If Sunday evenings fill you with a sense of dread, you’re not alone. Neither are you weak, broken, or necessarily in the wrong job.

The Sunday night dread is not a diagnosis of what’s wrong; it’s often an alarm call to signal all is not well on the work front.

For many people managers, it shows up as...

You may have seen headlines this week about the Employment Rights Bill becoming law as of 18 December 2025, it is now the Employment Rights Act 2025 although most changes won’t take effect immediately, the direction of travel is clear.

For people managers, this matters.

The Act strengthens employee pr...

Most managers avoid difficult conversations for understandable reasons.

They don’t want conflict. They don’t want to say the wrong thing. They don’t want to make things worse or face the consequences if it goes badly. They don’t know what to do, they don’t have time….

Avoidance often feels like the le...