We are firm believers that showing love for your people and creating a great working culture provides many advantages, a key one being that good people want to stay. Some of the recent vacancy headlines seem to have sprung out of nowhere. We seem to have been propelled forward from a severe concern about unemployment rates post Lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 to: “ Salaries set to skyrocket in 2022 as firms try to retain employees ”; “ Employers warned to expect challenges as vac

Do your teams feel like they are being heard? “It is said that employees don’t leave companies, they leave people” - Dale Carnegie author of How to Win Friends and Influence People This enduring and iconic quote is possibly even more relevant today as when Carnegie first made it.  As we emerge from the pandemic into an ever more challenging and competitive world, what do you really know about your employees’ future career plans, especially those who now are working less vis

Did you know that according to a recent survey of 6000 UK workers, 24% are planning to change roles in the next 3-6 months?  What if that’s your most talented team members – how effective would your business run without them?  What knowledge and skills would they take with them, and what gaps would they leave behind? “We can’t stop employees leaving unless we have a plan to make them stay” is a quote by Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo.  We have plans for lots of areas of our business, b

Still Working! Oil and mineral discoveries once led to boomtowns; this exodus has spawned ‘Zoom towns’, regional communities near natural amenities, where remote workers can take advantage of a higher quality of life, with more disposable income than in traditional business hubs. As remote working is seen in many cases an improved way of working “zoom towns” are popping up and in many cases being promoted by companies who also provide incentives for relocation to capitalise

Doug Conant, former CEO of the Campbells Soup Company led a highly successful business  turnaround. It reversed a decline in market value and improved not just the financial profile but the diversity and inclusion practices in the organisation, by focussing on the people in the workplace. His approach was ALL about people, about honouring and trusting his people. Are you the cream of the soup or in the soup with your employees? Honouring, what is that? asking “how can I help”

How do we learn? I’ve been reading the excellent Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel

We hope you, like us in Taylor Clarke, are able to take a summer break and take some time out to rest, renew and re-energise.

So here we are in week 10 of “Lockdown” and we at Taylor Clarke have been reflecting on the journey, personally and organisationally, and ho

A 3- part blog to help you build the Post Covid culture you need By Alistair Brown, Principal Associate Consultant In times of crisis cultural alignment is key to a speedy reaction, renewal and recovery. The current pandemic driven, emergent and confusingly termed “New normal” is going to be very different and “far from normal! For leaders this is very personal in its impact, unique in its implications and uncertain in its outcomes. Fundamentally new thinking, solutions and