#HRMixtape2018 #HRMixtape Thanks Mark Hendy for this fab idea! Here is my mixtape in the key of understanding…. Much of what happens in work and in HR is about people being people, doing people stuff with other people, of course there is much that is about policies, transactional doing stuff, process and suchlike but it... Continue Reading →
Step out of the comfort zone
I recently had the pleasure of being asked to do the keynote opening presentation at a conference, my subject was Employee Engagement, Employee Wellbeing and the impact on Productivity AND how people analytics can help measure all of these. I am pretty comfortable with all areas of this presentation. However, my audience was not my... Continue Reading →
Long live the EVP!
In our March 2017 blog “The EVP is Dead” we talked about the classic Employee Value Proposition, why communication is important and how to start building your EVP. This blog can be found here - https://cloud9people.blog/2017/03/08/the-evp-is-dead/ In this blog, we want to talk about using technology to take your company EVP communication to the next... Continue Reading →
Change – The writing is on the wall
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 →
A Question to end all questions... When it comes to analytics there is only one metric your company needs to figure out, the rest should flow through naturally: How does your company's data-cycle serve you? - usually met with scepticism, or blank faces, when I ask this. - I think the reason why people... Continue Reading →
Analytics is … Culture
Not sure why you need an employee wellbeing offering?
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 →
10 things we learned about being a start-up
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 →
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2 – THE GRITTY REBOOT
Or - Are all the current new ways just revamped old ways? 26 years ago it was 1991, I was 16 years old, the UK was in recession, unemployment was at its highest since 1988 and the Institute of Personnel Management (one of the institutes that would later become the CIPD) released a book called "The... Continue Reading →
The EVP is dead…
...long live the EVP! Wait....what is an EVP? An employee value proposition (EVP) is a way of looking at the whole package you offer your employees, not just how much you pay them but something more holistic. There are a number of models but at Cloud9 People we follow the model set down by Henk Verhoek Reward... Continue Reading →
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