If you work in HR, you know that April is rarely a quiet month, and if you are the only HR person in your organisation, or part of a small team, you will feel that in the diary before you feel anything else.

There's a particular kind of tired that HR professionals know well. It's not the tired you feel after a long day. It's the tired that comes with not quite feeling like yourself anymore — and not being able to work out whether it's the job, or something else entirely. It's the tired of holding everything together for everyone around you, while quietly wondering when someone is going to ask if you're okay. They don't. They rarely do. The Profession Nobody Supports Here's somet

After 20 years in HR, I've watched various organisations run the same exhausted cycle — and the annual appraisal, as most organisations run it, is one of the most counterproductive rituals in modern business. Not because the principle is flawed — feedback, reflection, and goal-setting are genuinely essential — but because we have built a fundamentally broken process and then kept running it, year after year, wondering why nothing changes. I could provide a long list of why th