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Achieving ‘Good Practice’ is the aim of all 360 degree feedback users – but all too often, our resources are limited and challenges we face bear little resemblance to the ‘best practice’ we read about. Our Police Talent User Group meets twice a year and brings together representatives of all the police forces using our Talent …
Police Talent® User Group publishes its Good Practice Guide for 360 Read More »
To celebrate our 9th birthday, we’re delighted to unveil our new website. Happy birthday to us!
We’re on stand 691 at next week’s conference – and putting final touches to our presentation. Ian Lee-Emery, MD of Head Light is speaking on Wednesday about our new ROI Calculator and our guarantee that by making a few tweaks to your process and using our Talent Performance® tool, you’ll soon see an ROI. Come …
Have you considered what the impact on your business could be if you could improve your performance management process? Performance reviews can be seen by managers and employees alike as ‘one-off’, form-filling exercises with little business or day-to-day impact. We’ve been working with some of our customers to refine our new Performance Management ROI Calculator …
Calculating the impact and return of Performance Management on your Business Read More »
Head Light has tackled one of the common criticisms levelled at a widely-used and popular talent management activity – the 360-degree development review. While 360-degree processes are used by over 60% of organisations , one of the common criticisms heard concerns the value of the actual feedback given by raters. Download the full press release
Head Light releases the results of its study – Justifying Spend in Hard Times: Measuring Return on Investment for 360 and Performance Reviews which surveyed 175 HR and Learning and Development decision-makers for their views of the benefits of on-line talent management and the return on their investment. One of the findings shows that nearly …
Employee engagement is pivotal to the success of all organisations – and research proves this time and time again. Measuring engagement – and then acting on the engagement score – can be a challenge. We see that where most employee engagement questionnaires and surveys fall down is in one (or more) of 5 areas: Engagement …
Spotting future high potential can be tricky for line managers. At Head Light, we know that even when organisations know what ‘high potential’ looks like, it is difficult to then assess for it and find ways to spot it. Traditionally this has been done by gut feel (“I know it when I see it!”), line …
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 »
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 »
