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What is holistic HR and how can it help your business?

Why don’t your people seem engaged? Why don’t they look happy? And even worse why are they leaving? If you are faced with an unhappy and unmotivated workforce then perhaps you have a culture problem and maybe you need to think about Holistic HR. Culture is an overused...

How work-life balance can help your company

The concept of work-life balance has been around for many years now and in our post-pandemic world, it is something that is on the minds of many employees. For companies that are prepared to look at the issue with an open mind, developing a great culture with a good...

Employee retention – it’s not about the money

How do you make sure you keep hold of your most valuable and trusted employees? Employee retention isn’t all about just paying people more money, it is much more nuanced than that so understanding the key motivators when you are trying to build a great workforce is...

Don’t hire skilled people – develop them

The Western World is suffering an employment crisis, with a lack of people to do jobs and a lack of important skills that are demanded by employers. So how can you compete as an SME when global companies are able to raise pay rates and recruit all the good people?...

12 things you must have before employing people

Employing people for the first time is a big step and so it pays to think about what you need before you go ahead. We’d always suggest getting things in place before the new person starts. Some of these are legal requirements and some just make sense as trying to sort...

8 HR documents you need right now (and why you need them)

Whether you have just started employing people or you’ve been an employer for some time, you need to have the right documents in place for your business. Whether it is about setting the aims and mission of your department or making sure you don’t fall foul of...