Singapore Human Capital Summit – Summary

     I’ve been telling everyone I’ve been meeting here how much I’d love to come and live in Singapore. The challenge I’ve had from a couple of people is that it’s difficult to add value as an expat here without significant experience...
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Learning from India

     Peter Cappelli (or Peetr Kappalli) hasn’t always been my favourite academic, but I did very much enjoy his recent book, The India Way. So I thought I’d take a chance and attend his session today, and listen to a couple of organisations...
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     As someone who focuses on helping organisations develop more innovative people management and organisation development strategies, I’m interested in this statement from the CIPD: “Across Asia, unprecedented rates of growth and...
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Vineet Nayar on the perfect storm

     No real surprise that HCL Technologies won this year’s Asian Human Capital Award.  CEO Vineet Nayar always speaks a lot of not-so-common sense and I’ve been looking forward to the awards session since Vineet let the cat out...
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     I’m back in South East Asia this week.  I’ve already delivered a workshop on HR and social media in Kuala Lumpur on Monday and Tuesday (see klhr20.blogspot.com).  And today and tomorrow I’m blogging from Singapore’s Human...
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Change, OD and the Borg

       The other interesting conversation we were having at the CIPD’s OD conference (in the discussion group I was in) about change management, and how to make transformation work. People were talking about the need for persuasion...
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OD, Engagement and the Guru Group

     I’m on David McLeod’s Engagement Taskforce ‘guru group’ but will be missing their meeting today. However, I have been thinking further about engagement, largely as a result of my attendance at the CIPD’s OD conference the last two...
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Thoughts on CIPD’s Organisation Development conference

     I spent yesterday at the CIPD’s Organisation Development conference.  In general, it was a well run and very informative day, including excellent sessions from Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge and Linda Holbeche. Some of my key learnings...
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Social Media and Staff

  I presented on Tuesday at an event organised by OurSocialTimes, Social Media for CEOs.  My session was on social media and staff.
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How to develop an HR Scorecard

     I’m just back from an HR measurement workshop in Barcelona.  In this session, I explained to participants how to measure their HR and management strategies through an HR scorecard.  I also warned them that my version of...
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Looking forward to #CHRU-3: HR in the New World of Work

     I posted again recently on some forthcoming unconferences, and I’m pleased that we are now taking bookings for CHRU (Connecting HR Unconference) – 3. The core theme for this unconference is: The New world of work (and non-work perhaps)....
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Do we need Managers?

     I’ve been at the Economist today, reviewing this Summer’s Talent Management Summit, and starting to develop the focus for next year’s event (scheduled for 12th June 2012). We discussed a lot of different things, which due to Chatham...
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#HRMI Most Influential Thinker

     I’m still recovering from a great event at Claridge’s last night where HR Magazine presented their new lists of HR Most Influentials.  I was really pleased to find that I’d been included in the list of Top 25 HR Most Influential...
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HR Directors Summit and Unconferences

   Is it really September already?  Time to get sorting out those Christmas cards and planning my New Year resolutions then! Perhaps not!  But one event I am already looking forward to in the New Year is the HR Director’s Business...
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Social Media in Asia

     One of the reasons that I’m so pleased to be delivering this HR and social media workshop in Kuala Lumpur is that I’m really interested in how social technology is developing in Malaysia and the rest of Asia.     ...
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