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BNET Author Biography: Stuart Woollard is Managing Director of the King's College London HRM Learning Board. After gaining over 10 years' senior level business and consulting experience, Stuart worked as a global HR Director in the financial services industry and was also Managing Director of UK operations. Stuart's areas of expertise include business...; more about Stuart Woollard »

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Managers Still Suffering Skill Shortages in the Recession: It seems surprising that while organisations continue to reduce headcounts, a third of senior HR professionals we recently surveyed reported skill and staff shortages as a continuing problem, despite having to make layoffs. With pay freezes, bonus pools reductions, ongoing redundancies and training plans shelved, this creates...; Tags: Job, Performance, Recession, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-05-22
Employees are Brushing Up on Career DIY: The traditional career deal has changed: self-management is now key WhileÂ the signs areÂ that job tenure has remained surprisingly consistent, the traditional promise a career for life may not have survived the recesssion. Even Japan, perhaps the last bastion of the job for life seems to have had...; Tags: Dr Jane Sturges, Professional Development, Career, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-10-07
Stop Employee Departures Growing From Trickle To Flood: When a manager finds that someone is leaving, they naturally focus on that individual -- assessing the business impact, reallocating their workload, deciding whether they should leave immediately, whether to replace them, or tryÂ to get them to stay. But what about the repercussions that a resignation may...; Tags: Team, Staff Departure, Team Management, Management, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-09-07
Beware of Breaching Unwritten Contracts: Companies looking to cut costs and avoid layoffs can sometimes risk a serious backlash from staff. I've seen firms implement pay freezes, introduce flexible work practices, and make big alterations to their pension plans.Â The more radical are even talking about lending staff to competitors. ...; Tags: Staff, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Team Management, Public Relations, Branding, Workforce Management, Career, Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-08-26
Does This Recession Finally Herald the Flexible Job Age?: Just over a year ago, we hosted a working session presented by Professor Ellen Kossek to a large group of UK employers on the nature of flexible work today. It was clear then that flexible work practices and the issue of work-life balance were no longer marginal but had entered...; Tags: Career Development, Job, Team, Recession, U.K., Ellen Kossek, Professional Development, Team Management, Training And Certification, Career, Management, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-08-07

The Transformational Impact of Saying "Hello": One of the simplest, but most important changes that I helped to engender in a workplace happened during a period of rapid employee disengagement.Â It was when I got a group of partners from one of the BigÂ Four accountants in the division I worked to understand how their employees viewed...; Tags: Staff, Line Manager, John Purcell, Recruitment & Selection, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-07-24
Stress is a Bigger Problem than 1970s Strikes: Alice Chen has given some timely advice on handling stress. But there is a worrying disconnect between the poor mental health of on an organisation's workers and its understanding of the potentially significant consequences. Stress today has a more damaging impact on productivity than industrial unrest did...; Tags: Health Care, Alice Chen, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-07-20
How to Regain the Trust of Disengaged Staff: Organisational trust has been studied for many years. Only relatively recently however have events helped to drive this issue to the top of many business agendas. The near collapse of the financial system and the actions of senior bankers is one of the most damaging. The recent...; Tags: Trust, Harassment, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-06-30
Follow Google for Results on Employee Metrics: A senior HR director at one of the worldâ€™s global energy giants recently said to me that there were many bold claims made years ago that people metrics or workforce analytics would revolutionize management. That never happened, so whatâ€™s different now? Well firstly letâ€™s consider whatÂ workforce analyticsÂ is....; Tags: Google Inc., Team, Workforce, People Metric, Workforce Analytic, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-06-15
The High Cost of Low Morale: Employee engagement is the top workforce priority for 2009, according to a King's College London survey. It's now a strategic HR objective, as well as part of the corporate brand, with companies competing to be great places to work. Even the government has taken to the term,...; Tags: Career, Costco Wholesale Corp., Employee Engagement, Engagement, Human Resources, Payroll Solutions, Performance, Performance Management, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Stuart Woollard, Workforce, Workforce Management; Blog posts 2009-06-04
What's Your Motivation Trigger?: Motivation is a mix of incentives and HR set-ups. The trick is to know which triggers will deliver the most commitment in your business. by Stuart Woollard; Tags: Motivation, Leadership, Management, Stuart Woollard; Blog posts 2009-11-10