Mirror, Mirror on The Wall - Are Women Judged More on Appearance When They’re Job Hunting?

05 / 02 / 2016

When you are recruiting there are a number of different ways of collecting data so that you can get the right candidate. I used to work for a delightfully eccentric man at one time. During my interview with him we ended up talking about types of organic mulch, green manures and composting; I’m sure my “muck to brass” gardening techniques...

Machine or Organism?

03 / 02 / 2016

Take a moment and think how you would characterise your company; as a machine, or an organism? Your answer has significant consequences. The machine view is that your company is made up of a collection of gears, cams, cogs, levers and buttons, connected so as to achieve a coherent result. It operates in a repeatable and predictable pattern, and although...

Saying Farewell

01 / 02 / 2016

This year – this month, in fact - there have been an extraordinary number of deaths of prominent and popular people: David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Glenn Frey, Paul Kantner, Ed Stuart and now Terry Wogan. It’s been a very sad time and of course our thoughts are with their families. While death is always with us, it’s always a shock...

Getting Redundancy Right

29 / 01 / 2016

It’s never very nice having to tell people that they’re at risk of redundancy. And there are all sorts of things that can go wrong from a legal point of view. Getting it wrong can mean that you end up in court. Many employers don’t realise that redundancy is a dismissal and subject to the same rules as any other...

Five Tips for Managing Workplace Stress

27 / 01 / 2016

Stress is a common everyday circumstance but, like all emotions and state of minds, it can be controlled, as well as a positive thing. Life places demand on us all – from work demands to the requests from school, the children, partners, friends, families and so on. Jackie Price, Managing Director of Onsite Plus, discusses stress, where it comes from...