September 12, 2026
Your First Ninety Days as a Manager
The promotion changes what the job is and nobody says so, which is why most new managers do…
Sarah Mitchell is an HR Strategy Lead with over 12 years of experience helping mid-sized and enterprise organisations design people systems that actually scale. She has worked across industries including SaaS, manufacturing, and professional services — advising leadership teams on workforce planning, organisational design, and building HR functions that hold up under growth pressure. Sarah believes that great HR strategy starts with understanding the business model, not just the headcount. Her writing focuses on practical frameworks, real-world trade-offs, and the decisions that separate sustainable people ops from short-term fixes.
Articles Published
September 9, 2026
Structured Interviews Without the Bureaucracy
Two interviewers asking different questions produce two assessments that cannot be compared. Five interview formats reviewed, the smallest…
September 9, 2026
The Scorecard Managers Will Actually Fill In
A scorecard everyone completes and nobody means is worse than none, because it launders a gut call into…
September 7, 2026
Strategic Workforce Planning Without a Crystal Ball
You cannot forecast a workforce three years out, and that was never the point. Five planning methods reviewed,…
September 7, 2026
The HR Budget Line Nobody Defends Until It Is Cut
The undefended lines are the ones whose value arrives late, spread across people nobody can name. Six budget…
September 4, 2026
One Handbook or Many: Multiple States, Multiple Countries
The choice is whether the core states the highest common standard or the local minimum with supplements. Five…
September 4, 2026
The Employee Handbook People Actually Read
A handbook serves two audiences that want opposite things, and most organisations settle it in favour of the…
September 2, 2026
Exit Surveys or Exit Interviews: When Written Beats Spoken
The real trade is depth against comparability, and the usual compromise delivers neither. Five formats compared, matched to…
August 31, 2026
Retro Pay and Corrections: Getting Backdated Changes Right
A backdated change is not one correction but a chain of them. Six things it touches, a method…