Manager Tips

AI can make career conversations easier by surfacing skills and internal opportunities. This article explores what AI changes, what stays human, and how managers can use insight to guide better conversations.

Career conversations should unlock growth — but too often they’re avoided. This article explores the hidden fear behind the hesitation, and how practical frameworks can build managers’ confidence.

Is loyalty holding your employees back? When long-serving staff feel overlooked, trust begins to erode. This article explores progressive devaluation and how HR leaders can restore value and momentum to every career, no matter how long someone has been with you

Is your workforce quietly cracking? Beneath the surface of steady performance, trust is eroding. Discover how HR leaders can spot the signs and rebuild belief in the future, with visible career support that makes people stay.

Line managers are essential to driving change in organisations - successful transformation can’t happen without them. They have daily conversations with employees and their impact on behaviours is vital. The uncomfortable truth, though, is that line managers are often time poor, working though disruption, and with little training or experience in career conversations.

Has the focus shifted from front line leader training? In his guest blog, David North explores the risks of providing insufficient support.

Resilience was a hot topic long before the Covid-19 crisis hit us. And now, argues Birgit Baldauf, it's more important than ever.

What do organisations and employees have to gain from great workplace conversations? In this blog David North identifies the benefits - and the barriers.