by Penny Jones | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog
If you manage people in any capacity, you will most likely always be looking for ways to improve your team’s performance. Having a team that performs well together leads to increased trust, better communication, improved efficiency, and higher productivity – all...
by Penny Jones | Jul 19, 2022 | Blog
Why is it important to address capability, or lack of? Having a capability policy is not enough. If an employee is dismissed without having first been through a formal capability procedure there is room for claims of unfair dismissal. Having and following a capability...
by Penny Jones | Jun 19, 2022 | Blog
Disciplinaries have got to be the worst part of a Manager’s job, second only to delivering redundancy news. I haven’t worked with anyone who has looked forward to or enjoyed being part of disciplinary procedure. It’s long, complicated, uncomfortable and it’s a...
by Penny Jones | May 19, 2022 | Blog
If you raise the subject of probationary periods with a group of HR people and you will get widely differing views, some love them and some hate them. My approach is more balanced. There are a number of logical reasons to use probationary periods but there are also...
by Penny Jones | Apr 19, 2022 | Blog
I used to like the word empowered, it suggested something positive, giving people power. Then I read Patty Mccord’s book Powerful about her time in HR at Netflix. She said “People have power, don’t take it away”. We take it away from them with a command and control,...
