Fairness and Information & Consultation
Overcoming Resistance to Best Practice Often, when I enter a room of employee forum representatives who I’m going to be training on Best Practice in organisational change, I’ll get a bit of resistance...
View ArticleSome legislative updates for 2014 – TUPE; Conciliation
I’ve attended a couple of legislation updates recently, and picked up some interesting information about both TUPE and conciliation, which I thought I’d share with you. Conciliation It is now...
View ArticleSome Reading for the New Year…
I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been hard at work on my book, Employee Engagement: a little book of Big Ideas. It’s coming out in January or February – I’ll keep you posted. But, that doesn’t mean...
View ArticleHow to Speak to Employees about Change
City Link may have had good reasons for going into administration on Christmas – but what reason could it have had for not sharing that information with its staff well in advance? I can only assume...
View ArticleHow to Speak to Senior Managers about Change
Men make their own history, but not under circumstances of their own choosing. Change, by its very nature, is hard for most people. So how do you talk to senior managers about changes that might be...
View Article10 Years of Information & Consultation
When I moved to London in 2008, the Information and Consultation of Employees Directive (ICE) had only been in place in the UK for three years. At the time, the IPA‘s research showed that only one in...
View ArticleCommunication is the Key to Engagement
People often link personal opinion or preference with decision-making. The same way in which I might decide to have strawberry ice cream because that’s my personal preference, people might think a...
View ArticleAutumn 2015 Employment Law Round-Up
Autumn is well and truly upon us – and with autumn, come employment law updates. Eversheds has a great summary of upcoming changes (and unlike myself, they’re solicitors). Perhaps the one update which...
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