Written by Matt on October 19, 2012 – 3:23 pm
Solo’s governance lead Matt Simkin reflects on this week’s debate on the future of HR and how it must add value to the business in the future KPMG has recently published Rethinking Human Resources in a Changing World. The report reminds us of how it feels day-to-day in organisations; the attention on reducing and optimising [...]
Written by Fiona Endersby on March 27, 2012 – 12:48 pm
More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom. Dean Becker, Harvard Business Review, May 2002. Ten years on from this article, the world seems more [...]
Written by Alison Ritchie on October 30, 2011 – 5:20 pm
Chin up! Maintaining morale in the work place. A recent piece of research has found that morale in the public sector has suffered over the past 12 months as a result of the reductions in funding and public service cost – cutting. This research by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark found that local government has [...]
Written by admin on January 17, 2011 – 9:43 pm
I have been spending time this week working with clients to develop individual capability. This has included looking at management competencies, board effectiveness and 1-1 coaching sessions too. I am fortunate to have access to people from different walks of life, and the opportunity to extract and share lessons (whilst paying full heed to confidentiality [...]
Written by admin on January 17, 2011 – 9:12 pm
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development published results from a survey last October which indicated a rise in stress-related absence over the previous year in 35% of employers across all sectors, and that stress was the main cause of persistently high levels of long-term public sector absence (Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, 2010). [...]
