In recent years, the role of learning and development professionals has shifted. As organizations come round to the fact that people are a critical source of competitive advantage, they have an increasingly strategic role to play. The investments made in people are significant and, rightly,...

If HR is to make a true impact on the performance of itsorganization, it must be a team player. Working in the HR equivalent of the ivory tower, with little or no awareness of your industry, customers or competitors, let alone other internal business functions, is no longer good enough. What’s...

What kind of company would you like to work for? One that’s exciting, dynamic and going places? Of course ‐ and if you’re lucky, you already do. However, if recent research findings are to be believed, there are thousands of disengaged employees out there looking for such an organization....

Corporations are coming round to the fact that people, like other assets, must be managed for the long term. Any company that can’t prove it’s sustainable beyondthe near‐term is going to have trouble gaining investor confidence. HR professionals need to be thinking in the same way about...

You are the CEO of one of the world’s largest financial services firms. The company is facing a weak market and has been hit by internal scandals leading to the closure of its Japanese private bank and investigation from European regulators. The mood is not optimistic. What do you do? For...

Those working in HR ‐ and in other functions ‐ have many questions around the area of HR measurement. What should be measured? How should it be measured? Too often, focus is placed on answering the wrong questions. Are these truly the elements that make a difference to the business or just...

The average job description for a senior HR professional has changed dramatically over the past few decades. No longer the bastion of transactional processes and employee administration, the responsibilities of the director or VP of HR are markedly different