HR Design

HR Design is the practice of designing the employee experience with the same level of intention used to design successful products. It starts with genuine human needs to create workplaces where people genuinely want to contribute and perform.

drawer of skills

Skills are a currency only when people trust them

A skills-based organisation works when people can see their skills record opening real opportunities. What the model is made of, why mobility comes before development and hiring, how to choose a skills language, and the one dimension every inventory needs to keep people committed.

become an HR influencer

Become an HR influencer

Before we talk about how to become an HR influencer, visible on LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube with an audience of your own, I suggest starting somewhere less glamorous. Become influential inside your own organisation first. Once that works, we can…

how to write a company manifesto

how to write a company manifesto

Before any theory, here is a real one. Technoraid prepared and supported vehicles for desert rally raid, and its manifesto was called the Technoraid Way. It mattered more than most documents of its kind because ignoring it could put somebody…

pink flower of employer branding

Employer of choice or employer brand?

Employer of choice and employer brand both count what the organisation gives away. The number that matters is what your people have changed lately, and whether anyone had to ask permission first.

the future of HR consulting

The future of HR consulting

HR consultant. When someone I have just met asks what I do for a living, I still stall. The honest answer takes five minutes and the polite version bores us both. So over the years I have claimed to be…

Employee experience: measure the spread

Employee experience: measure the spread

Before spending anything on an employer brand or communicating a value proposition to the market, there is a prior question worth answering honestly. Do the people already working for you have a good experience of it? Quality of working life…

the role of HR in innovation

The role of HR in innovation, creator or destroyer

I can already hear HR leaders telling me that enough is enough. That after becoming responsible for employer marketing, then for market intelligence and for holding the social fabric together, all that remains is for HR to learn massage and…