As an HR Business Partner, you need to know where the pipeline of future talent is going to come from within your area of the company. Do you have sufficient internal talent to drive the future growth of the business, as set out in your strategy? What are the gaps between the resources you have …
Once people start to use a 360 questionnaire and realise the value of gaining the insight into how others see them, it’s sometimes easy for them to make the (incorrect) leap in thought process that the more 360s they do, the quicker they’ll develop and acquire the skills and behaviours they’re looking for. So how …
In our latest article – Succession Planning and Talent Management– we pull together some important questions, provide useful tips and outline a five stage process to help get to grips with succession planning whatever size your organisation. We take a look at the risks and benefits of managing succession and debate the question about how …
Succession Planning and Talent Management – food for thought Read More »
Talent Management has broadly existed in various forms for many years with organisations using such processes as succession planning and competency frameworks to identify and develop their high potential performers. The term itself was coined in the late 1990s, gaining particular momentum as firms tuned into the fact that having a consistent and focused approach …
Recognising that there were real benefits to be had from identifying key leadership characteristics for their managers, Horsham District Council sought to develop a list of six Leadership Qualities. With these in place, it was important for these characteristics not to remain merely as a list of ‘ideals’ but to root them firmly within daily …
Supporting Horsham District Council to develop their 360 degree feedback tool Read More »
Increasingly we are hearing from organisations that are moving away from highly bespoke, tailored models of leadership effectiveness within their organisations to using generic, cross-sector criteria for assessing their top people, finding talent and developing their pool of leaders. One recurring theme among these generic models is learning agility. This is not a new concept; …
We’ve just released a further update to our Talent® platform. We’ve listened to feedback – and worked on this to develop new additional functionality to our talent management software which truly adds to the valuable information about your people. HR users are now able to: Identify easily those with high potential as outlined by your …
In Part 1 of this blog we explored the difficulties of identifying those with potential. So how can we at Head Light help? Some organisations are very clear on what ‘potential’ looks like and in our experience, there are a number of attributes which tend to predict success in higher-level roles. Common ‘HiPo’ indicators are: …
We are delighted to be working with Daikin UK as the team looks to develop their ‘success framework’ for use throughout the UK business. Daikin provides innovative, premium quality, indoor climate management solutions across its residential, commercial and industrial customers and has a worldwide reputation for quality and technology. With strong, embedded corporate values, Daikin …
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Have you considered how the HR processes in your business ‘condition’ your employees? Do you take a close look at the impact that they have on the psychological contract and engagement? Do you consider the extent to which management practices support your employer brand? Do your processes such as appraisal reflect how your business is, …
Your HR processes exposed – What do they say about your culture? Read More »
