HOW DO YOU PROMOTE INNOVATION AS HR?
How do leaders “promote innovation”? How do leaders protect those who “diverge from the norm”? […]
Partnership + Process = Results
Storyfing the Recruiting Process of a Chieff Accountant for the Italian subsidiary of an International Group. […]
INNOVATION & RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
While innovation is a must, you need to deal with resistance to change by Giovanna Combatti Alberto, the CEO, had been newly appointed by the international group to lead the 600 people distributed in five manufacturing plants. The company produces pumps and electrovalves, components for the appliance industry, where R&D/engineering area was the key one. [...]
20 things NOT to do on a Sales Call
Social network Linked In published an attractive contribution by a Sales Consultant, Geoffrey James about things you may not want to do on an effective Sales Call. Elaboration by Giovanna Combatti Social network Linked In published an attractive contribution by a Sales Consultant, Geoffrey James about things you may not want to do on an [...]
How To Conduct An Interesting Presentation
How to make the difference at communicating to an audience Elaboration by Giovanna Combatti On November 25, 2012 an expert in communication and public speaking, Alexander M. Orlando published this interesting summary about how to make the difference at communicating to an audience. Regardless of what you do for a living, your ability to communicate [...]
Recruiting Process of a Financial Controller
General Perspectives from one first CV Screening for a position in an international industrial group, headquartered in Italy by Giovanna Combatti One main aspect dividing into three categories the interviewed candidates, refers to their experience and "closeness" to manufacturing or sales costs or their general coordination of a Controlling team. And it is evident that [...]
How do you choose the best people to run your businesses?
How do you choose the best people to run your businesses? Elaboration by G. Combatti Recently on his blog Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group published this small but intense insight. Was asked an interesting question recently by members of the Global Philanthropists Circle and students at Manchester Business School. How do you choose the [...]
Hiring the Right People
Transcript by Giovanna Combatti from an article published on Harvard Business School Publishing Conferences feb. 2006 On this paper Marcus Buckinham, the author of The One Thing You Need to Know, starts by saying that “great companies hire the right people”, that is only possible if they are able to identify talents. And again he [...]
HR Challenges: Managing Polarities
How to add value in continuing strategic change Transcript By Niederdorf Italia The specialized website humanresources.about.com reports, this month, some perspectives from the author of “Real time for strategic change”, Robert W. Jacobs, about the role and challenges of the Human Resources Managers. Here are some estracts from that article. Do you live with any [...]
Recruiting Process
Some learnings from an interviewing process By Giovanna Combatti An Interviewing process offers a wonderful chance for “opening a window” on the dynamics around a specific function on the market labor in that particular period. At the same time, through the candidates eyes, the recruiter can “see” some major organizational aspects around that function, that [...]