By Tom Newcombe - hrmagazine.co.uk A rigid attachment to ‘best practice’, rather than a focus on business needs, is preventing many organisations from unearthing and nurturing staff to drive their business forward, according to KPMG. KPMG's lead for talent Anna Marie Detert's white paper, Tune in to...
by Andrew McAfee - hbr.org I completely support the right of companies to stop paying people they don't need any more, but the latest round of recent and planned layoffs from United Technologies is troubling me. Because UTC is doing great; its stock is at an...
By Ray Wilkinson - personneltoday.com Successful benchmarking requires organisations to identify clearly what performance they want to improve, understand it fully and then select, adapt and implement the most appropriate best practice available, according to Ray Wilkinson, director of the Best Practice Club. None of this is...
By Peter Crush - hrmagazine.co.uk In the second of our five-day Engagement Special, we catch up with founder of jewellery company Holts Group and founder of the not-for-profit social enterprise Holt's Academy of Jewellery, Jason Holt (pictured). What does engagement mean to you? If I'm honest, it's only...
By Christina Lattimer - bdaily.co.uk When I first began to develop people strategies to increase the odds of businesses being successful at delivering on their key outcomes, I researched my topic widely on the internet and in professional circles, but I found there was little guidance. That...
By: Traci Kingery and BrightMove Recruiting Software Chances are high that your industry, company, or perhaps more specifically, your role, has been altered over the years by cloud computing. The rate by which these changes continue to happen is increasing at an alarming rate as more corporations...
By Sara Bushman - astd.org An internal certificate program can help organizations fill skills gaps and develop talent strategically. Is your staff properly trained to achieve the organization's business goals? Is there a learning and development gap? If so, an internal certificate program may meet your...
By Art Petty - artpetty.com Speed kills. Except when it comes to the development of your emerging leaders. In my experience, many senior managers move too slowly to expose their developing leaders to new and more challenging situations. This is a mistake that artificially inhibits professional growth...
By Ben Rosen - hrmagazine.co.uk With companies coming under increasing pressure to make the correct hiring decisions and recruit the best candidates for any available role, HR heads have to be at the very top of their game. Outsourcing has always been available of course, but has...
By Dave Crisp - hrreporter.com The last month saw two major operators in the United States with significant work at home arrangements — Yahoo and Best Buy — end them suddenly. Both are relatively newly hired turn-around CEOs who seem to have concluded it hurts performance or...