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CHRO influence reaches an all-time high

News 15 Oct 2025 Management-Issues

Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) are playing an increasingly pivotal role in shaping business success, a new study suggests.

Build, buy, borrow, bot: tackling the talent crisis

Opinion 22 Aug 2025 Ciara Harrington

Organisations will only stay competitive if they replace outdated workforce strategies with models that are dynamic, inclusive, and future-ready.

From stewardship to strategy: rethinking CEO succession

Opinion 04 Aug 2025 Jenni Hibbert

As legendary investor and business leader Warren Buffett retires after more than 50 years, his succession plan is one that all businesses should take note of.

CPOs: leadership in a challenging landscape

Opinion 17 Mar 2025 Emma Burrows

In an era of constant disruption, Chief People Officers must embrace AI, leadership agility and business strategy to drive workforce resilience and success.

Economic uncertainty and cyber threats are the key risks keeping executives awake a night

News 17 Feb 2025 Management-Issues

The economy, cyber threats and talent challenges dominate list of critical near-term risks for boards and executives, a new survey has found.

Organisations must embrace the insights of the younger generation

News 21 Jan 2025 Management-Issues

As the global talent pool narrows, organisations must set aside preconceived notions about young professionals entering the workforce and listen to their insights, a new report argues.

Growth and talent issues top concerns for CFOs

News 10 Jan 2025 Management-Issues

Attracting and retaining skilled talent and worries around top-line growth are the biggest CFO concerns for 2025, a new report suggests.

HR leaders misaligned with business strategy

News 27 Nov 2024 Management-Issues

More than eight out of 10 HR leaders are misaligned with their organisation’s business strategy, according to a new survey of more than 500 senior HR professionals.

Leadership talent for decision-making

Podcasts 19 Feb 2024

A conversation with Aaron Mitchell Finegold, Chief Marketing Officer of global executive search firm, Kingsley Gate.

Workforce development or workforce disaffection?

Opinion 14 Oct 2015 Paul Daley

Many large businesses build their workforce development plans on the creation of a corporate elite who are fast-tracked to become the leaders of the future. But could this model of talent management be seriously flawed?

Treat your people more like machines!

Opinion 07 Mar 2014 Wayne Turmel

Many organizations treat their machinery better than they treat their people. The reason is pretty simple. Thanks to accounting rules, machines are viewed as investments and people as costs. But in today's service-oriented economy, this is madness.

Unlocking the value of HR

Opinion 05 Mar 2014 Dan Bobinski

At the heart of all workplace and management issues are people. It's people who make or break the bottom line, which means that your HR people can add real value to it – if you let them.

People power the top priority for CEOs in 2014

News 10 Jan 2014 Brian Amble

Developing and engaging talent and encouraging employees to providing a good customer experience are the most pressing challenges facing CEOs in the year ahead, a new report from the Conference Board suggests.

Google more useful than the HR department

News 26 Nov 2013 Brian Amble

The gulf between HR and line managers seems to be as wide as ever, with a new survey revealing that four out of 10 managers in the UK find Google to be a better source of information than their HR team.

Going global: the right talent in the wrong place

News 28 Aug 2013 Brian Amble

The emergence of new markets will see a big increase in the number of workers taking on global assignments over the next decade. But a mismatch between where talent is needed and where people actually want to go is set to be something of a headache for global corporations.

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23 Dec 2025

Steve Cockram: the Voice-Driven Leader

Steve Cockram, co-founder of Giant Worldwide, talks about his latest book, 'The Voice-Driven Leader' and explains how to create environments where every voice gets heard.

18 Nov 2025

What is Relationship Currency?

Keynote speaker and transformational coach, Ravi Rajani, talks about his new book, "Relationship currency: five communication habits for limitless influence and business success".

07 Nov 2025

Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift

We dive into the new book from Deloitte's Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach, 'Hone - how purposeful leaders defy drift'.

28 Oct 2025

Lesley Cooper on stress and pressure at work

In this episode we discuss wellbeing at work with Lesley Cooper, including the issues of fear-based cultures and psychological safety.

The fragile state of talent management

Opinion 10 Oct 2012 Shlomo Ben-Hur

In theory, globalization ought to offer businesses a deeper pool of talent. Yet in large parts of the world, organizations are unable to find workers with the right skills. And far from easing, this situation is going to get worse. A lot worse. Here's why.

Nurturing talent?

Advice 08 Dec 2011 Steve Huxham

A member of Richard's IT team is keen to expand her capabilities and is spending time on projects not formally within the scope of her job. Her supervisor sees this as a problem. But Steve Huxham's advice is to view this in the context of good talent management strategy.

Set up to fail? Nurturing high potentials

Opinion 29 Nov 2011 Cindy Wahler

Just because someone is a high performer doesn't automatically mean that they will make a successful move into a leadership role. But that's what many organizations seem to think – and in doing so, they are setting up their high potential employees to fail.

Unprepared for the unexpected

News 26 Jan 2011 Brian Amble

Only around one in every seven U.S. organizations would be well prepared if their CEO suddenly departed, a new survey suggests, while one in five seem to have no succession plans in place at all.

Workforce issues critical to post-recession success

News 04 Oct 2010 Brian Amble

As companies emerge from the recession, how they handle key workforce, leadership and performance issues will be critical in determining their success - or otherwise - over the coming years.

Increasing confidence as more staff jump ship

News 10 Jun 2010 Brian Amble

In a sign of returning confidence, more Americans quit their jobs in the past three months than were laid off. So could employers soon see a stampede for the exit as their top performers quit for better opportunities elsewhere?

Not measuring up

News 08 Jun 2010 Brian Amble

Implementing and measuring effective human capital initiatives is a hallmark of top-performing organisations. But only a quarter of companies have such initiatives in place and many more simply don't collect reliable information on crucial workforce issues.

Has HR finally hit the big time?

Opinion 27 Apr 2010 Dona Roche-Tarry

One of the ironic twists of the economic meltdown is that the very issues HR leaders have been voicing for decades are now the hot topics for CEOs and boards across all industries. That's good for HR - but it also means it needs to raise its game.

A war for talent or for dead wood?

News 09 Mar 2010 Nic Paton

As we slowly begin to emerge from recession, a mass of disgruntled, unmotivated and disengaged workers will be trying to change jobs. But will this represent a threat to organizations or an opportunity?

The quiet crisis of the reluctant manager

News 25 Nov 2009 Philip Whiteley

Has it ever occurred to you that responsibility for the vast bulk of an organisation's assets is typically in the hands of people without the aptitude, desire or capability for the task? No? But sadly, its true.

Preparing for the upturn

Opinion 09 Nov 2009 Dan Kaplan

Organizations that have sat out the recession with the attitude that their best people have no choice but to stay because of the scarcity of other opportunities are going to be in for a rude shock when the upturn finally arrives.

How to stop your 'snow birds' flying

News 30 Jul 2009 Nic Paton

Rather than just clipping the wings of older 'snow bird' workers, managers should use them as mentors, give them access to learning and be more flexible about how they work

War for talent isn't over

News 29 May 2009 Nic Paton

Just because we're deep in a recession doesn't mean the war for talent has gone away. As we'll see when the recovery starts, the stories of its demise are greatly exaggerated.

Never too early to distrust HR

Opinion 12 May 2009 Wayne Turmel

I'm not normally one of those people who slams HR. Not this time, though. I can forgive a lot, but there's a special place in hell for the HR person who ruined my kid's introduction to the workplace.

Myopic managers stifling recovery

News 23 Mar 2009 Nic Paton

Surviving the recession requires creativity, flexibility and making the most of the talent in your workplace. So it's a shame that so many managers prefer rules, bureaucracy and silo working.

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