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One might be considered blind if you didn't recognise the importance of ensuring that 'turn over' of staff remains at a minimum. The cost of losing a staff person is high, when one considers; recruiting expenses, training costs and reduced productivity.

Solutions to this dilemma vary, depending on who listen to and what you're reading. Some say that improved benefits - including health and holiday packages - along with compensation are the most effective tools when attempting to keep your staff… Continue

- What to expect when you encounter older generations in the workplace -

TomorrowToday chief imagination officer Barrie Bramley

People from different generations have unique value systems that drive their behaviour and attitudes. Understanding a person's value system helps you to understand their worldview. This is a powerful tool in influencing and motivating people especially in the workplace.

The 1990’s were characterised by much change: Political, social, environmental and business… Continue

Continuing to look at the interesting implications for business growth, sustainability and development that the focus on talent has uncovered.

Retiring Baby Boomers

The talent debate is often centred on today’s younger workforce. The older workforce is seen as a hindrance to development with their ‘conservative’ and ‘when we’ perspectives and mindsets. But this older workforce is a key component to the talent debate. They will live longer and be healthier than their parents ever were an… Continue

Coupled with a lean and highly competitive business environment, the focus on talent has uncovered some very interesting implications for business growth, sustainability and development.

Depth vs. Breadth

In many industries depth of knowledge forms a critical component of employee value within an organisation. Engineers, lawyers, accountants, to mention a few, rely on key employees having depth of knowledge to handle complex problems that arrive from time to time.
If one accepts… Continue

Look at the history of any business and you will see without fail, organisations beset by challenges, which at particular points in time, demand extraordinary focus and attention. In the early 1990’s ‘diversity’ was the one such focus area that took centre stage. At the turn of the century we were busy with ‘innovation’ and, as we head towards 2010, certainly from a people perspective, it’s the so-called ‘war for talent’.


Succession Planning

In an environment of shorter life cycles, su… Continue