How to Avoid a Winter of Discontent
Hello PPMA members and friends Earlier this week The MJ published an article by our President Gordon McFarlane, In it he talks about the challenges facing our profession in the coming months. It's an important ...
Recruitment Solutions for Testing Times
Hello PPMA members and friends Last Thursday (28th July) The MJ published an article by our President Gordon McFarlane, where he reflects on the challenges our sector (and others) face with recruiting and retaining staff. ...
PPMA Talent Programmes – A Great Way to Access Professional and Personal Development
Hello PPMA members and friends I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the value of our talent programmes. They’re a core part of the PPMA offering and have always been popular. I was ...
A Case Study on How to Enhance the Retirement Pots of Employees with Thames Valley Police and AVC Wise
Hello PPMA colleagues and friends Our blog post this week comes from new conference supporters AVC Wise and in it, they share the work they have been doing with Thames Valley Police to enhance the ...
What Does Being Neurodivergent Mean To You?
Hello PPMA members and friends Neurodiversity Celebration Week was held recently and as part of that, Kate Enver, who was a participant in our 2021 Peer into The Future cohort and Director of People and ...
Levelling Up – What Does This Mean for HR?
Hello PPMA members and colleagues Anastasia Simpson is a long standing PPMA member and Assistant Director, Partnerships at Tendring District Council and she shares with us some of the excellent initiatives that she and her ...
On International HR Day, PPMA President Gordon McFarlane shares his own HR Journey!
Hello PPMA members and colleagues Today is International HR Day and we wanted to acknowledge this, and the great work done by all of the amazing public services HR and OD teams across the country. ...
Understanding Stress and Secrets of Resilient People – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
Hello PPMA colleagues and friends It's Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is Loneliness. To recognise this important issue, our outgoing President and now Secretary and board member Steve Davies, has shared ...
New PPMA President Gordon McFarlane Reflects on #PPMAHR22
Hello PPMA friends and colleagues Last week was #PPMAHR22 in Manchester. It was a brilliant 3 days and one of the highlights was the inauguration of our new President - Gordon McFarlane. As you will ...
Great Speakers, Brilliant Networking and a Spectacular Gala Awards Dinner all at #PPMAHR22 Next Week
Hello PPMA members and friends As you will probably be aware, next week is the PPMA Annual Conference. We are really excited, as I hope, are those of you attending. Especially as this will be ...
Celebrating Tomorrow’s Inspiring Leaders
Hello PPMA members and friends Last week we held the final of this year's Apprentice of the Year competition and with the valuable support of the amazing Leatham Green and his colleagues from Oracle, we ...
Ian Thomas – Talking about Teamwork Ahead of #PPMAHR22
Hello PPMA members and friends Ian Thomas CBE is the highly regarded Chief Executive at The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Council and is one of the Keynote speakers at #PPMAHR22 in Manchester. As ...
#IWD2022 #BreakTheBias – Sam Betts Joint PPMA Vice-President
Hello PPMA members and friends Today, the 8th March 2022 is International Women's Day and the theme for this year is #BreakTheBias. The campaign is looking to actively call out gender bias, discrimination and stereotyping ...
Growth, Sustainability and Inclusion
Hello PPMA members and friends In the last two years I’ve seen the best of our HR/OD profession in supporting our organisations to manage and overcome the challenges thrown at us by the Covid 19 ...
The Pioneers of #InclusiveHR
Hello PPMA members and friends Cheryl Samuels is Deputy Director of Workforce Transformation - London Region and Chair of Deputy Directors of HR Network, NHS England & NHS Impro and we are so pleased that ...
10 Questions as Inspiration for Your 2022 HR Plan
Hello PPMA members and friends Our post this week has been written by Tom Haak, a leading global HR thought leader and a keynote speaker at our live Annual Conference in Manchester in April. Tom ...
What’s Taking our Attention at the Moment?
Hello PPMA members and friends For many of you the above statement will seem pretty obvious and yet quite broad. Whatever your role in the HR/OD profession, I can’t imagine that your focus isn’t shaped ...
Reflections and Opportunities – Welcome 2022
Hello PPMA members and friends As we move into 2022, I wanted to reflect briefly on what’s been another challenging year for us all – professionally, and for many of us, also personally. Our profession ...
