The People Profession: now and for the future

Two decades of activity demonstrates the value of the CIPD Community to members

2024-01-23T10:59:49Z

As the community turns 20, we asked Steve Bridger, Community Manager, and David D'Souza, Membership Director of the CIPD, about the significance of the discussion forum and what it means to those who’ve used it. The CIPD Comm...(read more)

How to harness your employer brand to recruit and retain talent

2023-02-13T01:57:00Z

Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser - Resourcing and Inclusion, CIPD explores how organisations can harness their employer brand to improve recruitment and retention. Amid a worsening economic outlook, organisations are still grappling with...(read more)

The one-size-fits-all approach to work is broken

2023-01-31T13:44:11Z

Radical change in the way we work is needed to improve wellbeing, productivity and society, argue Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, founders of social enterprise Hoxby, and authors of 'Workstyle: a revolution for wellbeing, productivity and socie...(read more)

Reputation and impact: the rise of the people profession

2022-05-10T10:23:27Z

As we emerge from the pandemic, it’s important that people professionals take a moment to assess the impact they have within their organisation. Has their standing increased? How can the profession add the most value across the business? ...(read more)

Overcoming homeworking challenges

2022-03-24T02:08:00Z

Katie Jacobs, Senior Stakeholder Lead, CIPD. The coronavirus pandemic has often been referred to as leading to the world’s largest working from home experiment. During the first lockdown in the UK, almost half (47%) of all UK workers spent...(read more)

Ramping up people professionals’ skills

2022-02-15T04:00:00Z

Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Organisational responses to COVID-19 have sparked people professionals’ upskilling The COVID-19 context has dominated the world of work for the last two years, igniting widespread changes in workplaces...(read more)

Stepping up the employee experience

2022-02-04T10:16:50Z

Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Improvements in the employee experience underpin retentionIn 2022, the people profession is still very much in the organisational spotlight in managing ongoing changes to working practices. The CIPD has anal...(read more)

Employee voice helping organisations manage employee relations in new and emerging workspaces

2021-10-15T06:00:00Z

By Dr Nadia Kougiannou, Dr Sarah Pass and Professor Helen Shipton, Nottingham Trent University. Although voice has been seen as an instrument for mutual gain, it is also integral to employee attitudes and feelings at work (Wilkinson et al., 2014...(read more)

Speak up, and help influence our work in championing better work and working lives.

2021-05-28T07:00:00Z

By Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, and Jane McDonald, CIPD Ireland’s HR Projects and Engagement Manager Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, and Jane McDonald, Ireland's HR Projects and Engagement Manager encourage you to have your say!We a...(read more)

Planning for post-COVID working at the CIPD

2021-04-12T14:00:00Z

By Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD Being in lockdown presented many people with the opportunity to undertake one of the biggest working from home experiments of all time. This had been talked about for so long and yet ma...(read more)

Growing our community and working together

2021-02-16T13:11:00Z

Alexandra Carr, Community Lead, CIPD Growing and enabling our communities is part of our organisational strategy at CIPD and is essential to meet our objectives in championing better work and working lives. Bringing together our internal teams ...(read more)

Developing your skills during the pandemic

2020-12-04T16:04:00Z

By Charlotte Campion, Projects Officer, Social Impact and InnovationKeeping your professional skills and knowledge up to date has always been an important means of performing at your peak as a People Professional. However, we know that individual lea...(read more)

Stepping up – how CIPD members are volunteering to tackle the impact of the pandemic

2020-09-08T14:38:00Z

By Jemeela Quraishi, Social Impact and Innovation Lead Volunteering Do people professionals have the time or energy to volunteer right now? That was the question the Social Impact team at the CIPD were asking at the start of lockdown. Over...(read more)

Why I chose the life of an independent consultant

2020-09-03T13:09:00Z

By Ruth Cornish (FCIPD), Founder Amelore Ltd, Co-founder HR Independents Ltd. There’s never been a more exciting time to work independently as a people professional, with opportunities growing in the current climate. Although the CIPD&rsqu...(read more)

Six learnings from the CIPD’s first-ever digital Festival of Work

2020-08-25T16:22:00Z

By Sinead Costello, Head of Partnerships at the CIPD. Customers want an experience: Our customers appreciated feeling part of a community and wanted some escapism from everyday working life. Creating the feeling of being at an event through gra...(read more)