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HR Heads Up – Volume. 12, Issue. 3
We created our Productivity Wheel to show you how a structured approach to your people management can link back to your strategy. To complement this, we have overhauled the look and feel of HR Heads Up: Article headings have a...
HR Heads Up – Volume. 12, Issue. 2
We created our Productivity Wheel to show you how a structured approach to your people management can link back to your strategy. To complement this, we have overhauled the look and feel of HR Heads Up: Article headings have a colour coding to indicate where they fit...
Pension and National Minimum Wage Changes
Pension ContributionsUnder the Pensions Act which introduced auto-enrolment pensions for all eligible employees, companies were obliged to increase both employer and employee pension contributions over a number of years. With effect from 6 April 2019 these legal...
Brexit and Your Staff
I doubt there is a single person in the country who isn’t painfully aware of the constant changing political and economic situation we find ourselves in since the referendum on 23 June 2016. This is naturally causing concern to all businesses who are being told to...
HR Heads Up – Volume. 12, Issue. 1
We created our Productivity Wheel to show you how a structured approach to your people management can link back to your strategy. To complement this, we have overhauled the look and feel of HR Heads Up: Article headings have a colour coding to indicate where...
Eat, Drink and Behave
My dear Mum regularly says to me, “Christmas seems to come earlier every year” and these words certainly struck a chord as I passed a giant Christmas tree while walking through Abidjan Airport in the Ivory Coast on 25 January 2017. Had the tree in question simply not...
Anita Wynne on BBC 3 Counties Business Panel
Beststart HR CEO, Anita Wynne, was an expert Panellist on BBC Three Counties Radio Business Panel on 23 October 2018. The 1 hour slot aired live at 6.00pm as part of Roberto Perrone’s afternoon show. Anita discussed with the other Panelists the issues of the day and...
How to improve your productivity within a SME
The Productivity Puzzle In recent years, we have become accustomed to hearing from the media, business groups and numerous Chancellors that UK productivity falls short of other developed countries. Recent data from the Office for National Statistics suggests output...
Establishing a HR Strategy in a SME
So when should an SME start to plan and consider their people strategy? Typically, most SMEs have limited resources with individuals wearing many hats and mucking in to get jobs done including those related to HR. Whoever is the least busy gets to hire the next...
Why have written Job Descriptions and Person Specifications?
There is one simple answer to why you would have Job Desciptions and Person Specifications – if you don’t tell someone what you require them to do and what ‘good’ looks like, how can you expect them to meet your expectations? In many SMEs, jobs grow and evolve as do...