Very few people are going to work for you without being paid. So when you become an employer you need to think through early on how you...

The moment you receive a CV from a prospective employee, you're processing personal data, and that means you need processes in place to...

One of the easiest things, for me, about setting up as an employer was creating the Letter of Employment, to summarise all the terms and...

Despite the fact I've worked in HR roles for more than 20 years, I wasn't actually aware (until I looked it up) that you can be fined...

As of today, I am an employer! I’m still a sole trader (yes, you CAN employ people as a sole trader, you don't have to be a limited...

It’s not often that I read a business book and agree with all of it! So I was a little surprised when I realised that despite there being...

Most recently, I’ve been reading “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo and I recommend it for anyone starting out as a people manager....

I'm not sure where this mug actually came from (perhaps Martin Hopkins remembers), but for a long time now our household has been very...

Do you ever look around at the monkeys in your “office” and check to see whether they are really all yours? This book (The One Minute...

In this article, about the book Team Topologies, we’re concerned with the shapes of teams and the way they interact with each other. We look

Productivity is a passion of mine. I’ve completed quite a few psychological profiles over the years and almost all point towards an...

For this MUG STORY, first we need a shout out to Becky Gill, as me owning these mugs is down to her. Becky was my best friend at the...

This is another of my loyal mugs that get used at least once per week. It was given to me by an important person in my career so far -...

DRIVE was published in 2009 and I was given a copy the following year by the CEO I was working for at the time. I read it and was...

In November 2020, after a hectic summer responding to Covid-19 from a HR perspective, I found myself without a job and with a dislocated...

The mug in the picture for my first book report is one I used for many years at the office when I worked for Defaqto. Anyone who knows me...