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The CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition is over for another year. Last Wednesday and Thursday, HR folk came from far and wide to immerse themselves in conference sesssions and events related to this year's theme: Embracing the New World of Work. Embrace: 1. Accept (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically. 2. Hold (someone)... Continue Reading →
Session B2 - Aligning your Approach to Employee Feedback with your Engagement Strategy. Since starting to work in the field of employee experience myself, I'm seeing first hand the fall from favour of the traditional model annual (or even longer interval) engagement survey. With the pace of organisational, technological and societal change increasing seemingly by... Continue Reading →
In my last blog I mentioned the exhibitors who will be at the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition, who want to share their products and services with you. Sure, it's their job to be there, but 2 days exhibiting is a hard slog. It requires planning, dedication and above all tactics to keep going until... Continue Reading →
This year's CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition will be my third. It will be my first time on a CIPD BlogSquad and there's no bigger gig than ACE (no pressure then...). To say I am chuffed is something of an understatement. This is important to me, not just because I love running around exhibitions, meeting... Continue Reading →
I've been thinking a lot about change recently and more importantly why change fails to land in business. Change fails for many reasons I guess but I want to concentrate here on a few things I have seen. I wrote a blog a while ago on performance appraisals and the hype around companies removing them because... Continue Reading →
This week (on Thursday), the Cloud9 People Team will be picking up a Lotus Award. The Lotus Awards recognise companies with great cultures and employee engagement. We will be sharing the stage with some big household names and we couldn’t be more delighted to have been recognised in this way, at such an early stage... Continue Reading →
At the CIPD London Future of Work conference last Monday we were asked in the keynote speech “Would you want a hug from a robot?”. The rise of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on the future of work is a theme gaining increasing momentum and attention. I am told that... Continue Reading →
Wellbeing has stopped being a buzzword now however I am always amazed at the amount of companies that do not have in place an offering around wellbeing for their employees. I’m going to apologise now for the fact that this is a long and rambling article – but please stick with it! What is wellbeing?... Continue Reading →
As we come to the 2nd anniversary of Cloud9 People and get ready to year 3 we've reflected on what we've learned over the last 2 years of being a start-up in the HR consultancy and People technology space. 1. Network...hard Networking is so important to your business, you'll meet amazing people and see what... Continue Reading →
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