Another day, another taxi, another HR exhibition – and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. As an HR professional, it wouldn’t be unheard of to make a career out of attending exhibitions, meeting...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are big business, but most fail or do not work out as well as planned – perhaps because HR is not involved till the last moment, if at all. It’s time HR was at the M&A...
There’s a scene in the 2005 award-winning satirical film Thank You for Smoking where Nick Naylor, chief spokesman and lobbyist for Big Tobacco, goes to a bar to meet best friends Polly Bailey from the...
The Olympic Games have passed without incident; meaning only two major events still have the potential for cataclysmic consequences for the UK in 2012. The first event is the ‘2012 phenomenon’,...
<b>Melinda Beckett-Hughes of Portland International Consulting and Trevor Clawson show how to create an executive coaching programme with bottom-line results </b>
Confusion abounds about what organisational development is, who should be doing it, and why
The number of HRDs moving into CEO positions or similar is still woefully small. We explore what might be holding HR back
As companies grow, so they get more complicated, right? Wrong. There’s good and bad complexity and the latter can cost you, both in people and money terms. So, reduce the bureaucracy and liberate...
Naked photographs notwithstanding, 2012 has been a good year for the British royal family. A Diamond Jubilee that even torrential rain couldn’t render a washout, followed by an Olympic Games where...
