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....
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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...
Executive Onboarding: Maximising the Potential for Success
When it comes to executive onboarding, the stakes are high. A new leader steps into a big role means that everyone’s watching. The organisation has made a huge investment to bring them on board and now it’s time to perform. The danger is believing that success will...

Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...

Balancing Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...

The five key factors that drive homeworking success
Here at Chiumento we know a thing or two about homeworking success. We started talking about it as a potential future business model way back in 2010. At the time we were reviewing our property portfolio and starting to ask some serious questions about how much of our...

Toxic High Performers
Toxic high performers are individuals who deliver great results but by means that can completely undermine an organisation's culture. Over a decade ago, we developed the Chiumento Culture Matrix to help clients explore this concept and challenge their willingness to...