Send us a text In this episode of Buzzing About HR, host Kate Underwood tackles a familiar challenge for many businesses: what happens when your best doer becomes your newest manager. You know the story. Someone’s brilliant at their job, so you promote them… then watch them drown in rotas, one-to-ones and tough conversations they’ve never been trained for. Kate walks through a fair, practical way to grow real managers without losing your top talent along the way. She starts with the big tensi...
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Send us a text In this episode of Buzzing About HR, host Kate Underwood tackles a familiar challenge for many businesses: what happens when your best doer becomes your newest manager. You know the story. Someone’s brilliant at their job, so you promote them… then watch them drown in rotas, one-to-ones and tough conversations they’ve never been trained for. Kate walks through a fair, practical way to grow real managers without losing your top talent along the way. She starts with the big tensi...
Send us a text Ever hidden a Performance Improvement Plan in your bottom drawer, hoping you'll never need it? You're not alone. Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) are often dreaded by managers and employees alike, but this episode transforms them from scary legal documents into practical tools for genuine improvement. We break down exactly why poorly executed PIPs can devastate small businesses, sharing real-world horror stories of expensive tribunal cases that could have been avoide...
Buzzing About HR
Send us a text In this episode of Buzzing About HR, host Kate Underwood tackles a familiar challenge for many businesses: what happens when your best doer becomes your newest manager. You know the story. Someone’s brilliant at their job, so you promote them… then watch them drown in rotas, one-to-ones and tough conversations they’ve never been trained for. Kate walks through a fair, practical way to grow real managers without losing your top talent along the way. She starts with the big tensi...
