Welcome to your HRD Connect update!

Are you fully ready to embrace artificial intelligence within your business? It’s time to stop fearing technology, and start allowing it to enrich your working life. We look at five ways in which AI can develop and improve your organisation’s outlook and output.

We also question why only 1 out of 10 organisations are neurodiverse. Recent CIPD research has found that 10% of the UK population are neurodivergent.

Mental health in the workplace needs to be openly discussed in a culture that encourages these conversations. Alex Lane, Senior Manager at Accenture and mental health advocate, believes that attitudes need to change towards mental health.

“In 2016, I had a nervous breakdown and was signed off work for four months after being diagnosed with anxiety and depression.” – Alex Lane, Senior Manager, Accenture and mental health advocate.

Very best,

Emily Sexton-Brown,

Editor, HRD Connect