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- David Fairhurston April 20, 2020
Optimism and The Future Leader
For his inspiring new book – The Future Leader – Jacob Morgan interviewed over 140 of the world's top CEOs and surveyed nearly 14,000 people to identify the nine skills…
- David Fairhurston April 1, 2020
Driving A Cultural Transformation
Employee wellbeing is rising up the corporate agenda and in this article I have written for Training Journal I explain why I think L&D practitioners have a pivotal role to…
- David Fairhurston March 31, 2020
15 years after ‘Why We Hate HR’
In 2005, Fast Company magazine published its infamous ‘Why We Hate HR’ article which stated that “the human-resources trade long ago proved itself, at best, a necessary evil – and…
- David Fairhurston March 27, 2020
Predicting the future of retention and engagement
Retention and Engagement will be key challenges for organisations in the month’s ahead. In my February 2015 HR Magazine column I predicted that “retention and engagement may well prove to…
- David Fairhurston March 26, 2020
Focus on the positive
It's all too easy in the current climate to focus on the negative. Here's a clip from a presentation I gave at the London Business Forum which shares why HR needs…
- David Fairhurston January 15, 2020
Financial Wellbeing
Organisations need to think differently about the workplace experience they are creating for their employees - and one area which stands out to me as being ripe for innovation is…