The Contagion Effect
A 2026 leadership trend: Choose your standard before someone else does 2026 has already arrived with plenty of public examples of influential leaders making decisions (and showing behaviours)… Read more ›
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People Strategy and Culture
“THE OAK STANDS TODAY
BECAUSE A SEED WAS PLANTED YEARS BEFORE.”
Our biggest strength at Stapleton Consulting is our ability to step into the shoes of you and your people, and to see the employment journey from all sides.
Creating cultures that connect
Your culture is the essence of who you are – as a team, a workplace, and a business, and it plays an incredibly important role in keeping people engaged and on your team for longer. It’s the sum of the little actions and interactions between people and teams that happen over a long time.
A successful culture is built around a common purpose (your why) and shared values. We help businesses understand their why, and design and build cultures that connect, inspire and engage.
Building great employment journeys
People’s experience of your organisation matters. It can build or torpedo your reputation as an employer, and have a significant impact on the talent you attract.
So we dig deep to understand their experience – from recruitment, to onboarding, to their ongoing development – and how this journey impacts their engagement and retention.
We look for unique and fresh ways to design and build better employment journeys that help you keep people in their roles for longer – with succession plans in place to keep your organisation humming if they ever decide to move on.
HR Discovery Audit
Our HR Discovery Audit is a tool that helps your organisation compare the employment journey with your business priorities, and plan for how to attract, select, develop and retain great talent.
Retaining employees isn’t just important because it’s a hassle to onboard new ones. Good long-term employees are a major asset, because they carry not just experience in their roles, but a wealth of institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of all the parts of your organisation.
Through a process of investigation and interviews, we take a thorough look at your current employment journey and identify opportunities that can improve your employee retention.
If your business goals will involve growing your team, it’s important to understand this before you start advertising on the job sites. Where will the people come from? How will you develop and keep them? What makes you different from your competitors?
And how will you replace them if and when they do move on?
Very few things in business work well without a plan;
growing and keeping an amazing team is no exception.
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Work in action
Pay Transparency: What the New Law Means for Employers and Employees
From 12 June 2025, new protections came into effect giving employees the right to discuss their pay without fear of penalty or reprisal. Employers can no longer include “pay secrecy” or “pay… Read more ›
When Opposites Work Together: Bridging the Gap Between Big Picture and Detail-Oriented Styles
It’s a classic workplace challenge: one person loves spreadsheets and structure, while the other thrives on big-picture thinking and moving fast. When one’s flying high at 30,000 feet and the… Read more ›
Why Performance Review Conversations Shouldn’t Be Left to Gather Dust
Let’s be honest—performance reviews have a bit of a branding problem. Too often they’re viewed as a dreaded annual event, heavy with formality and light on actual impact. But when done… Read more ›
Hybrid Work Flexibility: Keeping Teams Connected, Aligned, and Engaged
Hybrid working—where employees split their time between home and the office—has become the default for many companies. At Stapleton Consulting, we know that successful hybrid models go beyond… Read more ›
Training for Tomorrow: Building Skills and Resilience for the Future Workplace
Change is Here, Are Your People Ready? The workplace has always been a dynamic space, but now more than ever, change is constant, rapid, and relentless. From the rise of AI and automation… Read more ›
What’s Ahead in 2025: HR Trends to Watch
2025 is shaping up to be another transformative year for businesses. As organisations continue to adapt to rapid change, five key HR priorities are emerging that will demand leaders’… Read more ›
Recruiting for Great Working Relationships: A Shift from Skills to Synergy
While doing some learning and development research this week, I came across the following quote that struck a chord. “Relationships are the fuel for human development; they foster… Read more ›
Mana & Dignity
In June, I spoke about preserving mana and dignity, alongside the Harkness Henry employment team. The topic was navigating restructure, redeployment, and redundancy. For those who were unable… Read more ›
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Are you missing the forest for the trees?
If you’re looking for a strategic, driven, and energetic HR consultancy to help you see the big picture, as well as take care of the day-to-day, you’re at the right place.
Our welcoming and professional team is ready for an intriguing and thoughtful conversation about your HR challenges – are you?
