When I asked my website platform to develop some marketing content for me, I was curious what that would mean. Below is an example of one of the blogs it came up with. I've only used one piece of content it created, a simple Facebook post linking to a blog I wrote. On the surface the blog post seems fine. It covers a few areas, and it flags that wellbeing is more than yoga and fruit bowls. It even flags the role of leadership. All things I like and agree with. And yet it fail

In a time when connection is key to our workplaces, how do we keep the good, the positive, and manage the risks during the upcoming silly season? Or in any big event that we do – conferences; celebrations; you get the drift. There is an expectation that we get together and have fun collectively. I’ve recently seen people in person who I haven’t seen before or in while, and there were hugs (almost) all round – consensual hugs of course, and no hugs where there was not the vibe

I’ve recruited some really challenging roles and in really challenging industries in my career. I was reflecting on those at a conference I facilitated a session at recently. Why? Because I saw the barista. Weird but true. I’ve learned some invaluable lessons in recruiting over my career, and I am sharing some of them below.   Many years ago, I was working in the pharmaceutical sector supporting the medical division. We needed to recruit biostatisticians, and they needed to b

Once upon a time, Jack Welch and GE used a performance ranking system that meant the bottom 10% of performers were regularly removed from the company. This was widely reported, written about, and even lauded by many. But let’s call it what it really was: people were fired for being in that bottom 10%. People have said different things about the system, that it motivated people to perform, that it was meritocratic, and so on. I didn’t work there and haven’t experienced it firs