One of the conferences that I’ll be attending in person for the first time, though I’ve been a regular virtual tweeter at for several years now, is Melcrum’s annual UK Summit, titled for 2012 as ‘Competing on the Curve: Re-engineering...
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      I thought you might be interested in this post from me on the Economist’s Management Thinking blog, referring back to their Talent Management Summit this Summer which I spoke at and blogged on as one of their official media...
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More on Social Media in HR Summit

     I’ve received an update on the programme for Fleming Europe’s Social Media in HR Summit taking place on 27th and 28th September in the ‘internet capital of Europe’: Dublin, Ireland (base for international headquarters of companies...
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     I’ve spent a couple of non-Olympic days in London this week and have been pleased to see travel disruption significantly down on what had been feared – in fact away from the Olympic venues and major train stations there seem to be...
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London 2012 and corporate sponsorship

     Whoops - I've just remembered we're not supposed to use the words 'London 2012'  except as an official sponsor of the games, which clearly I'm not. I have to say I find this slightly ridiculous - both London and 2012...
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London 2012 – inspiring a generation?

     So after all the road closures, public sector strikes, G4S recruitment problems and Mitt Romney’s international ‘charm offensive ‘ – or offensive charm perhaps - London put on a hell of a show on Friday. Then on Saturday I was at...
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Happy Employees?

     Right, sorry about that – two weeks away from blogging.  I’m not sure why really though I have been feeling a bit less buzzy than normal.  For example I found myself in a particularly morose mood at the Monster Buzz event...
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Sosialhjelp 2.0

     Another event later on this year that I’m particularly looking forward to is PersonalForum organised by HRNorge in Tonsberg, Norway in November. I’ll be doing a workshop – possibly on HR measurement – and a keynote on HR’s role...
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Social HR Camp

     We’re half-way through the Summer now (even if it does feel as if we’ve not actually got started with it yet) – they’ve even started selling tickets for Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland today - and I’m starting to think about some of...
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Show Me Your Money!

     I’ve just been watching a Channel 4 programme on pay transparency: Show Me Your Money.  This is a semi-live blog so apologies if it’s a bit hard to read through…. The programme features Pimlico Plumbers which has recently asked...
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What should be the CIPD’s new strategy?

     You may have noticed that the CIPD did select one of my top ten choices for their new CEO – Peter Cheese – who started work there this week.  And like every new CEO, I’m sure Peter is busy thinking about the new directions...
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Five years on…

     Yep, we’ve made it – five years of Strategic HCM – over 1000 posts and well over half a million page views.  I’ve been doing a little less posting than usual recently, but don’t loose heart – I’ve got big plans (for the blog,...
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CIPD: Harnessing Social Media for Organisational Effectiveness

     I’m included in a new report from the CIPD on HR’s use of social media, which is currently being used as an incentive for people to renew their memberships.  This means that I can’t point you at the research, but you should...
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Internal recruitment: right or wrong?

      One of my readings today has been an article in HR Magazine: ‘Internal Recruitment: Right or Wrong?’.  I found it an irritating article (eg I for one have never heard anyone in business use the words ‘people are critical...
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Top 50 HR Blog

     Strategic HCM has once again been selected as a top HR blog to watch for 2012. I’m particularly honoured by this as the listings show me finally catching up with Laurie Ruetimann’s blog that she stopped writing three years ago –...
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#ECTalent – Net Gen Leadership

     I’ve already posted on some of the morning session’s from last week’s Economist Talent Management Summit. After lunch I was due to moderate a panel featuring Ryan Blair but he didn’t show up, so Lucian Tarnowski stepped into Ryan’s...
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#ECTalent - Strategic Workforce Plannning

I've just finished a session talking about next gen talent with Lucian Tarnowski from BraveNewTalent where I did my usual thing of encouraging more of the HR people here to get involved in things like social media themselves. And I'm back blogging again...
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First up, Carole Jones at Aviva talked about their search for a new CEO following the shareholder spring revolt against Andrew Moss. They're looking internally as well as this is often the best option but when you're facing lots of change, someone from...
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#ECTalent - Repositoning HR

This is the session I've been most looking forward to.If talent management is going to shift, given our business challenges, and the move to next gen leadership etc, then HR is going to have to change too (my words).Let's see what the panel have to say....
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