Being up-to-date with the latest recruitment trends is not about being fashionable. It’s not about innovation for innovation’s sake. It’s about making sure your processes are fit for purpose in a changing market, in a changing world. 20th century techniques will not work in […]

“At some point today, you’re going to feel really, really stupid.” This is not, you might think, the most encouraging thing to say at the start of a training workshop. No one, after all, likes feeling stupid. No one enjoys feeling incapable. It undermines […]

2017 has been a puzzling year. A year full of baffling decisions, strange phenomena and bizarre behaviour. Leaving us with lots of questions. Questions like: Did he really just tweet that? Did she really think that was a good idea? Why did the sky […]

We know that organisations with diverse workforces perform better than those that are homogenous. Research conducted by Deloitte in 2012, for instance, identified an 80% improvement in business performance when levels of diversity and inclusion were high. But we know too that recruiting people […]

Technology and austerity, as we know, have driven a number of significant changes to the way we recruit. As budgets have become tighter we’ve turned to new technology to aid our hiring efforts, using more online tools to make things quicker, reduce the resource […]

Why do you go to work? What is it about your job that gets you out of bed of a morning? Is it the money? Is it challenge? Is it the people you work with? Is it the opportunity to make a difference? Or […]

  Is your team stuck in a rut? Going nowhere fast? Sinking into a pit of despair? It can happen when external factors affect your business. Meaning that doing what you’ve always done doesn’t work anymore. When this happens, it’s easy for team morale […]

In this crazy, crazy world we live in, are we asking too much for a leader to adapt their leadership style to suit every situation? Does this require simply too much self-awareness and flexibility when the pace of change is so quick? (Something Theresa […]

What does success look like when it comes to your personal development? How will you know when you’ve achieved what you set out to achieve? Setting yourself the goal of passing your driving test is one thing. Passing your driving test will clearly denote […]

Sometimes I understand what it must be like to be a doctor, or a vet, or a dentist. Because when people discover what I do for a living, they immediately want to bend my ear. Not about a gippy tummy, a moulting dog or […]