Five glorious years

It won't be a surprise to many that outgoing BBC HR supremo Valerie Hughes D'Aeth has given an interview to HR Magazine, and, apparently, her tenure has been a triumph. Up to you whether or not you can take the whole thing. Here are some quotes.

“I don’t know Lucy Adams, I’ve only met her once.”

"I’d ...been asked to take out [HR] cost if I could. So I took out £10 million per annum… That’s a nice feeling. But it was a very significant upheaval; about 60% of the function were new in those first two to three years.”

“Last year we went out and listened to all of our leaders and basically said: what is good leadership at the BBC? On the back of that we developed six leadership competencies and 2,300 leaders were taken through sessions last Summer”

"We had always advertised all of our vacancies publicly."