Employee confidence and trust in senior leaders has hit a record low as job security, satisfaction and standards of living fell, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found. According to the CIPD's spring 2011 Employee Outlo  More...
05 May 2011 00:00

Knowledge is no longer power - access to the right knowledge is what has become critical, says Martin Baker, MD of leadership and management on-line learning specialists LMMatters. He tackles the topic of Too Much Information in the latest edition of T  More...
17 January 2011 00:00

Wednesday 13 th October 2010 will be set in the memory as the day that the last of the Chilean miners were winched to the surface, watched by the world’s media. The events at the San José mine near Copiapó were beamed live across the globe, as the 33  More...
18 October 2010 00:00

Nearly all (94%) HR professionals believe that their senior managers lack essential leadership qualities and require further development, a report by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has found. Participants in the ILM survey sai  More...
05 October 2010 12:57

A picture of transformation… would you like to play your part? We are recruiting a specialist team of HR professionals to take part in a trip to the Dominican Republic in March 2011. “My company spent nearly £4,000 for me to engage in a week’s   More...
17 August 2010 16:22

Across the globe, millions of people will for the next month be transfixed by the World Cup  – the most spectacular team competition in the world. But while the exertions of Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi and their team mates will undoubtedly  More...
11 June 2010 14:13

In her new book “Who put you in charge?” leadership specialist, Lesley Hunter, reveals that the key to successful leadership is in understanding behaviours. In her alternative approach to developing successful leadership skills Lesley believes that we c  More...
04 June 2010 09:08

An ambulance trust has come under fire for spending £10,000 on a survey asking staff how 'cool' they think Hitler was. West Midlands Ambulance Service embarked on the 'making leadership cool' research project in a bid to promote leadership developm  More...
11 May 2010 09:22

At Henley, in common with many business schools, we focus on a distributed leadership model – encouraging the development of leadership capability at every level of an organisation, with an emphasis on 'leaders developing leaders'. I have many   More...
24 February 2010 16:39

The public sector must radically overhaul traditional thinking on leadership if it is to respond to forthcoming budget cuts, a report has warned. Workers at every level - not just senior management teams - will need a new set of leadership skills to  More...
22 February 2010 10:11

Less than half (47%) of UK employees rate their senior leadership team as effective, according to a study by the Kenexa Research Institute . Developed from a survey of 21,920 employees in 18 countries, the study shows that an organisation’s se  More...
05 February 2010 11:20

Author: Kevin Kelly and Gary E. Hayes ISBN: 0273727532 This book sets out its stall early on - there's a hefty quotation from early 20th century US president Theodore Roosevelt before you so much as reach the contents page. But don't let that put   More...
03 February 2010 11:37

Employers that operate a target-driven approach to leadership could be shooting themselves in the foot, new research has revealed. A study of six high-profile employers, including Tesco and Unilever, found that a highly people-centred approach, rat  More...
15 January 2010 09:22

The British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) – soon to be the Institute of Internal Communication – has launched its Advanced Diploma of Proficiency in Internal Communication as a key part of its strategy to raise industry standar  More...
16 December 2009 13:35

Unilever Europe recently combined their Sustainability Technology Platform meeting with a 2 day Leadership and Team Building programme at My Peak Potential's residential training facility in the Bavarian Alps. Arriving from all corners of Eu  More...
23 November 2009 12:57

Kenexa , a global provider of business solutions for human resources, is the Global Marquis Sponsor of the 2009 HRO World Summit Europe, the flagship annual event for HR thought leaders, which will be held in London, 18-19 November 2009. Over 250  More...
18 November 2009 12:56

Traditional leadership training is outdated and needs to change according to a new survey of senior line and HR executives in major companies across Europe and the USA. In the research, undertaken at 111 companies in Europe and the US by the Institu  More...
27 October 2009 13:03

A white paper from people assessment company, Talent Q , which has researched over 14,000 UK employees, has shown that as the economic squeeze continues, ‘executive derailment’ is a growing phenomena and likelihood.  As individuals face incre  More...
27 October 2009 12:54

Blue Sky PR is delighted to announce a new partnership with Mannaz, the international leadership development company, to provide a full press relations and marketing communications service. Founded in 1975, Mannaz specialises in innovative  More...
23 October 2009 13:11

A fullL service HR company is celebrating its second anniversary with ambitious plans to double turnover and staff numbers for the third year running. Client demand has seen Newcastle-based Exclusive Human Resources add services including HR  More...
02 October 2009 10:35