Over the past 20 years, economies and the organization of work have witnessed a fundamental change in which occupations have become more complex and employees’ responsibilities have been linked more with competencies than with routine. This change has necessitated more flexibility in labour mobility and productivity, and enhanced innovative capacity of companies to assimilate new […]
Do you find difficulty in hiring skilled workers? Or, maybe your organization is not performing effectively due to a huge skills gap. I believe skilful talents are hard to find and manage. They are difficult to find because new technologies move at a very fast rate and require new skills that schools don’t teach. Very […]
Imagine yourself as a new employee joining an organization and walking into the office on day one. You enter the office at 8 am. At the front-desk you are asked for the purpose of your visit. You explain that you are ‘the new guy’ and this happens to be your first day at the job. […]
You need to sustain your market share, increase profits, work smarter and increase corporate social responsibility, as well as be emotionally intelligent. You need employees with the right skills, knowledge and behaviors to communicate effectively with clients, global outlooks, managers who can coach their teams to empower them and leaders with cross-cultural experience. What’s the […]
Before you can train and develop your team, you have to recruit them! Employee’s viewpoint…. To simplify the issue, I am looking from the viewpoint of an employee in the GCC (any nationality!) who wants to find a better job, or who has been made redundant and needs a replacement job very soon, as opposed […]
So where do you start? There are numerous models to identify core skills in the workforce, or should I say lack of, with the ultimate aim of producing a ‘Training Needs Analysis’ in order to develop staff. Organizations within this region are at different stages of development with regards to the level of sophistication required […]
If you are the Learning and Development or Training Manager in your organization, you are probably often asked how you are ensuring that the effort and money spent on training is having the desired outcome and contributing tangibly to the company. If your answer to that is, ‘let’s put in place a system to measure […]
Tell US Your Name and What You Currently Do? Allan Gardner, MHRM, PHR, HRMP, CAHRI, HR Expert Trainer, Certification Instructor, Adjunct Professor HR MBA Business Programs for Chifley Business School of Australia and Adjunct MBA Professor of HR business programs. What Is Your Specialist Skill? With over 35 years of experience in the Human Resources […]
The landscape changed. It did not allow time to think, prepare, act. One day we were holding face to face workshops with 20 delegates in a closed classroom, and suddenly, we were not allowed to. The pandemic and social distancing put paid to that thought completely. This shift was further complicated by a rapidly changing […]
Today, in light of the current realities, I would like to share with you my experience on how to terminate employment contracts. Much of this “christomatic” layoff is due to our CEO. It happened in 2010, at the height of the financial crisis. We received a circular from the head office to reduce the number […]
