The short answer to the question is; “Businesses are losing great talent to perceived better paying competitors because employees simply don’t understand the Total Reward they are receiving.” Let’s start with the definition of Total Rewards You’re probably aware of ‘Total Benefits’, because you will have received a benefits statement. ‘Total Compensation’ is a phrase common to most, but ‘Total…
As we look forward to an exciting year of growth in our market in 2019, the NGA HR Leadership Team have been sharing their thoughts on the major trends across our industry. Looking back at 2018, there were so many developments in the HR and HR Tech space we couldn’t summarize them all: It was…
It’s December! As the year comes to a close, and we are finishing up our work to take some time off for the holidays, the 2019 trend articles are popping up in my mailbox. To make life a little easier for you, I am tracking the links in this post. Let’s start with Gartner’s Top 10 strategic…
At the recent HR Tech event in Paris, I was asked to talk about NGA Human Resources’ partnerships and why these are so valuable to our customers. A recording of the interview can be viewed here. The future of HR success is dependent on the collaboration of the best technologies and solutions. Our partnerships with…
The working world has changed, and it will continue to do so as job functions evolve, new technologies are introduced and peaks and troughs in the economy each play their parts in changing the ever structure of the workforce. I’ve written before about the notion of tenure, permanency and lifetime employment being gone. So too has…
I am not a fan of grocery shopping. It’ s a weekly occurrence where you take a cart, load it up with groceries and then stress out waiting for checkout, because all the other lines are moving so much faster. By the time you get home, all groceries have gone through your hands 4 times:…
Summer holidays are over, everyone is back at work and you have used your vacation time to create a list of everything you would like to change once your back. Autumn is the perfect time to start creating change programs and roll out your great ideas in the organization. Have you ever used a “Plan…
I am pleased to introduce a new guest post by Colin Wong (@colinjwong). Colin is passionate about talent and a better way to work. If you like this post, check out his Wooblog. The war for talent was a mistake. Or at least this seems to be the opinion of a growing number of people…
Last week, I went on a family camping trip. My niece was a bit out of sorts as her boyfriend had other plans and could not join us. Needless to say, she spent quite a bit of the weekend texting on her phone. At the end of the trip I noticed she had stayed in…
I’ve been reading some articles that question the influx of technology into HR. The general idea is that technology dehumanizes the personal touch that HR leaders are keen to have. Somewhere along the line, we’ve become so obsessed to make HR service delivery as cost-efficient as possible that we’ve overlooked the employee experience. And that…
The Sochi 2014 Olympics are over and it’s been an amazing run for many teams, in particular the Dutch TeamNL. Never before did one team win so many medals (24) in one event (skating). At times, we almost felt embarrassed to achieve another clean ‘orange’ sweep, but overall, we are just proud of our great…
On February 26th I will be hosting the next Carnival of HR and I invite you to send me your latest post. The theme is “anything goes” but considering all that’s happening elsewhere I also look forward to receiving posts about “winter” or “Olympics” and maybe, if you’re in the mood, a combination of the…
