Take five - communicate better

2010-03-11 09:04 - 1435 reads - 1 comment
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Encouraging efficient, effective and appropriate communication is one of HR’s greatest challenges. Take five and break five bad habits and barriers to communication.

Engaging your talent through embodied leadership

2010-03-09 09:17 - 914 reads - 1 comment
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Which qualities does a leader require to inspire engagement of their key talent and harness dicretionary effort?

Drowning in a sea of applications

2010-03-09 09:11 - 726 reads
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When you have so many applicants to sift through, recruiting can seem a huge ordeal. Dan Hughes offers a lifebuoy and explains how it has worked for Waitrose.

Five myths about public sector pay

2010-03-11 09:14 - 558 reads - 1 comment
Five employee engagement myths
Peter Smith, director of public sector consulting at Hay Group, dispellst five myths that have developed around public sector pay and comments on the real issues in each case.

Not safe for work - the prevalence of porn

2010-03-09 09:32 - 505 reads
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With one in five men admitting to accessing porn at work, organisations know they are sitting on a potential time bomb. What can HR do about it?

Small businesses, watch your back when hiring

2010-03-11 09:16 - 440 reads
Employee investigation
A bad hire can be devastating to a smaller business. How can you tell who you are really hiring?

Top tips: Conducting back to work interviews - Live from Health and Wellbeing @ Work

2010-03-09 14:35 - 353 reads

 

I'm here at the Health and Wellbeing at Work conference and exhibition in Birmingham, with some tips fresh from the Employment Law seminars. It's a busy affair with lots of people on the exhibition floor and the conference sessions upstairs are also packed.

Charlie Duff: Editor's Blog

Train and gain or snooze and lose

2010-03-10 12:37 - 270 reads
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Dwindling levels of investment in training must rise this year if UK employers are to remain competitive on a global basis as the economy starts to emerge from recession.

Rise in vacancies and recruitment activity point to recovery

2010-03-09 11:42 - 227 reads
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The number of vacancies posted online in February was the highest since December 2008 when the recession really kicked in.

Graduates? No thanks!

2010-03-11 14:23 - 219 reads
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Neither school leavers nor university graduates are providing employers with what they need due to basic problems with literacy, numeracy and attitude, a Tesco executive said today.
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