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September 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - Singapore Human Capital Summit – Summary
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Culture,
Global HR,
Innovation,
People management strategy,
Strategic Dynamics
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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...
READ MORE - Learning from India
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Case study,
Events,
Global HR,
People management strategy
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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...
READ MORE - Innovative Asian People Strategies
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Events,
Global HR,
Innovation,
People management strategy
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - Vineet Nayar on the perfect storm
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Events,
Global HR
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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...
READ MORE - Leadership strategies in Asia
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - Change, OD and the Borg
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Change,
Events,
organisation development
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - OD, Engagement and the Guru Group
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Engagement,
Events,
organisation development
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
by Franklin Bros
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Events,
HR role,
organisation development
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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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Events,
HR role,
Social capital,
Social media
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - How to develop an HR Scorecard
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HR measurement
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
by Franklin Bros
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Events,
UK government policy
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - Do we need Managers?
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People management strategy
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - #HRMI Most Influential Thinker
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Blogging,
Events,
Strategic Dynamics
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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...
READ MORE - HR Directors Summit and Unconferences
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Events,
Social learning
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
by Franklin Bros

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. ...
READ MORE - Social Media in Asia
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Events,
Global HR,
Social media
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