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What would we do if we were to learn that there is no future in what we do on a daily basis? Would be heartbreaking, would it not? Companies without leaders and an able team are usually known to have no future. In the same way, an employee that has no future in the company is also unlikely to see out a longer tenure. Every one of us are different, unique and possess our own unique talents. It is important to offer impatient workers with hope, restless with peace and anxious ones with a promise of a bigger and better tomorrow. Talent management, Career and Succession management issues are evident in today’s corporate world. This has pushed every little and big organisation to seek application of useful measures in tackling these issues.

Topics: Career & Succession management

Often in a company people rely on external professionals to embark on a path of personal growth. Those external professionals, thanks to Coaching initiatives, help to raise awareness of the abilities, to unleash the power and achieve better goals. In the Hera Group we have built a dedicated team and our competency model, defining the tools and the processes that every internal or external coach must follow.

Topics: Career & Succession management

As Career & Succession Management grows in maturity, it is no surprise to see the processes closely align to, and integrate with, other Talent Management processes. In fact this is now becoming a key feature, as much of the information that we gather either crosses over with, or can be used to enhance, other processes such as Strategic Workforce Planning, Performance Management and Learning & Development. 

Topics: Career & Succession management

Many businesses report having difficulty with the attraction and recruitment of new employees, especially those who have the necessary, defined skill sets required for specific roles. To overcome this, it is important that they develop, up-skill, and retain their existing employees. This also makes commercial sense when comparing internal development with the cost and difficulty of filling specialist roles externally, or time taken to on-board replacements.

Topics: Career & Succession management

New attitudes towards ‘full-time employment’ have been emerging over recent years, primarily driven by a rise in the use of contract and contingent labour, more flexible working schedules, job sharing, retirees continuing in the workplace in a part-time capacity, and other working arrangements that would have been much less common a decade or more ago. 

Topics: Career & Succession management

Succession Management has previously become an established process within larger organisations as they have sought to maintain leadership continuity through a pipeline of emerging talent. However we are now seeing an increasing recognition of value of succession management processes, from smaller organisations.

Topics: Career & Succession management

The new generations of young employees arriving at companies, the millennials, are becoming increasingly important to those in charge of Human Resources, because they make up a larger proportion of the workforce (in the United States they will represent around 40 percent of the workforce in 2020), and because their demands are very different from those of the baby boomers or Generation X: they have a great interest in acquiring a variety of skills and living challenging experiences, they attach greater value to flexibility and diversity, and they demand prospects for professional development.

Topics: Career & Succession management

A growing number of companies that operate in various countries are introducing common and coherent career and succession plans for all geographical areas in which they are present. This is a trend we had already detected in our Report on Career and Succession Management and which we noticed again during a recent workshop in which 10 Top Employers companies in Spain shared their good practices in this area.

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A combination of factors, such as the growing scarcity 

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Career and succession management is undergoing far-reaching change. From being a process which focused on replacing a company’s key positions, it is evolving to focus its efforts on retention, development and employee commitment at every level of the organisation.

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Transparency helps retention

Issues around talent retention and development remain high on the agenda for CEOs and senior HR professionals. In an uncertain economic climate with growing skill shortages, businesses can ill afford to risk losing valuable knowledge and intellectual capital, whether through retirement or a growing restlessness amongst younger workers.

Topics: Career & Succession management

The implementation of appropriate succession planning for key positions has become a factor of success for organisations. Additionally, it is increasingly associated with the career management at all levels of the organisation. After carrying out comprehensive analysis among the Top Employers enterprises, we have found out that career and succession management are interrelated.

Topics: Career & Succession management

The implementation of appropriate succession planning for key positions has become a factor of success for organisations. Additionally, it is increasingly associated with the career management at all levels of the organisation. After carrying out comprehensive analysis among the Top Employers Spain, we have found out that succession managment and career management are interrelated.

Topics: Career & Succession management

After comprehensive analysis of the 63 enterprises certified as Top Employer Spain 2015 and nearly 1,000 enterprises worldwide, we detected a number of HR trends and innovations that will set the performance of Human Resources departments locally as well as globally during this year.

With our new Top Employers Best Practices Survey that is developed by 50 experts worldwide and adapted to the realities of each country, we have evaluated nearly 600 best practices in nine different fields.The Certification Programme l is only for enterprises with the highest standards of Human Resources, which has also allowed us to capture the main trends in HR management.

Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Compensation & Benefits, Career & Succession management, On-boarding

Since 1991, the Top Employers Institute certifies excellence in the conditions that companies create for their people. The introduction of a Top Employers Global Certification programme is a logical next step in view of the global trend in harmonisation of employee conditions. The first Global Certifications will be announced during the Global Certification Dinner on March 5, at the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum.

Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Compensation & Benefits, Career & Succession management, Workforce planning & Talent strategy, On-boarding

Madrid, 20 October 2014 - Human Resource Directors from more than 40 companies discussed their practices in leadership, learning, performance, succession and careers at the HR Summit organised by Top Employers at Campus Repsol in Madrid. During four simultaneous interactive workshops on Friday 17 October, these company leaders put emphasis on the need to move toward a culture of learning, leading by simply managing the complex, and making the employee the protagonist of his own career.

Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Career & Succession management

Top Employers win top talent through the implementation of a few simple principles Research and experience is showing that employers of choice manage to attract and retain top talent by sticking to a few simple principles and embedding them throughout the company. It's in their DNA.

Topics: Career & Succession management

There are few things in life as rewarding as seeing your offspring grow, develop, and become little knowledgeable people. As a mother, I know that it is not only a necessity, but also a point of pride, even an obsession at times. As a company, an organization that not only cares for the professional development of its people, but also for their personal growth within the corporate culture will have all the tools they need, like children who have just begun to walk. With the proper support, well-managed business professionals have the capacity to "change" the world, just like children.

Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Career & Succession management

Best in class organisations around the globe are redefining their development programmes to adapt themselves to globalisation, emerging communication technologies and growing specialisation.

Topics: Career & Succession management, Culture

Is it more effective to recruit superstars from outside or to recruit among your own? Businesses confront the same dilemma that athletic clubs do when trying to look for new talent in key positions.

Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Career & Succession management, Workforce planning & Talent strategy