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 [...]

Below, you will find some of the more interesting career sites and graduate programs out there today. Plus, a couple of corporate student competitions which have become a successful way of sourcing young talent and  helping businesses find innovative ideas and solutions to some of their biggest challenges. I have also included an interesting thread [...]

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 [...]

HRN are long time fans of award winning business reporter and researcher Stefan Stern of the FT. Stefan leaves the Financial Times in August for a leadership post as Global Head of Strategy at PR giant Edelman. We are delighted to have Stefan both Chair and input his expert opinion at this year’s talent [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

Geoff Immelt of GE’s comments on leadership in his speech at West Point made the headlines this week but it was the following remark that made the media sit up.

“ I think we are at the end of a difficult generation of business leadership, and maybe leadership in general. Tough-mindedness, a good trait – was replaced by [...]

Who are the best HR Countries in Europe?

During the summer a member based in Switzerland mentioned to me that finding talented “business focused” HR Leaders was not only very difficult but in some cases – could not be found for ‘love nor money’ and therefore had to be ‘home-grown’ from other functional-business units. Our conversation [...]