Noel Gray from Knoeledge sent us this email and we thought it was worth sharing. There are so many opportunities to communicate with others. We rather like this one. “We have been doing the networking lunches for some time, so the idea of doing something a bit different appealed. Vandy and I had come across [...]
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But our readers fall into two distinct groups – and the stuff they want to read about isn’t always the same.
As you can imagine, a discussion about employee engagement between a couple of dozen HR managers and consultants was likely to be lively and, well, engaged. Yesterday afternoon we facilitated the first discussion group of the LinkedIn, Cambridge HR Group. The discussion ranged across the areas of how to get management buy in to programmes, [...]
Before anyone shouts at me – I know the title of this blog should read, “Being a ‘Yes’ Person’ but it just didn’t sound as good. Jeffrey Gitomer’s email newsletter this morning listed 3.5 critical elements in creating the best scenario for you and your customers. His second point was about learning the language of [...]
A recent benchmarking discussion in the office raised the question of whether HR should be internal and/or external facing. As the discussion progressed it became clear that certain departments in organisations really only face one way, maybe not exclusively, but predominantly they focus either in or out. Operations for example focus on internal operations: getting the [...]
I think most people would assume at the moment that HR is not a comfortable role to be in. Seen as the bearer and deliverer of bad news, people have an assumption that HR managers find it easy to tell people they no longer have a job. After all, they work in that profession and [...]
The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies 2009 was published last Sunday. And almost 800 companies will have at least some employees who feel demotivated and thoroughly cheesed-off at having had to complete long and complex survey questionnaires, only to find the company hasn’t made the grade. In our conversations with companies that want to measure [...]
In the past couple of weeks we’ve had some surprising feedback from HR managers and business leaders. A fair number of them have been saying that they hate the phrase, “employee engagement“. It’s not that they don’t believe its important. It’s not that they don’t want it in their organisations. In fact, its the opposite. [...]