Virgin Group’s benefits review shows how listening, inclusion, and smart trade-offs can create cost-neutral benefits employees love and engage with.

Roland Butcher, the first Black cricketer to play for England, shares his remarkable journey from professional sport to coaching and leadership. In this blog, Roland reflects on resilience, adaptability, and the power of feedback, offering practical lessons that apply both on the cricket pitch and in the workplace.

Great leaders don’t just manage, they discover. In this blog, we explore how leading with empathy and compassion - like an archaeologist - helps you uncover what’s really going on beneath the surface. Dig deeper. Lead with care.

Global employee engagement is stalling, and leaders are in the spotlight. In this blog, I explore why disengagement is costing the world $8.8 trillion, and what leaders can do about it.

Explore the Learning Wheel, the four elements that leaders can use to help their people grow and learn. These include feedback, appreciation, development and coaching.

99.6% of people say they’ve had a bad boss . . . . which statistically means that we’ve all probably BEEN one too (Yep, even you!). In most cases it’s unintentional, we slip into what we call bad boss personas. In this blog we share 4 steps to help you step out of a bad Boss persona.

Leadership isn’t just about what you say or do - it’s about the shadow you cast. One that influences your team today, and another that lingers, shaping future leaders long after you’re gone. Are you casting the right shadow?

From 2.2 to 4.2 on Glassdoor! Wurzak Hotel Group’s culture transformation shows the power of intentionality, creativity and teamwork.

Inspiration is the invisible fuel that motivates and powers your people. Read how Blue Lagoon Iceland did this in the midst of volcanoes.

We're all are going to take on bad boss traits at some point in time. Here's a tale of when this happened to me.

In this blog I share 4 differences between incentives and recognition, helping you use them both in the most meaningful and effective ways.

John Good Group's 'Living the Dream' program offers employees the opportunity to make a dream a reality completely on them.

4 ways that First Bus use recognition to show appreciation to their employees, doing it in their own way.

Communicating to your employees is easy, right? All you have to do is share words and concepts, how hard can it be? Well according to one...

Tips to help you decide which company values to invite to the 'table,' ones that drive the right actions and behaviors to help you succeed.

This blog examines 3 monsters that are created when you design your reward programs wrong, and tips to help get it right.

I firmly believe that the majority of bosses do not intentionally set out to be a bad boss. They don’t wake up in the morning, get...

When chatting to my 21-year old son the other day, I asked him how his first proper job was going. Expecting the usual one-word response,...

Let me be honest and say that I am a rubbish gardener. My heart is in it, but I lack the skills and knowledge to do it effectively. What...

I’m a big believer that recognition is a team sport, with every employee having a critical role to play. In my book Appreciate it! The...

Explore 7 myths about bad bosses, the misconceptions that get in the way of us being a great boss.

Building (or rebuilding) an employee recognition program can be one of the most rewarding things we have the pleasure of doing as HR...

How do you know how to use development tools? We share 5 tips to help you use the right tools to deliver the right results.