How Best to Develop a Strong Leadership Team You have some great people in your top team but they all have their own strengths and weaknesses. You’d like them to develop their capability so they can be part of a strong leadership team to help the business grow – but how do you go about […]

How Do I Take Care Of My Employees’ Wellbeing? A good People Director can embed a holistic company-wide strategy to employee wellbeing rather than a piecemeal approach to help you reconnect with your employees, improve morale, reduce staff turnover and build a happy, healthy workforce.

Employment Law Update: April 2021 Accessing useful information about any employment law changes and how they affect you can be difficult -the good news is that we at People Puzzles have experts on hand with our sister business My Inhouse Lawyer.

Now is the time for disruptive leadership The past year has been tough for many businesses, but as restrictions ease, now is the time to really think about the future and what the new opportunities will be post lockdown.

Achieving a high-performance culture A high-performance culture means focusing on your value-added activities and getting rid of what isn’t adding value. The most successful companies I’ve worked with have been the ones that sought out new opportunities – and been fleet of foot when markets change. I’ve seen businesses move from £5m turnover to £15m

Coming Out Of Lockdown – What Is The ‘New Normal’? As lockdown restrictions ease, what are my responsibilities to my employees? Can we just go back to normal, or do we need to create a ‘new normal’?

Is HR needed in a billion-pound company? Greg Jackson, the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy, sparked a debate last week when he said that he didn’t have an HR department in his £1.4bn company, despite having more than 1,200 employees. It may surprise some to hear that at People Puzzles, we agree to some

Turning Administrators into Facilitators Portfolio People Director Liz Allan has been mentoring both managers and HR staff in local businesses in the East of England, with impressive results.