Business, Trading, yourgames: Back Catalogue: 2011 Posts

Below is the full back catalogue of last year's posts. It is written in order of writer.

Ed Scrivener - Editor

Ed is an HR recruitment specialist and social media trainer. He holds over 8 years industry specific experience recruiting mainly for middle and senior HR management positions. He stumbled upon social media a few years ago and has since become passionate about the subject. He now trains job seekers and independent consultants in social media techniques. He is the Group Manager of Human Resources UK and Editor of Discuss HR and occasionally his humour will creep into articles!

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Posts:

· Jobseekers must try harder

Tags: Recruitment agencies, Recruitment practices, Job seeking

· Lazy recruiters

Tags: Recruitment agencies, Talent management, Recruitment practices, Job seeking, Recruitment ethics

· Make the candidate pay!

Tags: Recruitment agencies, Recruitment practices, Job seeking, Recruitment processes

· Be social and engage

Tags: Social media, Social networking, Engagement, Communication

· The equality elephant

Tags: Recruitment practices, Sex discrimination, Age discrimination, Equality

· Sell, sell, sell!

Tags: HR, Communication, HR sales, Transferable skills

Dawn Clarke

Dawn is an experienced HR professional with strong development and internal consultancy experience. She takes a practical approach to HR turning strategic plans into operational reality. Dawn has experience in a variety of industries with a track record of commercial success by engaging people and making work a fun place to be. On a personal note she is a huge Liverpool FC fan, well someone has to be!
Email | LinkedIn

Posts:

· Holistic approach to management

Tags: HR, Management, Communication

· How does HR contribute to the bottom line?

Tags: HR, Commercial acumen

· Why performance review doesn’t always work

Tags: Performance management, HR

· The good old days

Tags: HR, Communication, Personnel

Una Doyle

Una Doyle is an accredited Talent Dynamics Performance Consultant and an award-winning speaker, coach and consultant. Una has worked with organisations such as Argos, Asda, Yorkshire Forward, Kodak and local authorities from a one-to-one basis, to groups as large as 2,000. She is passionate about helping to create intrapreneur teams; getting the right people, in the right place, doing the right things with ownership and commercial acumen. Una has learned how to apply many of the world’s top-thinkers’ ideas in a way that is simple, profound, gets massive bottom-line results and a more empowered, motivated and engaged workforce.

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Posts:

· Dear Kitty

Tags: Emotional intelligence, Talent management

Jill Hart-Sanderson

Jill is passionate about using creativity to unlock people's potential, finding practical solutions that make a real difference to organisations. Her extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors combined with HR consultancy has given her a real insight into how great HR can transform individuals and businesses.
Email | LinkedIn

Posts:

· How can HR support managers through times of change?

Tags: Change management, HR

· Goal!

Tags: Richard Read, Personal goals, HR

· Remember that embarrassing moment?

Tags: Social media, Social networking, Communication

· Holiday time

Tags: HR, Time management

· Know thyself

Tags: HR

· Are you are networking tart?

Tags: Networking, Social media, Communication

John Hepworth

John helps organisations, especially in the SME sector, achieve competitive advantage. He has a particular interest in translating strategic HR management into practice. Typically, this has meant focusing his efforts on recruitment and selection, performance management and training and development activities. John sees the challenge of matching the development of internal competencies with the externally driven demands of the market place as one of the key themes in developing organisational engagement, capability and performance.
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Posts:

· The role of employee engagement

Tags: Employee engagement, HR

· Learning with the Kazaks

Tags: Learning & development, Lecturing, Training delivery

· Using your strengths to stand out

Tags: Emotional intelligence, Psychology

· The state of management

Tags: Leadership, Management

· Resourcing and talent management – what is the role of the HR professional?

Tags: Talent management

Annabel Kaye

Annabel has been specialising in employment law since the seventies. She founded Irenicon in 1980 and has spent the last 30 years helping HR, line managers and everyone else look at employment law in a way that gets some operational gain. She likes to think about things from a different angle and making the complex simple - despite the Government's best efforts! She has traded through 3 recessions and advised clients from multi-national corporations to the smallest organisation. The toughest thing has always been to balance the competing needs of staff and organisation and that never goes away whatever the legal details.
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Posts:

· Employment law fundamentals and basics

Tags: Employment Law, EU law, Compliance, Performance management, Discrimination

· Don’t let compliance lock you down

Tags: Employment Law, Employee handbook, Staff handbook, Policies, Procedures, Flexibility, Organisational development

· We don’t have the power

Tags: Employment Law, Employment rights, Managers rights

· Too hot to handle

Tags: Employment Law, Staff uniforms, Dress code, Diversity, Niqab, Muslim women, Sex discrimination, Religious discrimination, Diversity

· Open and shut

Tags: Employment Law, Investigation, Reasonable investigation, Reasonableness in the circumstances, Decision making, British Home Stores v Burchell, Iceland Frozen Food v Jones, Discrimination, Harassment, Theft, Suspicion of theft, Lateness

· The past is no guide to future performance

Tags: Employment Law, Change management, Performance management, Cooperation, Investigation support, Prevention, Discrimination, Grievance

Sheena McLullich

Sheena began her career in Training & Development before moving to a generalist HR position in 1998. Since then she has held senior HR roles for several SMEs in a wide range of industries. A Fellow of the CIPD and Member of the US SHRM, she has a keen interest in Employee Development, specifically in coaching and supporting managers to enable them to get the best from their people. She was appointed as Director of People for SPA Future Thinking in September 2011.

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Posts:

· Getting to know you

Tags: HR

· The token woman

Tags: Sexual discrimination, HR, Boardroom management

· The home working debate

Tags: Work practices

· Leaving on a jet plane

Tags: HR, Business Travel, Commuting, Flexitime

· Too close for comfort

Tags: Employment law, HR

· Finance and HR – a pivotal relationship?

Tags: Communication, Finance, HR

Dorothy Nesbit

Dorothy Nesbit, Leadership Coach, unleashes innate leadership potential through powerful, compassionate and authentic relationships.

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Posts:

· Starting the HR year as we mean to go on

Tags: HR, Leadership

· Real conversations - talking in ways that work

Tags: Emotional intelligence, Communication

· The home working debate

Tags: Work practices

· To what extent is it really OK to be human in the workplace?

Tags: Emotional intelligence

· Accountability: Are we getting it right?

Tags: Leadership, Emotional intelligence

· When emotions rise high in the work place

Tags: Emotional intelligence, Communication

· Asking the right questions as the year draws to a close

Tags: Emotional intelligence

Susan Popoola

Susan has established a successful career as an HR Consultant, specialising in HR Transformation and Talent Management across the Private, Public & Voluntary sectors. Susan serves as a Partnership Governor for The Hazeley School where she chairs the Innovation and Partnership Committee. She also serves as a Young Enterprise judge and a Business Ambassador for Countec Education Business Partnership. She is also the published author of Touching the Heart of Milton Keynes: A Social Perspective and the soon to be published book: Consequences: Diverse to Mosaic Britain.

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Posts:

· A lost generation?

Tags: NEETs, Unemployment, Learning & development

Guests

Throughout the course of the year we have welcomed a range of guest writers, all of whom are experts within their specialised field of HR.

· How to use the maverick in your organisation (Judith Germain)

Tags: Leadership, Mavericks

· HR from the non-HR stakeholder: from the sublime to the ridiculous (Greg Kilminster)

Tags: Finance, HR, Commercial input

· Help! I’m leaving the public sector (Wendy Mason)

Tags: Recruitment, Job seeking, Changing career