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📖 “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙚” tells the all-too-familiar tale of Talent Acquisition and Hiring Managers trying to pass the baton… and occasionally dropping it. If this bedtime story feels a bit too real - and gives you nightmares instead of sweet dreams - you’re not alone. 😉

Workforce planning is often treated like an HR obsession at year-end - a spreadsheet exercise that line managers quietly roll their eyes at. And honestly, I get it. In environments as volatile as ours, planning six months ahead already feels ambitious. Projects shift, funding changes, contracts get delayed, and priorities flip overnight. Unless you’ve secured long-term contracts - or run a monopoly - predicting demand feels almost impossible. But that doesn’t mean planning is

Since I attended my first Women in Nuclear event, I’ve been thinking a lot about how women relate to each other at work. When I Was Starting Out When I was starting my career (some time ago now...), I heard a sentence that stuck with me:   “If you can’t rely on men to get promoted or recognised, you can rely even less on women.” It stung - partly because I didn’t want to believe it, partly because sometimes it felt true. In male-populated industries, we often assume women wil

We spend so much time with the people we work with that watching them go – whether they resign or are let go – can hit harder than we admit. Some of us put so much effort in how we welcome people in our company. But it's often forgotten or done quickly to say goodbye when they leave. So what should leadership say about the departure… and about the departed? In the workplace, transparency matters.   But how much is too much? What should be shared with their direct teammates, a

Back to the (Recruitment) Future   AI is revolutionising our world. We’re not sure yet if we’re heading towards a dystopia. Back in the...

Do you even remember Q1? Neither do I -  yet this is when most companies run yearly evaluations, right when recency bias hits hardest. ...

We all know the saying:   “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” And yet - every day - I see job ads that do exactly that....

In my previous article,   Remote work or not remote work, that is the question , I explored the trade-offs between working from home and...

Shakespeare may not have imagined Zoom calls, but leaders today are still stuck with Hamlet’s dilemma: remote work, or not remote work?...

We all need   5 essentials   to thrive in any social environment, especially at work. David Rock’s   SCARF model   explains it perfectly:...

Neville Longbottom, played by Matthew Lewis, in the first Harry Potter movie An ode to the real unsung heroes - at Hogwarts and at work....

I live and breathe my work - and I love it. It’s not confined to weekdays or office walls; it follows me home, into weekends, even into...

Companies focus so much on giving candidates a neat, fast, smooth process because they want top talent to want them. But here’s what I...

Plenty of companies celebrate diversity. Few understand how it works. They want difference, but they’re not prepared to work with it....

I believe in the power of small changes - especially when it comes to   work habits . One of the best illustrations of this is the  ...

AI-generated image using OpenAI’s Sora This article is not quite a  fable de La Fontaine   – but it does have a shark, a moral, and a...

Community TV Show. The Dean unveiling the school flag… proudly. Unaware it’s wildly inappropriate. A perfect metaphor for the “polished...

Some of us excel at our jobs: we hit targets, get praised. On paper, we’re successful. But we don't love the job (anymore). On the...

This one’s more personal than usual. But I believe it’s a conversation we don’t have enough in our professional lives. To B.A. And to...

A client recently asked me if I could run a workshop on workplace harassment. Hell yes, I can. This is a topic I care deeply about. Why?...