http://www.getdriven.com Performance Driven Results Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If your workforce aren't fully engaged that's costing you money.  And when the going is as hard as it is at the moment, an engaged workforce could make the difference between success and failure. Remember - People Power Performance There are many factors that can have an impact on just how connected ... http://www.getdriven.com/2009/07/get-motivated/ When it comes to achieving your business goals you need your employees to be on-board: On message, committed, connected, passionate, nose to the grindstone, going the extra mile. Call it what you will, it all boils down to the same thing. Employee Engagement. Engagement is at the root of the performance you ... http://www.getdriven.com/2009/04/engagement-is-the-launchpad/ With the economy in the doldrums we're seeing more and more businesses turning to strategic talent management solutions. At this moment in time, the most prevalent drivers for such investments seem to be: enabling rapid 'rightsizing', shrewdly cutting HR related costs and evolving strategic agility to respond to changes in ... http://www.getdriven.com/2009/02/business-case-building-for-strategic-talent-management-systems-free-suite-of-executive-reports/ The best inventions and solutions are often simple and full of common sense. Whether onDemand or Software as a Service (SaaS - software deployed as a hosted service and accessed via the internet) can be classed as an invention is probably up for debate. However, a neat solution it definitely is. Now is ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/07/ondemand-its-pretty-smart-actually/ Community building and technology that goes with it (e.g. blogging) is my beloved niche. I personally love the web and the social aspects it can bring to anyone - on or offline. For me a learning community is generally just like any community. The principles for designing, launching, maintaining and ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/04/thinking-about-building-learning-communities/ Have you recently compared how you communicate and get things done in a personal sense compared to your work environment? I count myself lucky that the environment that I work in adopts technologies rapidly, not because they are new technologies, but because they are better ways at communicating and getting things ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/03/time-to-wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee/ In January The London Business Forum put on a fab event with Sir Ken Robinson giving a talk on the War for Talent. Through humour and stories he argues that the world of human resources are facing a crisis and that things need to change. I will say no more. The ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/03/the-war-for-talent-with-sir-ken-robinson/ Seth is known for challenging the norm, thinking outside the box, yet talking and writing in a way that makes everything look so simple. I've observed various articles and blog posts trying to debate whether 'HR' should be renamed to Talent (Management). Lots of 'ooohs' and 'aaaahhhhs' and 'buts' flew ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/02/remarkable-purple-talent/ A survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers investigating the minds of CEOs has published the top 3 major concerns: The availability of key skills (61%) A downturn in major economies (57%) Over–regulation (55%) The interesting point from a Get Driven perspective are CEOs concerns about lack of key skills. What key skills need improving upon? The points highlighted in ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/02/pricewaterhousecoopers-survey-ceos-are-concerned-about-skills-availabilty/ I had a great opportunity to see Sir Ken Robinson talk live yesterday, it was very inspiring. I could write 10 blog posts on many of the points he talked about and I probably will, just not all today! At the end of the talk there were some questions where ... http://www.getdriven.com/2008/01/pixar-university/