competence

Competence of the Human Resource Profession

Jim Bolt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:34:49 -0400

I just read about the results of an interesting new study, “State of the Global Talent Nation”, conducted by Softscape. 94% of the 250 human resource professionals surveyed say they “don’t feel their personnel are adequately prepared to meet future company goals”. And that is 30 percent worse than three years ago. What’s even more disturbing? More than half of them say the big reason this is so is they are not confident that their business effectively manages human resource processes.

Bio and Interests: Richard Townsend

Richard Townsend — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:20:56 -0400

For the last ten years Richard Townsend has operated as an independent ‘Corporate Learning Consultant’ with services being provided to EricssonTelecommunications in Malaysia, India, Taiwan, China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam,Singapore, Indonesia and Pakistan.

Nonsense At Work

James McIntosh — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:05:20 -0500

Leave your old job behind:

Let's be optimistic for a minute and think about your next promotion. Yes, some people do get promoted during a recession.

Here's a question for you to consider, just in case you are one of them: Why do many people who earn a promotion fail at the higher-level job?