Good talent is worth fighting for. At senior levels of an organization, the ability to adapt, to make decisions quickly in situations of high uncertainty, and to steer through wrenching change is critical. But at a time when the need for better talent is increasing, big companies continue to find it difficult to attract and [...]

Some more visuals on the changing landscape of social media. Employees have over the past 12 months according to Nielson, spent 28% less time looking at e-mails. Firmly placed in the Number 1 spot is of course Social Media. Below some social maps on the changing landscapes in just under 3 years. Any predictions on [...]

We are delighted to introduce Allan Freed as a guest author.  Allan Freed is a principal consultant with The RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping leaders and organizations deliver results and increase value. Allan’s current work helps organizations identify and build capabilities required for the execution of strategy through leveraging human resources and [...]

Some feedback from past video’s we’ve posted, is to “please post more”. So if there is anything out there that is funny-timely (please do send them in) we will do our best to share them on time for your Friday morning coffee. This week I have pinched a funny advert from an HR job agency [...]

The prominence of demographic change and skill shortages has recently been overtaken by the financial crisis of the past two or so years. With unemployment at record highs during that period, it would be easy to assume we no longer have a skills shortage problem. However, skills shortages still exist in many industries, and the [...]

Transatlantic from Bloomberg BusinessWeek to Sky News reportedly Nokia is looking to replace its chief executive as it struggles to compete in the smartphone market against the likes of Apple and Google. Interesting cover near on three years ago from Forbes back in 2007 on 1 billion customers can anyone catch the cellphone king? around [...]

HR professionals have been fast adopters of social media, why for example HR and OD professionals on LinkedIn represent the largest group alongside sales & marketing and ICT professionals. HR are not just using Social Media for networking but for improving their value as a profession. Clearly in many cases, many identify social media channels as [...]

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 Next Generation Talent – World Talent Forum

Date: 4-5 November 2010

Location: London, United Kingdom

Everything we know about work – where we work, how we work, who we work with, the technologies we use – is changing and those changes will continue to accelerate.

Shift Happens! We [...]

TRANSFORM 2010 – The European HR Transformation Summit

Dates: 10-11 October 2010

Location: London, United Kingdom

Please visit [Event Website]

Introduction

In the business world today organizations have to learn to expect the unexpected. It can be many things ‐ game changing technology, innovation, economic crisis, terrorism, natural catastrophe, or even legislative change. Business needs to be agile, flexible, and [...]

Retooling HR:  How Proven Business Models Offer Untapped Potential for Strategic Talent Management

By John W. Boudreau

This weeks exclusive post has been kindly produced by John W. Boudreau from the Centre for Effective Organisations at the Marshall School of Business in California. © John W Boudreau.

Why do HR leaders and their constituents work so hard, accomplish so [...]

I have been fortunate enough to read “really interesting information” about the world of work over the past 12 months – perhaps some of the best information available to net users. Thanks largely in part to three of the 8 or so social networks for which I am a member. Isn’t it great how linkedIn, facebook, and [...]

Does your company qualify as a most or least admired company?

If your company is ’least admired’ does that mean your business is - will perform poorly?

An interesting take on “top companies for leadership” from our friends at The RBL Group – this time Norm Smallwood digs a little deeper to offer better perspective on why he believes leadership development in [...]

Go to the people

Live among the people

Learn from them

Love them.

Start with what they know,

Build on what they have.

But of the best leaders,

When their task is accomplished,

Their work is done,

The people will remark,

“We have done it ourselves.”

Chinese Poem

My family recently moved home again and I found this poem in one of my old work diary’s - it had been tucked [...]

Coaching is a crucial management skill. Unfortunately, there are still many misconceptions about the subject. Here’s a list of 30 tips from Jeroen De Flander and Sir John Whitmore. The  post has been reproduced by kind permission of Jeroen De Flander, author Strategy Execution Heroes. Jeroen will respond to comments on this post.

Ask open questions. [...]

Or aquisition? Thanks to better human resource management practices over the last few years, HR will merge/marry with other functions such as marketing and communications. Social media and emerging web technologies in general are used for recruiting (finding prospective employees), marketing (creating business opportunities), building relationships (getting connected with the community) and in general feeding relevant [...]

The media reported last Monday that the “UK is officially out of recession”, business sentiment and a reality check by the end of the week on Friday suggested that leaders now fear a W-shaped recovery. Over the weekend some better news from Austria, where the manufacturing output expanded at fastest pace since March 2008 (Key Points: [...]

In the 1540’s the world was in some respects no less turbulent or unpredictable than it is today. It is the decade when Ivan the Terrible came to power as Tsar of Russia, and the Turks began their 150 year occupation of Hungary. It also when the Spanish were busy discovering the Americas, [...]

Marge: “Homer, the plant called. They said if you don’t show up tomorrow don’t bother showing up on Monday.”

Homer: “Woo-hoo! Four-day weekend!”

Recently, I became a very proud father. The positive affect of our new arrival in the first few months – to say that it was difficult to concentrate on work, is an understatement. Our [...]

Over the few years that I have taken an interest in the world of Human Resources, the saga continues on “Is HR adding value to the business?”.

When Peter and I started working on the Pan European HR Network in April last year, we interviewed an HR Leader and Executive Board Member of a Global 500 [...]