[Podcast] Flexible Working by Default – a Discussion

Posted in: HR Updates on 17/01/2020 Interviewer: Welcome to the "HR Bitesize Podcast" series in conversation with Clarendon Executive. Clarendon Executive works with companies across Northern Ireland to help maximise their leadership capabilities across all aspects of the employment lifecycle from executive search through to organisa...

[Podcast] Dealing with Challenging Behaviours in the Workplace

Posted in: HR Updates on 16/01/2020 Rolanda: Welcome to the HR Bitesize podcast series in conversation with Clarendon Executive. Today, we are joined by Hugh McPoland and Mairéad Regan, associate consultants at Clarendon Executive to discuss dealing with challenging behaviours in the workplace. Working with Difficult People I think ...

[Podcast] Coaching and Mentoring – the Same or Different?

Posted in: HR Updates on 16/01/2020 Rolanda: Welcome to the "HR Bitesize Podcast" series and conversation with Clarendon Executive. Clarendon Executive works with companies across Northern Ireland to help maximise their leadership capabilities across all aspects of the employment lifecycle from executive search through to organisatio...

The Changing Role of the Sales Function in 2020

Posted in: HR Updates on 16/01/2020 Not long ago, the successful salesperson was a product expert, a features master and, if she or he was a real winner, would have known their competitors’ products in as much detail as their own. Relationship was king; with sales success often based on past experiences and trust built during ‘coffee...

The Stress Test – The Changing Face of Psychometric Assessment

Posted in: HR Updates on 17/12/2019 With 85%[1] of decision-makers within HR admitting their organisation has made a bad hire and 39% of employers admitting that their candidate interviewing and assessment procedures could be improved, how relevant is psychometric testing to the modern workplace? Legal Island talks to Heather Angioli...

Health, Wellbeing and Data

Posted in: HR Updates on 05/12/2019 Last week I attended a breakfast briefing on a data driven approach to health and wellbeing. This was a timely event given that I am about to embark on our health and wellbeing plan for the year ahead. It is essential that employers adopt a holistic approach to health and wellbeing but at a minimum...

The Changing Face of Work

Posted in: HR Updates on 04/12/2019 UK businesses are in the midst of an epidemic – and that is employee disengagement. Only 11% of UK employees are highly engaged[1], which means the other 89% aren’t delivering for your business or your customers.It has also been reported that as many as 1 in 10 regularly feel miserable at work[2] ...

Creating Inclusive Workforces

Posted in: HR Updates on 04/12/2019 While diversity has been on the radar of smart businesses for a long time now, with its links to productivity clear, a recent CIPD report[1] suggests employers may be preoccupying themselves with diversity metrics at the expense of building a truly inclusive workforce.With National Inclusion Week n...

Suspension; Whistleblowing and Covert Recordings and Agency Workers – Lessons from Key Cases

Posted in: HR Updates on 20/11/2019 2019 has been a year of all things Brexit – it feels as though it has consumed everything, however employment cases are continuing to be heard and interesting decisions delivered – decisions which Employers should take note of and learn from. In this article we will explore a few of these cases and...

Is Your Commute to Work Killing Your Productivity?

Posted in: HR Updates on 11/11/2019 For eight years from 2011 to 2019 I endured a daily rush hour commute to and from work in Belfast. I would arrive into work most mornings in a state of anxiety, totally wound up from my hellish experience and giving off to the first person I saw about the nightmare traffic or an accident on the M2....