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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 […]

People have lived with mental health conditions since time began but it seems that, now more than ever, there is increased awareness and that has to be a good thing, right?  But are we doing enough?  We sent our Head of HR Services, Jayne Dunn, on a Mental Health First Aid* (MHFA) course this week to […]

This week, working parents across the UK will be getting back into their weekday routine as the children go back to school after the long summer holiday, and normality resumes – until the next school holiday! But as an employer, what should you do if any of your employees request term time working? Term time […]