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 ...
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 ...
A Christmas Message from the PPMA
Hello PPMA members and friends At this festive time of year, I know that many of you will be looking forward to seeing loved ones over the next few days (fingers crossed). Let’s hope that ...
Celebrating Achievement and Contribution
Hello PPMA members and friends Last Thursday, the 9 December, we held our first face to face event for over 2 years to celebrate the achievements of the winners of the last 2 years PPMA ...
Judging The MJ Workforce Transformation Award 2021 …And The Finalists Are Announced!
Hello PPMA members and friends On Friday, 9 July, I had the privilege of judging The MJ Award for Workforce Transformation along with my fellow judges Tom Black and Anthony Francis, from Hammond Clarke, Caroline ...
Promoting and Supporting Inclusiveness in our Workplaces
Hello PPMA members and friends As HR/OD professionals it is our duty to support and promote inclusiveness in our workplaces. Helping to promote understanding, fairness and equality is an important element of our roles as ...
PPMA President Urges us to Celebrate Great Work and Promote Mental Health Awareness Week
Hello PPMA Members and friends At the beginning of this year I talked about the how proud I was of our profession and how well we have supported and helped our organisations over the last ...
Spring – And It’s Time To Enter The PPMA Excellence in People Management Awards 2021
Hello PPMA members and friends A couple of weeks ago I did a vlog about happiness and how the spring season with flowers and trees starting to come to life is so positive and makes ...
Steve Davies talks about UN International Day of Happiness and What Makes him Happy.
Hello PPMA members and friends At the end of World Happiness week, Saturday the 20th March is the UN International Day of Happiness. In the video blog below, Steve Davies, PPMA President talks about the ...
WIN in Spring…and other things!
Hello PPMA Members and Friends Spring is such a fantastic time of year. Coming out of what seems like a long dark winter, which has been exacerbated by the impact of Covid 19 and lockdowns, ...
PPMA President Steve Davies Reflects on the Events of 2020
Hello PPMA friends As we come to the end of this very challenging and tiring year, in the video below, Steve Davies, PPMA President, reflects on events and how both the HR & OD communities ...
New PPMA President Steve Davies Sets out the Vision for the Association.
Hello PPMA members and friends There have been many changes for all of us during 2020 and in the video below, our new President Steve Davies, shares some of the ways your association will be ...
How Can I Say It?
Dear PPMA friends 2020 is half way done. But it feels like we have lived multiple lifetimes. And we definitely have not had enough time to come to terms with those lifetimes, what they mean ...
Supporting Leaders and Managers During Covid-19 – PPMA HR Podcast
Dear PPMA friends Leadership at the best of times is challenging. Covid-19 has shone even more of a spotlight on those in leadership positions, wherever they sit in our organisations, our politics and society more ...
Using Clinical Psychology to Encourage Self Care in the Workplace – Rollout of CareSpace
Hello PPMA friends For those of us working in Public Services HR and OD, these last months have been the most consequential, challenging and complex of our professional lives, and our personal lives too. During ...
There Is Something About Watching a Man Die in Front of Your Eyes. It Changes You.
Hello PPMA friends There is something about watching a man die in front of your eyes. It changes you. It should. This has happened to me twice. The first was my father 27 months ago. ...
Lightning Rods – Disruptors or Destructors?
Hello PPMA friends It’s the integrity stupid… I promised myself that I would spend at least one Bank Holiday this year not twittering and linking in. But surprisingly Saturday was a wonderful day on social ...
Video: Important Update On The PPMA Annual Conference 2020 From Karen Grave
Hello PPMA friends As you know earlier this year we had to change the date of the PPMA Annual Conference from late March 2020 to September 2020 because of the coronavirus outbreak. In this video ...
