February 2008 - Posts

• Succession planning | plan for change
  	Friday, 29 February 2008   Editor A change in leadership need not be traumatic if you have the right people with the right skills swimming in your talent pool. Two-thirds of managers who participated in Roffey Park’s 2008 Management Agenda confirmed that change is the biggest challenge...

• Action learning three-step process | part two
  	Thursday, 28 February 2008   Editor Insight, knowledge and confidence - three skills required to deliver results in business. In the second part of his series on Action Learning, Martin Brooks of Atos Consulting explains how the approach complements other forms of education and training...

• Holiday rights | long-term sick leave?
  	Wednesday, 27 February 2008   Editor Recently, the advocate-general (a legal officer who offers advice to the Judges in the European Court of Justice) gave his long awaited opinion on the case of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others. This could mean that employers have to give holiday rights...

• Workload | how to prioritise
  	Tuesday, 26 February 2008   Editor Sometimes we have to reprioritise things that are under our direct control, which is relatively simple compared to re-prioritising things that involve other decision makers. Lindy Cozens, managing director, The Coach House A trick is always to de-personalise...

• Marketing HR | what's in a name?
  	Monday, 25 February 2008   Jon Ingham There have been some interesting reactions on a number of HR blogs to Seth Godin’s post, 'Marketing HR' . Noting that ‘Human Resources’ is an increasingly inappropriate name for the way that organisations are managing their people, Godin suggests...

• Work/life balance | burnout
  	Friday, 22 February 2008   Editor A Chartered Management Institute (CMI) survey suggests Britain's long-hours culture is creating burnout among senior staff, 90% of whom work longer than their contracted hours. Is there any way to reverse the trend? Employers that allow senior staff...

• Carbon footprint | sustainable travel strategies
  	Thursday, 21 February 2008   Editor Introducing a green travel policy will reduce your company’s carbon footprint and demonstrate your environmental credentials. According to the Energy Savings Trust (EST), just one in five firms has considered the impact of work-related travel on the environment...

• Training & development | now's the time to invest
  	Wednesday, 20 February 2008   Editor A new survey on behalf of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) highlights that training is often overlooked at work because it is time consuming and expensive. With this being a leap year, almost a third of 1000 UK employees questioned by the LSC suggest...

• Flexible workforce | moofers of the future
  	Tuesday, 19 February 2008   Editor According to the Future Laboratory by 2012 there will be 5.5 million mobile workers in the UK, (mobile workers can also be coined as a moofer - loose acronym based on mobile out of office). A driving force behind this new workforce is an innovative scheme...

• Employee debt | wise-up to it
  	Monday, 18 February 2008   Editor The warning signs have been around for a long time, but it seems as though the British public is in debt quicksand and has realised a little too late. John Hall, chief executive, newtomorrow.com Debt has been so freely available that it’s become a normal...

• Action learning | part one
  	Friday, 15 February 2008   Editor Gathering dust on a bookshelf at home is a thick hard-back book with a faded brown binding: 'The Origins and Growth of Action Learning', by Reg Revans. But take note, action learning is making a comeback and could become a key learning tool in...

• CSR | make it a green leap day
  	Friday, 15 February 2008   Editor The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged employers to allow their staff to take 29 February as a day’s paid annual leave which they use to reduce their personal carbon footprint, highlighting the benefits to the environment and staff morale. Green Leap...

• The power of love | is it in the staff handbook?
  	Thursday, 14 February 2008   Editor The number of relationships at work seems to be eclipsed only by the number of surveys telling us how many relationships at work there really are. Avid readers of employment law and human resources journals will know that over 55% of those surveyed by...

• Appraisals | how to make appraisals meaningful
  	Wednesday, 13 February 2008   Editor It seems that UK workers have fallen out of love with appraisals – with many of them regarding annual appraisals as a waste of time, research from Investors in People suggested in December 2007. Gareth Chick, director, Spring Partnerships According to...

• Going international | factors HR needs to consider
  	Tuesday, 12 February 2008   Editor How does a UK HR generalist become an international HR expert? Alan Marshall, managing director of Global HR Consultants, explains that while the world continues to shrink as businesses expand into Europe via the EU expansion or globally as India and...