Part of our work is sitting with senior people who have just been exited. They talk, and they are honest, because there is nothing left to protect. Six or twelve months later, those same people…
Here’s something we see all the time. Someone on a team resigns. Their manager now has a role to fill, and going out to market right now is slow and hard work. So before an…
Something came up in a session with one of our program participants recently that we hear almost every time. She is a senior people and culture leader. Twenty years of experience, restructures, national teams, the…
It is Thursday morning. You are in the middle of something. Your phone rings, you do not recognise the number, and you answer it. It is a recruiter, calling about a role you applied for…
Most people do not lose interviews because they lack experience. They lose them because of how they describe the experience they already have. Words like only, just, a little bit and basic shrink real work…
There is a particular feeling that shows up in the middle of a career change. You look around at where you thought you would be by now, or where others seem to be, and a…
If someone asked you today what your goals are and what gives you a sense of purpose, could you answer? A while ago, one of the HR professionals we work with sat down to do…
Here is something you already know from the other side of the desk, but that is easy to forget when you are the one looking: a lot of hiring never touches a job board. You…
Not much has changed in the last 20 years. And it will stay the same for the next 20 if organisations and society do not take action soon. The national gender pay gap has hovered…
I wanted to share this podcast by Simon Sinek as he covers my favourite topic of how parents job satisfaction drives bullying tendencies of children. He talks at length about this in his podcast Love your…