When benefits provider Personal Group allowed rewards for its own employees to become outdated, HR came to the rescue.

As workplace pressures rise, how can HR ensure that high staff performance is sustained?

In today’s everchanging workplace, future-fit businesses have a competitive advantage and are more likely to achieve long-term commercial objectives. A crucial driver of this success is productive human capital.

Taking a sabbatical, a planned, extended break from work is no longer just a luxury.

High-performance teams need trust, collaboration, and a safe culture for experimenting, sharing, and learning from failures.

Imagine walking into a building and being told it was constructed without any formal principles or safety checks. You wouldn’t stay long, would you?

Two thirds (66%) of employees reported that colleagues not pulling their weight was the most annoying behaviour at work, according to research by workplace mediation service Acas.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated remote work, its advantages and drawbacks have been well-documented. For leaders, the biggest hurdles have remained constant: building employee engagement, trust, and communication.

Studies have found the dedicated and committed are particularly prone to burnout - a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress.

Teams with clear goals, values, rules, roles and processes, backed by full individual commitment, are primed for peak performance.