“Edwina was very professional throughout, gave a lot of reassurance during a particularly stressful time, and demonstrated an ability to understand and work towards a desired outcome.”
Pragmatic and practical problem-solver
“Edwina has excellent technical knowledge, which combined with her experience enables her to provide pragmatic and practical solutions when problems arise.”
Honest, respectful, knowledgeable, and empathetic
“Edwina gives honest and direct feedback, always delivered with respect and kindness. Edwina is logical, patient, empathetic and professional. She is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about her field of work and I trust her implicitly.”
Enhanced my people management skills
“Edwina’s support and advice has been extremely helpful during times when I have needed to understand how to handle employee performance and attendance issues. I have learned a lot from Edwina and consider myself a better people manager as a direct result of her advice.”
People Strategy success
“Edwina’s knowledge, experience and wisdom has been invaluable for many years. She has helped us to develop and embed our People Strategy which led to us achieving Investors in People Gold accreditation.”
Guidance for growth
“Edwina’s advice and guidance has helped me grow as an HR person. Providing guidance on what needs to be said and how, when delivering hard messages.”
Pragmatic, balanced HR advice
“Edwina provided pragmatic advice that balanced compliance, best practice and practicality that allowed us to find good and fair outcomes for our HR challenges.”
Boosted confidence
“Edwina has really helped my self-confidence. She has encouraged me to trust my judgement. At the same time she also challenges me, very patiently and kindly, when I need to rethink, which is helping me to improve.”
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