Interview: Nyla Reed, founder of The Educe Group, on talent management, talent strategy and LMS

Nyla Reed is a founder of The Educe Group, a strategic and technical consulting firm. Nyla has more than 16 years' experience implementing HR technologies, developing learning strategies, and designing training for a diverse group of clients including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and high school students. How have training strategies changed over the last five […]

Interview: Tom O’Byrne, CEO of Great Place to Work

Tom O’Byrne is CEO of Great Place to Work, a research, consulting and training firm that helps organisations create engaged workforces. They recently put out their list of the 2013 Best Workplaces [PDF, 5.6MB]. If you’re interested in employee engagement, please sign up to receive our Employee Engagement Toolkit, produced in association with leading academics […]

Employment law: a guide to third party harassment provisions

This article was written by Mandy Laurie, Partner, and Dave Palmer, Solicitor, at Dundas & Wilson. Background As every good gardener knows some selective pruning can be necessary to improve the overall health of a plant. This approach seems to have found favour with the Government of late as it continues to prune employment regulations […]

Leadership development in the 21st century

This article was written by Therese S. Kinal, CEO and Co-Founder of management education and consulting business Unleash. She blogs online at www.tskinal.com. At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. In neither case does […]

The key processes that encourage an innovation culture

This article was written by Adam Smith and Liz Hill-Smith of Berkshire Consultancy. In recent years the focus on innovation has been on the successful exploitation of new opportunities via game-changing technology. As hugely important as this kind of competitive advantage is, this is only a small part of what innovation can mean to an […]

Taking command – tips to help CEOs get internal communication right

This article was written by George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology. Why is internal communication so important to get right? CEOs need a coherent and consistent strategy when communicating with employees and this is the same for all companies, whatever the shape or size. Business leaders who don’t address internal communications as a priority risk […]

10 career-killing leadership mistakes from “The Apprentice”

This feature was written by Peter Ryding, CEO and founder of the DOIT Success System. Whilst the excruciating ego driven contestants on “The Apprentice” are truly terrible role models for business, we can at least learn what not to do from their behaviour. So here are 10 leadership traits guaranteed to annoy, alienate, demoralize and destroy […]

G8 summit must focus on how we manage and encourage talent, says Peter Cheese

This commentary was written by Peter Cheese, Chief Executive of the CIPD. Today marks the start of the G8 Summit, when the world’s most powerful leaders – from the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Japan – gather in Northern Ireland for their annual meeting. As host nation, the UK has set […]

Why do seven out of 10 change programmes fail?

This article was written by Anne Feeney, Masters Programme Director at sales performance improvement company Consalia. Failing to achieve transformational objectives Although most change programmes are highly planned and robustly executed, it’s a fact that the majority fail to achieve the objectives set out at the start of the programme. They fail to achieve the […]

What are the characteristics of high-performing team meetings?

This article was written by Brian Bacon, Chairman and Founder of Oxford Leadership Academy. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings’” – Dave Barry The importance of behaviour Until they find the right formula […]

Infographic: The use of innovation to attract talent

This infographic was put together from a global study from Futurestep, a Korn/Ferry company, which surveyed over 800 HR professionals and 4,000 employees worldwide. Other findings from the study include: 69 percent of HR professionals in the UK think that demonstrating innovation in recruitment and talent management is crucial to achieving growth targets  65 percent […]

Five ways to boost your recruitment referral programmes

Ziv Eliraz is the Founder and CEO of Zao, a social employee referral management platform. Employee referral programs are common in many organisations. These programs encourage members of your internal and external network to seek out great candidates. In fact, a recent whitepaper by Oracle indicated that referrals perform three to 15 percent better than […]

Is leadership development actually meeting the challenges faced by today’s leaders?

The Issue The nature and scale of the challenges currently facing leaders is captured in a recent survey, The Management Agenda 2013 by Roffey Park Management Institute, based on responses from 1460 managers. This shows that 20 percent rate the leadership in their organisation as poor, while 25 percent also report that culture change initiatives […]

Social media – a direction not destination for social recruitment

This article was written by Steve Hewitt, Head of HR at talent and performance management solutions provider Lumesse. The rise of social media recruitment Social media is becoming an essential part of how businesses engage with their customers in this digital age. Two-way conversations across these channels are now becoming the norm, with many organisations […]

Breaking from traditional leadership – how to move to a self-managed team

This article was written by Kate Russell, MD of Russell HR Consulting. How are you today? Busy I expect? Mondays are always busy for us and there are never enough hours in the day. (What do you lot get up to over the weekend that creates the Monday morning deluge?!) Heigh ho, enough of this merry […]

The key role of line managers in talent management and succession planning

This editorial was written by Murray Furlong, head of UK learning solutions at learning and development firm Hemsley Fraser. Are you managing talent effectively in your organisation? You may have processes in place to identify and nurture talented people; you may have created clusters of high potential people and you may even run a dedicated […]

Employment law: the need for appropriate collective consultation mechanisms

This article was written by Nikki Duncan, partner at Michelmores LLP. In a very important recent decision (Kelly v Hesley Group Limited) the Employment Appeal Tribunal has restated that the statutory collective redundancy consultation rules must be followed strictly. The rules cover more than just normal redundancy consultation, since "redundancy" is very widely defined. For […]

Five scientific discoveries that will save your change programme from failure

What factors influence the success of change? Every client I talk to is struggling with a major change project and most have pretty low expectations of what they can achieve. This is not surprising given around 70 percent of change initiatives fail or only partially succeed. People issues contributed to nearly 60 percent of the […]

Action stations: road risk management in the spotlight

The business cost of road traffic accidents involving at-work drivers can be considerable. TomTom Business Solutions Director UK & Ireland, Giles Margerison, considers how HR practitioners can best manage the risks and meet their legal obligations. The risks of road use for business Managing the occupational health and safety risks facing employees on the road […]

Infographic: State of the global recruitment market

Key take-aways: 1.3 percent global decrease in job applications0.8 percent decrease in average global salaries9.4 percent increase in permanent vacancies across the globe17.7 percent increase in temporary vacancies across the globe