GUEST BLOG: Just in time succession planning – Everything you need to know
By Brendan Murphy, Development Manager at Advanced People Strategies The effective management and leadership of an organisation’s talented individuals is one of the key challenges facing all Human Resource and Learning & Development professionals at the moment. Some would argue that it could be defined as one of the main reasons why some organisations thrive and respond […]
GUEST BLOG: The Absent Boss: A Problem?
By Dr David Biggs, Senior Consultant at Advanced People Strategies Many people would love it if the manager was not around. No hassling for deadlines or work to be completed. What is the problem? Well having experienced a situation where the boss was never around or at the least psychologically distant from their staff – […]
REPORT: Resourcing – The Holy Grail of HR
By Rob Field, Advanced People Strategies Our core values of science, innovation and agility drive us to explore emerging trends and challenges facing organisations today, and how these translate into HR/strategic initiatives. We are proud as partners of Corporate Research Forum (CRF) to have sponsored a research report on Resourcing. Of nearly 200 organisations surveys, only […]
GUEST BLOG: Mentoring or Coaching: Are they really different and does it really matter?
By Rob Field, Learning and Development Director at Advanced People Strategies In organisations today, change is constant, rapid and relentless. Learning needs to follow this. Helping individuals and teams in this context is always challenging. Coaching and mentoring have a key role to play, but they are very different even though the terms seem to […]
OPINION: Talent – Does it come from desire, ability or both?
Melvyn Payne, Development Director at Advanced People Strategies, takes a look at the challenges facing Talent Management… It is no surprise to see hard-working, collaborative individuals with great social skills emerging as potential leaders and being nominated for talent development programmes. In fact, it makes a welcome change to some of the overly ambitious, pushy […]
