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Alex Blyth

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    • HR strategy

    Promote top performers or keep them on the front line?

    by Alex Blyth 16 Oct 2009
    by Alex Blyth 16 Oct 2009

    Employees who excel at customer service are often rapidly promoted into more senior positions, away from what they do best. Alex Blyth looks at how to keep your talented employees where they can be most productive.

    • Mental health
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing

    Declaring mental ill health

    by Alex Blyth 22 Jun 2009
    by Alex Blyth 22 Jun 2009

    If you had a mental health problem would you disclose it at a job interview? As an employer, would a history of mental illness affect your attitude to an applicant? If your answers to these questions are 'No' and 'Yes' you're with the majority, but what's best for business?

    • Learning & development
    • Training strategies

    10 ways to develop staff on a budget

    by Alex Blyth 17 Feb 2009
    by Alex Blyth 17 Feb 2009

    Number crunching training budgets: Training budgets under increasing pressure, but staff development should not be allowed to grind to a halt as a result. There is a wealth of low-cost and even free sources of learning on offer, as Alex Blyth reports.

    • Personnel Today

    Webchats: the dangers of loose talk

    by Alex Blyth 13 Feb 2009
    by Alex Blyth 13 Feb 2009

    Online conversations have become a productive and cost-effective way for employers to communicate with staff and keep them engaged. But there are dangers as well as advantages to allowing free access to internal social media, as Alex Blyth reports.

    • HR strategy

    Top tips for getting the most out of webchats

    by Alex Blyth 12 Feb 2009
    by Alex Blyth 12 Feb 2009

    Online conversations have become a productive and cost-effective way for employers to communicate with staff and keep them engaged. But...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Pay & benefits

    Reward and benefits: Rewarding in a recession

    by Alex Blyth 27 Nov 2008
    by Alex Blyth 27 Nov 2008

    In the coming months, the pressure will be on HR professionals to cut staff benefits, so they will need to...

    • HR strategy
    • Learning & development
    • Senior management development

    Talent management: L&D looks after the creme de la creme

    by Alex Blyth 30 Apr 2008
    by Alex Blyth 30 Apr 2008

    Talent management programmes are a top HR challenge, one that learning and development plays a key part in achieving.“It was...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Learning & development
    • Skills shortages

    Skills pledge: View to a skill

    by Alex Blyth 22 Apr 2008
    by Alex Blyth 22 Apr 2008

    Since the Skills Pledge was launched 10 months ago, uptake has been relatively low. Could it be the government has...

    • Learning & development
    • Senior management development

    Learning analytics: do you measure up?

    by Alex Blyth 27 Feb 2008
    by Alex Blyth 27 Feb 2008

    Measuring the effectiveness of training is one of learning and development’s holy grails. Can learning analytics lead you to it?Learning...

    • Learning & development
    • Training methods

    Technology in the training room

    by Alex Blyth 22 Jan 2008
    by Alex Blyth 22 Jan 2008

    Technology is now as much a part of the training room as tables and chairs. Yet the name of the...

    • Learning & development
    • Training methods

    How to provide effective training for call centre staff

    by Alex Blyth 20 Nov 2007
    by Alex Blyth 20 Nov 2007

    Training call centre staff provides some unusual challenges – not least the little time they have to attend courses. This...

    • HR practice
    • Employee opinion surveys

    Reinvigorating the workplace atmosphere and social scene

    by Alex Blyth 10 Jul 2007
    by Alex Blyth 10 Jul 2007

    A survey of staff at media planning and buying agency Zenith Optimedia showed that something was missing in the office environment and social scene. Alex Blyth reports on how HR brought the buzz back.

    • Pay & benefits
    • Payroll

    The benefits of setting up payroll charity donations in the workplace

    by Alex Blyth 2 Jul 2007
    by Alex Blyth 2 Jul 2007

    Setting up payroll charity donations may be a headache for HR, but the rewards can be significant. Alex Blyth looks at the pros and cons of workplace giving.

    • HR practice
    • HR strategy
    • Leadership

    Leadership focus: Leadership brings sweet rewards for Sainsbury’s

    by Alex Blyth 24 Apr 2007
    by Alex Blyth 24 Apr 2007

    Sainsbury's latest set of financial results showed a massive improvement in performance. Behind this success lies a leadership programme for the supermarket's top managers, reports Alex Blyth.

    • Economics, government & business
    • HR practice
    • Labour market

    Prime minister Tony Blair’s vision for future of work fails to mention the managers

    by Alex Blyth 10 Apr 2007
    by Alex Blyth 10 Apr 2007

    Last month the prime minister Tony Blair delivered a lecture to several hundred of the UK’s leaders in the field...

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