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You blink, and something new is on the market, yet again! Times are changing so fast, it’s become very hard to keep up. All...
How to Find Talented Employees for Your Growing Business
The more ideas you have for your business, the more stringent is the need to have skilled and trustworthy people around you. Talented employees...
Corporate Listening Provides Insights and Business Value
By Jim Macnamara
The voice of customers (VOC) is recognized as vitally important in marketing and corporate communication. VOC is a key source of market...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
“Let’s have a chat” Strikes Fear in Workers
TheKnowledgeAcademy.com’s heart rate study reveals the workplace phrase that raises our heart rate most is: “Let’s have a chat”. On average, the phrase “Let’s have...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
The Importance of Your Business’s Training and Development Program
Training and development in business are often relegated to new hires and college students. However, this should not be the case. Continuous training can...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
Whither Talent?
By Adrian Furnham
To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...
The Global Quest For Talent: The Prospects Are … Mixed
Interview with Executive Director for Global Indices at INSEAD, Bruno Lanvin
It's well known that, to be effective in any undertaking, you first have to...
The Global Talent Management Challenge
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David G. Collings outlines key factors which can effectively develop global talent management systems to drive sustainable performance based on his...
Changing the face of finance and professional services
By Lucy Franklin
Stereotyping is not inherently bad, but it is undoubtedly restricting. Most especially in the industry of finance and professional service where such...
The Dangers of Context Switching to Your Productivity & How to Solve it
By Grace Lau
Even the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once lamented the urge to take on too many tasks at once. How quaint it now seems...
6 Recruitment Tips For Businesses
When it comes down to it, there is no business process that is more important than recruitment. The people you recruit are the ones...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
The 3 Myths of Employee Autonomy
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
Employee autonomy is becoming one of the latest trends in business management with many industries failing to implement and benefit from...
Why and How ‘Healthy’ Leaders Can Boost Employee Mental Health
By Anna Eliatamby
Mental health has a massive impact on our leadership, work, and life. It heavily influences how we lead and the people we...
Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge? Tell me when you were born and...
By Karsten Jonsen, Rafael Martin and Stephanie Weg
Who are these Digital Natives and what makes them different? How can business use shifts in behavior...
The Vital Role Of Communication In All Aspects Of Business
Communication is a vital part of society. It plays a lot of roles, and it is essential for survival. People use it to encourage,...
Embedded Values and Induced Spirituality in Management Education
The Case of Two Successful Business Schools in Barcelona
By S. L. Dolan, Y. Altman, B. Capell and M. Raich
Top 5 benefits of mobile learning for corporations
By Ehsan Memari
Let’s face it: if you’re looking for a powerful way to promote learning in the workplace, you just can’t ignore mobile. After...
What to do when you’re Feeling Anxious
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Identity In and Around Organisations
By Majken Schultz & Steve Maguire
At the heart of any successful organisation lies a powerful conception of identity: the coherent way in which it...
Different Workers Compensation Insurance Options
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Three Traps Facing New Corporate Centre Executives
What Companies Should Consider When Hiring for Corporate Role
By Sven Kunisch & Eva Bilhuber Galli
When appointing corporate centre executives, many large firms focus on...
Introducing the Digital Version of Structured On-the-Job Training: Illustrative Case Studies and Reflections on...
By Ronald L. Jacobs
Structured on-the-job training (S-OJT), introduced in the late 1980s, aimed to harness the skills and knowledge of an experienced employee in...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
How To Make Sure Your Employees Are Satisfied
It should come as no surprise to learn the truth behind the adage of businesses being only as good as its constituting people. These...
Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver
By Jonathan Trevor
Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
HR Trends 2025: Our Pay & People Predictions
By Rameez Kaleem
Introduction
As we prepare forenter 2025, leaders should expect significant changes within the role of HR.
This is being influenced by several factors, including...
Manual transmission: what should your company put in its employee handbook?
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4 Ways Your Small Business Can Attract Big Talent
Your business will fail without the right employees. Every boss knows this. From market stalls to megacorporations. The most gifted job-searchers can take their...
Supporting your employees while they work from home
Since the Government first called on us to stay at home as much as possible, more people than ever are working remotely. While this...
Why You Should Get Personalised Clipboards with Jumbo Traditional Clips for your Business
Personalised clipboards could be the next big thing for your company- and we’re here to tell you why.
Personalised stationery has been on the rise...
How to Manage Employee Scheduling in Small Businesses in 2020
If there’s one thing managers have to do better than anyone is schedule staff effectively and efficiently, otherwise, no work would ever get done....
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
The Evolving Role of Employee Training in Enterprise Talent Management
The business environment today is challenging, to say the least. Executives have numerous balls in the air and are concentrating hard to make sure...
Why We Need to Learn to Disagree Well in the Workplace?
By David Liddle
Political discourse and debate across Europe – indeed across the world - has become increasingly entrenched, divisive and disrespectful thanks, in part,...
Feeling and Affect in the Contemporary Workplace
Rick Iedema & David Grant
Ongoing organisational change and rapid product and service turnover are demanding increasing levels of employee commitment to innovating work...
Tolerating Failure: A Key to Creating Sustainable Business
By CB Bhattacharya, Ernesto Ciorra and Joanna Radeke
Best-in-class companies galvanise their workforces to serve a larger purpose – creating a better world. They empower...
Why Is Play Important For A Company’s Work Environment?
By Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco
Many companies cannot relate to the concept of “play” in activities performed in their workplaces. On the contrary, in business,...
The Role of Leadership in Combating Burnout: How Effective Talent Management Starts at the...
By Indiana Lee
Businesses might set a tireless pace, but employees and leadership alike risk burnout by trying to match it without considering the essential...
Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees
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Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...
Managing Mavericks – Getting The Best Out Of Eccentric Employees
Employees are not robots. They might be twenty years from now, but they're not right now. Everyone who works for you is a living,...
How a motivational speaker can transform your next event
Planning a business event can feel like a daunting prospect, even for established business leaders. This is for good reason: the evening’s legacy can...
Can You Teach Leadership?
By Adrian Furnham
Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
Building a Positive Organisational Culture Centered Around Employee Wellbeing
By Gill Tanner
Workplaces have changed significantly in recent years, with the introduction of hybrid and remote working and increasing digitisation shifting the way we...
What areas do employers and staff need to focus on after Covid-19?
The majority of us have spent the past few months adjusting to the ‘new normal’ since the outbreak of COVID-19. We’ve socially distanced, worn...
Leadership and Culture: Part 2 – Engaging the Enterprise: Creating a Growth Mindset Tribe
Mindset Tribe
By Sean Culey
Part 1 of this article (published in The European Business Review, May/June 2012) set out the case for Culture; it’s impact...
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