HR professionals should foster a developmental culture within workplaces that allows each staff member to form a web of "rigorously informal" mentoring relationships, according to research by American academics Wendy Murphy and Kathy Kram.
A staff-driven "hackathon", where employees develop, produce and market a new product in 48 hours, has helped online employment company Seek tangibly demonstrate its EVP and increase staff engagement in the process.
New federal government incentives for employing older workers are an improvement on past initiatives, but organisations need to work on their own retention and recruitment processes to take full advantage of the scheme, according to experts.
Too often leaders are focused on themselves and what they can achieve, but the best leaders engage in "collective leadership" - creating more leaders and bringing out collective creative capacity, says Roma Gaster, director of The Leadership Circle, Asia Pacific.
The difference between coaching an employee and simply telling them what to do depends on a coach's ability to build rapport or "connect" with employees, says leadership strategist Steve Fearns.
At the core of effective coaching is the ability to ask great questions. In this webcast, leadership consultant and trainer Steve Fearns outlines steps HR professionals can use themselves - or share with line managers - to improve the performance of teams and individuals.
Inability to listen, over-inflated egos, and an excessive focus on detail are the qualities most likely to "derail" senior leaders in 2014, according to new research.
More than nine in 10 HR professionals and managers don't think their organisations are achieving career development goals, and close to half of all employees are in the wrong job, according to recent research from Right Management.
Five simple questions can help leaders bring out untapped strengths in their teams and get more discretionary effort from people, say executive coaches and positive psychology experts Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin.
The majority of women accept mentoring requests when asked, but employers are failing to take advantage of their willingness to do so, according to new research from Development Dimensions international (DDI).
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