By Caitlin Nobes - hcamag.com Did you start your career in HR? If you did, you’re in the minority. Most HR professionals (84.8%) moved into HR from a different business line, according to a recent study. Just 15% started out in HR, and more than half said...
By Rob Gray - hrmagazine.co.uk From hospitals to banks, strengths-based recruitment is gaining kudos as the best way to identify those applicants who will bring the most to an organisation, despite not necessarily being the most able on paper. Hiring the right employees is vital for any...
By Gordon Curphy, Robert Hogan, and Robert B. Kaiser - clomedia.com During the past two decades, learning executives have persuaded U.S. corporations to double their annual spending on various forms of leadership development to $14 billion. Yet over that same period, public confidence in leadership has...
Nucleus Research examines new technologies and tools that are improving sales managers’ ability to measure and enhance the performance of their sales teams. Nucleus sees the future of sales performance management as integrated with CRM and collaboration technologies, enhancing managers' ability to provide real-time coaching...
By Maren Hogan - business2community.com Can Staffing be Sexy? That was the title of a recent Staffing Stream blog article and it took me a bit by surprise. Actually, I posted something on Twitter to the tune of: “Can Staffing Be Sexy? No. (I jest).” But can it...
By Janie Smith - hcamag.com Helping your organisation to get the most out of its people resources is HR’s constant challenge and to succeed, you need to have the trust and respect of management, according to Bruce Ross-Adams, executive general manager HR at St Ives Group. “From...
Regular monitoring and reviewing Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) is essential to ensuring that your sales strategy works. Taking the measures beyond the revenue and associated metrics and assessing performance against the process it actually takes to get quantifiable sales results can be a sales manager's...
By Henry Doss - forbes.com There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – Winnie the Pooh Leading an innovation culture can be a messy business. Or, maybe that should be: Leading an innovation...
By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com What do your employees see when they contemplate their future with your organization? Are they excited by the ripe potential for new opportunities and the possibility of progression? Or do they expect they will need to move on to another employer if...
By Ben Bold - marketingmagazine.co.uk Nearly three-quarters (73%) of European marketers believe they need to reinvent themselves to succeed in an increasingly digitised marketing landscape, according to research from Adobe. However, a number of obstacles to achieving this were listed, with over half (58%) of marketers citing...