by Verity Morish | Apr 26, 2022 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working, world of work
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the...
by Verity Morish | Mar 30, 2022 | Outplacement
“The more I practice the luckier I get.” This is one of my favourite quotes. There is some debate about who originally coined it, but it’s most often attributed to the great South African golfer, Gary Player, when asked if he felt he’d been particularly lucky on one...
by Verity Morish | Mar 30, 2022 | Careers Advice
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview...
by Verity Morish | Mar 29, 2022 | Careers Advice
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview...
by Verity Morish | Nov 23, 2021 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working
I’ve just been reading an article from a US magazine that reports how sick leave amongst homeworkers appears to be 70% lower than for their office-based equivalents. As with all data, I think that raw statistic poses more questions than it provides answers. What it...
by Verity Morish | Nov 20, 2021 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working, world of work
How you exit people can be as important to your talent strategy and employer brand as how you onboard them. Done well it can pay big dividends – encouraging people to return in the future and in the meantime act as advocates in the jobs market. I remember writing an...
by Verity Morish | Nov 3, 2021 | Employment Advice
Delegation – or frankly the inability to do it – is often one of the biggest constraints on business growth. Leaders, no matter how good, have finite capacity, and eventually even the best run out of bandwidth and become bottlenecks in their own organisation. So why...
by Verity Morish | Oct 25, 2021 | Employment Advice
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback”. I first heard this old Dutch saying about 5 years ago. And, of course, it is true. Trust is lost much faster than it is won. Building up trust is a bit like filling a piggy bank. You put little bits of loose...
by Verity Morish | Apr 28, 2021 | Employment Advice
The further easing of restrictions is underway bringing many furloughed workers back to work. However, it isn’t back to normal for everyone as many sectors are still trading at below normal (pre-covid) levels and with their employees remaining furloughed. The scheme,...
by Verity Morish | Mar 31, 2021 | Employment Advice
There is no denying that the past year has changed the working life for many people. Working from home has gone from the exception to the norm, with many organisations now looking to introduce hybrid office/remote working practices. I know many of those I talk to are...
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