Month May 2015

Hay Group: Graduates lacking the people skills employers are looking for

People skills continue to grow increasingly important for businesses, as globalisation accelerates and organisational structures change. In this context, 93 per cent percent of those surveyed believe employees with strong people skills deliver better commercial impact

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PwC: Firms lacking strategic leaders who can affect change

Businesses face a stark shortfall of strategic leaders able to deliver successful transformation. Solving ‘wicked’ problems is beyond most high-achieving operational managers in public and private sectors. Only eight per cent of senior managers have strategist attributes required to affect…

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UK businesses turn to interim managers to drive change and transformation, survey finds

Nearly half of all interims (46 per cent) were recruited to run change and transformation projects, 17 per cent of interims were hired for their specialist skills and just seven per cent to fill employment gaps – the more traditional…

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