Maturity models provide a good foundation for businesses to improve on practices, performance and processes by helping to understand how well an organisation is doing. Through this process, the model will identify goals and priorities as well as establishing benchmarks and metrics for success.
Continue readingEarly careers: What can organisations do to develop and retain graduates and apprentices?
As organisations continue seeking solutions to the ongoing talent shortage, the need to successfully manage a multi-generational workforce becomes ever more important. Many businesses have lost older, more experienced employees during the pandemic, often missing out on the transfer of vital knowledge to others within the organisation.
Continue readingManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey – Q3 2022
Employers in the UK have ambitious plans to increase headcount at a record rate in the third quarter of 2022. Businesses are aggressively recruiting following the pandemic, yet still struggling to fill vacancies. The national Outlook has reached an all-time high of +35% – a 22-percentage point increase compared to Q3 2021.
Continue readingWEBINAR – UK Jobs Outlook: Q2 2022
The outlook from employers looks increasingly positive, as the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) shows strong hiring optimism to continue for Q2. With the hiring spree showing no signs of easing off, employers face continued challenges with finding talent.
Continue readingDigital coaching to enable careers – 5 reasons your business needs to democratise coaching
A privilege historically only available to the elite, coaching is quickly becoming a career tool for employees at all levels of business. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic and changing employee expectations, coaching is now more accessible than ever through digital platforms, and acts as a key driver of sustained business success and talent retention.
Continue readingWEBINAR – The Great Realisation: Companies Reset – from reactive to proactive
Companies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, transforming and seeking nimbler operating models, more resilient supply chains, greener and more consolidated partners and solutions in response to heated competition, unpredictability and greater transparency.
Continue readingDo your behaviours reflect effective leadership?
Whether it’s inclusive, transformative or authentic – people have been trying to define ‘good leadership’ for decades. But effective leadership is the only leadership style that matters. Whilst some of the elements of effective leadership have flexed post-pandemic, other core elements remain as relevant today as they were in Roman times.
Continue readingPODCAST: Developing the Green Energy Talent Landscape with Siemens Energy
The focus on green energy talent is gaining traction leading up to COP26 as the world focuses on the urgent climate need. More than 90 CEOs of large multinational organisations signed an open letter to the world’s leaders committing to work side-by-side with governments across the globe in a joint effort to accelerate the race to Net Zero.
Continue readingWEBINAR – The Great Realisation: Tech Accelerates – from digitisation to digital adoption
Investment in digitisation has accelerated as a result of the pandemic, and consumers and employees alike expect it to make the way they live and work easier. There is new urgency for organisations to upskill their people so they can translate data into insights, make data-driven decisions and combine the best of human and machine learning for new value creation.
Continue readingIs your business making the most of the over 50s talent pool?
Talent scarcity remains a major challenge for businesses across all sectors, as 69% of employers cannot find the skills they need. And with an ever-changing working landscape, the skills and qualities needed within a workforce continue to change as well. Many organisations are focusing on these new and emerging skills when hiring new employees, and are naturally looking at younger generations to fill these gaps.
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