Aware HR
Articles
What is changing, what tends to go wrong, and what it means in practice. General information, never advice about your situation.
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Resilient, Not Relentless
What a room of women leaders, Professor Jackie Ford and Dr Julia Morgan taught me about how we lead — from the first Resilient, Not Relentless evening in Harrogate.
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You're not coaching them. You're mentoring them. And that's fine — just know which one you're doing.
Coaching and mentoring solve different problems. What separates them, when each one is the right call, and what goes wrong when a manager reaches for the wrong one.
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Your team isn't lazy or difficult. It's probably just storming.
A team that has started arguing is usually not broken. Tuckman's storming stage, why small teams get stuck in it, and the feedback habit that moves them on.
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A fifteen-page grievance just landed. You're fairly sure ChatGPT wrote it.
AI-drafted grievances are longer, more legalistic and sometimes cite cases that don't exist. What is actually happening, and why suspecting AI wrote it changes less than you would hope.
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The tribunal claim window is doubling. Here's what that actually changes.
From October 2026 an employee is expected to have six months to bring an employment tribunal claim, instead of three. What the change is, and what it means for how small employers keep records.
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Your best technician is now your worst manager
Most people are promoted because they were good at the job, not because anyone taught them to manage. What that costs, and what usually sits underneath it.
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