The Employee Engagement/Leadership Link
"Strong leadership, as studied by Goleman and Boyatzis et al, is dependent on effective employee engagement." This statement, published in HR Magazine yesterday, stopped me … Read more
Talent Management: An Urgent Need for a Strategic Rethink!
The October 2009 Towers Perrin report, "Managing Talent in Tough Times: A Tipping Point for Talent Management?" makes for very interesting reading. For starters the … Read more
Employee Ownership & Leadership
Leadership, says the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), is one of three enablers of sustainable organisation performance. It is thus a key theme in … Read more
>10 Billion Reasons for Talent Management
If you are not yet convinced that talent management should be high on your agenda perhaps this will convince you. Figures just released by Her … Read more
Employee reward programmes – key drivers challenged
The results of a 2009 study by Hay Group into the "Changing Face of Reward" have just been released. It found that the "War for … Read more
Who knows best?
The expression "Span of Control" surfaced from the murky mists of my mind the other day. I remembered having learned no manager can expect to … Read more
Is Redundancy Losing Favour?
Is the workplace becoming more humane? Recent reports show that output in the UK has fallen by 6% while unemployment has only gone up by … Read more
How to Improve Training Effectiveness
What is your reaction to a headline that reads "Quarter of all training fails to deliver significant performance improvement?" I am pretty sure it would … Read more
Powering the Light
This amazing picture was emailed to me by a colleague earlier today. It is of a human representation of the Statue of Liberty, made up … Read more
Employee Recruitment: The Blame Game
In a coincidentally convenient follow up to my last blog, HR Magazine this week published a report that 75% of employers feel "ripped off" by … Read more