Shamrocks and Doughnuts

  We come to work everyday and perform all the various tasks and duties which make up our jobs and our careers.  Hopefully after last week you’ll be thinking more mindfully about your jobs and may have shaken out of those mindless tendencies that we inevitably...

Leadership Capability

During the popular Love your People Circle of Peers events, Maureen has posed the question: “Are we back to the same issues?”  Top of that list is leadership capability.  It seems that she is not alone in that view. Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2014  is an...

Take good care of yourself

Sometimes old messages are good!  So for those of you who don’t recognise the phrase, here is a 1975 message all for you…  We regularly hear from our clients and candidates how tough it is at the top, how isolated they feel, unable to talk freely about situations that...

Ahead of the Game

Our strap line is ‘Ahead of the Game in 86, Still Ahead Now’ and this week we’ve had the pleasure of seeing the validity of this statement. Last week we presented the idea of having an Age Rainbow in your office and we discussed the benefits of age...

Creating an age rainbow

This week HR Review published two articles of interest to us here at Cullen Scholefield.  The first was about the cost of replacing employees and the second was about the all too problematic age gap and how it is affecting our mature workers. Beginning with the first,...