We explore how an understanding of leadership development and culture types improve can improve corporate strategic alignment, communication, situational awareness, internal cultures and develop skills to help businesses prosper and thrive. We also discuss the IX Leadership Framework and Rachel and Meg’s new book: iX Leadership: Create High-Five Cultures and Guide Transformation
Margaret Ochieng is a Business Psychologist and Diversity & Inclusion expert who designs workplace solutions that enable people and organisations to adopt “a village culture approach to inclusion”. Margaret’s approach to D&I helps individuals and organisations to identify and remove barriers to inclusion, performance and creativity posed by silos, “clans” and “tribes” that often emerge explicitly or implicitly in social groups including workplaces. Let’s evolve organisational cultures!
We are told that we are in the age of AI and Robots and to some extent, these are essential tools that will need to be embraced for any successful Specialist HR Recruiter. However, these tools are exactly that, tools. Without the experience and softer skills of dedicated HR Recruitment Professionals who know their industry, these tools won’t take an HR Consultancy to the next level.
What are these tools though and what are essential?
It could also be called a CRM, this is a key tool to develop, monitor and maintain your specialist network of candidates and contacts. For me the system must be remotely accessible, JGA Recruitment always works around the clock and have clients across the globe so access to our client and candidate database is essential.
JGA Recruitment currently has access to the top 15% of HR Talent in the UK market. This technology means we can access this talent for our clients immediately and react in real-time to often very special and specific HR requirements.
All our specialist recruitment software is mobile. JGA Recruitment uses single source recruitment tools that pool all potential candidate search tools into one place. This allows us to access all potential human resource talent in one go on the move. This covers LinkedIn, ATS, Job Boards for searches but also allows us to connect directly with passive talent as we are constantly growing our network of top HR Talent.
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This technology has come a long way quickly. We have all used Zoom, Skype or similar products for pre-screening interviews and meetings however, there are some amazing new products out there now. JGA Recruitment uses Odro, it allows us to create video interviews with questions specific to our client’s roles. These can then be accessed by our clients anywhere, considerably reducing the time they need to access, assess and secure the top talent out there.
Using a variety of social media platforms to communicate with the HR Talent market is essential. JGA Recruitment produces white papers, HR specific blogs, and Podcasts in order to engage with the HR market and continually develop our network of HR Professionals. This allows us to continually develop our knowledge of the HR Market and current trends and needs of our clients.
There is a vast amount of new technology out there – AI for Screening, Recruitment chatbots, De-biasing Software, Geo-Targeting Advert Software, the list goes on. However, if you don’t have the skills and talent internally you won’t excel. Training, developing and supporting internal talent is key to creating a successful Specialist HR Recruitment Consultancy.
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JGA Recruitment continually uses internal and external training to ensure our team is equipped with the latest knowledge and skills to support our growing HR Client community. It allows us to offer both retained and contingency search models, fully tailored to the client requirement and budget.
If you would like to know more or if you have a specific HR Recruitment requirement contact me on the details below.
Steve Yardley
Associate Director
JGA Recruitment – HR Search & Selection
Tel: 01727 800 377 – E: steve@jgarecruitment.com – W: JGA Website
Matt Somers an MSc HR qualified leading voice on training and coaching in the UK. In this episode, we focus on the importance of coaching skills for HR Managers to discover what coaching means, when it should be used and why. We also learn that when mastered, coaching can drastically improve employee engagement, retention, growth and performance and enable you to leave a lasting legacy on any business.
Devin talks about how and why we need to focus on aligning cultures if we wish to inspire action and improve processes to deliver bigger profits. Most organizations have well-written, well-intentioned culture and values statements but when they are reviewed or challenged, they are often wholly inaccurate out outdated. In this episode, Devin talks about how we can reimagine core values, cultures and brands in a way that inspires tremendous loyalty, builds community, and delivers profits.
The Dark Side and the Good Side of HR – with Emma Wynne is a podcast episode focused on employee engagement, mental health, wellness and workforce management practices that can improve happiness at work. Emma tells us how we need to develop a better understanding of how to create and promote a happy workplace if we really want the people we employ to operate at their best.
“Will a robot steal your job?”. Nick Day from JGA HR Recruitment is joined on the HR L&D Podcast by Devyani Vaishampayan to discuss this vital question. Devyani is uniquely positioned to answer this question as she is the Managing Partner of the HR TECH Partnership, a People Tech Investment venture whose investors are all senior Non- Executive / Corporate Directors. The HR TECH Partnership run Human Capital Digital Innovation Hubs which help corporates/HR teams learn and experiment around the ‘Future of Work’.
Mark Struczewski (AKA “Mister Productivity”), joins the HR L&D Podcast to talk about how we can all be more productive – despite our distracted worlds. Mark is a professional who has dedicated his life to improving productivity (including how we can become the boss of our own emails!!). With productivity and engagement often found at the heart of HR & L&D Strategies, I think this is an episode you are going to enjoy.
Since 2005, Judith Germain (Fellow CIPD) has been working specifically with leadership teams that want to become more maverick in nature. The Maverick Paradox builds and accelerates the development from her book The Maverick Paradox: The Secret Power Behind Successful Leaders. Judith works with companies that need a maverick approach to their leadership because what they have, isn’t working.
Acting as a Career: Gender, Opportunity and Love with the Cast of “How Love is Spelt”. Nick Day has a rare opportunity to sit down with the cast of the play “How Love is Spelt” starring Michelle Collins (EastEnders and Coronation Street), Nigel Boyle (Line of Duty) Benjamin O’Mahoney (Ripper Street) , Yana Penrose, Larner Wallace-Taylor (Humans) and Duncan Moore. We discuss Acting as a career, promotions, gender imbalance in the acting profession, how actors handle multiple jobs at the same time, tax implications and a lot more! Plus we get some exclusive insights into what the acting life is like as well as learn more about this amazing new production!
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