Leaders who take an evidence-based approach to management are better at closing the gaps between where an organisation's performance is, and where they want it to be, a specialist says.
Leaders who don't "measure what matters" are more likely to become stuck in reactive mode and have a permanently overflowing "urgent" basket, according to an organisational performance specialist.
High-potential employees can be identified by three key traits, but misconceptions about one of them is putting leadership pipelines at risk, a talent management specialist says.
Many organisations still seem unable to build a "robust, focused set of measurable objectives for employees", say two business strategists with recommendations for assessing employees' potential rather than past performance.
High performance is contingent on four key drivers of thinking, and understanding them should be an "essential requirement" for all managers, says a brain health expert.
Most employers are "unintentionally egalitarian" in deploying their top talent, but top-performing companies take a very different approach, according to two business strategists.
Some four years after abandoning its "soul-crushing" and "antiquated" performance review process, Adobe hasn't looked back and is sharing its own method of employee appraisal with other employers.
Reframing learning and development as a performance issue has been "gold" in helping an employer improve its workforce's capability, according to a senior HR leader.
A tribunal has found that employees' offensive racial comments were not direct discrimination. Meanwhile, ambitious performance goals make workers anxious; five performance management trends have emerged this year; and four steps make it easier to manage difficult employees.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
