
Most corporate retreats are an expensive meeting in a nicer room. People travel, eat well, sit in a circle and fill flip charts. Then Monday arrives and nothing has changed. The fix is not a fancier venue. It is a clear reason for going, the right people in the room, and time that is built…

Fresh CIPD and Gartner research raises an awkward question for HR leaders: how much of the 2027 people strategy will make a measurable difference to the way work gets done?

Organisational psychologist Dr Maggie Sass on why leaders should stop smoothing over tension in the room, and how to tell useful friction from the kind that gets in the way.

One of the biggest leadership lessons I’ve learned is that employees don’t actually need you to have all the answers. That’s fortunate, because right now many leaders are figuring things out in real time themselves. AI is changing how work gets done. Roles are evolving. Skills requirements are shifting faster than many organisations can track. Employees are asking…

Quits are back near normal, yet the cost of poor management keeps climbing. New exit interview data shows why a calm labour market hides a bigger bill.