Cutting through the Brexit noise: Is your people strategy robust for the future? Our previous article on Brexit explored some of the questions business owners might want to ask themselves to mitigate any short-term risks. Here, Ally Maughan looks at ways businesses can build a robust Brexit strategy in the long term.

4 Key Questions To Check Your Business Structure Is Working Whether you want a hierarchical business structure or a flat one, to be organised by department, skill set or client account, your organisation will have some sort of structure that allows it to operate.

Scary myths about HR… Busted! We’ve heard some horror stories about HR functions, but as People Puzzles founder Ally Maughan and People Director James Lloyd explain, there is nothing to fear.

Are you ready for change? As things currently stand, the UK is due to leave the European Union on 31st October 2019. With the date fast approaching, many businesses will have contingency plans in place regarding the logistics of buying, selling and distributing products. But have you thought about the potential effect on your people?

People Are The Most Valuable Asset We Have We have had an article published in Business Post Magazine, which has become an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs and SMEs, offering advice and insight on a broad range of topics of key interest to business.

Three Phases to a Great People Management Process We believe that having effective processes to manage your people is a hygiene factor: get it wrong and things can get pretty messy, painful and expensive.

10 tips for recruiting the right people into a growing business If you don’t recruit the right people, it’s costly, time consuming and can hold your business back. But attracting the right talent isn’t easy. People Director Lesley Strachan gives her top 10 tips on how to get it right.

Why don’t people challenge me more and come up with new ideas? Do you sometimes long for your team members to think for themselves rather than simply go along with all of your ideas? People Director Vee Halliwell explains how to give staff the confidence and tools to be more proactive.