On 1 December 2016, Tim participated in a CIPD Liverpool Group event at which we discussed the future of work, in particular: Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence: How will human beings interact with the new technology? Slightly ironically, given we were talking about technology, we couldn’t live blog or tweet the event as we were in an underground …
For many of us, social media is part of our everyday life. It is what we do and how we do it – whether for work or personal or a little bit of both. It will come as no surprise to regular readers of my stuff that I am one of these people. After all, I’m a …
One of the big “future direction of HR” topics for me at the moment is the increasingly close relationship between HR and Marketing/Comms. Nowhere is this clearer than in the growing area of employee advocacy. Simply put, employee advocacy is the promotion of an organisation by its own employees: the people who work for you …
I’m now two weeks into life as part of the so-called “gig economy“. So far, it has been fun with lots of variation, some hard work and quite a lot of coffee drinking. I’m speaking to lots of different organisations about lots of different issues, which is a really big change from me after almost …
The concept of the Personal Learning Network, or PLN, is gaining a lot of interest amongst the HR community at the moment. If you haven’t come across the term before, a PLN basically does what it says on the tin: it is all about creating a unique network of people and sources from which you …
