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International Women's Day (IWD) 2025 is a great opportunity to celebrate the progress we've made in opening up more opportunities for women in the workplace while also recommitting to making even more progress. As you're getting ready for your IWD celebrations, here's a trio of key insights to keep in mind to make your events truly impactful.

Implementing effective succession planning within organizations detailing key strategies and the advantages of proactive talent development.

In-depth analysis of 360-degree feedback tools detailing their advantages and offering guidance on effective implementation in organisations

Discover how line management training builds essential skills, boosts performance, and develops future leaders.

Succession planning is a strategic process where organisations identify and develop internal employees to fill key future roles.

Align leadership development with organisational objectives to ensure that development efforts directly contribute to strategic goals.

In today’s fast-paced and dynamic work environment, 360-degree feedback is more important than ever. Organisations are increasingly focused on collaboration, innovation, and agility, requiring employees to adapt quickly and work effectively in diverse teams. The multi-perspective nature of 360-degree feedback provides a well-rounded understanding of how an individual’s contributions are perceived across the organisation.

Industries now evolve 5 times faster than 5 years ago. With unrelenting change, adaptability is essential. McKinsey ( 2019) finds leaders exposed to 5+ functions and 3+ countries become 69% more change-ready. Harvard Business Review (2020) analysis shows broad experiences expand perspectives to envision transformation. Further studies show experiential learning opportunities directly enable greater agility—employees with wider skillsets adjust up to 40% quicker to disruptions

Discover the essential coaching skills line managers need in today’s hybrid workplace. Learn how to boost development, engagement, and team

In our action-driven world, where relentless activity and back-to-back meetings symbolise productivity, the art of reflection is often undervalued. With a focus on meeting immediate targets, we rarely pause to reflect on our past actions to learn from them. However, this oversight can limit our effectiveness. Reflection is not a passive act; it's a powerful tool for personal and professional growth, offering three key advantages. To harness the power of reflection, let’s take

If you're just stepping into the professional world or perhaps still navigating your way through university, the notion of 'career planning' might seem a tad premature. But even at this nascent stage, laying the foundations for your professional journey is pivotal. Recent studies highlight the significance of early career planning in moulding long-term job satisfaction and progression. It's essential to appreciate that a career plan isn't about charting a fixed route. Instead

Great succession planning means knowing your talent. For more than 50 years, for many organisations, that has meant using the 9-box grid. It’s a talent management tool that has stood the test of time. If you work in HR, it’s probably very familiar to you and if you don’t, very simply, it’s a way of categorising talent according to their potential and performance. It puts talent into one of nine boxes ranging from underperformers and inconsistent players to key players and sta

Discover how experiential learning develops the 6 supercharged leadership qualities modern organisations need to thrive in a changing world.

We live in a world that values actions. This is most apparent at the end of the year than at any other time because it is then when everyone is rushing to wrap up their projects in time for the holidays. Taking a step back to reflect on the past few months may not be on everyone's to-do list, however spending some time reflecting is one of the most important things you can do at the end of 2025. Reflection presents a chance for much-needed respite amidst turmoil, to sort thro

Working abroad is a career accelerator, or at least it should be. It takes an emerging leader out of her or his comfort zone like few other roles. Not only the job is new, everything else is too: customers and customs, colleagues, and frequently the language as well. This unfamiliarity further extends into every corner of an expat’s personal live: a new neighbourhood, the lack of a social network, and if they have brought their family, then everything is new for the family, t

Politics has been around for millennia and is an integral part of organisational life whether we like it or not. All organisations have...

Discover the common challenges of 360-degree feedback & practical solutions to implement it effectively for real employee development.

Environment versus human In a great article in this month's Cambridge University Cam magazine , Professor Therese Marteau, Director of...

A new organisation can be a daunting place for graduates and early career talent. They not only need to learn about their new role, they...

Lift and shift. That was how most HR departments coped with the impact of COVID on learning and development a little over a year ago. It...