News and Opinion for HR, Talent and Leaders
If you’ve gone above and beyond on your CPD; if you’ve spent time, money and energy on your professional development to hone your leadership skills then I may have some bad news for you. Practicing skills isn’t the most effective way of developing as a leader. To be more precise; intense, focused and repetitive practice […]
No matter what an employer does, the simple truth is that even the best, most highly valued employees will one day leave your organization. Hopefully, it’ll be at the end of a long and happy career with your company, after having passed on their know-how and experience. But what if it’s not? When skilled or […]
If you haven’t lived in a cave for the past several years, you’ve noticed how many pie-in-the-sky job descriptions have popped up since the financial crisis of 2008. The good news is, the economy has gotten a lot stronger, but many employers continue asking for the moon, to the frustration of perfectly qualified professionals. […]
Listen to the Interview with Kevin W Grossman About Kevin W Grossman In addition to being a Community Advocate at The HR Gazette, Kevin is the Talent Board Vice-President responsible for all aspects of the Candidate Experience Awards program and other Talent Board activities for North America. Supported by The HR Gazette team, Kevin […]
by Nicola Middlemiss HR professionals should be promoting the importance of self-awareness if they want to help their employees grow and develop – that’s the assertion from one industry expert who insists the skill is a critical workplace asset. “If we can help people increase that self-awareness, they know what competencies they have and which […]
The HR Gazette has launched a new series of podcasts. In this episode, regular hosts Bill Banham and Tim Baker talk about the format and hopes for the new podcasts. About HRchat Podcasts HRchat podcasts, produced by The HR Gazette, is an ongoing series of interviews with HR leaders and influencers within the HR […]
Research done by Hugh Montgomery, cardiovascular genetics consultant at the University College London, identified nine factors that make a difference to the chance of survival for individuals in life-threatening situations. At the top of the list was genetics, which is considered somewhat outside of our control. However, with the other eight factors that are under […]
In this time of scrutiny, it’s going to be difficult to compete with other companies on recruiting talent if your hiring manager isn’t on board with the message. You’re going to have to teach your hiring manager to sell the position and sell the company.
When you talk to employees who are highly engaged at work, you will hear them use a particular four letter word a lot. “I love this place.” “I love my job.” “I love the people I work with.” And, while “love” isn’t a word that most HR departments use with regularity, perhaps it should be. […]
For those of you who’ve just returned from a few years on the Moon, William Tincup is an avid writer, speaker, advisor, consultant, investor, storyteller, and teacher in the HR tech space. We are BIG fans of William and got a chance to meet him at the DisruptHR Cayman event and interviewed him a few weeks later. In this part […]