With exquisite timing, April is stress awareness month and the current COVID-19 global pandemic is potentially one of the most stressful situations many of us will ever face. Stress can have a significant impact on us, both physically and mentally. It can also affect our thinking and behaviour, which makes us more likely to get […]
Category: HR Magazine | Thursday 23 April 2020 | Author: Anna ShieldsIn these extraordinary times, leaders have a critical role to play in identifying and resolving struggles. By Anna Shields Director and co-founder Consensio Nowhere has been left untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic and FMCG is one of the sectors most affected, putting organisations and their staff under intense pressure. The huge, unplanned fluctuations in demand across the consumables […]
Category: FMCG CEO | Tuesday 21 April 2020 | Author: Anna ShieldsUnresolved workplace conflict can have a serious effect in any organisation. But in healthcare, where it has the potential to put lives at risk, the effective management of conflict is particularly critical. The NHS is one of the world’s largest employers and conflict in the workplace is never far from the surface. Only recently, a Royal […]
Category: The HR Director | Tuesday 14 April 2020 | Author: Anna ShieldsWith schools potentially out for summer, the practical challenges of managing a remote workforce and supporting managers to deal with their own teams have just got even more difficult. From dropped video calls to managing expectations around working with children at home, how can HR professionals cope? For HR departments across the UK, Monday (23 March) […]
Category: Personnel Today | Tuesday 24 March 2020 | Author: Alice MitchellWhen looking to develop your mediation skills in the workplace, we could all learn something from the Japanese way of communication, which embraces ambiguity and complexity. To me, a British mediator, it is obvious that the best way to handle a dispute is to talk about it. Well, it was obvious until I moved to […]
Category: HR Zone | Monday 9 March 2020 | Author: Tania Coke
