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Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing the results of our Membership Survey and doing a deep dive into the key areas. Ahead of that series of posts, I wanted to share with you some of our recent highlights, especially around the areas of communication, providing useful...
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17 May, 2019 12:00
By Rachel Suff 15 hours ago
The CIPD annual Health and Well-being at Work survey , in partnership with Simplyhealth, is now open! We are grateful to every individual who takes the time to complete this short online survey and contributes to our work on this important agenda. Your...
By Katie 31 Oct, 2019 16:40
When I returned to the world of HR after two years in the non-HR wilderness, many of my former contacts asked me what had changed about the profession in my time away. My answer: materially not that much, but what had shifted hugely was the context. ...
By CIPD Member Blog 30 Oct, 2019 13:39
By Oli Howard, Membership Strategy Lead. As an organisation, the CIPD is committed to becoming more environmentally conscious. We’re working with our staff, members, partners and stakeholders on our approach to sustainability across all our activities...
By Katie 25 Oct, 2019 06:53
First things first: very few people actively like networking. Even those of us who are naturally good at it don’t joyfully bounce into a room full of strangers, thinking ‘great, these are friends/colleagues/clients I haven’t met yet...
By CIPD Member Blog 24 Oct, 2019 13:57
By CIPD's Richard Goldsbrough, Senior Membership Manager. I am now into my last week with the CIPD, having worked in the membership development team here for just over 5 years. In that time I’ve been incredibly lucky to get a real insight into the HR...
By Profession for the Future 23 Oct, 2019 14:00
Steps Ahead Mentoring (SAM) is CIPD’s flagship volunteer programme aimed at supporting jobseekers (18-24 year olds, and Parent and Carers looking to enter or return to the workforce) to move closer to employment through one-to-one mentoring.&nb...
By Scotland 22 Oct, 2019 11:53
By John McGurk, currently on sabbatical from the CIPD Proper teaching started on the 10th of September It has been a full‐on, roller-coaster learning experience since then. We started off with probably the most challenging learning experience any of...
By Public Policy 22 Oct, 2019 08:46
By Brad Taylor, Director of People and OD at the CIPD. Within organisations across the UK, there is a growing need to support the mental health of their employees. In the last year, 39% of UK employees experienced mental-ill-health where work was a contributing...
By Rachel Suff 17 Oct, 2019 23:05
By Rachel Suff and Claire McCartney, advisers at the CIPD The menopause is an urgent workplace issue that all employers should be taking seriously. Half the workforce is female, which means half the workforce will go through the menopause at some stage...
By Katie 8 Oct, 2019 12:48
There’s no shortage of data telling a story around a skills mismatch between employers and the labour force. The last annual (2018) CBI/Pearson report on skills and education found that two-thirds of employers fear there will be a lack of suffi...