By Jane Farrell - guardian.co.uk Global talent spotters have their eye on graduates from top universities, especially women. Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy Let's be clear: in 2013, imbalances of all kinds are still prevalent in the office and the boardroom. Broadening the talent pool or diversifying senior management...
Jan Hills looks at how the most persuasive HR functions get their own way By Jan Hills - cipd.co.uk A recent article prompted me to revisit two pieces of research I did on successful HR leaders and HR business partners. I wanted to see what they revealed about...
By Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith - forbes.com Nine years after the launch of Facebook FB +29.59% and 16 years after the first widely available mobile phone, the growth in social and mobile is staggering: some 55% of the world’s cell phone owners say their main source of internet...
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...