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In the early days of Netflix, Reed Hastings (Co-Founder and CEO), asked Patty McCord (Chief Talent Officer) to help write out the company’s core values. This led to, quoting Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, “one of the most important documents ever to come out of Silicon Valley”.  In this interview series, we will talk with Human Resources leaders about Netflix's famous inn...

At long last, it is starting to feel like the world is returning to some semblance of normality. With vaccination rates now rising at a fantastic pace, it can well be hoped that the worst is behind us and we can finally begin to not just to think about future plans, but put them in to action. It is safe to say that one of the biggest, most pressing topics on the minds of bus...

Suvi Aaltonen is a Talent Management and Learning & Development specialist with experience working at country, regional and global level in large multinational, matrix companies. She is currently Global Lead Talent& Learning at Swiss Post Solutions.  Here, Frazer Jones' Delband Tamjidi talks to her about managing performance reviews, employee engagement, and learning and dev...

Employer branding is not a new topic, but the way that companies are approaching it has transformed in the past 12 months. Here, we share some success stories, innovative new approaches and provide a view into what the expectation is from the candidate side on what firms need to be doing (or doing better). All aspects of the employee lifecycle process will change, from the i...

Well, what a difference a year makes. It was almost exactly a year ago that the world as we knew it ground to a halt. As global immunisation efforts continue and we are able to start planning for the future, we are already beginning to get glimpses of which changes will take root and become the ‘next normal’, as well as those aspects that will revert to what went before. It ...

​​ Disclaimer: Please note that all commentary and opinions provided in this interview are those of the individual and not the organisation/company they are employed by.  What is one lesson you learnt the hard way?  There is no use in trying to do everything like male leaders do. Not every successful (male) manager is a role model for diversity and respect. Often I was the o...

It has been one year since the world as we knew it changed forever, and the way we work right alongside it. Many people have reduced their time in an office environment and shifted much of their daily work to the desk at home. A trend that has already been rising in popularity in recent years received another timely boost, namely that of business utilisation of social media ...

For our fourth online roundtable event, I spoke with six HR leaders working for law firms and management consultancies in Germany. We began the talk by exploring initiatives that have been implemented to stay in close contact with the employees and to maintain a certain degree of team spirit. Some of the HR leaders have had success in implementing check-in/check-out sessions...

Disclaimer: Please note that all commentary and opinions provided in this interview are those of the individual and not the organisation/company they are employed by.  What skills and attributes do female leaders bring to create diverse leadership at management level?  Leadership today means for most of us, to work more and in more international, intercultural and interdisci...

During this past year we have been challenged beyond what could ever have been reasonably conceivable. In such unprecedented times and a period of incredible upheaval and tremendous uncertainty, why then should we also #ChooseToChallenge, on top of the daily challenges that we have no choice about? Because, whilst we have come so far, there is still further to go. There is s...