Each question should be answered in a maximum of 1000 words. Title: "All parts of HR must be aligned, or you're wasting your time" A People strategy overhaul is giving EDF renewable an edge over it's competitors by Jenny Roper The lot of a line manager is famously tough. Typically, unthanked middle "men" between staff and senior leadership teams, charged - often - with balancing exacting operational targets with management responsibilities...But few personally tasked with a goal quite as mental as solving global warming. This is exactly what happens on renewables UK and Ireland's new development programme. All people managers attended over a two-month period at the beginning of the year. The initiative is designed to be highly "experiential", explains chief people officer San Johal. "So on day one, they do lots of theory about themselves what their teams think of them". "Day two, we basically say: country's net zero have been brought forward by 10 years - how they as the business deliver very ambitious targets - and how they really put themselves front and centre of making a difference to climate change