Continuous Performance Management

Three keys to developing a feedback-friendly culture

How to create a feedback-friendly culture at work to improve performance management

Continuous Performance Management

Training course to help managers have better performance conversations

Training course to equip your managers to have better performance conversations as part of continuous performance management.

Is your 360 degree feedback effective?

Find out the 'non-negotiables' to make your 360 degree feedback more effective.

Career Path Mapping

How to help employees reimagine their future career

Learn the essential actions organisations need to take right now to transform employee career conversations and boost employee retention.

Talent Management

Why Outsourcing Your 360-Degree Feedback is a Smart Move

Find out how outsourcing your 360 degree feedback programmes can help you get all the benefits of 360, without the administrative burden.

Talent Management

Why online 360-degree feedback is the only sustainable way forward

Understand why paper-based 360 degree feedback is not sustainable, secure, accurate or convenient. Move online for 360 even if working with few...

Talent Management

Using kudos to augment wellbeing

How to include within performance management recognition for a job well done and to pass on kudos.

Talent Management

Care for some kudos?

How can we start to build kudos and recognition into working practices? Find out how.

Talent Management

Workplace wellbeing: Is it enough of a Priority?

Find out the actions you can take to help prioritise workplace wellbeing within your organisation and how best to support managers to do this.

Talent Management

New Year, New Talent Platform?

Let down by talent management software providers? Check out the essential questions you need answers to when talking with any potential platform...

Talent Management

8 challenges facing HR in a recession – and what to do about them

Faced with a recession, what are the key HR challenges confronting organisations? Find out how talent management and retention platforms can support.

Talent Management software

6 warning signs that it’s time to change your 360 platform provider

Read about the critical signs that suggest it's time to rethink who supports your 360 degree feedback programmes.

Trends in Talent Management

Reskill to retain – and shift skills management to the employee

Reskilling is now recognised as a crucial component in any retention programme. Find out how to empower employees to reskill and develop a career...

Trends in Talent Management

Time to follow a more employee-centric approach to skills management?

Read why it is time to move on from HR-driven and HR-curated skills management so key talent can update and promote their skills across the business.

Continuous Performance Management

How to ensure competencies and goals fit with future business needs

Learn how to ensure you are developing the workforce competencies needed in the future and helping employees to understand their own career paths.

Continuous Performance Management

Don’t just stop the talent drain, encourage talent to stay!

What are the talent management initiatives that can help retain employees and give them a vision of the future with you? 

Talent Management

A diverse workforce is built from more than inclusive hiring practices

Creating a diverse workforce requires a rethink of all talent practices including succession planning and progression. Tools and analytics can help.

Continuous Performance Management

How to make hybrid working work

Hybrid working is here to stay. The challenge now is how to make hybrid working work for all. Find out how HR can support this with the right talent...

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Hybrid Working

Has greater flexibility given us less visibility?

We know that remote working has given us the flexibility that many of us craved. But, is working from home – even for some of the time – a...

Hybrid Working

Has work-life balance been replaced by work-life integration?

It seems that work-life balance has become perhaps even less possible than it was before – or it is simply an unhelpful concept? We take a closer...

Hybrid Working

Video meeting technology: a double-edged sword?

In our latest blog, we consider whether the use of video meeting technology is both a blessing and a curse or is it a double-edged sword?

Hybrid Working

Time to re-think where and how we work

In this article, we consider the impact of the pandemic and what this means for practices in our world, such as learning and development, engagement,...

Continuous Performance Management

‘Nudging’ with Sticky Notes to help employees stay on track with continuous performance management

Getting started with performance management can be daunting but our sticky note tool can help employees to maintain their engagement with ongoing...

Succession Planning

Building on a recovering economy with effective succession planning tools

We think that if the recent challenges have taught us anything it's that businesses need to embrace and embed succession planning software if they...

Continuous Performance Management

360 feedback meeting question prompts for managers

What are the questions that work well as prompts for managers in 360 review feedback sessions?

360 degree feedback

Best Practice in 360 degree feedback

The Good Practice Guide for 360 degree feedback offers tips, templates and ideas to deliver best practice in 360 degree feedback

Succession Planning

Revisiting the Consumerisation of Succession Planning – it’s time to change

In 2015 we reflected on the consumerisation of talent urging organisations to adapt their succession planning strategies to emerging trends or risk...

Continuous Performance Management

Tools to Enable and Encourage Feedback in Continuous Performance Management

Assuming your organisation’s Continuous Performance Management strategy is underway, how do you know you’re on track and how are you recording those...

Employee Engagement

Amplifying the employee voice in succession planning career conversations

Amplify the 'employee voice' to develop more coherent and robust succession plans for your organisation.

360 degree feedback

Template with Step by Step Instructions to Help Reviewers Give 360 Feedback

We've put together a free template for HR leaders and 360 review programme managers with step-by-step instructions to help reviewers give good...

Succession Planning

Driving an agile, innovative culture in the era of hybrid working

As we return to normality, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset. Are we going to try to do too much and miss the big wins?

Continuous Performance Management

The work doesn’t stop after you’ve launched your Continuous Performance Management process: here’s why

Here are our 5 essential steps to implement post-launch to ensure the successful longevity and growth of your continuous performance management...

Continuous Performance Management

The Design of Continuous Performance Management: How to Get Buy-in

Here we discuss six top tips for reaching out and getting the essential buy-in in the early stages of the design project to get a widely accepted...

Continuous Performance Management

The Challenges Of Continuous Performance Management With Remote Workers – And How To Overcome Them

How are you supporting your remote workforce through continuous performance management? Here we summarise what's needed to help you overcome the...

Continuous Performance Management

Performance Management: Focus on Engagement Rather Than Compliance

Deploying and embedding a continuous performance management approach that focuses on engagement rather than compliance requires a rethink of how to...

Continuous Performance Management

Fuelling Talent Management With Continuous Performance Management

As you head into 2021, it’s time to get your Talent and Performance Management working together and take both to the next level.

Continuous Performance Management

Why Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop the Successful Launch of a New Continuous Performance Management System

Read how Northamptonshire Police successfully implemented their Continuous Performance Management programme during COVID lockdown.

Talent Management

Is your organisation advancing under-represented talent?

Driving Diversity and Inclusion in Corporate Talent Pipelines. Charting current Diversity metrics and predicting how that could change. Tools and...

Succession Planning

How to build resilience to uncertainty with more robust and agile Succession Planning

These uncertain times are driving more and more organisations to engage with reducing their 'people-risk' with more robust and agile approaches to...

360 degree feedback

360 Degree and Dispersed Team Feedback

It's more important than ever to be getting useful feedback about how you're doing. Here we explore how a 360 can help you do that.

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Week 5 - More tolerance and humanity and less judgement from our managers and leaders

Managers and leaders need to be more tolerant, more accepting of individual circumstances as we start to return to work. 

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Week 4 - Our employers showing more interest in us as people - as individuals

Get to know your team’s circumstances, challenges, wants, needs, motivations and preferences to get more from them.

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Week 3 - More ongoing kudos for ‘lower skilled’, frontline keyworker and public sector jobs

Managers and HR departments alike should be taking a fresh look at how valued and engaged the entire workforce feels.

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Week 2 - Ensure resilience-building and business continuity are given sufficient attention

How can we come back and retain the resilience we have had to show in the last few months?

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Week 1 - A more inclusive approach to flexible working

A clear call for much greater flexibility and more access to remote working for all has been issued on the back of this COVID19 crisis.

Trends in Talent Management

Coming Back Better - Introducing our new 5-week series

Tackling some of the main changes that are worth keeping and what the practices, policies and behaviours that we should work to sustain post COVID19.

Continuous Performance Management

Head Light redesigns and delivers Feedback Facilitation Course for remote teams

We have adapted the course to work as a blended learning, virtual programme, for organisations whose teams are geographically dispersed, remote teams...

Career Path Mapping

Eliminating the rituals - Succession Management in a World Disrupted by COVID-19

Rethinking your approach to succession planning in the light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Career Path Mapping

Effective Leadership in the COVID-19 Remote Working Era

We are in unprecedented times, and that calls for unprecedented leadership. Leaders of organisations today are probably facing the toughest decisions...

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 6: Empowerment and Delegation

The final week of our 6-week series looks at how managers need to be instilling a sense of empowerment and authority and how leaders must take part...

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 5: Motivation and Engagement

What drives people to be motivated and engaged at work? Find out in Week 5 of our Series.

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 4: Creating a team identity

Bringing people together and creating a team identity is the subject of Week 4 of our Series.

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 3: Coaching

Getting better at coaching conversations and talking about health, wellbeing and work-life balance. 

Talent Management

How to develop coaching competencies using 360 degree feedback

Use an online 360 tool to help develop the coaching capabilities of internal coaches or use with external business coaches to support their coaching...

Continuous Performance Management

Revisiting How to Build a Feedback and Coaching Culture - is yours working?

How we can help you to assess the growth in capability of managers giving feedback and building a coaching culture

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 2: Giving Good Feedback

Why is it so important for managers to give good feedback to their team members and how do they do it?

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Week 1: Emotional Intelligence

The first of our 6-week series on Emotional Intelligence

Continuous Performance Management

Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts - Introducing our new 6-week series

Introducing our new 6-week series - Mobilising the Messy Analogue Moving Parts.

Developing Competencies

11 ways to make sure your competency framework delivers on expectations

Here are our top tips for bringing your competency framework to life, based on a real world application.

Continuous Performance Management

What is Employee Feedback?

All about Feedback

360 degree feedback

Better data for Talent Reviews & Succession Planning

How to improve the data used for Talent Reviews & Succession Planning. Use 360 degree feedback to develop insight and perspective.

Continuous Performance Management

Simply Conversations, Feedback & Cadence

There are three simple principles that underpin the new approach to continuous performance management - Conversations, Feedback and Cadence.

360 degree feedback

Why open questions can be more powerful than ratings in 360 degree feedback

The trend for written feedback over ratings continues and while it's common to have open ended questions , often they are little more than 'start,...

Continuous Performance Management

How to mix conversational PM, avoid ratings yet support a bonus culture

With reward decisions based on ratings, how can organisations, built on a bonus expectation, drive their employee reward strategy, without ratings?

Developing Competencies

Review & renew your competency framework

Tips on how to carry out a strategic review your competency framework with a view to updating and revising this.

Career Path Mapping

Enabling employee career choices with digital tools

Use an online career path mapping tool to support employees to explore and map out a career path - and to help HR retain key talent.

Talent Management

Talent Management software isn't an expensive luxury

Curious about the cost of talent management software? Find out - based on your business needs. Access leading-edge online software and outsource its...

Continuous Performance Management

Making Check-Ins a purposeful conversation.

We all want managers to having more conversations with their team, but how can we help them make those conversations more 'purposeful'?

Continuous Performance Management

How detailed does your Competency framework need to be?

Helps you determine how detailed your competency framework should be

360 degree feedback

Six ways to help team performance using 360 degree feedback

360 degree feedback is widely used for individual development planning. Now look to extend your use of it to make teams more effective. Read how in...

Employee Engagement

Build Succession Plans based on solid Career Conversations

Harness the 'employee voice' to create more realistic, credible and reliable succession plans for your organisation.

Continuous Performance Management

Is Continuous Performance Management right for your organisation?

Find out the three key markers that indicate that your organisation might be ready for the transition to Continuous Performance Management - and what...

Succession Planning

Using a 9 box grid: an invaluable tool for succession planning

The 9 Box Grid is a valuable and visual tool used across succession planning. 9 Box Grid alternatives include Performance/Potentials Grids and form a...

Succession Planning

What is Succession Planning?

What is succession planning? Find out how succession planning helps to identify and grow talent to fill leadership and business critical positions in...

Talent Management

Talent Management Definitions: are you up to speed?

Keep up with the ever-changing world of Talent Management by using this quick access glossary of Talent Management terms and definitions. Use as your...

Succession Planning

The 5 key features of Succession Planning

Find out the important features of succession planning processes. From the need to identify critical positions and those with high potential who will...

Succession Planning

The benefits of succession planning

Find out what the benefits of succession planning can be. If you're deciding what your succession planning policy could be, take a look at some of...

Succession Planning

What goes into a Succession Planning Template?

What gets included in a succession planning template? Once you have agreed the approach and the succession planning model you are using, you then...

Continuous Performance Management

You cannot change culture without changing behaviour

eBook offer. Find out how Performance Management supports the drive to change organisational cultural. It covers: the importance of performance...

Succession Planning

What is a Succession Planning Talent Review Meeting?

How does your succession planning talent review meeting work out? Does it follow a process and structure? Do you capture the outputs in a 9 Box Grid?...

Continuous Performance Management

How to receive feedback - graciously!

To receive feedback graciously - when positive or not so positive - can be tricky. Find out the 4 simple rules to bear in mind when getting feedback.

360 degree feedback

Not all 360 review systems are the same!

All 360 software is not the same. Online efficiencies are standard and what sets 360 apart is the depth, insight and usability of the system so that...

Succession Planning

Reducing bias in Succession Planning Talent Review meetings

Read what are 10 of the most common biases that we bring to any decision-making situation. Learn how we need to be aware of these so that we can...

Succession Planning

Are you ready to get started with succession planning?

Use our simple audit tool to see if your organisation is ready to get started with succession planning. Take a look at your critical roles, your...

Succession Planning

Deciding which Succession Planning Model will work for you

How do you define which effective succession planning model will work best for your organisation? Agile and fluid, flexible or more stable and...

Succession Planning

Succession plans: how to use 360 to identify potential

Find out how you can use your 360 data already gathered as part of a 360 degree feedback review to help identify potential - and specifically those...

Talent Management

Talent Management software: too tricky for smaller businesses?

Some smaller sized businesses see talent management as something just for larger organisations. And yet their employees have the same need to be...

Succession Planning

How to identify critical positions for succession planning

How do you identify critical positions for succession planning? Remember to look beyond your leaders and see which expert or specialist roles are...

Continuous Performance Management

What is Continuous Performance Management?

Continuous Performance Management is much talked about. But what is continuous performance management - and how can you get move your current...

Succession Planning

How to improve Succession Planning

Take a look at how you can improve succession planning processes to ensure that talent management and succession planning align.

Talent Management

The Essential Talent Management Analytics you need to know

A chance to watch the video recording of our presentation exploring talent management analytics on behalf of CIPHR at the CIPD HR Software and...

360 degree feedback

6 reasons why you'd want to use 360 degree feedback with teams

360 degree feedback is widely used for individual development planning. Now look to extend your use of it to make teams more effective. Read how in...

How to record feedback in Continuous Performance Management

How can you support your managers and employees to give and receive feedback on performance, goals and objectives without it being cumbersome and...

The fundamental talent management questions you need to answer

The 6 fundamental talent management questions you ought to be able to answer

Succession Planning

Are succession plans becoming shorter - and more guided?

Looks at how succession plans are becoming more focused, shorter and more guided

Continuous Performance Management

Continuous Performance Management: why and how

Learn why Continuous Performance Management is the natural shift of performance review - and how to get started. Get our free eBook.

Are you going to the CIPD L&D Show next week?

Get ready to choose your talent management software supplier at the CIPD L&D Show by finding out how they answer these questions

How to navigate your way through Talent Analytics - a webinar

Find out which talent analytics and talent metrics are essential to your organisation - and learn how to ignore the noise from the others. Join us at...

Trends in Talent Management

The trends in HR for 2018

What are the trends in HR for 2018? We explore 4 key trends; the shift from 'Employee Engagement' to 'Employee Experience'; the digitisation of HR;...

360 degree feedback

Do you know what makes for Good Practice in 360 degree feedback?

Good Practice Guide for 360 degree feedback offers tips, templates and ideas to deliver good practice in 360 degree feedback

360 degree feedback

The value of open ended questions in 360 degree feedback

Are you writing a 360 degree feedback questionnaire and wanting to include open-ended questions to get more evidence? Find out how in our useful...

Talent Management software

Talent Management software suppliers; how do they stack up?

Looking at talent management software and finding it hard to know what to ask of the suppliers you meet? Use this list of questions to act as a...

Talent Management

What's the cost of Talent Management software?

Curious about the cost of talent management software? Find out - based on your business needs. Access leading-edge online software and outsource its...

360 degree feedback

5 essentials for small businesses using 360 degree feedback

If you're an SME and looking to get started with 360 degree feedback, then our e-book is a must read.

Talent Management

Integrated Talent Management - when you're not a 'corporate'

Is robust effective talent management out of the reach of smaller or medium-sized, non-corporate businesses?

Talent Management software

Getting ready for GDPR

How Head Light is working with its clients to get ready for GDPR and their use of talent management software

Continuous Performance Management

Performance review software for small companies

Find out about performance review software for small companies. Getting started with performance management can be daunting. Help engagement by...

360 degree feedback

How to make sure you give your 360 the best chance of success

Looks at the essential characteristics that will give your 360 degree feedback project the best chance of success and value.

Continuous Performance Management

How to check Continuous Performance Management is working

Does continuous performance management work? Announcing the Continuous Performance Management Index - to help you determine how your continuous and...

Succession Planning

Is your succession planning up to scratch?

Easy-to-ask but tricky-to-answer succession planning questions. Take a look at these tricky succession planning questions, and see how you would...

What makes a good objective?

Looks at going beyond SMART objectives to help improve the writing of a good objective for people at work

360 degree feedback

Help - I have to review someone as part of a 360. What do I do?

How can you help people give better feedback as part of 360 degree feedback processes

Continuous Performance Management

The benefits of Performance Management for HR

Find out the benefits of performance management for the HR team. Learn what you need to do to get started.

How to set an objective for SME employees

Helps SME in their employee objective setting by going beyond SMART objectives

Continuous Performance Management

What does a good development goal look like?

Looks at how to write a good development goal as part of an on-going continuous performance management approach. Support for managers.

Trends in Talent Management

How Talent Management can destroy meaningfulness at work

Explores how to create meaningfulness at work through an organisation's talent management approach

360 degree feedback

Do men and women rate differently in 360 degree feedback?

Are there gender biases in the way in which people rate others or themselves in 360 degree feedback

Succession Planning

Succession Planning: embracing the changing talent market

How does the growth in the career portfolio impact succession planning

Succession Planning

Succession planning: spot the high potentials

Find out more about the two key challenges of succession planning: identifying the right people and embracing the shift in the talent market....

Continuous Performance Management

The actions to take to make Continuous Performance Management work

Find out what do you need to get in place in order to adopt continuous performance management? What are the actions to take for Continuous...

360 degree feedback

Help reviewers give better 360 degree feedback

How can you help your managers to give higher quality feedback as they review participants as part of 360 degree feedback

Continuous Performance Management

Is Continuous Performance Management working?

How do you know that continuous performance management is working? If you have made the move, how are you measuring how it is working?

360 degree feedback

What is best practice for 360 degree feedback?

What makes for a good online 360 degree feedback process? 9 essential characteristics to get the most from this important & valuable talent...

Talent Management software

Design your own talent management software system

Looks at the 5 stages organisations can work through to design and deploy their own talent management software system

Continuous Performance Management

Aligning objectives at Muñoz in the UK

Looks at how Munoz Group in UK has introduced online performance management and 360 degree feedback and aligning objectives with those of the business

Continuous Performance Management

7 steps to setting better performance objectives

Find out how to help managers set better performance objectives as part of on-going performance appraisal

360 degree feedback

Travis Perkins uses Talent 360 for aspiring store managers

Travis Perkins group uses Talent 360 for aspiring store managers and branch managers as part of its development programme.

Employee Engagement

What makes for great employee engagement software?

The essentials needed in employee engagement software to give organisations valuable, meaningful and actionable information

360 degree feedback

How can 360 review software fit with your organisation's culture?

Look at how to improve the fit between 360 review and the organisational culture.

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement trends in 2017

Reviews employee engagement trends and what research tell us in 2017. We consider the importance of Talent Management processes on employee...

Succession Planning

Tricky succession planning questions to answer

Easy-to-ask but hard to answer succession planning questions. Take a look at these tricky succession planning questions, and see how you would...

360 degree feedback

What to consider when introducing 360 for the first time

Areas to think about when you are introducing 360 degree feedback for the first time.

Career Path Mapping

Help managers to have career conversations

How to help managers to have career conversations. See how straightforward career path mapping is for employees and help managers to have career...

360 degree feedback

The real value of 360 degree feedback: the feedback session

The problems when feeding back 360 and how to overcome them.

Succession Planning

How to make succession planning more effective

Find out how to make your succession planning strategy more effective. Transform succession planning talent reviews to make your succession planning...

Talent Management

Time to re-visit your Talent Management approach?

Explores how to review, update or develop for the first time a Talent Management Strategy

Developing Competencies

How to define what good looks like

Explores how to draw on the information available to define what good looks like in your organisation

Continuous Performance Management

Make the move to Agile Performance Management - join our webinar

Transform your own HR role and change how others see you and your contribution when you introduce on-going, agile performance management. Join our...

Continuous Performance Management

What is needed for continuous performance management

What is needed to introduce continuous performance management. Find out the 9 essentials to making a transition to a more agile performance appraisal...

Getting your values to work

Getting your values embedded across the organisation

Using the right scales in your 360 assessment

The best scales to include in 360 assessment - includes a description of these, when to use and suggests anchor points

Continuous Performance Management

How to implement a great performance management approach

Learn how to implement and deploy a robust performance appraisal approach that is goes beyond the annual performance review

Developing Competencies

Making competencies work: the nuts and bolts of the organisation

Take a look across all your talent management activities and see how your competency framework feeds into and is reinforced in each area.

360 degree feedback

360 degree feedback hacks

A collection of 360 degree feedback hacks, or shortcuts, to help your people get the most from reviewing their 360 report by flagging areas to look at

Continuous Performance Management

Can you say that Continuous Performance Management is working?

How do you know that your move to continuous performance management is working and your people have more regular performance conversations

Talent Management software

Is your Talent Management software right for your organisation?

The areas to investigate and questions to ask when looking for a talent management software provider to determine the best fit between supplier and...

Talent Management

Develop coaching competencies using 360 degree feedback

Use an online 360 tool to help developing the coaching capabilities of internal coaches or use with external business coaches to support their...

How to use 360 in conflict resolution

Looks at how 360 can be used in conflict resolution by providing anonymous feedback, to support the mediation conversation and to inform development

360 degree feedback

Can 360 help to spot potential?

Use online 360 degree feedback to help identify and spot potential. Extend your use of 360 beyond that of personal, individual development plans

Talent Management

Using 360 to measure ROI of L&D

Looks at re-purposing 360 degree feedback information to help assess the ROI of L&D activities and programmes.

360 degree feedback

Re-use 360 degree feedback to inform group training needs

Re-use 360 information to help inform and support training needs analysis and to prioritise and focus learning and development resource

360 degree feedback

Is your standalone LMS isolating L&D? Using 360 alongside LMS

Learning Management Systems if used alone can lead to poorly differentiated learning. Use 360 alongside LMS to signpost the exact L&D interventions...

Talent Management software

Talent management software provider: find the best fit

The areas to investigate and questions to ask when looking for a talent management software provider to determine the best fit between supplier and...

360 degree feedback

The proof of the 360 pudding...

The opportunity to try out 360 degree feedback online. Choose from a range of 360 questionnaires, tell us who you want to take part and we'll do the...

Training, L&D

Plan ahead for the CIPD HR Software Show

Take a look at our talent management software at the CIPD HR Software Show - 15 and 16 June at Olympia, London. We're on stand H260.

Continuous Performance Management

How to track performance objectives in your organisation

How are your managers able to see the progress of the performance objectives of their people as part of their on-going performance management? Our...

Questions to ask potential Talent Management platform suppliers

Get ready to choose your talent management software supplier at the CIPD L&D Show by finding out how they answer these questions

Career Path Mapping

Plotting a career path with Talent Navigator®

Use an online career path mapping tool to support employees to explore and map out a career path - and to help HR retain key talent.

Developing Competencies

Bringing your competency framework to life

How to build your competency framework into all aspects of your talent management and organisation - and some ideas of the action you can take.

Continuous Performance Management

PDR process within the Police - do your systems comply?

See how Thames Valley Police uses online performance management software to support its annual PDR and performance review process

Developing Competencies

Time to spring clean your competency framework?

Tips on how to carry out a strategic review your competency framework with a view to updating and revising this.

Developing Competencies

Time to revisit your competency framework?

Many organisations have a Competency Framework, perhaps designed many years ago and some question its relevance now. Is it time to revisit its value?

Continuous Performance Management

The 10 steps to continuous performance management

Continuous performance management requires a shift away from annual review and needs the assessments, online tool, and communication plan to make it...

360 degree feedback

How to set the scene and re-contract in the 360 discussion

Establishing rapport and re-contracting are fundamental to a succession 360 degree facilitated feedback session; this blog suggests a structure for...

Continuous Performance Management

Does appraisal software help employees engage with objectives?

How can you measure engagement with objectives now you have introduced continuous performance management and moved away from an annual performance...

Trends in Talent Management

Career mapping for career planning

Take the information from your career mapping and include in an online carer planning tool for your employees

Continuous Performance Management

Learnings from Neuroscience to improve Performance Management

Find out more about how performance appraisal can learn something from neuroscience. Here we take the SCARF framework and apply it to improving...

Continuous Performance Management

Building on Talent Management trends

How to meet the Talent Management trends in 2016

Continuous Performance Management

Performance reviewing Gen y, Gen Z and the career consumer

Continuous performance management supports career consumers looking for a more meaningful two-way on-going conversation rather than a one-off annual...

Continuous Performance Management

5 essentials when transitioning to Continuous Performance Management

Performance reviews are changing but what are the fundamental areas to consider when looking at updating performance management processes?

Talent Management

Will the trends in talent management of 2015 play out in 2016?

What were the 5 core trends in talent management we witnessed in 2015?

360 degree feedback

Make 360 feedback meaningful

The challenge to organisations using 360 is how to make 360 feedback meaningful and the PAPU-NANU model helps in this

Continuous Performance Management

Improve performance conversations and move from performance ratings

Find out how you can support managers to improve performance conversations with their employees as part of on-going performance appraisal. How to...

Succession Planning

5 new considerations for Succession Planning

Nick Kemsley discusses 5 key aspects of succession planning which need to be thought about given the trend in the consumerisation of talent.

Succession Planning

The future of Succession Planning: is it time to change?

Find out what is the future of succession planning and hear from Professor Nick Kemsleyas he asks if it's time to develop a new approach to...

360 degree feedback

Using 360 degree feedback beyond development

Debbie Hance answers the question as to whether the use of organisations can use 360 degree feedback beyond development

360 degree feedback

Introducing 360: 3 key areas to consider

Introducing 360 can be daunting and in this article we share 3 key areas organisations need to consider when introducing 360 degree feedback.

Continuous Performance Management

How to help employees to get started with Performance Management

Getting started with performance management can be daunting. Help engagement by providing employees and managers with performance appraisal software...

360 degree feedback

How to use 360 to spot high potential

Spot high potential by making use of your 360 tool and highlight those people with the high potential for success in your organisation

Continuous Performance Management

Appraisals undervalued? Then calculate their return on investment

Looks at how to calculate the ROI of performance management using Head Light's ROI tool.

Continuous Performance Management

The future of Performance Management

Find out more about the future of performance management and why organisations are transitioning to a more continuous approach to performance...

Continuous Performance Management

Building a feedback and coaching culture – is it working?

How to assess the growth in capability of managers giving feedback and building a coaching culture

Succession Planning

Talent Consumerisation - the impact on succession planning

Look at the implications for succession planning policy and succession planning practice arising from move towards talent consumerisation. Succession...

Talent Consumerisation - the impact on employee engagement

How does the consumerisation of talent impact out employee engagement programmes and activities?

Continuous Performance Management

Performance Management with Gen Y: the implications for practice

Find out how does talent consumerisation impact the practices and processes of Performance Management ? What steps can organisations take to develop...

Continuous Performance Management

Don't throw away your paper-based performance management!

Improve your paper-based appraisals and performance management by letting Head Light show you how easily your current system can move online.

Talent Management software

Lessons from Marketing: seeing Talent as Customers

View your talent as customers

Trends in Talent Management

The Consumerisation of Talent

A shift in employee behaviour has seen the growth of the talent consumer. This consumerisation of talent has implications for talent management...

Ask your Talent Management software supplier this

Get ready to choose your talent management software supplier at the CIPD L&D Show by finding out how they answer these questions

Training, L&D

Plan ahead for the CIPD Learning and Development Show

Take a look at our talent management software at the CIPD Learning and Development Show - 13 and 14 May

Continuous Performance Management

The Winsor Review and anniversary PDR systems

The Winsor Review states the importance of anniversary PDRs. Head Light's Talent Performance cloud-based software is used by police forces to support...

Talent Management

Improving Talent Management by learning from Marketing

HR look at improving talent management by adopting activities used in marketing and to view talented people as consumers.

Talent Management

Generation Z - Talent Management

Talent management models need to change to accommodate those Gen Z employees. This event will discuss how to do this.

Talent Management software

It's all in the implementation

The key factors involved in a successful talent management software implementation

Continuous Performance Management

Are you responsible for other people's development plans?

6 ways to successfully deploy development plans

Trends in Talent Management

The Consumerisation of Talent - an event hosted by Head Light

The Consumerisation of Talent is an event for senior HR decision makers. It considers how more individualised talent practices help to retain the key...

360 degree feedback

Pinpointing the key areas of 360

Highlighting the key areas of 360 degree review feedback.

360 degree feedback

Use data in Succession Planning

Use data in succession planning by drawing together 360 degree feedback information and remove the line management bias in talent reviews

Talent Management

Create a Talent Management Strategy: take your business forward

Creating a talent management strategy to connect business strategy to your people strategy