By Sarah Platts - freshnetworks.com Having previously written about innovation and leadership following Open University Business School events, I went to another one recently on the topic of change management. According to research, over half of change efforts fail (52%) – but what’s the main cause of failure? According to Professor...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com Every leader I know is extremely busy getting their job done. At the same time, they also realize that investing effort in their own leadership development is good. The problem is that when faced with a choice, work seems to always...
By THE HR SPECIALIST - businessmanagementdaily.com Here’s the perception: HR professionals are often too busy and lack the business savvy to effectively self-promote their successes to bosses. But HR people who advance to executive levels know their value, and they make time to communicate it. The key,...
By Graham Scrivener - hrmagazine.co.uk As many HR professionals are aware, behaviour change is key to knowing if leadership training and development has been effective. But it's being able to demonstrate and sustain change as well as show that behaviours are having a positive impact on...
By the hrreporter.com More than one-half (52 per cent) of HR leaders from 11 countries feel their role has required them to manage increasing levels of complexity in recent years. Almost two-thirds (61 per cent) of the 1,293 respondents to a survey reported feeling overwhelmed by complexity...
Lack of accountability, weak succession plans among key barriers: study. By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com An aging workforce and warnings of an imminent exodus of retiring baby boomers are making leadership development a high priority for many organizations. Most organizations understand what needs to be done – at...
By Sian Harrington - hrmagazine.co.uk Can HR ever really be strategic? It’s a question I have pondered over the seven years I have edited HR magazine. It is timely to revisit the question in this July issue. For not only do we announce the winners of the...
By James Taylor - information-management.com t seems to me that there are two different perspectives for the use of performance management software (dashboards and such). There are the folks who really think deeply about performance management (like my friend Gary Cokins who just passed 100 monthly...
By Stuart Rudner - hrreporter.com On June 12, 2013, my partner Natalie MacDonald and I were interviewed by James Munroe of 680 News, an AM radio station in Toronto. While we ended up covering a variety of topics, the thrust of the discussion was “top tips on...
By Kate Russell - hrmagazine.co.uk One of the remarks often bandied around the workplace is “people are critical to the business”. Wrong! You need to re-write that to “the right people are critical to the business”. Getting the right people into the right position in your organisation...