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Picture this, a senior marketing director who'd spent the last three New Year's Days meticulously crafting goal lists. Each January, they'd fill their Moleskine notebook with ambitious targets: expand the team's digital capabilities, secure a significant budget increase, develop a breakthrough marketing strategy. By March, those carefully written pages would be buried under a stack of quarterly reports, their aspirations slowly fading like last year's resolution.

In boardrooms across the country, leaders like you are grappling with a critical challenge: transforming human capital from a cost centre into a strategic powerhouse. Half of your budget is tied up in salaries, but are you truly seeing a return on that investment?

In 2024, the only certainty we face is ambiguity. With a globally unstable political climate heavily impacting on the economic landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to remain agile and adaptable. One strategy that has regained traction in recent months is the utilisation of workers on fixed term contracts (FTCs). FTCs offer numerous advantages, particularly in times of doubt, making it an increasingly attractive option for organisations across the UK and beyond.

In today's fast-paced business world, having the right people at the top can make all the difference in driving business transformation and success. We're talking about those high-level executives - The ones we call the C-suite - CEOs, CPOs, CMOs etc. At We Are Adam, we specialise in search and selection for these critical senior roles. So, if you're wondering how getting the C-suite hiring right can impact your business transformation, you've come to the right place!

Getting your team’s workload right is a fine balancing act. Ask them to do too much and standards could slip and their health and wellbeing may deteriorate. Get them to do too little and organisational output is impacted and employees will likely become bored. The starting point for determining the perfect workload is understanding the capacity of your team. So, here are five tools and techniques to help you do just that.