HR Challenges in 2011

    I opened this short 17 question survey towards the end of last year and it temporarily closed last week.  However I’ve not had time to do analyse the results, and having missed my deadline, thought I might as well keep it going for...
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CIPD West London: HR and social media (HR 2.0): Interactive session

    I’m delivering an interactive session on social media for CIPD West London at 7.00pm GMT next Thursday (27th January 2011). All CIPD members are welcome (not just those based in West London) and it would be great to see you there. If...
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Getting what you ask for (oh, and it IS a popularity contest)

     I posted earlier this week about one of my submissions for this Summer’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston: HR2.0 and the Future of HR (I also posted on some other submissions about Culture and the Social Business on my other blog)....
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The Even More Essential Advantage!

     I’ve been reading Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi’s new book, the Essential Advantage (and Mainardi and Art Kleiner’s Strategy+Business article, The Right to Win both of which build upon their earlier article in Harvard Business...
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Retention Reflections from Doug’s Dad, and others

    I’ve had some great comments on my last couple of posts about retention.
Andrew Marritt provides just about the most comprehensive comment I’ve had on this blog in his response to my post on ‘Exit as the Keystone’ and I agree with most... READ MORE - Retention Reflections from Doug’s Dad, and others

HR 2.0 and the Future of HR

    The other thing (*) you can vote for me for is another submission to the Enterprise 2.0 conference.  This is basically the same as last year’s submission to Boston (which didn’t get through) and Santa Clara (which did). But this...
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Exit as the Keystone to a Retention / Partnership process

    As I noted in my previous post, both my workshop group’s thinking on retention processes, and my previous notes on career partnership, suggest that retention / partnership consist of a series of sub-processes, particularly head hunting;...
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Do you need an Employee Retention process?

     I don’t normally post about client work but I’ve been in a workshop this week that has been particularly interesting and relevant to some of the stuff I’ve recently posted on here. So, the overall context has been on retaining employees,...
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New Year HR Predictions

    Happy New Year! Just a quick reminder that I’m still after your predictions (well, really just some thoughts) about HR in 2011. Particularly if you’re an HR / talent management / similar practitioner (working within an organisation)...
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  I’ve been included as one of 25 influencers in Enterprise social media in Bill Ives’ A list developed from Traackr (putting me in 6th position):     Thanks to Bill for putting the list together.   Also see best blog bling!...
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