Thought Leadership
21 Aug 2025
Recruitment Marketing: Lessons Public Sector Can Learn from the Private Sector.
Private companies are raising the bar in recruitment, using marketing strategies, brand storytelling, and digital platforms to attract top talent. Chloe Herrmann explores how the public sector can respond, blending strategic marketing with purpose-led messaging and collaboration to build a stronger, more competitive workforce.
21 Aug 2025
The Translation Gap: Why we're missing opportunities
Veterans bring resilience, leadership, and adaptability—yet public sector recruitment often overlooks their potential. Rachael Simpson explores the barriers that hold veterans back and sets out practical steps HR teams can take to bridge the gap and strengthen public services.
21 Aug 2025
Coaching through a neuro-inclusive lens: a space to think, lead, and grow
Gayle Hudson, WME Associate, explores how neuro-affirming coaching creates safe spaces where neurodivergent colleagues can thrive. Drawing on lived experiences and workplace practice, it challenges leaders to move beyond awareness to action, embedding coaching and inclusive approaches that unlock hidden potential.
22 Jul 2025
Numbers Don’t Deliver Services. People Do
Discover why people, not just plans or policies, are the true infrastructure of local government. This article explores how coaching and strategic workforce planning can help councils thrive through uncertainty by supporting the individuals behind every service.
22 Jul 2025
From the Frontline to Public Service: Why Veterans Could Be the Public Sector's Untapped Talent
Veterans possess unique leadership, crisis management, and project delivery skills developed in high-pressure military environments, yet public sector recruitment often fails to recognise these transferable capabilities. With over half of employed veterans reporting underemployment, the sector is missing a strategic opportunity. Veterans bring a deep public service ethos, operational excellence, and the calm needed in complex situations, making them ideal for today's public sector challenges.
22 Jul 2025
The future of fairness: Rethinking hiring in divided times
Despite rising polarisation, UK workers, especially younger generations, are calling for more inclusive, transparent hiring. Tribepad’s Stop The Bias research shows a deep generational divide on fairness, merit and DEI. While younger people support inclusion, they also wrestle with merit-based concerns. Employers must lead with empathy, not slogans, designing systems that remove bias and reward talent. Inclusion and fairness are not opposite, they’re essential, intertwined goals for building trust in recruitment.
22 Jul 2025
From classroom to council: Regional collaboration is the route to a sustainable Local Government workforce
Facing an ageing workforce and growing skills gaps, local government must act now to secure future talent. Through regional collaboration and initiatives like the Learn Live broadcast and Public Sector: I ?? You podcast, WME is helping councils inspire young people to consider purposeful careers in the sector. By embedding outreach into strategy and sharing resources, councils can build a sustainable, diverse workforce to meet community needs.
17 Jun 2025
The storm is getting stronger. Here’s how to keep your people with you.
Coaching can be a critical force for resilience, connection and clarity across every level of local government. This piece explores the emotional impact of system-wide pressure, and shows how coaching is helping people not just survive change, but lead through it with purpose, adaptability and support.
17 Jun 2025
Leading through change: why coaching, culture and leadership matter most in local government reorganisation
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) challenges councils to lead through complexity, not just restructure. It demands strong leadership, cultural clarity, and space for reflection. By investing in people, behaviours, and shared values from day one, councils can turn disruption into opportunity. With the right support, LGR becomes a catalyst for leadership growth, stronger teams, and a more resilient organisation ready to thrive beyond transition.