Our knowledge Centre supports you to address the many business challenges we are now facing, as professionals in our field we need to refocus on our value proposition.

Theses articles review the key challenges facing Human Resources today and in the coming few years:

Creating a HR Value Proposition

HR value proposition has many important implications for HR professionals. First, human resources work does not begin with HR it begins with the business. For the last decade, HR professionals have aspired to be more complete players relative to the core issues of the business, as described in a number of phrases: business partners, strategic players, in the business.
These aspirations are the best course of action for HR, but the fact that HR professionals continue to frame aspirations in these terms communicates a continuing concern. Think, for example, of the key wealth creators in your business. In an investment banking firm, that would probably be an investment banker. In a software company, it could be a systems architect. For none of these job categories are you likely to find a professional titled "Being a Business Partner." All of them would think “We do not need to aspire to be partners in the business. We are the business." Read the full article.

Retention Strategies for 2007 and Beyond

Competition for talent is on the increase, and many organizations are going to great lengths to retain their best employees. There are many factors behind retention that need to be examined. Organizations need to develop an effective retention strategy for success. Read the full article.

WH’Y’ YOU SHOULD CARE!

With more and more jobs being created and a shrinking pool of experienced leaders, the competition for talent will increase. The winners will be those that understand what motivates and engages the new generation of workers - Generation Y - those born between 1978 and 1985. Read the full article.

Coaching in the Knowledge Economy

Today’s leaders need to quickly adapt to the increasing demand to build knowledge capital in order to enhance their capacity to execute strategies and respond to increased challenges of their organizations.
In the past, is was almost a cliché to make statements like “people are our most important asset” Now, organizations are becoming enlighten to the fact that intellectual or knowledge capital has become the most critical asset they must use to compete with today’s business challenges. Read the full article.