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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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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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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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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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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Quality/Cost

Having just read a great article by Howard Adamsky on the importance of speed in hiring, with which I couldn’t agree more (and I would apply it to speed in most things in business really), it got me thinking about the argument of “Quality”. As he says, quality MUST be taken as a given when […]

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