By Ian Pettigrew of Kingfisher Coaching, based in Manchester, UK.  The coronavirus pandemic initially had little impact on my work, other than switching to online, and I continued to be busy. Some of my work has always been online, so this was ...

An online community doesn’t just happen because you set up a website – it needs filling, prodding, stimulating, provoking and managing. That's the role of the community manager and that has been my pleasure for the last 16 years. But ...

Alexandra Carr is Community Lead for CIPD Branches Branch volunteers have demonstrated passion and commitment to the profession during the crisis —  without doubt they've been HR heroes. We’ve seen their commitment and donat...

By Louise Nuttall, Chartered MCIPD, Branch Chair, CIPD Swindon and North Wiltshire From the start of the coronavirus crisis, many members looked to their local CIPD branch for resources and support as well as events and networking opportunities ...

Chris Jones is an HR Director at Kellogg’s supporting the UK & Ireland Market, as well as leading Commercial Capability for the European Organisation. There can be no doubt, this has been a time of change and adjustment! You may not know ...

The CIPD People Profession survey 2020, in association with Workday, is an annual snapshot of what’s happening right now across the people profession. From the perspective of practitioners themselves, the  survey gathers insight and data a...

Profession for the Future, the way we’ve described our work designed to help people professionals thrive in a changing world of work, is changing. From 27 May, it will be called The People Profession: now and for the future, or ‘now and f...

Kelly Angus is Executive Director of HR/OD and Deputy Chief Executive at Northumberland County Council, EnglandSupporting the COVID-19 emergency response has been my sole focus for some eight to ten weeks now, and how life has changed for HR/OD. I ha...

Pamela Forsyth is HR Business Partner Team Leader at Stirling Council in Scotland In these changed times we have all had to work very differently, and within HR we have had to learn how to undertake our function in very different ways. However w...

Shane O'Brien is HR Manager for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, UK and Ireland. COVID-19 has created some historical and unprecedented challenges right across business, economic and social entities. While it is unlikely we will ever forget this ...

Based in Northern Ireland, Dylan Loughlin is Director at Copacetic Business Solutions Copacetic Business Solutions is based out of the Crumlin Road Gaol visitor centre, next to the Mater hospital. Like many organisations, COVID-19 has forced us to cl...

Emma Alcock is Global Head of Engagement and Communications for Mayborn Group.The impact of the pandemic on our organisation has varied globally from our people working in our factory in China, who were impacted very early on, alongside those in Shan...

Based in the Philippines, Rene M. Gener, DPM, is Executive Director at the People Management Association of the PhilippinesThe COVID-19 health crisis is an unforeseen event that slumped businesses and workers alike.  In fact, nobody was prepared...

Based in the UK, Elly Gallagher is Head of People and Values at Dynamic Planner. I’d like to take a moment to share how incredibly proud I am to work alongside such professional team members at Dynamic Planner, who truly care about each other ...

Claire Vaughan is Executive Director of Workforce and OD for the Welsh Ambulance Service.'When we come out of the other end of this and reflect on what we describe as ‘core’ services, I wonder if the crucial role my team has played wi...

Based in Alberta, Canada, Rob Caswell is Manager, Employee & Labour Relations for Carewest Innovative Healthcare. Our people team is still getting used to their change of scenery.  Our organization consists of 13 public continuing care sites...

Morag Ormiston is Group HR Manager for Seatronics, based in the UK. Seatronics, part of the Acteon Group, has employees based around the globe with offices in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Aberdeen and Houston. Our commitment to our 120+ employees has been t...

Alicia Bedford is HR Executive for Cambridge Commodities, based in the UK. For me personally, the start of 2020 meant continuing my professional development as I was covering for our Head of HR while she was on maternity. It was the year that I could...

Dr Noraslinda Zuber is Director of Human Capital for the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore. The Covid-19 pandemic is undeniably one of the world's most challenging to date. The effects of this pandemic can be seen across the globe,...

Brad Taylor is the CIPD's Director of People, OD and Workplace, responsible for employees across the UK, Ireland, Asia and Middle East. Every business should have a strong, well-rehearsed business continuity plan... Yet rehearsals typically ...

Charlotte May, based in the UK, is a HR Advisor at Risual. These are strange times indeed I had never anticipated that my relatively new HR career would include dealing with a crisis of this magnitude. Yet, here we are! The individuals in my or...

Based in Scotland, Nicola Hewitt is Head of HR at Common Thread. Coronavirus. We hear it 100 times a day at the moment, but what did it mean for my organisation and my team? Well, we are a residential childcare provider with some schools too, so the ...

Based in Singapore, Kwek Kok Kwong is CEO of NTUC LearningHub (LHUB). COVID-19 is an unprecedented event and warrants an unprecedented response. At NTUC LearningHub (LHUB), that mindset has driven our actions as an organisation over the last two mont...

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is posing a range of unprecedented challenges to people professionals. Decisions which will affect both the livelihoods and working lives of employees a...

Since the advent of COVID-19 some of the challenges that people professionals are facing are unprecedented.    Now more than ever, we all need a strong foundation giving us the confidence and capabilities to guide our decision making, ...