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Are Younger Workers at Risk of Losing Intellectual Curiosity?
For generations, employers have looked to younger workers as a source of fresh thinking, creativity, and intellectual energy. Early-career employees have often challenged conventional wisdom, asked difficult questions, and brought new perspectives into the workplace. But as generative AI becomes embedded into everyday life, a new question is emerging for business leaders: could unlimited access […]
Should Employees Have a Relationship with Generative AI?
Workplace relationships are changing, and it can feel like we’ve stepped into a science fiction story. For decades, collaboration meant working alongside managers, teammates, clients, and stakeholders. Today, many employees are adding another working relationship into the mix: generative AI. Whether it is used to draft emails, summarize meetings, generate presentations, analyze data, or brainstorm […]
Why Employers Should Be Concerned About Rising NEETs
For many employers, conversations about talent shortages have become routine. Organizations across industries continue to struggle with recruitment, skills gaps, and workforce planning, while simultaneously trying to adapt to rapid technological and economic change. At the same time, another workforce trend is quietly growing in the background, and this is the rise in young people […]
Are You Showing Candidates the Culture You Claim to Have?
Organizations spend enormous amounts of time crafting employer brands. Career sites are polished. LinkedIn content is carefully curated. Employee Value Propositions are refined into compelling statements about purpose, flexibility, growth, and belonging. But candidates rarely judge organizations by what they say…they judge them by what they experience. And nowhere is that more visible than in […]
When Perks Create Problem: Managing Conflict in Pet-Friendly Workplaces
I have seen firsthand how quickly a well-intentioned perk can evolve into a complex workplace challenge. What begins as a progressive, people-first initiative can (without the right structure) create tension, distraction, and even conflict. A great example of this is the pet-friendly workplace. There’s no question that pet-friendly workplaces are on the rise, albeit still […]
The Most Effective Wellbeing Policy Might be Boring…
With World Wellbeing Week in full-swing, many organizations will naturally be reviewing their wellness offerings. New apps, mindfulness sessions, wellbeing webinars, and employee challenges are likely to feature prominently in the conversation. And there is certainly a place for these initiatives. However, after years working in HR, I’ve come to believe that some of the […]
The Energy Audit: How Employers Can Help Teams Work Smarter, Not Longer
As the summer solstice approaches, it’s a natural moment to reflect on energy. Not just energy from sunlight, but human energy at work. In the workplace setting, we often talk about time, whether that be hours worked, days absent, deadlines met… But increasingly, the real differentiator isn’t actually time, it’s how effectively that time is […]
What We’re Reading: The AI-Driven Leader by Geoff Woods
For this month’s reading pick, we explored one of the biggest questions facing organizations today: how leaders can adapt and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. That led us to The AI-Driven Leader: Harnessing AI to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions by Geoff Woods, a practical and forward-thinking book that examines how AI is reshaping […]
Managing Star Performers: What Employers Can Learn From the World Cup
With the start of the World Cup generating global excitement, I have been reflecting on the parallels between world‑class athletes and high performers in the workplace…and there are surprisingly quite a few. The one that stands out to me is knowing how to support and manage star performers, and this can elevate entire teams, not […]
The Unspoken Trade-Off Behind Pay Transparency
For years, HR leaders have pushed for greater pay transparency, and for good reason. Employees want clarity, fairness, and confidence that compensation decisions are grounded in something more meaningful than negotiation skills or manager discretion. And in today’s labor market, transparency has become both a competitive advantage and, increasingly, a legal expectation. But there’s another […]
Should Employees Be Allowed to Outsource Their Work to AI?
Employees aren’t waiting for formal policies to catch up. They are using AI tools to draft emails, summarize meetings, analyze data, and even produce first drafts of reports. In many organizations, this ‘outsourcing’ of tasks to AI is happening quietly, in the background of everyday work. The real question for employers isn’t whether it should […]
The Business Value of Being Yourself at Work
In conversations with clients, I’ve noticed a subtle but important shift in how organizations talk about authenticity at work. A few years ago, it was framed as a cultural or values-led initiative, but today, leaders are asking the more pragmatic question of ‘does it actually drive business performance’? From where I see it, the answer […]
