HR Related Bits that I come across Along the Way!

 £10k is up for grabs for the best content in a video on the subject of Global Working.

With just two days left to go, the odds of winning are good, with just nine entries.

On another blog, I've written up some of the ways that this competition can be used for L&D - I'm just using this to flag it up, rather than spamming this blog: Five ways to use the global working video competition for learning and development.

Global Integration, the matrix management training consultancy that I work with, has appointed Robyn Green as Vice President, America.

Based on the East Coast, US, she's getting ready to deliver training and consultancy to the company’s customers which include Coca Cola, Thomson Reuters, Johnson & Johnson and Barclaycard.

 Global Integration, the matrix management training consultancy, is further expanding its Asian presence after a year in the region, a move spearheaded by Vice President Tun-Hao “T.H.” Ong.  

The company’s first office in Asia opened in Singapore in February 2010, and has gone from strength to strength. This move seems pretty much in keeping with general trends - so much business is being done in the East that it's small wonder that Global Integhration is increasingly being called upon to train people there, with a notable demand for cross cultural training.

 SEO and social media expert Nichola Stott (Founder, themediaflow) and PR and social media specialist Claire Thompson (Founder, Waves PR - that's me) have today announced the launch of a new joint venture, SEO PR Training.

The company ‘does what it says on the can’, offering tailored SEO training to PR people and strategic media skills training to SEO practitioners.

PR people struggle with the conflicting information that they are bombarded with regarding SEO, making it hard to know who to believe and how best to advise clients. Many SEO technicians lose sight of the fact that the world doesn’t only consist of  links, making it easy to miss the bigger picture.

Preparing for the launch, we have given proof of concept sessions with agencies, which has helped inform the level of training offered, and undertaken some state of the art facilitator training to add to existing training experience and qualifications.

According to a recent survey by Global Integration, when managers were asked what their three biggest challenges are in today’s complex workplaces – such as international companies, matrix organisations, and those which offer remote and virtual working - 70% responded that organizational complexity itself was the biggest challenge.

Just over half of respondents (53%) feel the pressure of distance and lack of face to face contact in remote virtual teams, whilst 40% nominated cultural differences as one of their three biggest challenges.