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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But today I've got a full day of 'next gen talent' at the Economist's annual talent management summit.We're kicking off with a keynote from Doug Baillie, Unilever's fairly new CHRO (and new to HR) sharing his secrets of aligning the development of high-potential...
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HR Technology Europe

     The other conference this Autumn with a big focus on social media will be HR Technology Europe which I’ll be chairing for the second year.  On the main stage, amongst other speakers will be: David Hernandez, Société Générale...
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Social Media in HR Summit, Dublin, Ireland

     I’ve recently arranged to speak at another couple of great conferences over the next few months.  On Thursday 27th / Friday 28th September I’ll be speaking at Fleming Europe’s Social Media in HR Summit held in Dublin:  ...
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Don’t Jubilee’ve It!

     Sorry for the lack of posts last week but I was away and didn’t manage to get any posts prepared early. And why was I way? – well in case you didn’t notice it was the dear Queen’s diamond? jubilee last week.  That meant we...
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Innovative talent management – pharmaceuticals example

     Lovely day today for the first day of June – just the jubilee to get over (more on that soon) and then a busy and entertaining month ahead – including the Economist’s Talent Management Summit on 14th June. I’ve been asking for innovative...
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