April Newsletter

In this issue

Just in the nick of time for April, we have an article for you on how to respond to a challenging business plan, taking a competency-based approach.

After months in development, we're pleased to announce the availability of Talent Spotter™, a new service specifically designed to make recruitment and selection campaigns more cost-effective, objective and evidence-based. We have prepared an on-line demonstration for you to try it out for yourself.

We have the final excerpt of our report for the Best Practice Club on the subject of 'Building Capability'. Next week we join 300 or so HR executives aboard the Aurora for the 2007 Human Resources Forum - we hope to see some of you there!

We hope you enjoy this newsletter and if you would like to discuss any items within it, please contact me, Ian Lee-Emery, on 0118 989 3555.

Implementing the Business Plan

Now that the business plan has been 'socialised' around the company, it's become clear that stepping up to some of the goals is going to require some focussed recruitment and development efforts. If you have a baseline for current competency levels then our thoughts on how to build capability to deliver competencies required by the plan should be useful.

Read our article here.

Talent Spotter™ Launch

To celebrate the launch of our new situational-judgement-based candidate assessment service we would like to offer you the chance to try it out. It will only take a few minutes and as a result you could find out if you have enough of the 'right stuff' to cut it in a new challenging role.

You'll face eight common workplace situations and be offered options that will determine competence levels in 'Customer focus', 'Attention to detail' and 'Business awareness'. In this demonstration, we will e-mail you your test results and an administrator's guide (though if you were to use it in a recruitment campaign, these results would only be sent to the test administrator).

Try it out here.

If you would like to know more about Talent Spotter™, find out here.

Best practice - capability building

Can you train people in their own best practice? Surely people won't warm to attempts to train them to do their own jobs? Find out, in the final extract of our report for the Best Practice Club on how to build and develop capability for best practice.

Please ask us for a copy of the entire report here.

Other news

Wish you were here

We're hob-nobbing with the great and the good of the HR world aboard the Aurora at Richmond Events' annual Human Resources Forum. We were there last year and couldn't possibly comment on rumours of senior HR execs sunning themselves in the open air jacuzzi accompanied by a bottle of bubbly! Nor was it true that folks turned up at breakfast on the last morning still in their DJs and little black numbers! We'll feature an uncensored exposé in our May newsletter.

Past articles

The following articles featured in earlier newsletters are also available on our web site:

Appreciative Inquiry - a technique for extraordinary results

The cost of e-learning - key principles for pricing bespoke e-learning programmes

Internal Selling - the challenge for HR

Motivation to change - dealing with different attitudes to change.