Are you collaborating or really just cooperating?
At Achieve we hear a lot about the need for teams and businesses to collaborate. Externally, partnerships, joint ventures, crowdsourcing and open platforms are all buzzwords for today’s age. The same collaborative imperative applies within organisations too. But while HR directors recognise the need to work better with other parts of the business and the […]
What is the management culture like in the most engaging organisations?
Top performing organisations develop thriving cultures and winning people practices that propel them into the upper quartile of engaging organisations. People Insight, a consultancy supporting hundreds of organisations to measure and improve employee engagement, have created PIPER (People Insight Peak Engagement Research), a new study asking the most engaged employees in the most engaging organisations […]
The world of work must change… but how?
There’s something fundamentally wrong with the way the world works. In a series of 5 articles over the next few weeks I’ll share with you why that’s the case, what we need to do about it and how you can begin to implement changes within your own organisation which will start your journey towards a […]
Learnings from the HRZone Engagement Conference
Michael spoke at, and attended, the Employee Engagement Conference 2015, presented by HRZone. In this piece he outlines the main learnings from the day. The agenda for the conference was promising, with CEO and HRD panels, and talks from familiar faces such as Perry Timms, Jan Hills and HRZone editor Jamie Lawrence. There were sessions […]
What keeps apetito CEO Paul Freeston up at night?
Paul Freeston is Chairman & Chief Executive of food manufacturing company apetito, who have provided meals to care homes, local authorities and hospitals for over 50 years. He talks to HRZone about his stance on engagement, how he’s developing competitive advantage through people, how apetito’s talent strategy is evolving, and what keeps him up at night. Jamie […]
Making talent management work in global mobility
Within our highly globalised and competitive environment, organisations are urged to identify, select, prepare, develop, promote and performance manage staff who are able and keen to successfully work abroad. Over recent decades, progressive organisations have steadily considered the mutual dependency of assignees and multinational corporations (MNCs) in order to review and refine their global mobility (GM) approaches. The […]
Watching me, watching you: making sense of social interaction
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best HR researchers that tell you what they’ve found and what you need to do differently on the back of the research. Get connected to the academic sector through Academics’ Corner and […]
This week in ‘I Hate My Job’ – September 29 2015
Each week in “I Hate My Job,” we bring you insights from the minds of disengaged workers across the Twittersphere. The biggest lessons is that there’s no one reason why people hate their jobs and why they’re disengaged. Dissatisfaction is driven by personality, life circumstances, day-to-day stresses and much more. This is just a glimpse. […]
If we created the ideal workplace, it would look like this
We know the business case for increasing employee engagement but let’s consider a fresh perspective. Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, globally one of the largest I.T. outsourcing firms, says HCL achieved this position by putting employees first and customers second. He says: the first question is “what is the core business of any corporation?” […]
How does coaching differ across the world?
Having a helicopter view of the global coaching market gives us a vantage point into coaching trends in different parts of the world. Differences in coaching delivery in different countries is in the way that programmes are put together, the preferred length of sessions and whether delivery is face-to-face or virtual. There is definite consistency […]
First human capital standard sees value in people
People are the one asset every organization has, and the only asset which can make or break a business. In fact it is now more widely acknowledged that the best way to become a successful business is to have a successful workforce. By successful, we mean happy, fulfilled and valued enough to stay in their jobs and […]
Prevent the “Why did I just do that?!” feeling
How many times have you experienced what is called ‘esprit d’escalier’, a French term which literally means ‘stairway thinking’? You are just on your way out of a meeting, or have just pressed ‘send’ on that email, or have just hung up the phone. You have a sense of vague dissatisfaction (or perhaps clear disappointment […]
Why engagement in multinationals needs CEOs
Boards of Directors (including C-level and CEOs) can account for a ninefold difference in employee engagement and commitment. Insights gained from our recent multinational study reveal that when employees have confidence in the board, they are nine times more likely to be engaged in their work and committed to the organisation. As a follow up […]
Twelve steps to shorten time-to-hire
Time-to-hire is an all-important human resource management metric. In 2011, Workforce Management Magazine defined time-to-hire as “a common measure used in human resources to evaluate the average amount of time it takes to fill an open position.” A short time-to-hire affords minimal business disruption whilst a lengthy time-to-hire may cause loss of morale among the […]
What can Europe teach tomorrow’s business leaders?
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best HR researchers that tell you what they’ve found and what you need to do differently on the back of the research. Get connected to the academic sector through Academics’ Corner and […]
How to help staff love your company strategy
PIPER (People Insight Peak Engagement Research), a new study from employee engagement organisation People Insight, asks the most engaged employees in the most engaged organisations what exactly makes them buzz. This is the second in a series (see the first here) sharing the secrets from top performing organisations – practices and behaviours that we know have […]
“Top talent are high performers with high potential.”
This is an interview with Ahmed Al Khemeiri, Talent Acquisition Specialist at Abu Dhabi Ports. Ahmed will be speaking at the HR Tech World Congress taking place in Paris on October 27 – 28 Jamie Lawrence, Editor, HRZone: How has the talent landscape changed over the last year – is it harder to recruit the best people? […]
How to focus on developing future generations
It has never been more important for organisations to focus their efforts on attracting and developing future talent. Our latest Resourcing and Talent Planning survey, in partnership with Hays, shows that three-quarters of employers have experienced recruitment difficulties in the past year and four fifths feel that competition for talent has increased over the past […]
Organisational politics: dark art or just the way to get things done?
In almost every programme I run that mentions influencing, stakeholders or engagement, the conversation turns to politics. The usual response is one of discomfort, dislike or confusion. Occasionally you do get a more mature, perhaps seasoned campaigner, who is sanguine about the whole arena of political influencing, and just accepts that robust debate is all […]
Immersive assessment: a fad or the future?
HR decision-makers are worried about identifying those with the skills needed in a very competitive environment and testing is widely used. But the assessment scene offers a similar landscape to that of five or ten years ago, focused heavily on somewhat dull and traditional personality and ability tests. Other than the move ‘online’, it has […]