DO WOMEN MAKE BETTER MANAGERS ?22-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman I was recently asked during a press interview to describe the best boss that I had ever worked for. It wasn’t hard to do, as during my time at Sun Microsystems, when asked to drive a global project for 6 months in the US, I had the opportunity to... read more » |
FIFTH SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT11-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman You have to kill interruptions as much as possible. The first step is to take control of emails. It’s interesting that we have established rules and procedures for physical interruptions, for example if someone’s office door is closed, if they ... read more » |
THIRD SECRET OF SUCCESS21-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman Being able to update your resume (curriculum vitae) every year is an important part of success. I am not suggesting that you update it and put it out on the street, just that you need to be able to update the contents every year, and that you sh... read more » |
SECOND SECRET OF SUCCESS07-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Alvin Toffler I am often amazed that so many people seem to not understand that learning is a journey and not a des... read more » |
HR … WHAT’S HR GOT TO DO WITH INNOVATION? ISN’T THAT R&D?04-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman Why is it that when you talk about innovation most people can’t look beyond product innovation? It’s a wonderful thing to have superior products, particularly if you can create products that people just love to have and to use, like Apple. My wi... read more » |
HR … POLITE TO POLICE TO PARTNER TO PLAYER26-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Whenever I speak to a group of HR Professionals, I tend to start with the need for HR organisations to go through a process of change, and I call this transition “Polite to Police to Partner to Player”. HR people have always tended to be the polit... read more » |
MOVE THEM UP OR MOVE THEM OUT23-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman I have long believed that managers need to always have a “ladder” of their people graded from best to worst performer. This is not just to ensure visibility of the top performers, but also to ensure identification of those that need help. The pro... read more » |
THE THREE ENVELOPES09-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Just after I was appointed to the role of IT Manager at International Harvester NZ about 40 years ago, a colleague told me a story that highlighted the tenuous nature of management roles. It involved the removal of a CEO by his board after the co... read more » |
TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS20-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman I have been regularly surprised about how many Managers I come across who believe that a valid Management approach is to look for people to do something wrong and then to help them correct it. I surmise that this satisfies two basic urges that th... read more » |
Accelerated HCM Dashboards from ROC17-Feb-2010 - Damian Williams Following last month’s webcast on Workforce Analytics, where attendees saw the power of Business Objects and the dashboards that organizations can implement in just a few weeks we thought you might be interested to see just what you can get ... read more » |
Making the most of HCM data visualisation02-Nov-2009 - Luke Marson Recently I’ve seen a big increase in the use of SAP’s Talent Visualization by Nakisa (TVN) OrgChart tool by organisations to get their HCM data right. As you may know, HCM data is critical to a number of business and SAP processes and ... read more » |
Getting the Best Future for Your Company01-Jun-2009 - Stephen Burr Early May saw SAP release the latest “Enhancement Package” (EhP4); these packages are SAP’s way of deploying new software functionality to customers without disruption. Although there are notable improvements in the core HC... read more » |
Investing in the future01-Apr-2009 - Damian Williams Employers are not willing to let their talent suffer, according to the latest research from Ochre House. Some 67% of surveyed employers are planning on rewarding their top performers with a pay rise this year, despite the current economic cl... read more » |
Preparing for the upturn26-Mar-2009 - Damian Williams Global leaders are taking care to avoid losing talented players during the current downturn in the market, according to research published by Deloitte. Not only do they understand the importance of talent management but they are also taking ... read more » |
Shared service centres: widening the skill gap02-Mar-2009 - Damian Williams According to a report in Personnel Today, over 56% of HR executives and CEOs believe that shared service centres are killing off the skills of our HR professionals, through lack of exposure to key working practices. It’s a wor... read more » |
Equality Bill, Diversity Management06-Oct-2008 - Damian Williams Diversity management is one of the largest challenges organisations will face over the next decade. Making sure an organisation has a successful mix of staff from different genders, races, ages and ability levels is not only becoming a legal requi... read more » |
The Equality Bill – Time to Sit Up and Take Notice08-Sep-2008 - Damian Williams The Government’s Equality Bill, announced by Deputy Labour leader and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman in July, has been long anticipated by public sector organisations and long dreaded by many of them. While the anticipation of the Bill a... read more » |
Talent Management: Nothing to do with employee benefits?15-Aug-2008 - Damian Williams Talent management is the current buzzword in HR. Talent management is the identification, recruitment, development and deployment of a company's most capable employees. It is a strategy used by employers to improve the retention ratio of thei... read more » |
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