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Personalization is the future of employee training
hrzone.com Oct 10, 2019
Most people understand the importance of employee training, but few managers understand how to go about actually achieving results when training their workforce while keeping costs under control. This is because far too many businesses are failing...
Reimagine excellence: manage performance to free sustainable value
hrzone.com Oct 10, 2019
Shareholder value has a long history as the yardstick of corporate performance. The underlying legal principle dates back to a 100-year-old ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court, in the case of Dodge v Ford. Henry Ford learned that the Dodge...
HR for small business: why everyone needs a mentor
hrzone.com Oct 9, 2019
In my line of work, I support heads of HR, HR directors, and L&D managers in both large corporations and SMEs, and Ive noticed a remarkable difference between them. The HR job description can cover an incredibly diverse spectrum. Is this down to...
Employee experience: has a job for life become a thing of the past?
hrzone.com Oct 4, 2019
Sir Bradley Wiggins recently announced that hes swapping sport for social work, as he looks to carve out a new career at age 39. While not many of us can claim to have won an Olympic gold medal, that feeling of wondering what it would be like to...
Recruitment: four hiring challenges for small businesses
hrzone.com Oct 3, 2019
Being the first HR person in a small and growing business can mean many things excitement, for sure, as there will many things to put your stamp on. It can, however, be daunting and challenging too, particularly if recruitment is part of your...
How HR can champion diversity and inclusion within a small business
hrzone.com Oct 3, 2019
SMEs have more opportunity than their larger competitors to lead diverse and inclusive organisations, because every employee focused decision that they make has a huge impact on their organisation right away. Indeed, a vibrant workforce is actually...
Social media is the present and the future of mark
hrzone.com Oct 3, 2019
A very recent report from the CMO survey states, only about 15% of the companies who use social media marketing can measure their returns objectively. Social media is the most recent integration in the realm of digital marketing. This makes the low...
Achieving the mindshift to tackle failure demand in HR
hrzone.com Oct 2, 2019
Failure demand is everywhere, clogging up your teams schedule, getting in the way of value-driving activity and impacting user experience whenever your people interact with HR. Its not people who create failure demand, but the system. To learn...
HR for SMEs: why small business cant ignore employee wellbeing anymore
hrzone.com Oct 2, 2019
Workplace wellbeing has never been higher on the business agenda in the UK. For the third year in a row REBAs annual state of wellbeing research showed the rise continuing, with two thirds of businesses now having a wellbeing strategy in place,...
HR for small business: how to write HR policies for SMEs
hrzone.com Oct 2, 2019
Generally speaking, SMEs are an exhilarating whirlwind of start-up or scale-up businesses providing so much learning, excitement, pace, change everything you can relish. Its like every sort of fairground ride - waltzers, dodgems, log flumes ...
HR trends over the last 20 years
hrzone.com Oct 1, 2019
Over the last 20 years, the HR function has evolved from simply managing personnel to being a core strategic function, overseeing aspects from employee wellbeing to talent acquisition for business growth. As recruitment gets more competitive and...
Employee engagement: why small businesses need to do it too
hrzone.com Sep 30, 2019
At the end, one of the participants came to speak with me. He ran a small business, and he wanted to engage his staff, but it seemed like more work on top of running the business itself. How would he find the extra time? What if his employees said...
Workforce analytics: how to be a successful people analytics leader
hrzone.com Sep 27, 2019
During the last four weeks I have met over 60 workforce analytics leaders in the US and Europe in my pursuit to learn more about and help advance the discipline of workforce analytics. The companies they represent are some of the worlds most well...
Workforce analytics: demystifying HR analytics its not what you think
hrzone.com Sep 27, 2019
Perhaps the biggest misdirection or mystery surrounding HR analytics is what it is, and what it is not. HR analytics is not a discipline that is only focused on the functions, challenges and required solutions for HR itself. Also, it is not just...
Workforce analytics: data storytelling and why you should know your audience
hrzone.com Sep 27, 2019
I had a debate recently with someone who believed that, when working with complicated analytics, it was important to explain the process and statistical methodology to add credibility to the storyteller and the message. His view was that this was...
Ten reasons to love doing HR for a small business
hrzone.com Sep 25, 2019
Alright, alright. You dont have access to a Leadership University or state of the art breakout rooms. You dont have an army of HRBPs, and if you want a promotion youll have to give it to yourself. That said, doing HR in a small or medium sized...
The ethical employee: we have the power
hrzone.com Sep 24, 2019
In previous articles in this series Ive talked about the nature of ethics, outlining three basic moral aims that we can use in assessing the morality of our businesses and our own management practice. These are: Ive discussed at a high level what...
Recruitment: how to hire HR professionals and why its not as simple as you think
hrzone.com Sep 23, 2019
Most people think HR recruitment is one of the easiest areas to recruit for. HR people are lovely, there are lots of candidates out there, and you can pretty much guarantee that every company has an HR team. All of the above is true, but when you...
Bridging the gap: how internal communications and HR can work better together
hrzone.com Sep 19, 2019
I am on a mission to promote the value and impact good communication can have for organisations, especially when it is aligned to its vision, mission and strategy. HR leadership and teams play a big part to achieve this, however over the years Ive...
Man trouble: HRs role in mens mental health
hrzone.com Sep 17, 2019
We have a professional duty to put in place psychological safety mechanisms and measures to protect employees mental health based on analysis and evidence. While analysing workforce demographic comparisons including comparing male and female*...
Recruitment: why job brand is now more important than employer brand
hrzone.com Sep 16, 2019
Getting a job has become a bit of a race. Candidates are applying for more companies than ever before, and because of this the celebrated purpose of employer value propositions are starting to have less impact than we might think. Nowadays...
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