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Developing an employee relations strategy to fit your organisational culture and values
Choosing how to engage your employees – with unions or without or a mixed model – is a strategic issue which requires some thought....
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Jan 27, 20233 min read
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Don't believe everything you read in the papers
If you believe what you read in the paper, it’s hard to imagine sometimes that any organisation in the UK is actually managing to...
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Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Building a positive mindset against the gloom
While industrial relations continues to make increasingly depressing headlines in the UK, we completed our first Employee Relations and...
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Dec 12, 20222 min read
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Investment in good ER continues as our development programme grows
As the industrial relations climate in the UK worsens, Joe Perry and I are preparing for the second cohort of our Employee Relations and...
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Nov 23, 20222 min read
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A heart-warming story of employee relations
Yesterday, @Joe Perry and I had our first face to face session with our employee relations and engagement development programme delegates...
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Oct 20, 20221 min read
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Employee relations is most prized specialist skill
According to the CIPD, employee relations is the most prized specialist skill in HR in 2022 (The UK people profession in numbers | CIPD)....
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Oct 12, 20222 min read
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Our Employee Relations Network is one year old
The aim of our Employee Relations network is to share good practice, build the capability of the employee relations profession while...
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Sep 13, 20222 min read
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Today's crisis calls for a new approach
The industrial relations environment in the UK is the worst its been in my living memory. Sadly, the conflict predicted in our ER survey...
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Aug 22, 20223 min read
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Talking about industrial relations
A few weeks ago, I put myself well out of my comfort zone. I did a live TV interview with Angela Rippon about industrial relations. I...
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Jul 21, 20222 min read
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Using action learning sets to develop and embed brilliant employee relations skills
We’ve been using action learning sets as part of our ER and Engagement Development programme. When we were developing the programme and...
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Jul 13, 20223 min read
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Take time to rebuild after a dispute
Tomorrow is the sixth module of our ER and Engagement Development programme with 14 delegates from four organisations in the UK. We will...
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Jun 28, 20222 min read
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Win-lose is for losers
Every day there is bleak news about the state of industrial relations in the UK - ballots, disputes, unresolved conflict and protracted...
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Jun 13, 20222 min read
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Launch of Employee Relations & Engagement development programme
Today Joe Perry and I ran the first module of our brand new Employee Relations and Engagement development programme with 14 delegates...
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Apr 6, 20222 min read
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Make meetings better
Employee relations professionals and business leaders who work in unionised workplaces will spend a fair bit of time in formal meetings...
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Mar 3, 20222 min read
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Focus on good implementation and make an impact
An employee relations and engagement strategy is a part of an organisation’s environmental, social and governance strategy. It can cover...
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Feb 9, 20224 min read
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Talk to each other to build bridges before its too late
When relationships get difficult with your unions, what can you do to stop issues escalating into a dispute? What can you do to stop...
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Jan 18, 20223 min read
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Walk in your employee's shoes to make work better
Increasingly leaders are out of touch with their employees (https://www.reimagine-leadership.org/leaders-out-of-touch-with-exhausted-empl...
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Nov 30, 20214 min read
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Managing change, conflict and uncertainty will be at the heart of employee relations in 2022
Between August and October 2021, we issued a short survey to a group of employee relations professionals working in the UK. Being an ER...
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Oct 15, 20213 min read
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Listen and learn when your employees speak up
During 2020, @Organise grew from 79,000 members to over a million. It has provided tools and support to improve the lives of thousands,...
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Sep 5, 20213 min read
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The rise and rise of employee voice
One of the areas where employee relations professionals can make a real difference is in helping build organisations to positively...
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Aug 4, 20213 min read
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