Talent

Get your selection right from the onset and give the graduates important tasks

These four things can immediately improve your relationship with your team

What Vodacom CHRO Matimba Mbungela believes the finance profession should keep in mind about people

Use reward systems to manage your organisational culture

Khosi says her consulting background has held her in good stead as an HR executive.

HR execs shared ideas on how to attract and retain the best people in the coming year

When your high-potential talent fails

They should not be based solely on financial performance

Five traits that are most relevant for people in organisations with rapidly changing landscapes.

Why it is problematic and how to avoid it in your organisation

What it is and how to deal with it

Because not every program suits every company.

Use personal and symbolic recognition to keep your people motivated

Lianne McGowan, founder of wellness company Happy Mondays, on how to invigorate your business and get your employees smiling

Get the strongest talent you can find and let them do their thing, says Trevor

Industrial Psychologist Phiona Martin discusses five things your company can do.

Even if that means hiring much younger candidates who can be groomed into leaders

Empower, listen, appreciate, and inspire.

American Express report shows that millennials in leadership will shake up their boards

According to PwC's Marike Kleynhans

The award adds to the company's already stellar reputation as a top employer on the African continent

It's not just about money

Mentorship programmes are an invaluable tool for talent development but bad mentors can be career limiting

Vodacom CHRO Matimba Mbungela to host riveting session at upcoming Finance Indaba

HR professionals in the sector should be doing more to make the career appealing to young people.

HR expert Tim Southey believes companies have to streamline and improve the outdated performance management systems.

Juliet joined Cell C from Life Healthcare

Executives have to find a way to sing from the same hymn book even if their roles seem to have competing demands.

Otherwise, they might encourage a culture of short-termism within the organisation

Background screening experts MIE on the challenge of combating counterfeit qualifications

Industrial Psychologist Phiona Martin says companies must help higher education institutions in producing work-ready graduates.

Having a leader with a low EQ can be detrimental to your organisation

Workday's Ashley Goldsmith on nurturing the future leaders of your organisation.

3 reasons why c-suite executives need to have an up to date profile.

LinkedIn UK's Head of Talent on how to retain your best employees

Needs assessments are key to developing the right solution for you own organisation

Evidence shows that women are still very much under-represented at board level

CRS Technologies says employers are not following the Labour Relations Act when managing discipline

It's also about developing your existing talent pool

Barloworld's Ramasela Ganda says people tend to work harder when they know you care about them

Small gestures to show people that you appreciate their efforts can go a long way

Many HR professionals today prefer to hire for attitude and train for skill

Ambition, confidence and a natural orientation towards constant learning

How the Swedish telecommunications company reduced its reliance on expats in Sub-Saharan Africa

He replaces Thomas Mashaba who will now assume a new role of Group Chief Empowerment & Transformation Officer

HR leaders have to develop an approach best suited to their own corporate culture

Researchers find that the HR executive role provides the best preparation for becoming a CEO

How to eliminate work silos from the company culture

CHRO SA hosted its second ever roundtable in which the theme was to rediscover the humaneness of the HR profession

How can you motivate and engage your office team

T-Systems South Africa Vice President of Human Resources says it's about grabbing your opportunities

But there is no right way of doing it.

Occupational Psychologist Memory Nguwi discusses the merits of both measures of intelligence

Ashburton Investments' Global Head of Talent Acquisition Tshidi Khunou explains how Standard Bank and Investec got it right.

It's important to have a culture of caring about others without compromising on performance.

Cost-saving, employee development and risk management

Interim Head of HR for Africa at Orica Mining Services talks about her return to South Africa after seven years in the Middle East.

Conflict can be healthy or detrimental to organisational culture, depending on how it is managed.

Despite the mounting scientific evidence that some employee selection methods have very weak or no predictive power, some companies still continue to use them. Memory Nguwi, the managing consultant of Zimbabwean management and human resources consulting firm Industrial Psychology Consultants, explores why such companies continue to struggle to find the right talent.

"In an age where digitisation, robotics and AI are wreaking havoc with traditional business models, it is easy for executives to focus on superior technology as the solution to ensuring the competitiveness of their organisations and to overlook the human element," said Ilya Bonic (pictured), President of Mercer's Career business.

Crowdsourcing promises to make scarce and critical skills available cost effectively, perhaps close to 90 percent cheaper, and disruptively. Yet most companies currently rely on talent management - a human resource function that has been around for over half a century but whose tools and techniques has changed little during its existence - to identify, attract, develop and keep talented people who have these sought after scarce and critical skills. The question is: will crowdsourcing make talent management obsolete?

Sun International's group director of Human Resources Verna Robson is a lawyer by training, who spent much of career practicing labour law. She believes it has been an advantage to have a career where she has worked closely with HR but not necessarily within it, because that has allowed her to think about her role from a very different perspective.

Anneke Andrews, the Director of Human Capital at Deloitte, is a chartered accountant and was already some way into her auditing career when she made her the transition to talent acquisition. Her move from auditing was initiated from her involvement in a management solutions division, which, essentially, sought to assist clients with whatever business problem they might be facing.

A well-drilled team, acting in disciplined harmony and each performing their individual tasks within the greater strategy, will outperform any grouping of individuals. Here are three crucial factors to integrate acquired teams successfully.

Candice Watson, Southern Africa Area Head of Talent at British American Tobacco (BAT), has garnered a lot of experience as an executive-level human resources professional in a short space of time. Since September 2014, she has been the HR partner at Lenovo, HR director for Sub-Saharan Africa at Pernod Ricard and now at BAT, where she has been for three months.