14 Mar Driving organisational change HR’s highest priority: CIPD study
A new CIPD study charts the HR function’s rise as business partner and calls on practitioners to consider the long-term when planning continuing professional development....
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05 Mar 5 Ways to Shake Up Leadership Development (and Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Try Them)
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You can't be a great company without great leaders, and even the best leaders aren't immortal. Sooner or later (and probably sooner) you'll need to replace them. Is your company ready? Many aren't. That's one insight from Workforce 2020, a global survey by Oxford Economics...
27 Feb Recruitment data: building the big picture for business
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HR now has access to more sources of data than ever, especially when it comes to recruitment. But how can organisations use this data to provide insight and be more strategic with workforce planning? Jo Faragher reports. HR professionals hear all the time about the...
27 Feb Boring to Brilliant: 5 Tips to Convert Your E-Learning to a Story-based Approach
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When consulting, I try to explain that simply exporting a PowerPoint presentation and calling it “e-learning” doesn't necessarily qualify it as e-learning. It’s not instructionally sound; it’s simply words, some large, some small, and often irrelevant photos or bad clip art, all minus the context....
19 Feb Leadership Livecast: Motivating People Doesn’t Work … What Does?
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Disengaged employees cost organisations billions of dollars every year. Unfortunately, many executives responsible for measuring and improving engagement have no idea how individuals become disengaged in the first place. The key to engagement is the quality of an individual’s day-to-day motivation. This 60-minute event will...
18 Feb Left Brain, Right Brain: Does HR Have A Split Personality?
By Meghan M. Biro - forbes.com Imagine a big desk. It’s loaded with two huge stacks of work, one on the left side, one on the right. Left side: the administrative pile, dense with data — numbers, stats, metrics, talent analytics. Right side: the strategic...
09 Feb Video interviewing: The future of recruitment?
By Scott Beagrie - hrmagazine.co.uk While video interviewing may raise concerns about discrimination during recruitment, it has many time and resource benefits. Could virtual interviewing eventually signal the death knell of the face-to-face interview? While traditional interview processes probably aren’t going away any time soon, the time-...
09 Feb Companies and themes to follow in 2015 part 3: the HR dimension
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Will HR vendors embrace contingent, temporary and independent workers? HR systems have grudgingly supported this biggest growing part of the workforce but it has mostly been a bolt-on, incremental approach to the issue....
04 Feb Overcoming barriers to strategic workforce planning
By Sue Brooks - hrmagazine.co.uk Strategic workforce planning (SWP) is arguably more important than ever before. The skills required of the workforce are constantly adapting, and there are widespread skills shortages. Therefore, the ability to effectively pipeline internal and external talent over the coming years becomes...
29 Jan The Roots of Becoming a More Effective Leader
By Dan Pontefract - forbes.com If I had my way, any face-to-face leadership development program on the planet would first start with the facilitator showing a picture of General Sherman. No, not General William Tecumseh Sherman – military strategist and General of the Union Army during...