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Finding the best possible people for your company is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping them, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These specific actions will help you with recruiting and retaining all the talent you need. Make sure you select from the largest pool when recruiting Companies that...

It is generally recognised that different organisations have differerent and distinct cultures. A commonly used definition of organisational culture is 'the way we do things around here'. Through tradition, time and structure, organisations build up their own culture. Culture  gives an organisation a sense of identity - 'who we are', 'what w...

Most firms carry out some form of customer targeting. This may be a conscious decision or a decision based on tradition and history. It could even be accidental, but you are targeting customers even if you don’t think you are! Most firms are in a position to decide which particular segments to target (even if they don’t realise it) ...

My first article on strategy “Small Businesses and Strategy”  was a general discussion on the importance of a small business having a strategy in place, however informal. A number of people have asked about the term strategy and does it really affect the whole of the business? This second short article is an attempt to clarify ...

nothing new here with this news item. The only thing I find surprising is that it is only one in five workers who feel unfulfilled at work. Considering the recession, badly trained managers, dull automated jobs and a belief that IT is more important than people, I find it more difficult to believe that four out of five do feel fulfilled!! More t...

The biggest cost an organisation can incur in recruiting is getting a poor performer. Recruiting a person is not like buying a physical asset (like a PC) because the variability in new hire performance is so much greater. You may calculate that a Dell notebook will have a lower total cost of ownership than an HP notebook or vice versa; but you won'...

One of the services that Executive Compass offers is strategic analysis and business planning. It is amazing how often micro and SME's say we don't need a formal strategy, "we know what we are going to do" or "we dont have time to sit down and think about it". They are usually the ones that are not around in a couple of years! S...

This one is a classic and made me laugh so I thought I would share it with you. The moral of the story? Make sure you manage your employees exit! Bitter farewell email mocks world's largest accounting firm A failed PricewaterhouseCoopers aspirant has exited the organisation in spectacular fashion, mocking the world’s biggest accounting ...

Despite talk of deflation, the word is not mentioned once in the latest Bank of England Inflation Report, said Sunday Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan. In fact, at 2.9%, CPI inflation remains stubbornly above the 2% target. UP • The price of oil shot up from under $34 a barrel in February to touch $60 in mid-May thanks to improved confide...

So what is going to be next, mobile phone breaks for texting and catching up. Twitter breaks? What do you think, drop me a line via contact us. HR managers 'should consider Facebook breaks' by Kate Burrows 11. September 2009 16:32 Following Portsmouth Council's move to ban staff from social networking after they amassed 572 hours on Faceboo...