 | Based on research carried out by Gratton and Erickson in 15 multi-national companies. Read more..... |  |
 | In recent years HR professionals seem to have spent so much time deliberating over what it means to be an HR “Business Partner” that they could be in danger of missing the point – what their customers expect them to deliver! Read more..... | |
 | Appraisals - just another thing to do, bureaucratic time-wasting, form-filling exercise? Or the opportunity to manage people professionally, help you improve the performance of everyone in your business, retain your best people and deal with your worst people all in a fair and consistent manner? Read more..... | |
 | Coaching is becoming increasingly popular as a way to develop people - and rightly so. Our aim is to let you know how it might help you and your business by answering some of the common questions we get asked. Read more..... | |
 | In this article we're talking about how to gain peoples' buy-in and commitment to change in business. Read more..... | |
 | We argue that finding out why people decide to leave is not only good practice, but has the potential to add significant value to your business. Read more..... | |
 | How well you manage recruitment has a significant impact on your business. Get it wrong and it will cost you a fortune in lost productivity and hassle sorting it out. Get it right and you'll be able to delegate more, worry less, check up less and feel more confident in your team. Read more..... | |
 | As the business climate becomes ever tougher, having the right people is a business imperative. Good training and development practices will help develop the people you already have in your business, but recruitment presents the ideal opportunity to bring the right people in from the start. Read more..... | |
 | So often we talk about change management as a business initiative implying that without a change management “programme” everything would stay the same. We have two challenges for this: Read more..... | |
 | Training courses are largely ineffective and a waste of money. Yes, you read it right. Research shows we are lucky if we retain 10-20% of what we “learn” on a traditional training course. Research also shows that it takes around 21 days of conscious repetition for new behaviour to become permanent so how can we expect a one day training course to change someone’s behaviour on its own? Read more..... | |
 | We’ve all experienced frustrations with being part of a team - the team spends too much time arguing (or being too polite), going round in circles, discussing options but not making decisions, team members constantly interrupt each other etc. The result is that the team is not as productive as it could be. Read more..... | |
 | Most people work in teams so at some point you will probably think about how to improve the performance of the team above and beyond individual performance. Fun as they are, we urge you to think beyond teambuilding events such as go-karting, JCB driving or "doing a Ray Mears". Read more..... | |
 | People Management policies and practices are just for big companies, right? Read more..... | |
 | The issue of talent management always throws up the obvious question – how do you measure talent? What does it look like? Read more..... | |
