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It’s a bit of a dry subject, but we really do need Root Cause Analysis when things go wrong so my advice is to train your people proactively. When the ‘proverbial’ hits we need to be ready to [...]

Brave HR Teams are adept at getting the best value from employees. They know just how to win hearts and minds and they have a knack of combining this with the ability to have a strategic [...]

As the economy picks up, more and more frequently, clients are asking us to help them to develop an HR Team and service that can support business change to a high performance culture and growth. [...]

I work with companies helping them to reorganise, improve and grow.  Every time I go into a new organisation I have to quickly check out what makes the organisation tick, what is their DNA, [...]

I work with businesses that are going through change. When I first roll up my sleeves and begin working with the team, there are a couple of issues that I dive straight into. One is to check [...]

I’m going to keep this really simple. Assessment Centres are a really useful way of recruiting a large number of similar vacancies. I’ve been running them for years and I have penned [...]

When a business is going through change, (and let’s face it, when is a business not going through change) it’s crucial to pull together a staff engagement plan. Now, one of my favourite bosses [...]

The Change Directors and Oliver Thompson Training get together to raise money to launch a Youth Cricket Team in Nottingham Oli Thompson and Ruth Gawthorpe run their own businesses, but they are [...]

Reducing Attrition in One Direction “It’s not that I’ve turned my back on them or anything, it’s just that I just can’t do that anymore because it’s not the real [...]

We in the HR fraternity don’t do ourselves many favours with all of the jargon that we introduce to describe activities that CEO’s view simply as a case of good people management. A case in point [...]