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Achieving Organizational Alignment – Getting all employees to move in the right direction

Charles Van Heerden — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:50:29 +0000

Achieving organizational alignment is a strategic HR activity that can deliver significant benefits to an organization. Alignment is more than ideal state. It is imperative to ensure the organization is successful in getting all employees to move into the same direction, to achieve the vision of the organization. Alignment is one of the power words [...]

It’s time to change your recruitment ads to be “gender smart”

Charles Van Heerden — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:21:20 +0000

Many organisations in Australia, particularly listed companies, are focusing on gender equity at board and executive levels. A gender balanced organisation is not just an outcome by achieving gender ratios, as there is also a need for a process to develop a more strategic approach. Recent research by Roy Morgan Research highlighted specific gender differences [...]

Using the HR Budget Process to Make the HR Function More Strategic

Charles Van Heerden — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:44:58 +0000

Soon, all across many companies in many countries, HR Directors will be completing the dreaded annual budget process. On such critical occasions, the experienced HR Director, as they look across the boardroom table, meeting the CEO and the CFO, typically will be mentally prepared for the sacrificial budget cuts that are customary. Fundamentally, the HR [...]

Building HR Credibility by Avoiding HR Speak

Charles Van Heerden — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:17:52 +0000

The issue of HR speak is a real challenge, as it significantly impacts on the credibility of the HR function. It has become endemic to find a maelstrom of confusing terminology that does little to improve the practice of people management, and much to mystify managers and confuse employees, as well as damaging the credibility [...]

Social Media and HR – Building Employee Engagement

Charles Van Heerden — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:44:24 +0000

Social Media has become an integral part of the way we live and work. It is hard to imagine that it is only twenty years since the Internet was created. According to Nielsen research, social network traffic grew by 43% from June 2009 to June 2010. Social network activity now dwarfs online games, email and [...]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of HR’s Journey to Becoming a Strategic Function

Charles Van Heerden — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:53:24 +0000

Over the past few decades the Human Resources discipline have matured into a fully-fledged corporate function. From a traditional Personnel function providing largely an administrative service, to today’s more strategic People & Culture function, it is true that Human Resources have become an integral part to any organization. The Good In many organizations the role [...]

How To Increase Employee Engagement by 50%

Charles Van Heerden — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:54:17 +0000

Good people management is not difficult. However, research confirms that the large majority of employees are disengaged and increasingly cynical about the commitment of their employer to provide a great place to work.ncreasing employee engagement is a major HR strategy for most organisations, and critical to make the employer a preferred employer of choice. If manager can nurture, develop and recognise the talents of employees, employees will be highly engaged and more likely to be retained. By using these five strategies, companies have been able to significantly increase their levels of employee engagement, by more than fifty percent, through better people management. There are five highly effective strategies that can be adopted by any manager to significantly increase employee engagement by more than fifty percent. This article provides a brief overview on each of these strategies.

How LinkedIn Can Help Your Job Search

Charles Van Heerden — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:33:50 +0000

LinkedIn is one of the best business networking sites around to help anyone searching for a new job opportunity to maximise their job search. An extraordinary large number of people are already using this site. It can in fact be a very sophisticated relationship management and effective job search tool. By understanding how you can use LinkedIn to differentiate yourself, you can increase your job search effectiveness exponentially. A core ingredient of any job search is to develop and enhance your personal brand.

Using Social Media Strategically to Find Top Talent

Charles Van Heerden — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:25:20 +0000

Companies will be able to attract top talent more effectively by leveraging social media using four key strategies. Though many companies are keen to explore social media, there is an underlying wariness as policies are trying to control the flow of information. This article provides an overview of social media and the potential application to attract top talent. Social media is much more than just another channel and by integrating it with the overall employer branding strategy, companies can attract top talent that can grow with the company.

Why are you wasting your time with reference checking?

Charles Van Heerden — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:12:45 +0000

The declining value of reference checking is because it is badly done, rather than being of little value. The big challenge for recruiters is to develop a new and better way of conducting reference checks with a higher validity so that they can be more useful. There are three very deliberate and strategic actions that recruiters can adopt to achieve significantly better results from reference checking. Having successfully implemented this approach in a number of companies, have also resulted in better retention of top talent.