In the Times last week, LinkedIn’s chief executive said the formula for useful content is “insight plus personality.” That feels broadly right, but it is not enough for outbound marketing. Good outbound is not simply about producing more posts, increasing reach or making yourself more visible. It is about helping the right people understand: That… Read More Insight plus Personality
I saw a LinkedIn post from a manager saying he ignores messages such as: Their argument was that adults should not need permission and that managers should care about results rather than time. I think the principle is reasonable but the behaviour is not. People are not always asking permission. Sometimes they are simply letting… Read More Management Ignorance
Every organisation I work with wants better visibility of skills. That’s the right call – workforce planners can’t plan against roles that no longer describe the work. Reward teams can’t price capability they can’t see. L&D can’t target investment against a workforce it has never properly mapped. Something has changed in how work gets done,… Read More Skills visibility
I was looking at Gartner’s new HR Strategy on a Page template. It is tidy; it separates the current state, future state, assumptions and initiatives. It asks HR leaders to identify business scenarios before developing the strategy. Then the business largely disappears. The final page asks for four to seven metrics describing the current and… Read More Free from Business
Ten years ago, I wrote a post about things I had overheard, read or been prompted to think about. I asked: Wouldn’t it be a ‘good’ idea if we stopped worrying about seats at tables?I still hear this conversation ten years later. L&D still talks about getting a seat at the table as though influence… Read More Ten years later…