Blogs
What You Wish You Knew For Your Global HR Career
What do you wish you knew before starting out in your career in global human resources? Share your thoughts as a comment to this post. Continue reading →
Special Announcement from Birches Group and Emergence Growth
Author: Warren Heaps – Birches Group LLC This post is a bit of a departure from our normal content, which usually focuses on the “how-to” of international human resources management.
From Training Departments to a Company Academy Part 2
Explore trends and new developments in the area of Company Academies, and a discussion of the respective roles of the human resources development team and top management to ensure a strategic and continuous learning environment.
From Training Departments to a Company Academy Part 1
Company academies provide a competitive edge and enable companies to ensure training and development is efficient, cost-effective and most importantly, aligned with the business strategy and mission. Continue reading →
The Way to Identify your Future Leaders – Part 2
In Part 2 of their series on leadership, Han van der Pool and Lex Lindeman outline the traits in employees that contribute to their development into strong leaders, and questions to ask to identify people with these traits in your company.
The Way To Identify Your Future Leaders (Part 1)
Global companies using an integrated talent management approach to identify and nurture potential future leaders have a competitive edge in the global marketplace. This post describes some of the best techniques. Continue reading →
Who Dresses for Success Anymore?
Depending on where an employee lives, putting a best foot forward with what you wear - at least at work - is still key to upward mobility and career success. Continue reading →
E-Learning in Africa (and the rest of the world!) Part 2
Many e-learning initiatives are granted only a short life, because they have been developed with too strong a focus on technology or creativity (nice to do, but not goal-oriented) or insufficiently aligned with the specific work situation and the
Creating High Performance Teams
Authors: Lex Lindeman – HR Boosters Dr. Paul Rono – Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya) What is a Team? A team is a group of people who work together to accomplish something beyond their individual self interests.
Transitioning Compensation from Classroom to Reality
Compensation practitioners need to anchor themselves in the here and now, to know what will work and not work in their organizations – no matter what the "finest minds in Compensation" think.
