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.
Why « HR business partner » is giving way to « business contributor » For thirty years, « HR business partner » was the highest compliment a People function could earn. The title meant a seat at the leadership table…
HR designer toolkit You have the challenges. You have the mindset. Now comes the part where most HR teams stall: turning intention into method. A new posture without new methods is a good conference talk, not a transformation. This article…
For twenty years, HR was trained to protect their company from risk. Now it is asked to lead the company through uncertainty. This is a full rewiring of how HR thinks, decides and acts, and it reaches much further than…
Ten years ago, HR leaders used to plan. Five years ago, they used to react. Today, they do both at the same time, on the same Tuesday, before lunch. The future of HR: What challenges must HR master to still…
A client sent me a speaking brief with six topics on it, and asked for all six in one session. My first thought was that this read less like a conference plan and more like a gastronomic menu. Six dishes,…
Talent density is the concentration of skilled, high-performing people inside a team or an organisation, and the collective lift they create when they work well together. Most leaders read it as a stock, the proportion of top performers in the…
The last time anyone renamed a whole business function as cleanly as personnel became human resources, mobile phones did not exist. Renaming the HR department has been argued over ever since, and no title has ever stuck the way HR…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…