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An Insight into Managing Talent - The Technology Staffing Handbook 2007-2008 The acquisition, management and retention of talent is being seen as increasingly important by many major organisations. Finding ways to harness the talent within an organisation is vital to pushing the business ahead. Read Firm Building Blocks for Performance Management - Performance Management Katy Dunton, Director of Human Resources at LEGOLAND Windsor talks about the main challenges and goals for employee performance management at LEGOLAND. Read Management Development, Taking the Long Term View - HR Director To create real change in Management behaviour is vital that you are persisitent, take along-term view and that you focus 100% of your attention on improving the most fundamental people management behaviours. JCDecaux has developed unique views on management development and how to gain real value from training and development suppliers. Read 'Radio Company Tunes into Middle Managers - People Management Local commercial radio company has launched a fast-track management development programme to develop it's middle managers. Read LEGOLAND Builds Model Workplace - People Management The number of people applying to work at LEGOLAND has increased since it started to focus on management training. Read Movers & Shakers - HotShot - Daily Telegraph and Telegraph online Jeff Benveniste ignored the advice of family and friends to set up his own performance development consultancy. Read / View Invest in Talent if you want to Stay Viable - Media Week As media comes out of recession, lean, mean, media machines are the order of the day in the face of staff and cost-cutting. But how can managers ensure lightweight teams deliver the best results in a market that is tougher than ever. Read Be a winner when recruitment volumes increase - Recruitment International Recent figures support the view that the recruitment market is turning. To take advantage of this, the short term challenge for businesses is to retain and develop their best people whilst the ever present long-term challenge is to iron out the economic effects of boom and bust on business revenues. Read
Unilever Streamlines Learning - IRS Employment Review In line with it's global 'One Unilever' strategy, the UK Unilever group has centralised, simplified and re-ignited its learning activities. We look at how this was achieved and focus on how the company has improved the development of its managers. Read Expert Panel - NewBusiness.co.uk The economic conditions for encouraging a spirit of entrepreneurship in the UK have never been better. This is certainly highlighted with the current Labour government supporting numerous initiatives to assist small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and young entrepreneurs. But once the business is up and running and having to operate in extremely competitive sectors, how can managers of SMEs ensure that they get the most out of their staff? Read Forum Discusses Learning and Development Issues - Training Reference.co.uk According to performance development consultancy, Maximum Performance, 79% of managers could improve business results and productivity if they received appropriate ongoing people management training. This was one of the findings from a training survey of 600 UK managers. Read
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