Strategy is an increasingly important skill-set for HR leaders, according to design thinking expert Roger Martin, who said that HR professionals need to think about strategy and people in the same way their CEO does. “Every CEO knows what they need to do, and in order to understand how CEOs think, any head of HR…
Business environments are undergoing rapid and continuous change, and organisations and their HR leaders would benefit from a design thinking-led approach to change management, writes Colleen d’Offay Around 70 per cent of change management programmes fail, according to research by Deloitte, which found that the reasons for failure suggest a broad array of causes. Almost all…
Design thinking can assist HR professionals in achieving impressive results, writes Jeff Mike, who explains that the process is better understood and approached as a set of three working principles. HR is undergoing a fundamental shift. The rigid, policy-driven programs and processes of yesterday, which were primarily focused on compliance, efficiency, and conventional approaches to talent…
Keeping knowledge workers motivated requires unique methods of job design, and there are a number of important steps HR can take to improve job design with a view to better talent management, according to an expert in the area. “It’s no secret and unless you’ve been living in a bubble, things are changing and change…
Achieving the desired behavioural changes that we know is possible from 360 feedback often requires doing less, not more, writes Marc Effron Few talent management practices show as much promise and as few results as 360 feedback. As HR professionals, we faithfully believe that 360 feedback will help managers change their behaviours or at least…
Just because you provide users with “analytic evidence” doesn’t mean they’ll believe it, and in some cases, it only serves to cements their current view or bias. Here is a key lesson: Data analytics and visualisation is a creative activity, and unfortunately not everyone is going to like or appreciate your artwork, writes Rob Scott. …
Organisations are in need of new talent practices to help people lead these teams, connect teams together, and facilitate the movement of people from team to team, writes Josh Bersin We just completed the Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report and found some surprising results: this year, the number one human capital challenge around…
Progressive organisations will not get lazy and go for a ‘one-size fits all approach to remote working, as they understand that each employee is different. This should give consideration for greater levels of flexibility, even to the extent of where employees choose to live, writes Mark LeBusque “Flexibility is the key to stability” – John…
There are considerable rewards in rethinking what we mean by talent and how it can also be led, writes Roger Collins Great talent makes a great difference. The best available evidence indicates that appointing people who are one standard deviation above the mean on the relevant criteria can deliver more than three times the productivity…
Beverage and food company Lion is rethinking the way it manages talent through taking a category management approach based on where its people are at in their lifecycle, according to the business’ talent director and people and culture director. Lion’s talent processes are less around buy, build or borrow, according to talent director, Alicia Purtell, who said…