4 November 2016

Get To Know Our New Partner, Andrew Steele

As a Partner in our Auckland office, Andrew brings more than 30 years of senior Human Resource experience in executive and consulting roles in New Zealand and Australia. Andrew has... Read more...

2 November 2016

Our Top Takeaways From The Deloitte HR Trends For 2017

There’s no doubt that technology is rapidly changing the way we work across all kinds of industries and job roles. For HR professionals, the impacts of technological change on the... Read more...

19 October 2016

Is It Time To Challenge How You’re Measuring The Quality Of Your Hire?

When it comes to talent acquisition, do you choose to focus on measures of cost or measures of quality? A while back we introduced the Recruitment Type Indicator as a... Read more...

29 September 2016

The Next Chapter in our Story

When Generator Talent started in 2007, we did a range of talent-related work; search, leadership development and consulting. When you start up a consulting business, you feel the need to... Read more...

11 February 2016

Bridging the Talent – Management Gap

My last post, The Real Talent – Management Gap described the ever widening space between what HR and talent professionals are thinking, saying and doing about developing people, and the... Read more...

3 February 2016

The Real Talent – Management Gap

The world of the talent specialist is continually evolving with increasingly sophisticated insights and technologies on the science, practice and process of leading and developing people.  When I was an... Read more...

29 October 2015

The Jetson’s View on How to Identify you Most Valuable Employees

So I woke up pretty early this morning, and as I’m sure you all do, I started thinking about a better way of finding and assessing your high performers. Not... Read more...

24 September 2015

I was busy doin’ something close to nothin’

Yes, it’s a line from the classic Prince song Raspberry Beret . . . and apologies upfront if you don’t get the song out of your head for a while,... Read more...

11 September 2015

The Four Elements of Performance Management

In recent posts I pointed out that Douglas Macgregor identified issues with the practice of performance appraisal in an HBR article nearly sixty years ago, issues scarily similar to the... Read more...

4 September 2015

A Further Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal

Recently I published a post highlighting that while there has been a lot written about the failings of performance management practices and, the fact some high profile organisations have announced... Read more...

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