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Peter Cheese - An Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my blog.

Having done my first two weeks as CEO here at the CIPD, I think I'm ready to enter the blogosphere!

I plan to use the blogs to talk about some of the key issues and challenges we're all dealing with as a profession, and things that catch my eye, and hopefully to engage in a bit of dialogue with you all. We're in times of a lot of uncertainty and change, and that drives the opportunity, and indeed the need, to think differently. As I said in my People Management interview [Read here], I don't think there's ever been a more interesting time to be in HR.

There is much for us to engage with as a profession that impacts our own organisations as well as the broader economic and social context. Issues such as skills shortfalls and changes in employment, increasing diversity in the workforce and in ways of working, sustainability, and trust and corporate cultures, are important to us all.

We need to share our perspectives and experiences to help each other, but also to confidently engage with the leaders who have responsibility for the enterprises we work in, and beyond to the policy makers and opinion formers who are trying to shape the future, to make a positive impact and have our voice heard. But we must think strategically, and be able to offer solid analytical and systematic insight to ideas and solutions which will resonate with leaders at all levels.

I'll be coming back to those themes and more in the days and weeks to come. But I think this'll work better as a dialogue than a monologue.

So tell me, what's on your agenda?

Thank you for your comments. There may be a short delay in this going live on the blog page as we moderate the comments added to our blogs.

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  • Congratulations Peter.

    Those of us in West Africa are looking forward to being included in CIPD's international agenda/programmes. The SHRM is doing better in engaging practitioners in this part of the world than CIPD is doing. CIPD has not even got a Centre/Office within the region to help/support practitioners who want to seek an internationally recognized and proactive certification in HR - Ghana/Nigeria.

    Door are open to facilitate that in Ghana.

  • Congratulations. Can you try to reconcile the following contradiction:

    We keep being told that the CIPD qualification scheme and membership are crucial for HR career success (which is why I went that route myself), but the vast majority of the people profiled in People Management and who are in leading HR positions in UK companies don't have the CIPD qualifications. In addition to this, the CIPD keeps creating new abridged versions of the qualifications to satisfy those people who wake up years after they should have slogged through it. This devalues our previous efforts and achievement. Other professions don't do this, why does the CIPD? You are sending mixed messages.