I use pictures a bit more than I use stories , for example, as part of a diagnosis process, helping employees to express what they think is...

I hope you enjoyed my story of the chicken and the eagle . I don’t use stories very often, despite my focus on people centred language as...

There was a chicken farmer who was a very keen rock climber. One day, climbing a particularly challenging rock face he came upon a large led...

Thanks Jo, for your guest post on the CIPD's Talent Management conference. Readers can read more of Jo Jordan's blogging at: http:/...

CIPD conference on talent management in London, Tuesday 26 February, 2008 I volunteered to blog the CIPD conference on talent management in...

So are our CEOs the problem ? Management Issues reports on PricewaterhouseCoopers’ annual CEO survey which found that while nearly 90% of ...

I posted last month on Luke Johnson's criticism of HR (also see this post's comments for Ceridian's follow-up criticism). But H...

Readers in Malaysia will hopefully be able to find an extensive interview with me in the new edition of HR Matters . I'll also be facili...

If you, like me, see HR as a strategic rather than a support function, there is an analogy for HR here. Reckitt put their success in innovat...

There have been a couple of interesting articles in the traditional press recently on Reckitt Benckiser's success in innovation. Despite...