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...
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...
Job search – is it getting tougher out there?
How hard is job search in the Autumn of 2023? One of the early questions our delegates usually ask us is: how long will it take to find another job? And honestly there's no simple answer. There are too many variables. From where you live and what you do to what...
Work-life balance – why trust is a key ingredient
Work-life balance is a much-used phrase. However what does it really mean? Let me say up-front I have never really liked the term. Let me explain why. Too often I find people use work-life balance to describe an idealistic world where there are hard boundaries between...
Coachability: are you open to learning?
Coachability isn't a word that rolls off the tongue. However it is a critical element in development. Chiumento's Ian Gooden describes how a wet Wednesday night on a rugby field was a critical reminder that coaching is a two-way relationship. Pre-season training in...
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....