When Life Gives You Lemons
Hello PPMA friends Our latest blog post has been written by our amazing joint Apprentice of the Year 2019 winner, Kirsten Moore. She talks about her legacy and the ups and downs she's experienced so ...
We Need Entrepreneurs and Vision at Every Level
Hello PPMA Friends Our blog post this week has been written by Juliette Alban-Metcalfe, Chief Executive of Real World Group, who are one of our wonderful strategic partners. They are experts in the field of ...
Karen Grave Reflects on National Inclusion Week
Dear PPMA friends #nationalinclusionweek has rightly been a time of celebrating the good news across Public Services. Our President Karen has been reflecting on where we are with this critical work. This is a long ...
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Hello PPMA friends It’s been another busy week on the PPMA front. We’ve been overwhelmed by applications for Peer Into the Future – I’ll come back to this in a future blog. And, I’ve been ...
South East Region: PPMA Goes Digital – An Insight into Current Practice and the Digital Future
Hello PPMA friends Our blog post this week has been written by Anastasia Simpson who is Chairperson of our South East Region and she shares with us the outcomes of a recent SE event. "As ...
3 Reasons Why People and Machines are Smarter Together
Hello PPMA friends Our friends and supporters at Oracle led a brilliant session all about technology at our Conference in May and to follow this, Yazad Dalal, their Head of Strategy, EMEA, has written an ...
Key Insights for HR & OD from Penna’s Annual Chief Executive Survey 2019
Hello PPMA friends This week’s post is written by our friends at Penna and it's a really great read! In the 2019 Annual Penna Chief Executive Survey, there are some important insights into how HR & ...
3 Smart Ways for HR/OD Professionals to Start Digital Disruption
Hello PPMA friends In this blog post, Emma Browes, PPMA digital theme lead writes about the importance of embracing digital as part of our roles as People Managers. She gives us some hints and tips ...
Fantastic Benefits for PPMA Members from our Partners at Crown Commercial Service
Hello PPMA friends Earlier this year we're delighted that Crown Commercial Service became a PPMA platinum sponsor. Our guest blogger this week is Vicky Howarth, Head of Commercial Agreements at CCS and she explains the ...
Our Regional Networks – Meet, Share, Exchange and Learn!
Hello PPMA friends Our blog post this week comes from Steve Davies, who as well as being Head of London Regional Employers’ Organisation at London Councils, is PPMA Vice President Regions and Hon. Treasurer & ...
Out of the Shadows: 2 Things That Kept Me Awake This Week!
Hello PPMA friends Last night, I should by rights, have had an early night - as a long trip down to see our wonderful South West Region colleagues awaited me this morning. Well, the moral ...
How to be There for Men When They Can’t Ask for Help
Hello PPMA Friends Our blog post this week has been written by Paul Friday who is Director of Strategic Relationships for good our friends and sponsors MHR. Paul penned this thought proving piece to coincide ...
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Building Mentally Healthy LGBT+ Leaders
Hello PPMA friends Our blog post this week has been written by Jim McManus, Director of Public Health for Hertfordshire County Council and a Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. ...
Quick Q & A with Hayley Camporese, PPMA HR Rising Star 2019
Hello PPMA friends With the brilliant PPMA Annual Conference over for another year, we sat down with the talented Haley Camporese, HR Consultant at Onesource and the PPMA Rising Star 2019 Winner, to find out ...
Out of the Shadows: Reflections from the HPMA Conference by Karen Grave
Hello PPMA friends I was delighted to attend the HPMA Annual Conference in Manchester last week. With a theme of Future Thinking, it was wonderful to spend time with our HPMA friends. It was a ...
HPMA’s Nicky Ingham Talks About Her Personal Experiences of Mental Health Challenges in her ‘Journey of Discovery’
Dear PPMA friends This week we are sharing an important story about mental health from a friend of PPMA’s. Nicky Ingham is the Executive Director for HPMA, one of our MOU Partners and she is ...
Out of the Shadows – Stop Working Your Sh*t Out on Other People
Dear PPMA friends In our first Out of the Shadows blog and I'm reflecting on the input from our amazing #PPMAHR19 speakers and some thinking from the inspirational Brene Brown. For those not familiar with ...
No Place for Lemon Suckers…Reflections on the Last Three Days from Karen Grave.
Dear PPMA friends It’s the day after the most magical 3 days I have experienced in a very very long time. I am hoping all of our delegates will have slept well last night. ...
