Everything you need to know, and nothing more!

You employ staff, you’re not quite happy with how things are going but you just keep putting off dealing with the real issues. The water level is rising and you’re feeling the strain. Out of date contracts? High turnover of staff? Low productivity? Poor management? Disengaged staff? Sound familiar?! It’s unlikely to get better on […]

Today I spent some time with Jayne, our Director of HR Services to ask questions such as “why HR?”, “why Guardian?” and “why pick Jayne as your first point of call for HR services?”

My joy at being given this opportunity was crushed and replaced instead with an overwhelming feeling of dread and nausea every morning as I drove to work.
Looking back, I recognise that my line manager simply wasn’t skilled or experienced enough to deal with the situation and was avoiding confrontation; he was also let down by our employer.

Don’t get too excited, I know it’s Valentine’s Day but this isn’t a marriage proposal! It’s a call to get engaged with the people in your business. If you want to experience the honeymoon period with them again, you’ve got to plan the engagement party first, otherwise your workforce may leave you at the altar! OK, […]

Remember those plans that we created at the start of the year? The pressure of it being a new year and a new decade. How are you getting on with your goals and objectives? How many changes or improvements have you made in your business? I made BIG plans and set really tight deadlines for […]

Imagine that someone offered to buy your business for £1BN, but obviously the offer would be subject to due diligence. How would that make you feel? Confident – or panicky about how quickly you can get your house in order?!

Hi! I see you. Going through the motions of being the boss of your business, in a role that you don’t enjoy anymore, but feeling like you have to do it. Because it’s your business.  This isn’t what you signed up for when you started this journey, is it?   You’ve been successful and recruited a […]

The government are set to introduce new rules which will have an impact on the tax reforms to the IR35 rules and termination payments.    IR35 Status For some time now there have been calls for HMRC to clarify the rules that apply to a self-employed contractor operating through an intermediary, such as a limited company. […]

Most employers are aware that there are certain interview questions that are strictly off limits but, speaking with a client last week about delivering some recruitment and selection training to their management team, I was reminded that some interviewers still blunder innocently into no-go areas without intending to.   Our client told me about one of […]

World Afro day was celebrated on 15th September this year. The aim of this day is to change the negative perception of afro hair and encourage people to celebrate it instead.  Following a couple of US states banning discrimination against natural hair, people in the UK have also called for similar laws to be put […]