
| December | News | Head Light Communications December newsletter | |
| November | News | Head Light Communications announces new release of Talent 360® | |
| Autumn | News | Head Light Communications August newsletter | |
| August | News | Head Light Communications Summer newsletter | |
| June | News | Head Light Communications June newsletter | |
| April | News | Head Light Communications announces Talent Spotter® | |
| April | News | Head Light Communications April newsletter | |
| March | Event | Head Light Communications to speak at Talent Management event | |
| March | News | Head Light Communications March newsletter | |
| February | News | Head Light Communications February newsletter | |
| January | News | Head Light Communications awarded contract by Medtronic | |
| January | News | Head Light Communications January newsletter | |
| January | News | Head Light Communications unveils Talent 180®, version 3.0 |

Head Light Communications has been awarded a contract from Medtronic (a global leader in medical technology) to improve hiring effectiveness and employee retention through the use of Situation Judgement techniques.
Head Light Communications unveils Version 3 of its easy-to-use on-line tool for assessing staff competence. Its analysis of competence by role and level provides the necessary insight and foundations for the implementation of strategic HR processes such as Talent and Performance Management. It enables a sharper focus of scarce learning and development resources on the areas of greatest impact. Importantly, it identifies any future potential shortfalls in the talent pool necessary to deliver the business' strategic programmes.
Talent 180® is ideally suited for small companies, or autonomous business units that are in the early stages of introducing competence management. Find out more here.
Head Light Communications announces unveils a new major new release of its Talent 360® software. Talent 360® is a sophisticated and flexible web based 360 feedback application and programme management tool with powerful reporting and comparison capabilities. Suitable for both development planning and selection for progression, Talent 360® has been designed and developed specifically to support ‘best practice’ in 360 feedback workflow, drawing on the extensive experience of leading practitioners in the field.
It available as both a hosted application and for client install.
Find out more here.
Head Light Communications announces unveils a new service designed to help improve the calibre of candidates entering the recruitment process. Recruitment campaigns are supported by a bespoke situational judgement test, delivered on-line or paper-based and designed and developed by Head Light Communications working collaboratively with high performers in your organisation.
Based on the candidates' responses to these real-world challenges, and scored in terms of competencies required to perform the role to a high standard, candidates can be objectively screened in or out of recruitment process. Find out more here.
Head Light Communications and the Best Practice Club announce the availability of a report entitled 'Current practice in 'best practice'. The report, in dealing with issues such as 'making the case for best practice' and 'engaging people', reveals practical strategies employed in today's large organisations seeking to make lasting improvements in the performance of their operations. This report is available free of charge from Head Light Communications. Request a copy here.
Head Light Communications has been awarded a contract from AWE to support their efforts in process improvement across the business. The initial focus will be the capture and distillation of existing internal best practice.
Head Light Communications and Learning Forte are bringing together their combined capabilities to enable HR organisations to have a greater impact on the performance of their businesses. Read the press release.
Head Light Communications awarded major contract by Motorola
In a fiercely contested bidding situation, Head Light Communications have been awarded a major contract to supply services to improve productivity and competitiveness. Click here for more information.
Grainger Trust plc have featured two projects within their latest Annual Report - their Intranet, The Source, that we helped them launch internally over the summer and 'The Balancing Act', a programme delivered electronically built using the balanced scorecard concept and integrated with models of best practice for property managers. See Page 13 of their Annual Report available from www.graingertrust.co.uk.
In conjunction with The Business Improvement Network (BIN), we conducted an online survey of over 1500 BIN members in late 2005 to identify the key areas of challenge and focus for the membership, comprising quality professionals - mainly in-house - in the UK and Ireland).
Over a period of 3 weeks, 200 respondents gave their views on topics as diverse as 'financial resource management'; and 'developing vision and strategy'. The results show that the most significant issue for the network members relates to 'building the people-capability for excellence', attracting the largest number of responses and the highest significance weighting.
In terms of priorities for the coming year, the main two improvement areas for members are:
The Business Improvement Network and Head Light Communications will hold a series of networking and knowledge sharing sessions designed to target the major areas of interest and development that this survey has identified.
If you would like to know more about these sessions, this survey, the Business Improvement Network or Head Light Communications, please visit the web sites below or use the following contact details:
Head Light Communications - Ian Lee-Emery, 0845 054 2364, www.head-light.co.uk
Business Improvement Network - Jim Wade, 0118 987 5120, www.bin.co.uk
Training Technology & Human Resources Magazine, May/June 2006
Page 25 and 26 carries an article written by Ian Lee-Emery on the practical steps that HR leaders can take to develop the capabilities of their organisation to deliver business driven HR interventions. Click here to go to our Information Request page to request a copy.
Alex Welsh of Head Light Communications will be participating on a panel session at the forthcoming e-learning network event on May 19th in London. Contact the e-learningnetwork (www.elearningnetwork.orgg) for more information and event enrolment.
It seems we may now be entering a new phase of maturity in the e-learning industry in which the focus is less on the means and more on the end, and the end is one that is able to demonstrate real business value. This presentation will explore some of the key learnings (good and bad) from attempts to do this. Contact the e-learningnetwork (www.elearningnetwork.orgg) for more information and event enrolment.
Working in conjunction with us and hosted by RM in Abingdon, the Business Improvement Network is bringing together business improvement professionals from a wide range of organisations to share information about issues and solutions. There will be speakers from BT, O2 and Unilever, followed by three rounds of breakout discussion sessions. Download a PDF file of the event details here and to sign up for this event, please contact Jim Wade at the Business Improvement Network on 0118 987 5120 or e-mail jim.wade@bin.co.uk.
The second event in this series of three moves from London to Manchester.