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 →
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 →
Could closing the Gender pay gap help mens health?
This is a place holder really, a place to hold an idea until I can test the hypothesis, if you can help or have already looked at this I'd love to hear from you. I wrote this tweet about the gender gap around mental health and suicide rates. Tweet can be found here It got me... Continue Reading →
Insert gender pay click bait here…
There is a lot in the press at the moment about the imminent requirement for companies with over 250 employees to declare their gender pay gap figure. You will have seen attention grabbing headlines like Women are working two hours for free each week And Men earn 14% more than their female counterparts All of which... Continue Reading →
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