Human resource management

Human resource management activity absolutely must be aligned to the strategic plans of the business. Understanding the future direction of the business and the human resource management activity that supports that journey requires human resource managers to think and plan strategically

Are you Scratching Beneath the Surface of Ethical Governance?

All organisations recognise that business ethics, values and standards play an important role in supporting sustainable business partnerships and customer interactions

Joy Wilson2017-01-05T10:29:11+00:00Categories: Human Resource Management, Strategic Human Resource Management|Tags: Consulting in the Middle East, Ethical Business, Leadership Lessons, Strategic Planning|

The Three R’s Recruitment, Retention and Reputation

Offering feedback to unsuccessful candidates who have attended for interview is considered best practice in recruitment and selection. It places a value on those who have shown an interest in working at your organisation and have made a commitment to both apply and attend for an interview. The [...]

Joy Wilson2021-06-18T15:42:22+00:00Categories: Human Resource Management|Tags: Ethical Business|

Top Tips for Choosing and Using External Consultants

Many organisations find that consultants fail to deliver what was expected, and yet, many consultants experience a sense of sheer frustration because of scope creep or lack of clarity because expected outcomes have not been clearly defined. Consultants thrive on their reputation So, before you consider hiring a [...]

Joy Wilson2019-10-06T15:04:46+00:00Categories: Change leadership, Human Resource Management|Tags: Competency, Consulting in the Middle East|

No Change?

Many organisations begin a change process and find that their efforts are not having the desired impact. Are you finding No Change? Banging your head against a brick wall trying to figure out why your change initiatives are not producing results? It's not easy to have a [...]

Joy Wilson2019-02-01T10:25:56+00:00Categories: Change leadership, Human Resource Management, Training and Development|Tags: Change leadership, Leadership Lessons, Training & Development|

Performance Management at YemBees

A performance management story from our tales for trainers library

Joy Wilson2017-01-05T10:29:22+00:00Categories: Culture, Human Resource Management, Stories for Trainers|Tags: Constructive Communications,, cross cultural training, Performance Management|

Management Effectiveness – Zero – Entertainment Value – Costly

A True Story In a place far, far away there is an organisation whose managers had been dropping like flies, Bitter battles between share holders, some, unencumbered with the burden of intelligence had contributed to this situation. I bit my tongue, and watched the procession of comings and [...]

Joy Wilson2017-01-05T10:29:22+00:00Categories: Culture, Human Resource Management, spectrain, Stories for Trainers, Training and Development|Tags: Leadership Lessons, Performance Management, Tales for Training|

Dodgy Decisions When Your Reality Check Bounces

Why do managers want to or fail to see some things and not others? What are the filters that screen, cloud, and distort their reality? Perception is our manufacturing process it leads to an output or product. In this case the product is a decision, judgement, a conclusion [...]

Joy Wilson2019-01-31T20:03:53+00:00Categories: Change leadership, Human Resource Management, Training and Development|Tags: Ethical Business, Leadership Lessons|

Leaders, are you encouraging followersheep?

Many years ago we were approached by a large public sector department to deliver a leadership development programme. Prior to receiving the materials I had formed expectations about the content of the course; however, when I received the material the content was so fundamentally different to what I had [...]

Joy Wilson2017-01-05T10:29:24+00:00Categories: Change leadership, Human Resource Management|Tags: Leadership Lessons, Performance Management|

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