One of the most common reasons people give for leaving their jobs, according to our exit interview data, is that employees feel their career aspirations have fallen off line with their employers. Whatever your people may say to you, the most common reason people are...
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How Can Career Coaching Boost Employee Engagement?
The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...
Are Redundancy Headlines Impacting Employee Confidence?
Are redundancy headlines impacting employee confidence? In the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, redundancy rates in the UK dropped to the lowest levels since records began. At the same time UK vacancy levels soared – peaking at 1.3 million open job...
Coping with Redundancy: What I’ve Learned
With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the number of people coping with redundancy and the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We...
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...
Why Internal Mobility Starts with Better Career Conversations
One of the most common reasons people give for leaving their jobs, according to our exit interview data, is that employees feel their career aspirations have fallen off line with their employers. Whatever your people may say to you, the most common reason people are...
Streamlining Career Coaching: Occam’s Razor for HR Success
Why invest in streamlining career coaching? Occam's Razor would suggest it's simple – help your people progress in their career, or they'll seek opportunities elsewhere. Through our exit interview work, we know that two of the big drivers of resignations are...
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...
Executive career transition
Executive career transition rarely ends when a delegate receives a job offer. There's still often work to do at the end of a successful outplacement programme. Chiumento MD Mike Burgneay explains how we help individuals land successfully in new roles. The first 100...
Why don’t I get on with my manager?
Why don't I get on with my manager? Its a question I get asked regularly in coaching sessions. My coaching practice in recent times has had a key strand about helping executives land successfully in new organisations. Often that's been where individuals have been...