Innovative talent management - financial services example

     June tomorrow and only a couple of weeks to the Economist Talent Management conference on the 14th where I will acting as a media partner (ie I’ll be blogging a lot) and moderator (interviewing Ryan Blair). I’ve been asking for...
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Making meetings more exciting?

      There was some interesting research out a few weeks ago from Epson and CEBR suggesting that the average UK office worker wastes 2 hours and 39 minutes in meetings every week. £26 billion: the amount lost from UK economy...
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     Today I was at SAP Forum in London.   There were a couple of interesting technology oriented sessions (which to me, more than anything, showed the similarity of issues faced by IT and HR departments) and a few good HR ones...
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HR Performance 2012

     Straight after that I’m following Dave Ulrich back to London for another session on HR supporting social media in the business at HR Performance in London. Other speakers include: Sandy Begbie, Group People and Operations Director...
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Middle East HR Summit

     I’ve got more great conferences coming up later in the year.  One of these I’m really looking forward to is IIR’s HR Summit in Dubai in November. Dave Ulrich kicks the conference off with a full day on HR from the outside-in...
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     Less than a month now until the Economist’s Talent Management Summit on 14th June… As well as acting as the summit’s social media partner, I’m going to be moderating a panel “THE NET GENERATION—capitalising on unique characteristics”...
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     You know I’m a fan of Ed Lawler, right? (see 1,2,3).  We’re not talking John Boudreau or Peter Cappelli here (though of course Boudreau is Lawler’s colleague at USC). But I’m afraid I think Lawler’s article in the Executive...
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     It’s been ASTD’s annual conference this week which has reminded me that I never completed my review of the ASTD / I4CP’s 2011 book, The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management to which I contributed a chapter (alongside Dave...
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At ‘lunch’ with Drive Thru HR

     Next Monday, 14th May, I’ll be talking on Bryan Wempen and William Tincup’s blogtalk radio show, DriveThruHR - and I’d love for you to call in or listen online.   The show is at noon central time – which is 6.00pm here in...
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     I’ve been promising you the opportunity to win a free place to the Economist’s talent management summit on 14th June. Well, the sub-title for the 2012 summit is ‘the next generation of leaders’ (global, female, net generation and...
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     Right, to finish this little mini-series of posts on talent management, here is further advance warning of the Economist’s 2012 Talent Management Summit, www.­thetalentmanagem­entsummit.­com. This was one of my favourite events...
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