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Been made redundant

Have you been made redundant?

It’s hard to ignore that the World is in the grips of a crisis. Times like this often lead to people experiencing redundancy and losing our jobs.

Bad communication ruined your day?

Bad communication ruined your work day?

A key part of successfully managing your career is building good relationships with others – which is why developing effective communication skills is so crucial.

Broken recruitment

Broken recruitment: Make do or mend?

Recruitment can sometimes feel like a merry-go-round – as one person gets on, another gets off.

Communication is the key to career success

Communication: the key to career success

If you really want to start managing your own career, rather than sitting on the sidelines, the most obvious thing to do is to have a word with your boss.

Important conversation at work? Choose your moment carefully

Don’t you hate it when you try to talk to someone at work about something that’s bothering you and the communication goes wrong?

effective staff retention

Effective staff retention: why personalisation is the key

Staff retention is the biggest issue at board level – at least that’s what I’m hearing every day from my clients in businesses both large and small. With the UK facing a skills shortage, too many companies are chasing too few employees, and as a result, many tell me they’re struggling to attract the right…
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Change can be scary

Career Change can be scary, but don’t let it manage you

Career change can be scary, but it can also be an incredible opportunity to re-evaluate what it is you really want from your career. Whether you’ve been made redundant, or decided to leave your job of your own accord, managing a major change in your career can be challenging. There are so many different decisions…
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Thinking about a career change? Why the grass might not always be greener

Before you make a career change and leap into the unknown, just take a minute – those new pastures might not be quite as lush as you think

diveristy and inclusion - make a change

Diversity and Inclusion: Is it the key to solving the crisis in recruitment?

Sam’s* a 35-year-old office worker. Her experience of diversity and inclusion is negative and her career seems to have stalled. She’s bright, capable, skilled and experienced, but she hates her job. At work, she feels undervalued and excluded. She’s also frustrated that she’s not able to realise her true potential. She’d like to leave, but…
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retaining new employees

Retaining new employees… it’s a rollercoaster!

Hiring is much like a rollercoaster, it’s full of twists and turns… How can we be retaining new employees effectively, beyond the first 90 days?