Whether you are a team leader or a team manager, your team should be your priority. Is there a team to lead or manage, though? How do you build an effective, high-performing team? What should this team mean to your company? If you are not able to define the goal and scope of ...

  Having spent Sunday morning in a modern cafe, located in the city centre of London, I realized that I had suddenly found myself in the middle of a diverse, multicultural working environment...for baristas, waiters, assistant managers and supervisors were all of different ethnicities. ...

  We live  in a new era, a newly-shaped market, a new economy. There are certain new rules that drive this new economy towards the direction of knowledge. The new economy is often referred as “knowledge economy” and it’s mainly focused on the arrival of knowledge ...

  During one of my recent conversations with other HR professionals, I realised that one of the hot topics troubling the businesses and especially HR departments today is the definition of “leadership” and the differentiation between good and bad leadership. A simple definition ...

  Every single HR professional, apart from different skills and competences, has his/her own personality. This leads to a variety of attributes that are driven by personal differentiating characteristics. The only way to get to know these attributes and get the most out of every HR ...

  Being engaged to new technologies introduced in organisations today, has brought me one step closer to explore the relevance of HRD with new methods of learning and development, one of them being e-learning, which has a significant contribution on personnel development. Electronic ...

Organisations need to manage the boundaries of their operations if they are to coordinate their knowledge resources and, in doing so, become more dynamic, agile and adaptive. This boundary management means engagement with human resources (take a look at my latest keynote upload for more on ...

I cannot stress the importance of the Learning and Development function enough when considering the characteristics of complexity, the need to ‘Sense-Probe-Reflect-Respond’ (a synthesis of David Snowden’s ‘probe-sense-respond’ model and Kolb’s experiential ...

What does the journey say about the organisation’s culture, values and norms?  Does it reflect the strategic or operational needs when it comes to complexity, resilience and Knowledge Management? If you answer in the negative, what are you going to do about it?  This journey is ...