often goes ignored. While many companies focus on improving diversity and inclusion, age-based stereotypes remain across industries and organizations of every size. Understanding and managing generational differences in the workplace requires the same approach as improving any other type of diversity. We now…

As today is International Women’s Day it would be satisfying to celebrate and report on more women in the boardroom, but progress is still slow. But even worse than the glass ceiling is the lesser-known term the glass cliff. With the pandemic having pushed more businesses into crisis, the number of high-risk leadership roles to…