Last week on the 16th May I attended my 2nd Unconference in as many weeks. The latest of these events was organised by the Connect HR community and it was entitled "The Power of a Socially Engaged Organisation".
I've only recently met some of the me
Sat in a meeting room somewhere in Manchester my quarterly review was drawing to a close. It had been a good conversation, a chance to reflect on the last few months, the trials and tribulations of a large HR separation programme; but also of course
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I want to take the opportunity to explain who I am and my role within DPG. I'm part of the DPG team and I am responsible for Community Management and Online Learning. I'm here to work and support the facilitators and yourselves in us
I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘You ready to fail at social networking’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi ’4 reasons why employe
When you’re studying for professional qualifications, it can be incredibly helpful to have a mentor to help you get the most out of your learning and development. Research suggests that mentoring can benefit people in many different ways, such as by
Does recruitment sometimes feel like an episode of the X Factor? Job applicants get a moment to shine with their CV, having to create enough of an impression in that moment that they are then invited to perform in front of a panel of judges. The vast
There has been a lot of discussion in the HR press over recent weeks about whether HR is recruiting the right people and indeed whether current recruits to the profession are up to the job. The recent “Raising the bar in HR recruitment” report was co
In order to understand a tool, you have to use it. In order to understand its value you have to apply its use to something to see whether it improves a task or an issue. Until you do this it is just a tool, a technology that can be perceived hard t
The fix I am of course referring to is the good old prefix, more specifically the prefix used to identify types of learning delivery methods. The most notorious being the ‘e’ in e-learning and more recently the ‘m’ in m-learning.
There has been de
