We all need our daily bread. And pasta. And toilet roll. Recent and current scenes of empty supermarket shelves and shoppers fighting over basic food stuffs ...

As I write this article, the World Health Organisation has declared Coronavirus a pandemic, with over 200,000 cases worldwide now identified. As a human bein...

For better or worse, Wellbeing is all around us. Some organisations have embraced it with open arms, others with an element of uncertainty, some with resist...

The Social Value Act (SVA) has been in force since 2013. A small Act of Government, this has slipped completely under the radar of the majority of businesses...

Flexible working might not be considered a classic Social Responsibility issue. Businesses who have embraced a culture of flexible working are seeing improve...

For anyone who’s not come across the term, Ghosting is where someone that you’re recruited doesn’t turn up to work on their first day. Irritating? Supremely....

How many of us take a deep breath and become somebody else as we walk through the door at work? I know I’ve been guilty, for a variety of reasons, but the re...

Greggs recently announced record-breaking sales, topping £1bn in 2018. I was fortunate enough to hear Ian Gregg speak at a fantastic LA23NET event on Tuesday...

Many industries face skills shortages. The reasons for these can be complex. Some industries (many technological companies) are young, highly developmental a...

Most of us won’t have thought about our legacy. If we have, most likely it’s from a personal perspective, thinking about family and friends after we’ve gone...

Recent reading into the complexity of modern slavery started a debate over a Friday bottle of wine in our house, and, having heard the criteria, a friend que...

Modern Slavery – it’s talked about everywhere you look nowadays, but I hold my hand up and admit that I had to do some reading around this one to really unde...

Thinking of setting up a Charity Partnership? Here's a short 'how to' vid with some easy steps. Approach it professionally and both parties will get great ...

Following a discussion thread on LinkedIn this morning (thank you @JaneBinnion) it was interesting to see Mattel’s take on female entrepreneurship. As I was ...

In this blog I’m talking about Industry reputation and how this affects recruitment of staff. Do you know the reputation of the sector you work in? Does it a...

In this video and blog I’m talking about losing employees who’ve relocated to the area because they or their families haven’t settled. So it’s nothing to do w...

Here's a short video clip talking about recruitment challenges, particularly around the changing perceptions of the millennial generation (and Gen Z for that...