How to make the most of employee self-service
How much annual leave do I have left? What do I have to do if I’m off sick for more than three days? Can I get my payslip from 3 months ago? Where do I find my performance appraisal from […]
Why you need to know who hosts your HR software
Whether it’s shopping online, assessing the damage to your bank balance or updating your personal information in Cezanne OnDemand, you’ll find more often than not the host of that service invisible to you. Naturally, you’re not going to lose sleep […]
5 ways to encourage digital collaboration in your business
What is your business doing to give employees the freedom to connect with each other, create new ideas and challenge conventional thinking? This was the question posed last week by management guru Gary Hamel as he launched his ‘digital freedom […]
How to build a shortlist for HR software
Searching for the best HR software for your business can be a confusing business. Vendors will be falling over themselves to convince you of the merits of their products – and with a myriad of human resources management systems to […]
How HR can support business growth
According to The Federation of Small Businesses, confidence among SMEs is at a three year high – and going by the buzz at last week’s HR Software Show, HR people are feeling particularly positive about the contribution they can make […]
Ready for the next revolution? How advances in social tools could affect your workplace communication.
Hands up who remembers when email first took hold in the 90s? It’s hard now to imagine life without it – but there was a time when it was all a bit scary and not everyone thought the speed and […]
How do you know what you need from HR?
The sheer diversity of approaches to HR within SMEs was one of the things that particularly struck me while listening to speakers at a recent CIPD conference. The businesses taking part had widely varying takes on everything from recruitment and […]
Tackling the Top Three HR challenges in SMEs
This week’s CIPD ‘HR in SMEs’ conference provided a fascinating insight into how businesses of widely varying types and sizes are tackling their HR challenges. The presentations highlighted some very diverse approaches – but what was clear was that pretty […]
10 ways social technology can boost your business
A recent CIPD report on how social technology can give companies competitive edge makes fascinating reading. It’s the first piece of research I’ve seen that gets to the heart of how social technology can be used inside the business to […]
Why HR should get social
It’s probably fair to say that some in the HR profession have been a bit slow to appreciate the value that active use of social media tools could add to their role. If anything, the over-riding reaction seems to have […]
Six key issues for HR in 2013
So the festive wind-down has well and truly begun and as the year peters to an end, all that’s left for HR is to deal with the fall-out from the office Christmas party and remind people that yes, Friday is […]
A more social way of working?
The death of internal email and its replacement by social collaboration tools has been the subject of discussion at several meetings I’ve been to over the past few weeks. A significant number of companies, it seems, are following a similar […]