It may be random but I have read a lot of posts lately on what to do if you lose your job. A couple worth reading are by Dave McQueen and Steve Roesler. Please watch the video linked to Steve’s post if you haven’t already.
I will never make light of someone losing their job. It happened to [...]
It is funny how the topic of focus always jumps into my brain when I have the chance to play golf. Yesterday I had a wonderful afternoon of golf at Archerfield, a course less than a mile from Muirfield ( one of the courses used for the British Open) in the beautiful East Lothian countryside about [...]
Some years ago I was having dinner with a couple of working mums like myself and we got to talking about work. Of the three of us it appeared that I was the only one who was willing to undertake further personal development ( I was about to start studying part time for a business degree.) The [...]
My good blog friend Peggy wrote this post about surviving the economic downturn in the US. I read a lot of HR blogs many of which are written from the American perspective. I am in no way an expert in UK employment law but I have realised that the rules on firing employees in the [...]
I am working with Napier University on a very exciting project – more of which soon – and I met with fellow associates of the Edinburgh HR Academy based there to discuss some of the details. When the worlds of academia and business come together it is my experience that there as some language difficulties. When [...]
