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 30, 2020 | Performance Management, Talent Management
Living through this pandemic is like living in a bad sci-fi film full of unknown and inexplicable forces and a lot of science that no one fully understands. So, what leadership competencies do we need to get us through this sci-fi film? Not long ago, in the assessment...
by Janice | Oct 26, 2020 | Coaching and Mentoring, Performance Management, Talent Management, The Scala Group
The Value of Talent was the name of my book on talent management published in 2010. The theme was that the demands of a changed world were driving the evolution of Talent Management. In just ten years, those words ‘demands’ and ‘changed world’ have taken on completely...
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...
