There is a drive for ongoing improvement in every business. Remember the adage, “if you are standing still, you are going backwards”? Well, it is the same for individuals and yet, in the drive to find great staff, one of the attributes or qualities that seems to gain...
Any business should have strategic goals and objectives…and understand the competencies needed to achieve those objectives. If you compare that to the competencies you have within your business, it becomes your gap analysis. At a simplistic level, you then have the...
An event on succession planning just as we’re all into gear for 2016? Absolutely! The clear message from our first Insight Series event for the year – Succession planning: Transitioning yourself and others to a new world – was that you need to start years before you...
We are doing more consulting with in-house human resources teams around best practice recruitment through our recruitment audit process. Each audit has reinforced the importance of getting seven critical steps in the process right: Taking the brief Developing the...
At the start of a new year, I find it’s always good to look at the trends that have emerged, or are emerging, in your industry. They might point to the need for a more reactive change or inform a proactive strategic shift. In recruitment, there are three trends in...
Growth – the holy grail of most businesses. The question – how do you align your team building strategy with your growth? As a company grows, its functional disciplines remain similar but there is usually a greater level of sophistication required in each area....
