It’s good for business – Building a diverse workforce We know that Britain is a diverse and multi-cultural society and business and government know that their products and services should be directly aligned to the needs of their customers. But how far does the leadership of these organisations reflect the people they serve? The Parker […]
Jo Otterburn, Court and Tribunal Fees Policy Joanna is a Coaching Squared graduate, here she shares with us her strategy to enjoy maternity leave with career confidence. How I have prepared for maternity leave In March, I was over the moon to discover that I was having a baby – our first, a boy, due […]
Findings state employers still have work to do LeanIn.Org in partnership with McKinsey & Company, released their annual study Women in the Workplace 2016. This is based on the pipeline data and human resources practices from 132 companies employing more than 4.6 million people around the world. The key findings for the 2016 study is […]
LGBT: the value of diversity in numbers “In the UK, it costs an employer £30,600 to replace a new employee, compared with the average national salary of £26,500 and it takes 28 weeks for a new employee to get to optimum productivity”. Oxford Economics, The Cost of the Brain Drain. Earlier this year, a report, […]
After the nine month Coaching Squared programme ended, we interviewed participants and decision makers to give us their feedback and talk about their experience on this career development programme, and this is what they had to say. To find out more about the Coaching Squared programme, provided by Scene Change email us at hello@scenechange.co.uk
I’m honoured to have won the Top 100 WeAreTheCity Rising Star Award in the Public Sector category. I collected my award at a fabulous ceremony, held at Barclays HQ, in London, on 30 June 2016, together with sponsors, friends and supporters. In February 2016, WeAreTheCity ran the Rising Star Awards programme. The aim of the […]
I hope you enjoyed the weekend. I spent it under duress in a campsite, where the temperature seemed to drop dramatically at night. I’m now also sporting a rather unattractive bruise on my forehead and a graze on my eye brow after tripping over a guy rope in the dark. So, what have I learned […]
We are thrilled to hear that yet another one of our Coaching Squared participants, Temitope Roberta Lawal from Ministry of Justice, has been nominated for the 2016 WeAreTheCity Rising Stars award. ‘I am glad to be a Civil Servant and to have recently become a Magistrate. Volunteering as a Magistrate is something that I am […]
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