TALENT MANAGEMENT

January 20, 2022

Employee engagement is the feeling of emotional attachment that employees have with their company, their level of personal involvement in the company’s success or the degree of enthusiasm they have while performing tasks.

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Redesigning today’s business model to exist tomorrow

December 9, 2021

In recent times and especially over the last decade, changes in the environment have accelerated dramatically. The drivers of these changes are factors such as technological advances, changes in customer preferences, regulatory changes, new emerging competitors or globalization.

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HR TECHNOLOGY

HR TRENDS

In Search of Operational Excellence in HR: 7 reflections for improving your processes

November 18, 2021

Operational excellence is aspiration shared by all companies and one of the most common sources of competitive edge in business literature. It has become even more relevant today as the capacity for growth is undermined by the socio-economic troubles we are undergoing.

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Companies as open and podular systems today

By Paula Molinari |

November 11, 2021

We are living in a new era that is imposing a new way of operating. Companies wanting to become up to date must do so in two facets: what they do and how they do it.

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What if your boss is your children’s age? The challenges of intergenerational coexistence

November 5, 2021

The question in the headline undeniably borders on uncomfortable, and that’s why it’s enough to force us to stop and think. As a matter of fact, a few years ago it was common to hear in casual conversations and at work, “Would you like your son to be your boss?”.

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The death spiral of organizational ineffectiveness

By Elizabeth Meza Rodríguez |

September 2, 2021

When it comes to productivity, many organizations, actually most of them, still operate in the industrial paradigm.

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Why the pandemic triggers new skills development

By Ivonne Vargas |

July 22, 2021

Before the Coronavirus pandemic, there was already talk of developing other skills in employees.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

How to develop the technology skills of your employees

July 15, 2021

The year 2020 brought many disruptions and businesses were faced with the need to embrace technology and accelerate digital processes: from implementing systems for remote resources management through to remote working programmes, and the implementation of e-commerce.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Multicultural teams: Management keys to shift from latent conflict to real opportunity

June 17, 2021

In actual fact, for many years now, companies have been transferring employees between countries and expatriating professionals with a specific talent to leave their city or country of origin and join a project in which they not only face work challenges, but also the great challenge of cultural adaptation.

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How to effectively measure employee engagement?

June 10, 2021

It is a fact; employee engagement is one of the key success factors for companies. Strategically relevant, engagement reflects the employee’s sense of belonging to his or her company through motivation, championing the company’s values, initiative-taking, and more.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Human behaviour in times of crises: how to manage the five paradoxes in our current situation

May 13, 2021

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LEADERSHIP

The essence of the smart enterprise: lower surveillance and higher trust levels

May 6, 2021

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Theory of the 3 I’s

By Elizabeth Meza Rodríguez |

April 15, 2021

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HR TRENDS

HR 5.0 thinks about employee well-being

By Ivonne Vargas |

March 11, 2021

In Mexico, 64% of companies pointed out that before Covid-19, and boosted further during the pandemic, they offered some activities for employee well-being

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How to make the most of technology and select the best candidate?

February 11, 2021

Companies have learned from confinement that technology is a great tool, and many are looking to incorporate it into their day-to-day processes. But we must not forget to train HR personnel and recruiters.

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EMPLOYEE CENTRICITY

Three motives for changing jobs: successful career decision strategies

January 14, 2021

Do I settle in this job or do I seek a change? Do I continue my relationship with this company, or do I look for opportunities elsewhere?

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HR TRENDS

The challenge of finding human talent with future-focused skills

By Ciro Pérez |

November 5, 2020

We can confirm that besides numerous challenges that companies face such as reinventing the business model, adjusting strategic plans, digital transformation

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

The key to work survival: learning to steer throught the unknown

October 22, 2020

We cannot teach or learn what we do not yet know will happen, but we can prepare for that uncertain future.

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Feedback, the power of the word. Conversations to foster development

October 8, 2020

Giving feedback is undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges we have as people managers and at the same time, it’s an outstanding development tool.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

HR in lockdown easing

September 3, 2020

In this new situation it will be vital to keep communication flowing properly from the company to its employees.

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Improving performance management

By Maribel Cano Fernández |

August 13, 2020

In the post COVID-19 world, we will have to incorporate aspects of distributed team management into the performance management of our human groups.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Flexible proposals for talent attraction and preventing attrition

July 2, 2020

The HR department is the key area from which we define competencies and identify the challenges to overcome.

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Covid-19 tests the people’s place in the company

By Elizabeth Meza Rodríguez |

June 11, 2020

In these times, communication must be transparent, concise, and frequent. This will make the worker feel confident, included, and loyal.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Two key ingredients for generating effective work teams

By Maribel Cano Fernández |

March 19, 2020

Unmotivated employees have poorer performance and productivity; they jeopardize their ability to carry out their duties properly and they are a detrimental influence on the working environment in any company.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Learning to govern ethically using the book of the dead

By Javier Fernández Aguado |

March 12, 2020

To get rich through work is a reasonable ambition. To do so, at the cost of depriving others of their property and/or rights is punishable as it is atrocious greed, no matter the ideological banner under which one hides

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

HR innovation in the education sector

January 23, 2020

Talent management solutions are a crucial part of building a successful organization, and even more so in the education sector, where great masters and teachers are a crucial factor for student success and performance, and in turn, these are key for business success.

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It’s not all about millennials! How to harness the potential of senior talent?

November 14, 2019

Millennials are a crucial part of the present. In the years to come, this age group’s participation will be accentuated in all areas of society. By 2025, millennials will account for about 50% of the global workforce.

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Adapting to change: a matter of attitude

November 7, 2019

Change is a constant in our lives, yet humans naturally tend to show aversion to anything that entails changes affecting their safety or comfort zone.

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Communication: global and local strategy for talent management

October 24, 2019

Nevertheless, each individual is unique and comes with a distinctive cultural baggage, something that the HR department must take into account, as this can directly influence various organizational aspects, even performance.

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Talent Management Challenges in the Digital Era

August 22, 2019

HR has the need to constantly reinvent itself in relation to changes happening outside that have to do with technological changes and challenges.

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GLOBAL HR

7 Management Keys for the New Boss of a Solid Pre-existing Team

August 8, 2019

As the new boss of a pre-existing team, listen carefully. It’s good to be receptive to opinions but be cautious with the ones that sound like verdicts, especially those which you suspect to be personal and emotionally charged.

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HR TRENDS

Live from Feedback rather than at the Expense of Others

July 18, 2019

We all need feedback to find out where we are and where we need to go, as well as to gauge our progress.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Enthuse Your Employees: Benefit from Ambassadors for Your Company

July 4, 2019

In previous articles we discussed the importance of retaining talent in our organization, yet we need to be aware that the work with our professionals does not end there; we must go a step further.

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LEADERSHIP

HR ANALYTICS

Deep Data vs Big Data: Do We Really Know Our Employees?

June 20, 2019

The ability to collect information, systematize it, and establish correlations between huge volumes of data offers us a very powerful tool for understanding and predicting people’s behaviours.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

The Value of Recognition

June 13, 2019

The expediency of defining and including active recognition policies as a fundamental part of current HR policies. When establishing them, what aspects should be recognized, who should do it, and how should it be done?

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Data-Based Digital Talent Management Strategy

June 6, 2019

The convergence between connecting people and data produces a digital density that enables HR to grasp the opportunity and transform their weaknesses into strengths through data management.

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EMPLOYEE CENTRICITY

Rescue Ingenuity: How to Encourage Creative Development in Your Employees

May 23, 2019

We must be aware of the importance of creativity and know how to promote it in the workplace. Creative people are those who see problems that others haven’t seen, perceiving these as interesting challenges to tackle.

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Retain Talent? No, Engage Talent. A Guide with Seven Easy Steps to Achieve Engagement

May 17, 2019

Engaging employees is about attracting and involving employees to participate intensely in the company’s business as well as drawing them into conversations and decisions.

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LEADERSHIP

Humanist Leadership and Innovation

May 9, 2019

The modern corporation, designed to achieve peak efficiency, generally relies standardized processes that often, inadvertently, stifle innovation or even kill it.

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GLOBAL HR

Unlearning: The Next Challenge for Training in the Future

May 3, 2019

Companies wanting to be at the vanguard of innovation must have the learning culture installed in their DNA. That said, it is important to be clear about the learning model that we want to implement in our organization.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Quo Vadis HR?

April 4, 2019

According to various studies, less than 40 percent of HR departments are playing a key role to exploit digital technologies for better talent management. We still seem to be stuck with more of the same, as in in the customarily time-absorbing transactional tasks in these areas.

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Training in Extremely Complicated Times

February 28, 2019

Why we fail in what we set out to do As frustrating as it may be to acknowledge, human beings are far from being infallible. Meanwhile, the causes of our failures are varied, and we can often act on them to avoid them or, at least, to reduce them.

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Corporate Culture and the Familiarity Principle

December 20, 2018

f we stop to think about it, there are many everyday situations, besides pills of popular wisdom that allude to the effect called the familiarity principle. Perhaps we have never thought about it, or maybe we have, but how many times have we heard or cited the saying: “You are the company you keep” or better yet “run with the pack”

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Experiences as Part of Effective Learning

By Ciro Pérez |

December 13, 2018

The latest buzzword: experience. Apparently human beings are eager to have new experiences and the environment sells this to us as: “Holidays, enjoy a new experience! Break out of the routine, enjoy a new experience!” Customer experience, employee experience, user experience—businesses in tourism, health, banks, technology and many others talk to us about experiences, a word that is as old as the history of humanity.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

GLOBAL HR

Search for Entrepreneurial Talent

November 22, 2018

Entrepreneurial talent within organizations has the distinctive characteristics of a digital entrepreneur; they are employees capable of taking your organization down the path of change and creativity.

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Welcome Onboard!

November 15, 2018

Welcome Onboard!

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

GLOBAL HR

A future-focused view of the development of millennial organisations

By Ciro Pérez |

October 11, 2018

In this new digital age, there is constant discussion on Talent Management contributions, capabilities and strategies for organisations.

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Inbound Conversion: 6 key steps for converting newcomers into high performers

September 20, 2018

The goal of Inbound Conversion is for the newcomer to assimilate into the culture, get up to speed and become a productive member of the organization.

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LEADERSHIP

Leading Free Talent

September 6, 2018

Talent investments generated reasonable guarantees of return. Now these same managers are disturbed by shorter relationship cycles that cast doubt on the profitability of their investments.

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EMPLOYEE CENTRICITY

Technology Requirements for an Employee-Centric Strategy

July 18, 2018

Technology Requirements for an Employee-Centric Strategy

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Diversity as the driver of innovation

May 25, 2018

When forming innovation teams, be they entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial, it is important to factor in their diversity as this encourages creativity.

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HR TRENDS

The Most Productive Work comes Out of the Hands of a Happy Man

April 26, 2018

Implementing a digital onboarding process does not just benefit new employees but also managers, who are the main actors when promoting or deterring the assimilation of new talent.

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HR TRENDS

Activities for stimulating idea generation

April 11, 2018

More and more companies are committing to innovation, as a mechanism for differentiation.

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Onboarding: delight your new employees with the best welcome

By Sergio Moreno |

March 28, 2018

Did you know that when an employee joins a new company, this is one of the most important moments of the employee’s relationship with the company?

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LEADERSHIP

Are you a future-focused organization?

By Betsy Kolkea |

March 15, 2018

Our expert, Betsy Kolkea discusses the implications that 4 factors have for any organization that wants to be agile and ready for the future

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Methods for Carrying out Development Actions

March 8, 2018

Provide employees with the desirable training actions that come from needs detected in various employee appraisals and interviews.

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HR TRENDS

6 key recommendations for Inbound Recruiting

By Guadalupe García-Soto |

February 21, 2018

Inbound Recruiting is particularly useful for attracting people with brand new skills who are particularly hard to find in the market.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Employee Centricity: A New Approach to People Management

January 17, 2018

The notion of Employee Centricity emerges from putting the employee right at the heart of their company strategies.

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HR TRENDS

Inbound Talent: an innovative approach to bring in candidates to become brand ambassadors

By Alfonso Mazariegos |

December 13, 2017

How do we candidates, employees, or HR professionals get what we want from one and another?

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Radical Candour: learning to give effective feedback

November 15, 2017

The lack of effective communication habits is a serious hindrance to any other change and improvement process intended to be carried out in the organization.

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Generate Ideas in Every Corner of Your Company

October 11, 2017

Traditionally, innovation has been driven by top management. This top-down approach puts innovation in a department often separately from the rest of the organization and hinders the generation of different and new ideas.

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HR TRENDS

Design thinking for HR

By Javier Fernández Aguado |

September 6, 2017

Design Thinking is a method for creative problem solving, based on understanding the in-depth needs of different stakeholder profiles.

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LEADERSHIP

The Manager’s Ego

August 23, 2017

It is common to find individuals who previously showed reasonable behaviour and yet their common sense seems to fail them when placed in positions that infer prominence over others.

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HR TRENDS

Best HR Articles of July 2017

August 2, 2017

Take a look at our selection for the best HR and tech articles in July 2017

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HR TRENDS

Training In Relational Skills

By David Criado |

July 12, 2017

Training In Relational Skills

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EMPLOYEE CENTRICITY

Internal mobility is still untapped

By Maria José Fraile |

July 5, 2017

Promoting internal talent within an organization is no easy task, since it requires thorough assessment of all professionals.

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LEADERSHIP

“I don’t care what you know: fix my problems”

June 21, 2017

In the work and business environment, we want to have realistic collaborators who have their feet on the ground, as long as they do not confuse realism with a pessimistic outlook

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HR TRENDS

Happiness is another form of feedback

June 14, 2017

If someone is unhappy with their work, they are probably unhappy with a significant portion of their life.

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HR TRENDS

Innovation requires new behaviours

May 24, 2017

Innovation is a key element for competitiveness and growth in companies but there are only a few companies that carry out innovation-related activities.

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HR TRENDS

6 Indicators you Should Measure in Recruitment

May 10, 2017

6 Indicators you Should Measure in Recruitment

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HR TRENDS

Managing the Employee Experience: a New Reality for the HR Department

April 19, 2017

Much has been written about the similarities between Marketing and HR strategies. For both disciplines, the customer/employee is placed at the heart of their strategies aimed to meet their needs.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Developing plans from which perspective: company or individual?

April 4, 2017

Agile companies focus far more on managing individuals who cooperate with one another as one large team to achieve business goals.

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HR TRENDS

Best HR Articles of the Month! – March 2017

March 29, 2017

Take a look at our selection for the best HR and tech articles in MArch 2017

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Developing the company from good to great

March 22, 2017

Humans have skills, knowledge, abilities and competencies. The challenge is what skillsets for what corporate goals in what jobs.

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Agile people management in VUCA Environments

March 14, 2017

If someone is able to leave behind old habits to adopt others more suited to the new circumstances, then we say that person is cognitively flexible.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Development plans the right way part II: identifying and categorizing talent

March 8, 2017

Our employees are the people who have the required abilities, skills and knowledge to cover all our jobs or positions in our company.

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Development plans the right way: creating career paths

February 14, 2017

Successful HR departments know that if there is no career development plan in place,the risk of brain drain and the level of employee performance is at stake

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HR TECHNOLOGY

Digital transformation of HR

January 27, 2017

Most of the organizations claim to have a digitization strategy but in 51% of the cases, these strategies are not unified or aligned with business processes

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LEADERSHIP

Let’s Get into the Christmas Spirit, the More the Better

December 16, 2016

Today most companies reward their employees with festive holiday hampers and company dinners. The problem is that eventually these initiatives become acquired rights; we get used to them and they lose their charm.

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HR TRENDS

Best HR Articles of the Month – November 2016

November 30, 2016

Take a look at our selection for the best HR and tech articles in November 2016

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Redesigning Performance Assessment within the 21st Century Organization

By Andrés Ortega |

November 23, 2016

Part of redesigning the HR value proposition inevitably involves rethinking a major chunk—if not all—of the HR management processes prevailing in many organizations over decades.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Why Do Employees Become Disengaged After Recruitment?

November 8, 2016

Why Do Employees Become Disengaged After Recruitment?

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Millennials vs. Centennials: shared characteristics, differences and challenges to consider

November 2, 2016

HR professionals are adapting specific practices to Millennials, they must now also consideration this new generation due to the significant differences.

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HR TRENDS

My HR department is great, therefore my company is great

October 5, 2016

HR excellence is the company’s best elevator pitch to society and ensures our employees are engaged and committed to a collective mission.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

If you want to innovate, hire people who don’t fit into your culture

August 16, 2016

Given the speed at which changes occur, companies must be able to innovate and to constantly offer products and services that offer new value and exceed customer expectations.

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HR TRENDS

How to change an organization and not die trying

August 9, 2016

Crises and change processes test the quality of an organization’s management. Good managers show their weaknesses when circumstances require effective transformation.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Success Starts with Succession

August 2, 2016

When we talk about succession plans there is no fixed roadmap or universal formula for all organizations to use. Each organization must plan succession that lays emphasis on organizational culture as well as skills and values that future leaders must have to benefit the organization (…)

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Employee Centricity: a Journey to the Centre of the Employee

By Andrés Ortega |

July 20, 2016

To understand the nature of employee centricity, it’s essential to come to grips with the intimate relation it has with the strategy that places the customer at the centre of the company.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Liquid Talent Comes With a Single Letter Tag

July 13, 2016

There’s lots of buzz about talent inside and outside HR; on what it is and what it isn’t and also how to identify, attract, recruit, develop and retain it. Just about everything and nothing.

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HR TECHNOLOGY

Performance Review: Past, Present and Future

By Alfonso Mazariegos |

July 5, 2016

To measure this new way of working several methods of evaluation emerged. Of these two prevailed: performance by competencies and performance by objectives.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Work with Purpose and Meaning

June 23, 2016

Work with Purpose and Meaning

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Designing Performance Management to Improve Engagement

By Alfonso Mazariegos |

June 15, 2016

When embarking on a process to improve engagement, it is important to bear in mind that this process must always be approached from the employee’s perspective and special attention must be paid to discovering their views on corrporate culture.

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Engagement Management Components, Categories and Issues