Discuss HR is the HR blog written for & by members of Human Resources UK. This is the back catalogue of all posts from 2011

1. Discuss HR
The HR blog written for and members of Human Resources UK
Back catalogue of posts in 2011
Human Resources UK is a LinkedIn group for professionals involved in the HR industry in the UK. As
of February 2012 we have over 6,500 members.
In January 2011 we created an affiliated blog to allow our members to discuss HR issues. The blog is
rather aptly named, Discuss HR. Below is the back catalogue of all posts from 2011 in order of
writer. You will find a biography of each writer along with their contact details.
Contents:
Page 2 Ed Scrivener
Page 3 Dawn Clarke
Page 4 Una Doyle
Page 5 Jill Hart-Sanderson
Page 6 John Hepworth
Page 7 Annabel Kaye
Page 8 Sheena McLullich
Page 9 Dorothy Nesbit
Page 10 Susan Popoola
Page 11 Guests
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2. Ed Scrivener - Editor
Ed is an HR recruitment specialist and social media trainer. He holds over 8 years
industry specific experience recruiting mainly for middle and senior HR management
positions. He stumbled upon social media a few years ago and has since become
passionate about the subject. He now trains job seekers and independent
consultants in social media techniques. He is the Group Manager of Human
Resources UK and Editor of Discuss HR and occasionally his humour will creep into articles!
Blog | Email | LinkedIn | Twitter | Website
Posts:
 Jobseekers must try harder
Tags: Recruitment agencies, Recruitment practices, Job seeking
 Lazy recruiters
Tags: Recruitment agencies, Talent management, Recruitment practices, Job seeking,
Recruitment ethics
 Make the candidate pay!
Tags: Recruitment agencies, Recruitment practices, Job seeking, Recruitment processes
 Be social and engage
Tags: Social media, Social networking, Engagement, Communication
 The equality elephant
Tags: Recruitment practices, Sex discrimination, Age discrimination, Equality
 Sell, sell, sell!
Tags: HR, Communication, HR sales, Transferable skills
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3. Dawn Clarke
Dawn is an experienced HR professional with strong development and internal
consultancy experience. She takes a practical approach to HR turning strategic plans
into operational reality. Dawn has experience in a variety of industries with a track
record of commercial success by engaging people and making work a fun place to
be. On a personal note she is a huge Liverpool FC fan, well someone has to be!
Email | LinkedIn
Posts:
 Holistic approach to management
Tags: HR, Management, Communication
 How does HR contribute to the bottom line?
Tags: HR, Commercial acumen
 Why performance review doesn’t always work
Tags: Performance management, HR
 The good old days
Tags: HR, Communication, Personnel
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4. Una Doyle
Una Doyle is an accredited Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant and an
award-winning speaker, coach and consultant. Una has worked with
organisations such as Argos, Asda, Yorkshire Forward, Kodak and local authorities
from a one-to-one basis, to groups as large as 2,000. She is passionate about
helping to create intrapreneur teams; getting the right people, in the right place,
doing the right things with ownership and commercial acumen. Una has learned
how to apply many of the world’s top-thinkers’ ideas in a way that is simple, profound, gets massive
bottom-line results and a more empowered, motivated and engaged workforce.
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Posts:
 Dear Kitty
Tags: Emotional intelligence, Talent management
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5. Jill Hart-Sanderson
Jill is passionate about using creativity to unlock people's potential, finding
practical solutions that make a real difference to organisations. Her extensive
management experience in both the public and private sectors combined with HR
consultancy has given her a real insight into how great HR can transform
individuals and businesses.
Email | LinkedIn
Posts:
 How can HR support managers through times of change?
Tags: Change management, HR
 Goal!
Tags: Richard Read, Personal goals, HR
 Remember that embarrassing moment?
Tags: Social media, Social networking, Communication
 Holiday time
Tags: HR, Time management
 Know thyself
Tags: HR
 Are you are networking tart?
Tags: Networking, Social media, Communication
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6. John Hepworth
John helps organisations, especially in the SME sector, achieve competitive
advantage. He has a particular interest in translating strategic HR management into
practice. Typically, this has meant focusing his efforts on recruitment and selection,
performance management and training and development activities. John sees the
challenge of matching the development of internal competencies with the externally
driven demands of the market place as one of the key themes in developing organisational
engagement, capability and performance.
Email | LinkedIn | Website
Posts:
 The role of employee engagement
Tags: Employee engagement, HR
 Learning with the Kazaks
Tags: Learning & development, Lecturing, Training delivery
 Using your strengths to stand out
Tags: Emotional intelligence, Psychology
 The state of management
Tags: Leadership, Management
 Resourcing and talent management – what is the role of the HR professional?
Tags: Talent management
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7. Annabel Kaye
Annabel has been specialising in employment law since the seventies. She founded
Irenicon in 1980 and has spent the last 30 years helping HR, line managers and
everyone else look at employment law in a way that gets some operational gain. She
likes to think about things from a different angle and making the complex simple -
despite the Government's best efforts! She has traded through 3 recessions and
advised clients from multi-national corporations to the smallest organisation. The toughest thing
has always been to balance the competing needs of staff and organisation and that never goes away
whatever the legal details.
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Posts:
 Employment law fundamentals and basics
Tags: Employment Law, EU law, Compliance, Performance management, Discrimination
 Don’t let compliance lock you down
Tags: Employment Law, Employee handbook, Staff handbook, Policies, Procedures, Flexibility,
Organisational development
 We don’t have the power
Tags: Employment Law, Employment rights, Managers rights
 Too hot to handle
Tags: Employment Law, Staff uniforms, Dress code, Diversity, Niqab, Muslim women, Sex
discrimination, Religious discrimination, Diversity
 Open and shut
Tags: Employment Law, Investigation, Reasonable investigation, Reasonableness in the
circumstances, Decision making, British Home Stores v Burchell, Iceland Frozen Food v Jones,
Discrimination, Harassment, Theft, Suspicion of theft, Lateness
 The past is no guide to future performance
Tags: Employment Law, Change management, Performance management, Cooperation,
Investigation support, Prevention, Discrimination, Grievance
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8. Sheena McLullich
Sheena began her career in Training & Development before moving to a generalist
HR position in 1998. Since then she has held senior HR roles for several SMEs in a
wide range of industries. A Fellow of the CIPD and Member of the US SHRM, she has
a keen interest in Employee Development, specifically in coaching and supporting
managers to enable them to get the best from their people. She was appointed as
Director of People for SPA Future Thinking in September 2011.
Email | LinkedIn | Website
Posts:
 Getting to know you
Tags: HR
 The token woman
Tags: Sexual discrimination, HR, Boardroom management
 The home working debate
Tags: Work practices
 Leaving on a jet plane
Tags: HR, Business Travel, Commuting, Flexitime
 Too close for comfort
Tags: Employment law, HR
 Finance and HR – a pivotal relationship?
Tags: Communication, Finance, HR
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9. Dorothy Nesbit
Dorothy Nesbit, Leadership Coach, unleashes innate leadership potential through
powerful, compassionate and authentic relationships.
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Posts:
 Starting the HR year as we mean to go on
Tags: HR, Leadership
 Real conversations - talking in ways that work
Tags: Emotional intelligence, Communication
 The home working debate
Tags: Work practices
 To what extent is it really OK to be human in the workplace?
Tags: Emotional intelligence
 Accountability: Are we getting it right?
Tags: Leadership, Emotional intelligence
 When emotions rise high in the work place
Tags: Emotional intelligence, Communication
 Asking the right questions as the year draws to a close
Tags: Emotional intelligence
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10. Susan Popoola
Susan has established a successful career as an HR Consultant, specialising in HR
Transformation and Talent Management across the Private, Public & Voluntary
sectors. Susan serves as a Partnership Governor for The Hazeley School where
she chairs the Innovation and Partnership Committee. She also serves as a Young
Enterprise judge and a Business Ambassador for Countec Education Business
Partnership. She is also the published author of Touching the Heart of Milton
Keynes: A Social Perspective and the soon to be published book: Consequences: Diverse to Mosaic
Britain.
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Posts:
 A lost generation?
Tags: NEETs, Unemployment, Learning & development
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11. Guests
Throughout the course of the year we have welcomed a range of guest writers, all of whom are
experts within their specialised field of HR.
 How to use the maverick in your organisation (Judith Germain)
Tags: Leadership, Mavericks
 HR from the non-HR stakeholder: from the sublime to the ridiculous (Greg Kilminster)
Tags: Finance, HR, Commercial input
 Help! I’m leaving the public sector (Wendy Mason)
Tags: Recruitment, Job seeking, Changing career
 How HR can help (Mark Ions)
Tags: Recruitment agencies, Recruitment practices, Interview process, Talent management
 Do we expect too much from our line managers? (Janice Caplan)
Tags: Talent management, Leadership, Development
 A graduate’s first job: who benefits most? (Paul Goring)
Tags: Graduate recruitment, Learning & development, Coaching, Intern
 Being or not being commercially aware (Wendy Mason)
Tags: Public sector, Private sector, Commercial acumen, Sectorism
 Backshoring and insourcing - the new black? (Mark Greenhouse)
Tags: Outsourcing, Offshoring
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