by Janice | Nov 26, 2020 | Competencies, Organisation development, Talent Management
Alarm bells ring loudly for me when I put together three findings from CIPD’s recently published Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2020. These findings show that skills shortages – especially in professional, technical and management jobs – exist in spite of...
by Janice | Nov 18, 2020 | Competencies, Organisation development, Talent Management
CIPD’s recently published Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey Report 2020 confirms what many of us expected at this time: businesses have reduced recruitment activity, applicant numbers have increased significantly, but skills shortages persist. Moreover, it appears...
by Janice | Oct 20, 2020 | Global Working, Organisation development, Talent Management
I have been quite shocked to hear of the growing use of surveillance software to check up on people who are working from home to be sure they are working. I have also heard, at first hand, that in one organisation the use of such software has been prompted by the...
by Janice | Oct 20, 2020 | Global Working, Organisation development, Talent Management
It’s not been a great week: COVID-19 contagion rates are rising everywhere, restrictions have been tightened, as furlough lifts more people are being made redundant, and the weather is awful and the days getting shorter.So many people I have spoken to this week have...
by Janice | Oct 6, 2020 | Global Working, Organisation development, Talent Management
A recent survey by law firm CMS showed that only 23% of businesses in UK, Europe and Asia think that their staff have been more productive or motivated while they have been working from home. This matches pre-COVID surveys that showed mixed results for the effects of...
by Janice | Oct 6, 2020 | Global Working, Organisation development, Talent Management
September remains deeply engrained as a time of new beginnings. This is especially so this year for us, as we commence our exciting new collaboration with EduGrowth. Itself a start-up, EduGrowth is an e-learning company whose mission is to improve the outcomes for...
