With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We asked our Managing Director, Mike Burgneay, for his...
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Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
Finding the Right Balance: Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...
Making a Business Case for Volume Outplacement
Making a business case for outplacement—especially at scale—can be challenging, even for the most experienced HR leaders. But with redundancy intentions for UK firms at their highest in over 10 years, the need to support employees through transition has never been...
What Are Stay Interviews? Understand in Under 5 Minutes
Stay interviews are often seen as the opposite of exit interviews, which focus on why an employee is leaving. But let’s take a closer look. What are stay interviews? What Are Stay Interviews? A stay interview is a proactive conversation—typically...
Time to go? How career coaching can help.
For both individuals and organisations there can sometimes be a right time to go. A point where either the individual is no longer able to meet the organisation's requirements. Or the individual outgrows what the organisation can offer. Failing to recognise this point...
How do you eat an elephant?
There's an old saying about "how do you eat an elephant?" The answer unquestionably is "one mouthful at a time". In my coaching practice, I am often meeting senior executives who have been parachuted in to organisations specifically to make change happen. Regardless...
Expert or leader? A career crossroads
Many of us will reach a career crossroads. One that will determine the shape of our future. A common one is eventually having to decide whether you remain an expert or choose to become a leader. Starting out... Many of us begin to specialise very early on. Our GCSE, A...
Why 2020 wasn’t all bad
Continuing our series of articles highlighting the positives we’ve taken from the past year our Career Concierge, Gemma Smith, shares hers. 2020 was a life-changing year for Gemma, but not for the same reason as most of us. In late March, while we were all adjusting...