I was speaking to two senior HR leaders this week and there’s a common theme starting to surface around demands in their marketplaces. In a broader and broader range of industries, goals are being driven by customers more significantly and specifically. I understand that’s the basis of any business, but the demands are starting to [...]
For the last 40 plus years I have been involved in Martial arts, the last 25 in a very specialist area of Swordsmanship. Swordsmanship is unique because it has a long-recorded history in many different cultures, and it aligns with the military strategy and tactics of individuals, armies, and nations. Enormous amounts of information have [...]
Many things can send projects off track, but one of the main ones is poor people and behavioural skills. This applies right across the board, interactions between employers, subcontractors, client, suppliers etc. All have the potential to go pair shaped and negatively impact the project. Increasingly we are being asked to assist people with their [...]
The term ‘Change Management’ has now pretty much been relegated to describe the activities that surround progress change and system upgrades in organisations. Essential, but in this fast past world, nowhere near enough to keep an organisation ahead of the game. Management Gurus like Peter Drucker, Charles Handy and Peter Senge have been advocating for [...]
Yes, we all understand that Martial Arts is about belt and dans, and kicking and punching and all that macho stuff, but after over 40 years training I’ve forgotten more of that than I remember and it’s certainly not why I continue training. Don’t get me wrong, the training and the physical development is [...]
Traditionally there are three areas we are developing our staff in, these are: To develop their skills to do their current job better, more efficiently (Training and Development) To develop their skills for the next job they could move into (Succession planning) Remedial training to bring them up to speed in their current role (performance [...]
The network revolution is here! No ifs, no buts, no choice. If you’re in HR, you are going to be impacted, BIG TIME. How? 70% of roles currently done by your workforce won’t exist in 5 to 10 years' time. 70% of your workforce will be doing jobs in 5 to 10 years' time [...]
We see so many resume’s come across our desk and one of the reoccurring themes is that people seem to believe the reader is the one responsible to interpret where the resume owner can add value to the role or company. Let’s be very clear here right from the start “it is not the [...]
Our working world will be turned on its head in the next few years, robots, innovation, progress, you name it, it’s moving at such a rate that it’s conceivable your job won’t exist in 10 years. In the past the companies we worked for were the ones that looked after so many aspects of our [...]
Ever notice how some people sail through life seemingly without a care and others get hooked or caught up on something along the way and appear to be stuck. As Heraclitus said “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change” and some people have trouble accepting that fact. If Heraclitus said this over 2,500 years ago, [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: