27 Jun, 2019 | Attributes, Capability, Recruitment, Strategy
My discussions with senior leaders and executives often gravitate towards the best way to determine if someone is going to be successful. People in senior roles, and those in just mid-level performance roles are often assessed by their managers on a range of issues.... 
30 May, 2019 | Attributes, Capability, Recruitment, Strategy
Good candidates are hard to find, in times of low unemployment and high unemployment. Often when recruiting, clients want to ‘squeeze the lemon’. This is an expression regularly used by one of my clients, meaning they want to get as much as they can out of their... 
30 Apr, 2019 | Capability, Process, Recruitment
There is an old adage ‘it is not what you say to people it is how you make them feel’ that really resonates with me. Having recently been at an international conference in the US for our NPA network there was a lot of discussion around giving people an experience that... 
27 Mar, 2019 | Culture, Process, Recruitment
I am often approached by clients looking for a quick solution to a resourcing problem. Perhaps someone has left them unexpectedly, a new recruit has fallen through or their organisation has been evolving in ways that do not align with their current skills base. Either... 
25 Feb, 2019 | Culture, Process, Recruitment
Over the past 12 months or so, I’ve noticed a growing trend with candidates taking a more active role in the interview process. The interview as we know it is gone, with candidates no longer simply responding to behavioural questions and providing examples of previous... 
29 Jan, 2019 | Culture, Recruitment, Strategy
You often hear talk of the CEO being an organisation’s number one salesman. As figurehead of the company, they are the most visible, influential, recognisable and most likely to articulately ‘sell the dream’ of their organisation and therefore attract external... 