Tag: performance management

The work environment of today looks very different to that of a few years ago, with the office-bound approach of the pre-COVID-19 era having given way to a more flexible, hybrid approach. Workers today mix autonomy with teamwork as they travel between home and business. While this offers flexibility and access to larger talent pools, it disrupts one of HR's fundamental procedures – performance management.

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, data-driven decision-making has become paramount for organisations seeking a competitive edge. The field of Human Resources (HR) is no exception, with a growing number of HR professionals.

Software-Defined Networking in a Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), may be the next generation of connectivity and modernised network infrastructure, but implementation must be smart to get the right results. Digital transformation has triggered remarkable shifts in infrastructure and architecture.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic the world has been affected by many events that are now the new normal and businesses will now have to make strategic changes to the way they operate. These events are geo-political - the Russia-Ukraine war; logistical - supply-chain bottlenecks; economic - high energy prices, demand supply issues - global commodities pressures and chip shortages, rising inflation and possible recession.

How small businesses manage growth, and the expansion of their teams is always a hot topic. We are often asked how best to go about it as many businesses make the mistake of thinking growth and expansion is directly linked to their staff complement, yet this could not be further from the truth.

Powerful international trends are changing the governance and remuneration landscape significantly. These trends are ushering in a profound shift in how we think about governance and remuneration, and smart boards and executive teams need to understand their implications.

Is it time to sit with your employee for a face-to-face discussion on how well (or poorly) they are performing? Often, both managers and workers are not overly excited by the prospect of this sometimes awkward event. Dreading a performance conversation is generally a sign of a poorly designed performance management system or a manager who needs to be coached on delivering assessments.

In this insightful video, I give my views on what the new world of work could look like. I discuss issues like policies that are currently being changed or created to accommodate the trends that we are starting to see and I offer advice on how companies can ensure that they are appropriately prepared for the new world of work.

We are so used to building things to last. But what about building to adapt? Let’s start with an analogy here. If a bridge over a river is built to withstand the worst possible conditions and the surrounding area is then hit by a hurricane, what use is the bridge if it is left standing in exactly the same position it was before when the access roads and the river around it have been shifted by the catastrophe?