In the final part of our series on talent and development Danny talks about some trends he’s seeing in HR.
Trends such as employer branding, social networking, technology as both liberator and jailer, and the rise of blended learning.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the series and found it useful, inspiring or both. If you’ve missed any parts or simply want to revisit them then pop here for the archive.
We’d like to thank Danny for doing this series. Find out more about the wonderful training and development work he does by popping over here.
In a continuation of the theme in part 5, Danny looks at how to measure performance in a meaningful and useful (actionable) way.
He says, for example, “What is the point…of knowing that each individual employee receives on average 5.5 training days a year. So what? Could you get a similar impact with fewer training days…doing something else?”
It contains more useful questions, tips and tricks if you’re a manager or help to manage talent. You can find all the previous episodes here.
After the brief hiatus, we’re back with Wain’s World!
And in part 5, Danny looks at the tricky area of performance management which he says is “more than the dreaded annual appraisal!”
As always, this is just 2-3mins long and contains useful tips and tricks if you’re a manager or help manage talent. You can find previous episodes here.
Part 4 of our series on developing talent. In this episode, Danny looks at building trust – which he categorizes as part credibility, part reliability and part intimacy.
Just spend 2-3mins watching to get some useful tips and tricks if you’re a manager or help manage talent. You can find previous episodes here.
This week, Danny Wain looks at how to draw inspiration from Google to innovate in HR and talent management.
Remember, each episode is a mere 2-3 mins long, short enough for the busiest managers or talent folks. And do drop us a line if you’re interested in sponsoring this series.
You can find out more about what Danny does here. Next episode goes up next week.
Two-and-half years ago we did this podcast with Danny Wain who, at the time, was in charge of learning and development at research firm RI.
Ever since then we’ve wanted to capture his considerable experience on how to get the most out of talent and share it with you in bite size chunks, something we can finally do today. We’ve filmed seven episodes which we’ll put out weekly (with a hiatus during August).
Each episode is a mere 2-3 mins long, short enough for even the busiest managers or talent folks out there (that’s right, these are aimed at anyone with line management responsibility or whose job spec involves nurturing talent). Moreover, the series will cover all sectors, not just research.
The series begins with a look at ways to make a business case for learning and development. Next week we look at how you can take advantage of Google’s approach to innovation. And then we’ll tackle some other challenges including persuasion, trust and measurement. All good stuff
This initiative has involved a significant amount of our time which we’re bringing to you free. So if there’s any potential sponsors out there who’d like to support this effort plus get your name in front of a bunch of thought-leaders, drop us a line as we’d love to work with you.
By the way, Danny’s now set up his own talent and learning and development consultancy, do check it out.
As always, we hope you enjoy this. And do please share this with as many people as possible through twitter, Facebook, email etc.
Peanut Labs has an innovative take on a pretty unglamorous but fast-changing part of the research industry: online panels. Unlike other panel providers, they generate sample on-the-fly through social networks. As a result, not only can they source difficult-to-get Gen-Yrs, you can also think of them as Google Adsense for social networks, i.e. a powerful monetisation engine that social networks seem to love.
They’re doing pretty well – created only 14 months ago, they already have an annualised turnover of $10m. Not bad for a company started by a bunch of twenty-something college dropouts.
Based in Silicon Valley, we managed the above quick chat with founder Murti Hussain, and newly annointed part-time CEO Simon Chadwick (the adult supervision!) during a recent trip to London. We cover a number of key strategic decisions they’ve made including why Simon is joining now, their strategy for maintaining the fast growth, hiring tactics, barriers to entry, mistakes, exit strategies and who we think will end up buying them.
Below the fold you’ll find some more info on their background and ambitions (based on a profile we wrote for trade pub Research World)
BTW, props to the wonderful folks at Starbucks in Wardour Street for cutting the background music while we chatted – much appreciated.
True leaders tend to be successful at pretty much whatever’s given to them. (Philip Barnard)
In this edition of The Leadership Show, Simon Chadwick chats with four leaders who have spent the past five decades successfully building substantial entities. Folks such as Jay Wilson who built Roper Starch (sold to NOP World), Bill Pegram who co-founded and built Pegram Walters (sold to Synovate), Philip Barnard who built Research International from its founding days as a division of Unilever (sold to WPP), and Tim Bowles who built IRI Europe. This is one of the most fun podcasts to listen to thanks to Simon and his guests.
Welcome to ResearchTalk where we share some of the most innovative ideas and thinking in marketing, research, psychology and management. We hope you find it useful, inspiring, or merely entertaining.
ResearchTalk helps companies of all types produce engaging content for marketing, pitches, debriefs, research activation, events, etc.
Our tools of choice include podcasts, documentaries, animations, webinars, workshops and feature articles.
We've worked with some of the most innovative names to add a bit more pizazz and potency to their communication and engagement efforts. More than likely we can help you too. So do please get in touch.
Some examples of our work (we can't show the complete spectrum of our work due to confidentiality)...
True leaders tend to be successful at pretty much whatever’s given to them.
(Philip Barnard)
In this edition of The Leadership Show, Simon Chadwick chats with four leaders who have spent the past five decades successfully building substantial entities. Folks such as Jay Wilson who built Roper Starch (sold to NOP World), Bill Pegram who co-founded and built Pegram Walters (sold to Synovate), Philip Barnard who built Research International from its founding days as a division of Unilever (sold to WPP), and Tim Bowles who built IRI Europe. This is one of the most fun podcasts to listen to thanks to Simon and his guests.
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