The newness of social media has finally worn off and it’s become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone. Its pervasiveness has impacted how we communicate, how we access information, and how companies source its future employees. Knowing from which social media platforms high performing employees come and how to parse the vast amounts of information available about candidates is critical in developing talent strategies for the future. Angela Ryan, Global Chief HR and Talent Officer at GroupM, discuss...
Mar 15, 2016•9 min
The pharmaceutical industry is complex and grows even more so with changes in healthcare requirements, technology, government legislation, and increasing customer demands. Everyone knows that innovation is a critical component to success, but innovation isn’t cheap. Finding and developing future leaders who understand the diverse challenges facing pharmaceutical companies, who are knowledgeable about its products and services, and who can navigate the external market pressures and regulations ca...
Mar 10, 2016•12 min
As emerging markets continue to have more impact on the way global organisations operate, we are seeing an increase in the Chinese and Asian Expat on overseas assignment. They offer a different perspective, and in some cases, a different way of achieving results. Gang Zheng, Vice President of Human Resource for Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain Global, discusses the rise of the Chinese and Asian expatriate in multinational organisations.
Mar 08, 2016•12 min
Multinationals are locked in a global competition for top talent. Organisations are reviewing their current strategies or creating new ones in an effort to attract and retain the right kind of leaders for future success. But how do you design a unified global talent strategy that is aligned across various geographical and cultural marketplaces? Serap Zel, Director of Talent Acquisition and Development at BIC, discusses the key components of a successful global talent acquisition strategy.
Mar 03, 2016•16 min
The need for HR leaders who can think like HR business strategists is growing. Future HR leaders will need to discuss key business drivers in the context of organizational resources—both from the people perspective as well as the technological one. The success of future HR leaders will hinge upon their ability to leverage enterprise HR best practices across multiple business units in different geographic locations that include both developed and emerging markets. Rahul Sharma, Global Head Corpor...
Mar 01, 2016•13 min
Attracting the right kind of talent requires that your employer branding appeals to those individuals who can help your organisation grow. But what attracts a potential employee in an established market doesn’t necessarily hold the same value for someone working in an emerging one. Cassie Fleming, Talent Sourcing Hub Leader for India, Middle East, and Africa at Microsoft, discusses effective talent acquisition strategies in emerging markets.
Feb 25, 2016•14 min
Change is never easy. Transforming an organisation’s culture is an initiative that requires business leaders to analyse their strengths, as well as their weaknesses. And in a lot of cases, it means saying goodbye to legacy systems and behaviours that have been shown to impede future success. Dr Urs Karkoschka, Head of Human Resources for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa at Novartis, discusses effective cultural transformation.
Feb 23, 2016•11 min
Despite the plethora of technological advances and diversity and inclusion efforts of the past few decades, the stark gender bias in leadership roles still remains. Women are more likely to attend college, graduate, and enter the workforce, yet there are less than 5% of females at the helm of global multinational organisations. Therese Sevaldsen, Head of Human Resources for the Middle East and Turkey at Philips, discusses women in leadership roles and the unconscious gender bias that still exist...
Feb 18, 2016•9 min
A good HR leader has a solid understanding of business operations and objectives. But an effective HR leader not only understands the basic principles of the organisation, but also knows how to strategically help their business leaders achieve future growth. Alison James, Chief Human Resources Officer at Société BIC, discusses how to build a great HR career and become an effective leader.
Feb 16, 2016•12 min
Given the time commitment and financial investment required during a merger or acquisition, it’s somewhat surprising the number of them that fail as a result of differing cultures—essentially two sides unable to find a common platform on which to move forward. Not enough attention is given to the integration of two organisations—their values, processes, and ways of communicating, which collectively define how they interact with employees as well as customers. Thomas Kraabel, Vice President of Hu...
Feb 11, 2016•14 min
The rise of the matrix organisation has meant the emergence of a truly multicultural workplace. As business leaders, we understand the importance of diversity: the integration of different ideas, perspectives, and priorities to yield a superior, highly relevant, and diversified product or service. But achieving that—bringing together a team from different business units, geographies, and cultures—to work on a shared purpose is easier said than done and poses a real challenge for many organisatio...
Feb 09, 2016•11 min
The global talent shortage is forcing every organization to create an employer value proposition that extends beyond compensation. Companies are forced to evaluate not only how they pay for performance, but the entire employer-employee dynamic: working hours, workplace set-up and location, training and development offerings, not to mention internal and external communications. And with employees seeming to have so many options, how does an organization become an employer of choice? How do you re...
Feb 04, 2016•11 min
The role of HR has evolved from one of a transactional nature to one that aligns itself with the business to help achieve organisational success. But to do this, it is critical that HR becomes adept at building relationships based on trust and credibility. HR must be able to influence business decisions for the greater good of the organisation—yet many HR teams struggle to achieve the necessary buy-in from the business they need to deliver the best solutions for the organisation. Carl Segerstrom...
Feb 02, 2016•18 min
Learning to lead in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous environment has been key to our survival on many levels. But advancing technologies has given us an excess of options and has increased the speed and distance in which we interact with one another. It has created a new environment where different leadership attributes are needed. Merche del Valle, Regional Head of Talent, Leadership and Organisational Development at Prudential Corporation Asia, discusses the evolution of leadership...
Jan 28, 2016•16 min
The power of social media is its ability to streamline information and make it accessible. It creates connections and develops new relationships with the click of a button. More and more employers are harnessing this power to increase their business and communications effectiveness, while at the same time more and more employees are using their social media profiles to increase their marketability. Oscar Fuchs, Managing Director and Co-founder of ChapmanCG, and Matt Chapman, CEO of ChapmanCG, di...
Jan 26, 2016•22 min
A key hurdle for all organisational success is finding the right talent that can help grow the business. Regardless of the industry, region, or company size, the demand for high-quality talent that can grow to become future leaders has never been greater. This intense competition for talent has created the need for a landscape where high potential and high performing employees can excel. Anne-Christine Ahrenkiel, Global Head of Human Resources Officer at Egmont, discusses their plans to create a...
Jan 21, 2016•8 min
As new markets emerge, businesses jump at the opportunity to develop new revenue sources, but an entry strategy that works in one market doesn’t always work in another. With so many new markets emerging in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, they’ve finally gained a seat at the strategy table. More business leaders are accepting that to succeed, they can no longer take the top-down (or West to East) approach, but they must listen to and introduce ideas that originate from these markets. J...
Jan 19, 2016•16 min
Everyone uses social media—or at least it can feel that way. Between LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, the overwhelming majority of our professional and personal contacts are online in some form. So why not use it as a tool to gather more information about your potential job candidates? Michael Pilnick, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at First Advantage, discusses the appropriateness of using social media when evaluating potential employees for your organisatio...
Jan 13, 2016•18 min
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Jan 06, 2016•2 min
One of the toughest recruitment challenges is not just finding talent who meet today’s business needs, but also finding talent who show the potential to grow and evolve with the organisation. Talent experts are building pipelines and looking to digital and social media solutions to help identify the next generation of employees who possess the potential to turn into business leaders. Maarten van Beek, the HR Director at ING, discusses how to recruit talent to serve a company’s growth strategy.
Dec 16, 2015•15 min
An organisation’s values are its unifying principles. They shape the goals and the vision and they set the framework for how the business and its employees will behave. But equally important and sometimes often overlooked is how they unite a group of people with diverse backgrounds and skillsets to work together, as a team, to achieve shared success. Todd Shaw, Global Chief Human Resources Officer for Verifone, discusses how corporate values shape the culture and define leadership and Talent Man...
Dec 09, 2015•17 min
As Japan continues in its integration into the APAC matrix, a new kind of HR leader emerges: one who can work harmoniously within the local organisation, while also building relationships with the regional and global stakeholders. Oscar Fuchs, Managing Director and Co-founder of ChapmanCG, discusses current HR trends in Japan and the opportunities (and challenges) that organisations and international HR leaders can experience when working there.
Dec 02, 2015•9 min
China’s labour market is making the transition from one that heavily relies on manufacturing to one that houses more service-oriented jobs. Skilled, multilingual professionals with international savvy are highly sought-after, and HR leaders who can function across two cultures: the company’s and the local market’s are imperative for continued organisational growth. Ferran Raurich, Global Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Global Supply Chain at Schneider Electric, discusses HR practice...
Nov 25, 2015•13 min
Digital has changed everything—from the way we shop for our groceries to the way we listen to our favourite music and watch our favourite TV shows. It can seem like newer, smaller, more agile organisations have an easier time adapting to the ever changing external market pressures, but how do larger, more established organisations cope? What’s the profile of the leaders who steer organisations with multiple lines of business operating in emerging and developed markets through the seas of constan...
Nov 18, 2015•18 min
Some might argue that a good leader should be able to lead effectively anywhere in the world, but leadership styles that work in one part of the world don’t always translate to success in another. Research has shown that Western work behaviours can have the opposite effect in the Asian context. Professor Giles Hirst, Director of Product Develop for Aperio and Chair of Leadership for the Australian National University, discusses the Behavioural Preferences Insight Tool and how it can help shed li...
Nov 13, 2015•11 min
Leaders are constantly looking for that one great product or service that will set them apart from the competition, but the reality is patents expire and your top performers today can easily become top performers for your competitors tomorrow. So what is it that truly makes your organisation unique? Why should potential employees come work for you? Simon Riis-Hansen, Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Lego, discusses how your company culture is your best competitive advantage.
Nov 12, 2015•21 min
If everyone’s not killing off their performance review process they’re in the middle of giving it a major overhaul. It seems that no one is happy with the annual review and rating system that was designed to align employee performance with their department’s goals, which would ultimately underpin the organisation’s overall business strategy. But are we being too rash? How do you measure performance and identify high potentials if you don’t have performance ratings? Is there truly another way? Su...
Nov 04, 2015•18 min
For the past 10 years, how we work has largely been a top-down approach: senior executives at headquarters (usually in the West) develop a strategy that is pushed down through the management ranks at a steady pace until it reaches the individual contributor population. Work and Life is kept separate, where the ideal is to strike some kind of elusive balance between the two. But all of that is changing. Rapidly evolving technology has allowed communication to flow more concentrically. The younger...
Oct 28, 2015•22 min
More organisations are deciding to change their performance management systems. Some are eliminating them altogether, while others are switching to informal conversations that occur more frequently than the annual review cycle. But one thing is clear: the traditional performance management system isn’t meeting the needs of today’s global businesses. Gabriele Mair, Global HR Director for Tridonic, discusses how to develop a performance management system that works.
Oct 23, 2015•12 min
Globalisation is no longer on the horizon—it’s here, staring us in the face. And for those in leadership roles, understanding its impact is only the first step. Learning how to navigate and think beyond one’s corporate, and geographic, borders is a leadership imperative. Tina Durocher-Murphy, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources at Quintiles, discusses the importance of overseas experience for HR leaders—even those in large and diverse markets like the US.
Oct 20, 2015•13 min
