Best Practice

Negotiating techniques to tackle the gender pay gap

Rachel Massey, Director of Communications and negotiation expert at Huthwaite International, discusses how to negotiate a pay raise in the gender pay gap climate.

My Bravest Year: a lesson in female self-empowerment

My Bravest Year, a programme meant to aid female leaders across the technology industry, is now seeing significant results.

Why the business community needs to keep talking about mental health

Inspired by his own mental health challenges, Guy Tolhurst, founder of the Mindful Investor initiative challenges investors to take a more mindful and holistic approach to imparting capital and place equal focus on diversity, inclusion and mental health.

Key factors female-led businesses need to consider to secure funding

Sam Smith, founder and CEO of finnCap Group plc, summarises the key factors female-led businesses need to consider when seeking to raise growth capital. She also outlines some of the challenges they face.

UK PR agency sees 70% growth one year on from four-day work week trial

A Gloucestershire-based PR agency is celebrating a successful year, one year after implementing a four-day working week, without cutting staff pay.

Upskilling: the key to employee wellbeing and skills gap

The Myers-Briggs Company advocates learning and upskilling to close the digital skills gap that continues to rise.

School Report on diversity: ‘could’ve tried harder,’ says Chime Specialist Group’s CEO

If Joanne Parker, CEO of the Chime Specialist Group (a division of Chime), were to receive a School Report on her efforts to drive diversity and inclusion in her workplace, like many CEO’s today, it would read ‘could do better’. Here she openly explains why, and her ambitions to be best in class.

The rise of presenteeism and its impact in the workplace

Lucinda Pullinger, Global Head of HR at Instant Offices, explores the rise and impact of presenteeism in the modern workplace

Bad boss? 49% of Brits quit their job because of poor management

Anyone could be a manager, but that doesn’t mean anyone should be. Almost half of UK workers feel unsupported by their management team or a bad boss

Why the future of business is in the hands of older workers

An ageing population means older workers and an ageing workforce; something that is already taking place in workplaces across the UK.