Addressing apprenticeship drop-out with pre-apprenticeship training
Fleur Sexton, Deputy Lieutenant West Midlands and Managing Director of PET-Xi, discusses improving Qualification Achievement Rates (QAR) by providing pre-apprenticeship training… The opportunities apprenticeships provide continue to grow and diversify. As technology drives rapid change to traditional roles in manufacturing, and with a record number of vacancies in the hospitality and care sector, we need to […]
FAST FORWARD TO THE FUTURE: Your guide to future HR trends
By Sympa We live in an era of constant innovation and change, and this is no different for HR. Yet trying to keep up with HR innovations and future trends while managing your day-to-day work can be exhausting. Sounds familiar? Don’t worry! We’ve summarised the latest knowledge on Human Resources trends in this guide to […]
Selecting a Workforce Management System – Advice and tips before you buy
Organisations are becoming more aware of the benefits that Workforce Management Software Solutions can deliver including; automating time-consuming employee management tasks, increasing employee engagement, improving profitability, ensuring compliance, and getting strategic insights into their business. They are replacing the stand-alone, often manual systems used to manage employee hours and working patterns with integrated software-driven Workforce […]
Rising to the challenge of financial wellbeing
By Paul Chedzey, Commercial Director of WorkLife by OpenMoney If ever there was a time to fight for financial wellbeing, this is it. Such is the scale of the cost-of-living crisis, it was always bound to become a hot topic in the workplace too. An overwhelming majority (95%) of firms we engaged with as part […]
How can HR leaders help workers and the bottom line in the middle of a cost of living crisis?
Has it ever been more challenging to be an HR professional? There’s a talent shortage, rapid turnover is rampant, and the cost-of-living crisis is having an effect on everyone. Whilst you may be leveraging every last HR tool in your toolkit to maximise recruitment, retention, and productivity, there’s one tool you might not have considered: […]
Leaders matter most for a better Employee Experience
Leaders are critical to delivering the Employee Experience that your organization is striving for. Your leaders are key to the success of this strategy, as the person who has most influence on the true experience of their team. What underpins this, is the experience you create for those leaders. This is especially important when a […]
Bring energy to your health and wellbeing strategy
Struggling for innovative content for your wellbeing training? Bring energy to your sessions by delving into the big questions that we should all be talking about. Life changes, death and bereavement, life pre-planning and the life you would like to leave behind. Why choose something a little bit different? First of all, life isn’t different, […]
How important is the onboarding experience of your new leaders?
By Anwen Bottois, Purple Sky Consulting Gallup1 research found that only exceptional onboarding experiences matter. For the employees who strongly agreed that they had an exceptional onboarding, 77% said their new role was better than expected and 61% said they felt prepared and fully supported to excel. Those who strongly agreed were two times more […]
Talking about my generation… how to support and motivate a variable age workforce
We understand the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace and how different personality types can think and feel differently. But do you consider the generations in your ways of working and their different communication preferences? Different generations have their own language and it’s likely you are working with diverse groups, so it’simportant to understand […]
The wealth of health: A focus on prevention
Jim Near, Ranjan Das, James Cantalupo. What do these names have in common? They were CEOs of high-profile companies worldwide. Tragically, they all passed away too early due to a disease that is still far too common among CEOs and board members – coronary heart disease. Many HR departments recognise the importance of health and […]