Three steps to avoid death by recruitment black box
10 December 2024
In Talent Acquisition, the focus is almost always on the candidate/recruiter relationship. But before we even get there, there is another relationship which needs tending to – the recruiter and hiring manager relationship. Like a clownfish and an anemone, recruiters and hiring managers need each other, but (to be brutally honest) it’s often the hiring […]
Enterprise Social Networks and changing behaviour.
20 December 2016
Enterprise Social Networks have been around for longer than we may think. JIVE was established in 2001; Yammer in 2008; and when you consider Facebook was only established in 2004, you have to wonder why ESNs haven’t become the indispensable tool that many thought they would be. Perhaps with the launch of Workplace by Facebook, […]
106 Breakfast Series: Preparing for the Unthinkable
24 February 2016
Just over half of Fortune 500 has disappeared since 2000. We will probably see 40% disappear in the next 10 years alone. Change is happening – and faster than ever. We really do live in a world of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). There are the very real threats of pandemics, terrorism, political decisions, financial […]
HR Summit and Expo in Dubai: Charan, Fons and Cheese
16 December 2015
Sometimes, you hear a speaker that makes you feel immensely humble. This month, I was able to witness two. Ram Charan and Fons Trompenaars stole the show at the HR Summit and Expo in Dubai. (Sorry, Mr Cheese, Chief Exec of CIPD, while your talk was informed and impassioned, it wasn’t in the same league.) […]
Meetings, meetings and fewer meetings…
09 December 2015
Meetings seem to be the (un)necessary evil of the modern business. We need to talk about X. Let’s have a meeting. The client wants to discuss Y. Let’s have a meeting. A leader wants to cut Z. Let’s have a meeting. We need to organise the Christmas Party. Let’s have a meeting (with mince pies). Of […]
The Productivity Puzzle: let’s stop being busy!
21 July 2015
Productivity in the UK seems to have stalled. Our growth today is essentially down to more hours being worked. However, that is unsustainable over the long term, and it also doesn’t help to grow the standard of living in the UK. So how can we make our workplaces more productive? Recently I went to a […]
Innovation programmes: what does success look like?
18 May 2015
Last Friday morning saw us on Fleet Street for a breakfast seminar with Wazoku. If the business you work for is keen on innovation – and it’s one of the most common values we see in our work – then do follow Wazoku. They’re the creators of Ideas Spotlight, a software platform allowing colleagues to […]
What next for innovation?
09 March 2015
This week I went to a breakfast seminar hosted by Wazoku. If Wazoku is new to you, check out 106 Seconds with its founder Simon Hill. Steve Kaye, Head of Innovation for Anglian Water, spoke about how his role has changed in the last 15 years. Then, ‘innovation’ was the preserve of his team, a […]
106 seconds with… Simon Hill, CEO and founder of Wazoku
17 February 2015
Simon Hill is the CEO and founder of Wazoku, a leading high-growth B2B software company that powers collaborative innovation within medium and large companies globally. In 2014 Simon won the Guardian SME Business Leader of the Year award and was recognised by Crowdsourcing Week as one of the top 15 most influential people in the […]