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For decades, the most influential voices in the executive team were typically the CEO, CFO and COO. The CHRO was often invited to discuss hiring, engagement scores, leadership programmes, succession p...

The Problems We Face Have Changed

For decades organisations have been built around solving problems. A problem emerges. We analyse it. We identify root causes. We implement solutions. This approach w...

The leadership challenge nobody is talking about

For decades organisations have invested billions in leadership development, yet the results are difficult to defend. Peter Hawkins famously argued tha...

We Fixed the Processes. Now We Need to Transform the System.

Over the last decade, many organisations have invested heavily in improving:

• employee experience
• talent management
• learning
• workforc
...

HR's Biggest Opportunity in a Generation

Every major technology wave has changed how organisations operate. Few have changed how organisations think about people. Artificial intelligence is different...

"If experience is the product, skills become the platform that powers it."

For more than a century, organisations have been built around jobs. We hire people into jobs using job descriptions, we deve...

For years, organisations have been obsessed with employee engagement. Every year, countless hours are spent analysing survey results and discussing ways to improve engagement scores. Yet despite all t...

For years, HR has been asking organisations to embrace transformation. We have encouraged leaders to rethink strategy, redesign structures, develop new capabilities and prepare for the future of work....

For decades, people strategy was often viewed as a collection of HR initiatives. A talent strategy. A learning strategy. A leadership programme. An engagement survey. A succession planning process. Ea...

For much of my career, organisations have spoken about change as if it were something that happened periodically. A restructuring. A new technology implementation. An economic downturn. A merger. A cr...