Blaire Palmer

Member Since: 26th Nov 2015
Columnist
Blaire Palmer is a leadership coach, author, podcaster and conference speaker. She co-hosts The Human Revolutionaries Show with Natasha Wallace and, as CEO of That People Thing, works with senior executives to help them rethink how to lead in these fast changing times. You can talk to Blaire about her leadership coaching, culture programmes or find out more about her work at www.thatpeoplething.com
Author, speaker, agent provocateur for senior leaders and their teams That People Thing
21st Mar 2022
P&O sackings remind HR to be the radical voice of the business
When a company (in this case P&O Ferries) does something so unanimously shocking (like making its staff redundant with immediate effect...
Culture
29th Oct 2021
Why you need to have an HR philosophy to really make a difference
One of the major differences between a manager and a leader is that managers fulfil the brief set by others while leaders stand for...
Strategy
18th Oct 2021
Time to talk about menopause at work: What can HR do?
As long as women are suffering in silence, we may be creating an environment at work that, unknowingly, discriminates against midlife women...
Culture
18th Oct 2021
Time to talk about menopause at work: A shock to the system
The first time I heard the term ‘perimenopause’ – the menopause transition period before periods have finished – I dismissed it as a gentle...
Culture
6th Aug 2021
Overlooked and undervalued – why ‘quiet leadership’ could be the answer to your culture problem
There is a lot of talk about diversity within business. In enlightened companies this talk goes beyond race and gender diversity and...
Culture
3rd Jun 2021
Spirituality in the workplace: should organisations avoid or embrace it?
If someone had told me 20 years ago that talking openly about meditation practices with a team of senior execs would be totally acceptable...
Employees
23rd Apr 2021
Should everyone get their own coach?
Prince Harry has a new job. He’s the Chief Impact Officer at a USA based coaching company called BetterUp. Their mission is to put coaching...
Development
8th Apr 2021
Is HR at risk of irrelevancy in the changing world of work?
Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of Octopus Energy, says he doesn’t have an HR department and doesn’t see the need for one. What was your...
Change
9th Mar 2021
Three predictions for HR in a post-pandemic world
Who runs your company? Coming out of the last recession the centre of gravity in most businesses moved towards the CEO/CFO relationship. In...
Future
4th Jan 2021
Why HR professionals must put their own wellbeing first
Being in HR is unlike being in any other function in a business. No one wonders whether the company’s FD prefers Excel or Google Sheets for...
Culture