Is Lower Staff Turnover a Good Thing? Quick Summary Falling turnover might look like a win—but it can hide deeper issues, like loss of top performers. Recruitment freezes and blocked progression paths can frustrate your best people, while “corporate prisoners”...
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Is Communication Undermining Your Redundancy Process?
Quick Summary Communication is more than a delivery tactic: it's a strategic lever that protects your culture during restructuring. Leadership alignment is non-negotiable. A fractured message damages credibility internally and externally. Delay breeds uncertainty....
How to improve employee retention in 2025?
How to improve talent retention has quietly become one of the toughest challenges for businesses right now. It’s no longer enough to just find good people; you’ve got to find ways to keep them. And in this rapidly changing and uncertain world, that’s not always easy. ...
Why Career Coaching is Essential for Mid-to-Senior Talent
How many hidden leavers are in your organisation? In today’s tough job market, holding on to mid-to-senior talent has never been trickier. That’s why career coaching for mid-to-senior talent is becoming a must-have: it gives your experienced people the support...
How to Retain Executive Talent During Organisational Change
How to retain executive talent during organisational change? Organisational change is a given. Whether it’s restructuring, leadership transition, or strategic pivots. For senior leaders, it’s rarely the disruption itself that creates risk — it’s how that disruption...
When employment relationships breakdown
When employment relationships breakdown it can be hugely stressful for all involved. What has Chiumento learned about the reasons employers and their people "fall out of love" with each other? Ian Gooden offers some opinions. Chiumento is probably best known as an...
Retirement will create a big hole…
Retirement will create a big hole in my diary. For over 40 years I have spent far more of my waking life at a desk, in meetings or travelling than I have doing anything else. Working long hours was a habit I developed when I worked in the advertising industry....
Stay interviews – five things to consider
Stay interviews are a realitively new concept. For years employers have been getting data from workers as they leave the organisation. These "exit interviews" provide excellent insight into why people have chosen to move on. However could you have avoided the...
5 Reasons Talent Mobility Should Be on Your HR Agenda
Talent mobility was high on the agenda at this year's Arbora Global Conference. Arbora Chairman, and Chiumento MD, Mike Burgneay shares his thoughts on why this should be high up your talent management agenda. 1. Organisations are facing rapid change All businesses...