Ask any divisional/functional business leader about how they measure the effectiveness of their business and the answer will likely be uniform – how effectively it assists in the achievement of the business strategy.  HR is no different!  Combine this with the...read more

We all have to deal and cope with competing priorities in our professional and personal lives. Sometimes this makes it difficult to hold focus on our goals. Moreover it’s easy to feel you are the only one doing it hard sometimes. The reality is life sometimes is hard and...read more

It takes one rotten ingredient to ruin an otherwise delicious dish. It takes one ineffective employee to ruin an otherwise productive team. Ineffective employees are fairly easy to identify. They often have a “blame” mentality, drawing on negatives and pursuing their own goals rather than the team’s.  Managers and...read more

Aberdeen Group’s study published in March 2012 highlights how to achieve workforce flexibility and the importance of aligning overall talent management with the business strategy. Aberdeen Group’s findings are consistent with deliberatepractice’s study published in February this year into “How commercial are contemporary recruitment functions in Australian medium to large size companies?”

Read Aberdeen’s article here:...read more

I am sure that there would be many who question the validity of the unemployment rate measures and some of the other labour market data that crosses our paths on a regular occurrence.  Stats, damned stats and lies can always be used to tell a story and we...read more