Ok so just one last thing after the Digital Citizens Event earlier this week. I posted the question below: and here are some of the responses: Part of me wonders if these responses were just a knee-jerk reaction to someone questioning personal freedom on social media (hey guys you are preaching to the converted here! I’m all for social). I was asking the...

The other day I went to my second North Ryde HR Network (NRHRN) breakfast seminar, which was on Talent Management. In 2008 at the very first NRHRN event, Ronan Carolan, HR Director with Sanofi Aventis spoke about their Talent Management strategy that they had adopted in order to address performance, engagement and succession planning issues within their...

You know I’m a romantic. I like sending gifts, surprising people and seeing others happy. Over the last 10 years boys have sent me flowers, moet and surprised me with gifts. My better half these days doesn’t believe in Valentines Day, although I suppose that’s ok given my birthday falls on February 15th. But every now and again he does manage to surprise me,...

Talent management is a concept that has been around for a while particularly in response to the ‘war for talent’. But what is it exactly? Talent management is hard to define as the processes and what it involves can vary from organization to organization. For instance, research conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity asserts that more than 75 per...

Peter Sheahan How do you stay ahead in a world where ‘fast, good, and cheap’ are just the price of entry for your clients, customers and staff? What is the X factor you need to differentiate your offering – and what will it be tomorrow? How will HR add the most value to business in this market and what will HR need to do in order to be seen as a genuine...