I was a newly commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force when I was asked to inspect a junior airwoman. It was a task that fell to me because I was the Duty Officer that night. The formal inspection was part of her punishment for breaking some rule or other. She was...
Flexible working is not an employee perk that enables women to balance work and life, nor is it a cost to organisations. Instead, flexible working is an essential part of any organisation looking to succeed and thrive in the current environment. Women have had the...
Too often when we read about ‘management,’ the focus is on the behaviour of individual managers. Management is about much more than that. As an employee, whilst you might have a good or bad relationship with your line manager, you probably also feel ‘managed’ by the...
The focus on happiness at work is unhelpful and misses the point. Work isn’t about happiness, it’s about getting stuff done. As my Dad once said to me, “If it was meant to be fun, they’d have called it ‘fun’, not ‘work’”. I talk to audiences about how organisations...
We create job descriptions so that people know what we’re employing them to do and we sit them in teams of people that are doing similar things at the same time. Then we keep an eye on them to ensure that they do what we’ve told them to. We hire HR experts to help us...
