There has been an abundance of topics that have been touched upon in our Business Performance division this year including data quality, establishing more specific business strategies, measuring your results, and transforming behaviour change. This blog looks at the winning themes and topics that captured the attention of the professionals within the industry. However, it’s [...]

Exclusive content library, meets online networking. Read it. Watch it. Talk about it – The HR Industry’s newest online resource… HR InSights. Totally free for users, this site fuses the very best in industry content with an easy to use social networking platform. WTG have brought a powerful new tool for knowledge sharing and career [...]

Brian Devine is Vice President of ProLogistix, a staffing firm which focuses exclusively on logistics personnel often for 3PLs and other supply chain segments. With over 40 million man hours recorded the last five years, Devine shared some of the unique and extensive experiences his firm has had in filling all levels of logistics positions [...]

Transforming your business strategy to align employee integration may seem complex and challenging for managers to implement. Lessons learned from SuccessFactors reveals an internal revamp will lead to operational excellence, talent development, and improving overall workforce efficiency, which consequently leads to a dramatic improvement in business revenue profitability. Building a high-performance HR strategy must start [...]

Aligning your workforce to your organization’s objectives or strategy is critical to turning vision into action and action into results. Implementing the right training is therefore crucial to strengthening the link between capability development and delivering real business results. The investment and development of people is becoming both increasingly valued and scrutinized in organisations worldwide. [...]

Many talent management programmes are unaffordable and destined to fail. Talented people can be costly to recruit and difficult to manage and retain. Fortunes are spent on expensive people who are not engaged, effectively used, or appropriately supported. People and organisations can benefit from capturing what high performers do differently, and making it easier for [...]

Tax changes for high earners will affect their pension plans and have sparked a search for more tax-efficient investments. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the UK now owes 53.8% of its national income. So it is hardly surprising the former Labour government announced big income tax changes to try to balance the books. [...]

A new survey has found that companies will boost their focus on talent management after experiencing difficulty finding talented staff. Organisations are set to boost their focus on talent management in the areas of leadership, succession planning and career path development over the next three years, according to new research. Consultancy firm Towers Watson’s global talent [...]

As the dust settles following the Chancellor’s long awaited announcement of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), public sector HR professionals are coming to terms with some of the most significant changes to the employment landscape for years. Personnel Today’s HR Austerity Panel analyses the implications of the CSR. Daniel Thomas reports. Graham White, HR director [...]

Change management may be part of the HR toolkit. But how far do you need to go to help the company to cope with never-ending waves of change? Liggy Webb, founder of the Learning Architect and a consultant specialising in helping people to cope with change, believes that unless companies help people to deal with [...]