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- Date:
- 15 May 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In today's ever-evolving workplace, a structured approach to staff development has never been more crucial. But when time-poor managers meet with their high-expectation employees, it begs the question: whose responsibility is development anyway? The answer, says career development expert Caroline Green, is all about balance.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Every year it's the same: January rolls around and suggested priorities for HR abound. But with teams increasingly stretched, important issues then get cast aside or neglected. Here, as organisations find themselves deep into Q2, we draw attention to three themes that HR professionals are likely to overlook, based on what they have told us in our surveys. But, for the reasons explained here, they really shouldn't!
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- Date:
- 25 April 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Careers are "squigglier" than ever. Where traditional professional development tended to be linear, individuals now often trace more zigzag-shaped paths as they acquire new skills to adapt to rapidly changing workplace needs. Career mentor and expert Laurie Macpherson sets out four ways in which HR can support employees to upskill, grow their network and track their achievements - so allowing organisations to retain talented members of their workforce rather than losing them to opportunities elsewhere.
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- Type:
- FAQs
Updated to reflect that the national living wage extends to workers aged 21 and over from 1 April 2024.
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- Type:
- FAQs
Updated to reflect the increase to the national minimum wage rate for apprentices in place from 1 April 2024.
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- Date:
- 9 February 2024
- Type:
- Survey analysis
In this survey report, we explore the strategies and practices shaping professional development in the workplace today. We discuss how leading organisations approach learning, with details about professional development strategies, leadership involvement in the learning process, metrics for measuring success in learning, and the tools or technology organisations use to support learning.
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- Date:
- 31 January 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Rebekah Martin, senior vice president of reward, inclusion and talent acquisition at AstraZeneca, joins us to talk about the changing motivations and requirements of the workforce - connection to purpose, skills-based learning, recognition and more.
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- Date:
- 13 November 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The people profession is operating in a "VUCA world on steroids" (VUCA = volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). So said CEO Peter Cheese as he welcomed around 1,300 delegates to the 2023 CIPD conference in Manchester.
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- Date:
- 26 October 2023
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
In this edition of the podcast we are joined by Fay Wallis to discuss growth mindsets, the power of small steps and other strategies to build your confidence as you develop your career.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Our quick references provide key employment law facts on a wide range of topics.