It’s difficult to argue against the notion that leadership development is critical for an organisation to grow and to meet its strategic objectives. Over the years, numerous studies have highlighted how investment in development can improve bottom-line financial performance, create organisational alignment, increase agility, and help organisations attract and retain top talent. Companies with strong […]

Aberdeen Group has just published (April 2017) a very interesting report titled, “Adaptive Learning: The Key to Cultivating a Successful Workforce”. This research highlights that, “80% of industry leaders consider their inability to develop internal talent as a top pressure in talent management”.  Moreover, the report discusses how more than a third of ‘Best in […]

Workplace wellbeing getting a bad wrap With all of the buzzwords and fluffy perceptions that can surround “Wellbeing in the Workplace”, leaders can lose sight of the organisational benefits of their employees being “well”. Wellbeing interventions can easily become a tick the box exercise to tell employee’s that “we care” and to paint a desirable […]

Change is all around us. Wherever we look there seems to be new orders emerging and replacing old ones. In some cases it’s bold, explicit and hard hitting and yet in others, more subtle and pervasive. Recent world political events such as Brexit and the US Presidential election together with the pace of technological change […]

An interesting recent study by Aberdeen Group titled, “Analyse This: Workforce Productivity”, argues that effective HCM strategy links functionality together and encourages real human engagement and communications while keeping analytics in the background. It further contends that organisations that drive communication predominately through technology will serve to suppress innovation and ultimately lead to employees becoming disconnected. […]

This fascinating recent report was prepared for the Foundation for Young Australians by AlphaBeta and resulted from analysis of more than 2.7 million job advertisements to reveal 7 new job clusters in the Australian economy. The report argues that the required skills are closely related and more portable than previously thought.  Please click here to […]

“2016 has flown” – that’s what we are hearing from so many HR professionals this year. With a year that exuded change on a macro level including a new Coalition government, to Brexit in the UK and a new President Elect in the US we can only expect that this change will increase into the […]

The implications of a bad hire can be costly to a business, not just financially but also culturally. In most cases it can take up to 12 months to gain a rate of return on your investment in a new employee. So the importance of making a correct hiring decision is critical. Equally as important […]

Knowing when your time is up is not so easy when you are in the ‘engine’, working flat out.  With overall average tenure rates now at 2 years, and senior management tenure not much more than that, your internal networks can literally change or even evaporate overnight!  We are encouraged to ‘have no useless acquaintances’ […]

There is great intent behind engagement surveys and they are an invaluable source of information. However, they often don’t quite tell you exactly what it is that you need to know, or there is so much data it’s nigh on impossible to know what to do first. Sometimes, by the time the results are in […]