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Monday 26 February 2024

February Spotlight 2024 - Making our cities human again

Our bi-monthly Spotlight 2024 sessions were off to a flying start last Friday, as we discussed how to make our cities more human. As always, we selected a thought-provoking topic and explored how it impacted us in terms of how we live and, especially, how we work.

Thursday 22 July 2021

Hybrid working - help or hindrance?

As we begin the tentative return to some kind of new normality with the gradual easing of restrictions in the UK, there’s real uncertainty about what that will mean in terms of where and how we work and how we will manage the transition. Some organisations are demanding a full return to the office, citing the benefits of collaboration and creativity, with others planning to continue with full working from home. But many are embracing the idea of ‘hybrid working’ encouraging employees to work from a mix of home, office and other locations viewing it as a ‘best of both worlds’ option.

Wednesday 24 March 2021

The Art of Work ‘Human at Work’ Symposium 2021 - Staying Human

Who would have thought when we had our first symposium, that this year’s event we would be facing the end of 12 months of lockdown and social distancing and would even have a whole new vocabulary. So our focus for this was firmly on the anniversary of our first lockdown and the loss many of us have experienced over the past twelve months. There’s no doubt this has been ‘unprecedented’ time (a word previously often overused!). So we have tied to capture here the stories and discussion we shared as a reminder for those who joined us and those who couldn’t make it but wanted to hear about what we covered this year.

Thursday 26 November 2020

Go Human - Join the debate!

We are living in days where we yearn for a brighter future as we wrestle with the results of our past. But we have noticed some amazing things happening in 2020, amongst heartache and joy, humanity has yet again risen to a great global challenge.

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Making sense of the new employee deal and workplace - post Covid-19

As we start to see some small and stuttering pockets of normality returning slowly to our organisations, it's easy to believe at some stage, things could just swing back to how they were before; but we believe the momentous events of the past 6 months may mean our working lives will never be quite the same again.

Tuesday 11 August 2020

The new employee deal - post Covid 19 and beyond

As businesses and individuals start looking ahead to what the future may hold for them, we wanted to explore what this means for the employee deal and how we can capture some of the positives from this crisis to make sense of the way we work in the future.

Thursday 11 June 2020

Reimagining the future with 2020 vision

So, as many businesses make preparations for a return to some sense of normality, the timing felt right to take stock and think about what we’ve all experienced during lockdown in the midst of this pandemic and to identify how we feel now and what we need to take from it. We also wanted to take some time together to think about the organisations we work for and with – have they really lived their values through this challenging time or merely paid lip service and expected service to continue as normal? Have our expectations of the workplace ‘deal’ we have or want shifted as a result of this? And what has it demonstrated about how our organisations can work differently in the future.

Saturday 4 January 2020

Our 100% Human Symposium

How do we put the human at the heart of everything we do? This was just one of the core questions we posed at our recent 100% Human Symposium. We came together on the 21st November in the wonderful Seven Dials club in Covent Garden to explore the idea of being more human and what it means in today’s workplace. Our aim was to provide a space for sharing stories and receiving new and powerful perspectives, and from which we could take away some fresh thinking.

Wednesday 8 May 2019

Coaching rewired - rethinking coaching for the 21st century

When we decided on this topic, we originally played with the title 'The Rise and Fall of Executive Coaching' but as we looked deeper, we realised it was more than just executive coaching that was under the microscope. Our clients have been telling us that they are looking for something more and developing our coaching community over the past year, has re-enforced this.

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Being 100% human at work

There are moments of choice for organisations and the ‘100% Human at Work’ movement is now a test for them, but it’s not only attitudes towards employees that are being put into question and assessed, it’s also how we think and deal with our effect on the wider environment as a whole.

Friday 8 June 2018

The art of strengths leadership

If the history of leadership tells us anything, it’s that there has been no shortage of theories on how we lead our organisations and teams. In turbulent times, it’s crucial that we find an approach that helps all of us ‘ride the waves’ and create engaged and aligned organisations to meet the challenge. This means we need more true leaders, not mediocre managers.

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Beyond CSR

In the current world of work, we believe employees of all ages expect to work for organisations with a sense of purpose and passion.

Tuesday 11 July 2017

Let's get digital

Can we embrace technology without becoming it? To keep up with the pace of technology we must be ready to learn new things, and to anticipate the societal and ethical issues that a gig economy brings.

Wednesday 14 December 2016

HR unplugged

Is HR today is truly as agile and collaborative as the current workplace needs and demands or is it time to reflect and redefine what HR today needs to offer in todays modern workplace?

Thursday 10 March 2016

21st century leadership

The world doesn’t need another leadership theory. On Amazon, there are 480,881 books today that have to do with leaders as the topic. If you ask 30 experts to define leadership, you get 31 different answers. No wonder we’re confused.

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Performance management - control, alt or delete?

In the rapidly changing world of work we now face, how well does performance management stand up?

Tuesday 19 May 2015

The 70:20:10 challenge

70:20:10 - Whats all the fuss about blended learning and why do we need to think differently about todays modern learners?

Thursday 26 February 2015

Working without walls

Does our workplace environment really matter and what is the relationship between people and the places they work in today?

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Business partnering - myth or reality?

How successful has business partnering been and is it really fit to meet the challenges of today’s demanding workplace?

Thursday 19 June 2014

The death of talent management

Is talent management delivering what it promised or is there a better way of identifying and nurturing talent for the future?

Monday 24 February 2014

The rise of employee voice

In a world that now actively encourages people to step out of the box and speak up, how do we manage this in our organisations today and yet prevent group think?

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Exploring collaboration

How is the new business world is being shaped by collaboration rather than competition and what are the challenges and benefits of working in a more interconnected way in today's world of work?

Thursday 11 July 2013

The changing world of the specialist

What's the future for career specialists who prefer mastery more than management and how do we engage and support our leading experts within our organisations?

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