Charles Goff-Deakins
Member Since: 23rd Nov 2017
Charles Goff-Deakins is a career development expert who provides practical career advice for HR practitioners, covering everything from getting your first job in HR to data analytics.
Senior HR Officer
19th Feb 2021
Employee feedback: five things that affect your surveys
Understanding your organisation ensures your actions make the most effective and relevant impact. Whether it’s a major change project or an...
Employees
10th Feb 2021
Personal development: why and how you need to maintain your non-HR skills
As people professionals, we value the people-centric nature of our work. The campaign to ‘put the human back in HR’ is an age-old movement...
Development
12th Mar 2020
Mental ill health: should HR rebrand the 'stress risk assessment'?
Work-related stress, depression and anxiety accounted for 44% of work-related ill health and 54% of working days lost in 2018/19 , two...
People
21st Feb 2020
Eating disorders in the workplace: how can HR help?
According to Beat , one of the UK’s eating disorder charities, almost one in ten (6.4%) adults display signs of an eating disorder, whether...
People
12th Feb 2020
Workplace relationship policies: what’s love got to do with it?
When McDonald’s CEO was dismissed following his announcement of his relationship with a colleague, workplace relationships became a new...
Culture
6th Jan 2020
Employee wellbeing: Is presenteesim a symptom of flexible working?
The CIPD has recently published their annual Health and wellbeing at work report which rouses concern in the rise in presenteeism – the act...
Culture
17th Sep 2019
Man trouble: HR’s role in men’s mental health
We have a professional duty to put in place psychological safety mechanisms and measures to protect employees’ mental health based on...
People
29th Aug 2019
Managers and workplace culture: a precarious symbiosis
It’s a universally understood concept that managers play a crucial role in workplace culture . As key people to implement policy, ensure...
Managers
5th Jun 2019
Celebrating individualism in the workplace
The whole may be greater than the sum of its parts, but that doesn't mean we should view and treat our workers as one and the same...
Culture
30th Apr 2019
Wellbeing initiatives: are employers expected to be life coaches?
Workplace wellbeing initiatives have boomed in recent years, but are employers going too far in what they are offering? Organisations are...
People