Talent Strategy – a must for business now and for the future

Talent Strategy – a must for business now and for the future One of the things that still baffles me in today’s market is the disconnect between CEO’s listing Talent as their number one pain point and priority and the lack of directional strategy advice being fed into them. Talent is important – fact. Top […]

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Time, Values and Action

Time, Values and Action I’ve been thinking a lot (oh the irony) about procrastination recently and whilst focussed on its effect in work and delivering training on overcoming it, I wondered what its wider “life” impact is? Why is it even important outside of work not to procrastinate?…and the answer is the obvious one…its’ relation […]

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How do I advance my Career?

How do I advance my Career? So you want to advance your career, but where do you start? Following are my top tips to success in advancing your career in a meaningful and sustainable way: 1)    The best place to start is with a career plan. A career plan is a written strategy which helps […]

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Recruiting Top Talent – you reap what you sow

Everyone (even the least progressive management teams) is waking up to the reality that the competition for top talent is here to stay –even during the GFC it was seen as a competitive opportunity the most progressive leaders took advantage of. However, these were the rarer ones and unfortunately few have woken up to the […]

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Recruitment is a service NOT a product

Recruitment is a service NOT a product As the markets in Asia Pacific continue to grow at rates from 6 – 23.5% (in the case of SG’s 1st Quarter 2011!) the ‘war for talent’ continues at a pace (this might happen to not be timely due to the recent makets news today!). There are consequences […]

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Take Stock of your Talent

Take Stock. It’s that time of year, most of us are either half way through or just starting a new one, but either way it’s a point at which we need to review the last 6 months against expectations and align our plans for the coming half year: How’s it gone? Where could we have […]

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Why you should never “low ball” an offer in Talent Acquisition

A recent experience highlighted this issue once again, but to such a degree that I needed to write about it this time. There are many people who have tried to justify “low balling”, particularly in the sales spaces I have worked into, where the pressure, particularly in “macho” terms is to look at the OTE/upsides. […]

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A simple experiment on human psychology and online behaviour

I have read a lot (and thought a lot) about human psychology and how it relates to online behaviour and then I decided it was time to do a very simple experiment. The basic premise behind this is little experiment offline is: The sub-conscious human mind does not recognise the word ‘not’. ‘Not’ is a construct of language, not […]

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Rising attrition and what to do!

Below is an excerpt from a recent interview I did for Campaign Asia on attrition rates in the media and communications world. It’s bad, and a senior regional exec I know well said in a cynical tone “well its all good for you, Rob!” which demonstrated what I know people think when they do see […]

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Exit Interviews – how to make it a valuable Talent process?

I was recently interviewed by Human Resources Magazine for a feature they are running on exit interviews for their July issue and how I consult in that area. They were looking for advice for readers on what to do during an exit interview and what they can do to make it a better experience for […]

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Social Media vs. Time – is Social Media a horrible distraction?

Is it just me or is Social Media like TV used to be when I was in my teens (I don’t really watch it these days!) – A black hole for time?! This is rhetorical because I will tell you, it isn’t just me. I have asked around countless friends and colleagues and everyone seems […]

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Going ROWE: The Final Step!

This is the final part of the ROWE interview I did, on our final session of the ROWE migration at Xpand. I explained what happened in Culture Clinic and what it feels like to goROWE! So, the big day arrived and there was quite a buzz about the office! It was clear from the chatter […]

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ROWE migration step 3 – eradicating Sludge

This is the 3rd part of my ROWE interview with Michael Barata – this time the topic is Sludge! For the purpose of understanding the context and its use below, the definition of ‘Sludge’ used in a ROWE is: any negative (toxic) language (garbage) in the workplace that is used to cast judgment about how […]

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Going ROWE: The Kick Off Session

As promised as a follow on from last week, this post is the next part of my interview with Michael Barata – covering the next step of our ROWE migration – The Kick Off Session: (The name of the session is pretty self explanatory so no need for a long build up….) “The Kick Off […]

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