Driving return on investment through people
Changing culture is a critical element to long-term, sustainable improvements in employee engagement, and Jerome Parisse-Brassens explains that HR needs to understand what is happening beneath the surface of an organisation Engagement and culture are two topics that often get confused with each other in transformation agendas. They are, however, […]
A forward-thinking approach to workplace diversity, flexibility and employee engagement have helped engineering consultancy Northrop crack the glass ceiling to improve talent acquisition and retention while driving double-digit business growth, according to its CEO. Northrop Consulting Engineers is an employee-owned multi-disciplinary firm with 345 employees across Australia specialising in civil, […]
Leaders play a critical role in shaping the employee experience and helping employees to embrace new ways of working in the face of digital disruption, writes Anthony Mitchell “Only three things happen naturally in organisations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.” – Peter Drucker This may be my […]
People leaders need to get the balance between technology, environments and human irrationality right in an increasingly digital world, writes Rob Scott, who explains that there are a number of considerations in optimising employee performance in the process I recently attended a presentation by Alexander Kjerulf, the Chief Happiness Officer […]
A data-driven approach to talent management is promising, but can cause just as many problems as the historic people-led model if approached in the wrong way, writes Murray Priestman Talent management can be a very subjective activity. Actions such as judging future potential, leadership capability – identifying “talent” – invariably […]
