As I read promising stories about organisations peering through the doom, gloom (and snow!) of the past few weeks and months, I note the gradual return to employee recruitment and, most recently, a focus on employee development. Specifically I have been interested to hear about an increasing need to identify existing hi-potential employees – which of course makes sense. Why spend precious time and money on new staff when you have experts already in-house. Similarly, I have noted many of our clients are restructuring their competency frameworks. Not surprising really, when you consider that many organisations have significantly changed the way they look and work from 18 months ago. I write this while currently heavily involved in helping a client revise their framework. This consultancy service is a part of our business (www.indigoassessment.co.uk) that some clients don’t know we offer. So to publicise this, we have launched out FREE HR AUDIT SERVICE.  If you would like a free HR Audit, call me on 020 7924 8760 or email me on DanielR@indigobusiness.co.uk to arrange a convenient time for one of our Business Psychologists to visit and give you an impartial, complimentary review of your competency framework, your use of psychometrics and how well your house is in order.