by Rachel Goodman | Jan 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Less than 10% of new parents are taking advantage of the opportunity to share what used to be mum’s Maternity Leave with the new Shared Parental Leave rights since its introduction in April 2015. It’s possibly a pretty complex process for new parents to...
by Rachel Goodman | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! Do you have your New Year Resolutions in place yet? How about adding a few of these to that list? Spend some time this year planning your employment strategy. It is time well spent but it is often a “luxury” that we don’t allow ourselves. It will...
by Rachel Goodman | Dec 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Personnel Today always publish a useful round up of upcoming employment law changes – so here’s the heads up for 2017. To be honest many of those anticipated changes won’t have a significant impact on your small business but there are a few you...
by Rachel Goodman | Dec 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
Fun seems like an apt topic for a pre-Christmas post and it fits with one of our favourite any time of year workplace philosophies too – the FISH! principles. We’ve just downloaded this resource from HRZone and BrightHR – it’s a neat little...
by Rachel Goodman | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
It wouldn’t be a festive Christmas without the inevitable doom mongering HR post about the risks and pitfalls of staff enjoying themselves just a little too much at your festive gathering…so here it is! All joking aside, there are some points in this...
by Rachel Goodman | Dec 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Setting goals for 2017 with your employees? Interesting article in Entrepreneur about how to fail at goal setting with your staff. Worth a read! In summary – to succeed (as we prefer a more positive approach!): Be specific and ensure that the goals are clearly...