Helping Line Managers become successful Talent Managers...

Agreeing to become a mentor is the easy part. Believe it or not, when HR professionals try to get mentoring programmes off the ground, one of the most vexing problems is the “matching” process.

Welcome back from the Christmas break – I hope that you enjoyed your time off work. To kick off the New Year we’re diving straight in with a three-part series on the often discussed subject of mentoring. And it makes sense that the best and most insightful place to begin is defining what we mean by a mentor.

At this time of year, many of your team will be starting to turn their attention to their career direction for the New Year. This blog, previously published in February 2016, is a great starting place to help them start to get there…

One of the toughest challenges you might face as a manager is taking over as the leader of a team that you were already a part of.

One of the reasons that many managers dread the annual talent process is that they know it also may be followed by a conversation with team members about the outcome.