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Our Latest White Paper:

Neuroscience of Performance

People at their Best.

Have you ever known someone who aspired to poor performance? Or an organization that intentionally fostered a culture of mediocrity? Probably not - in fact these concepts seem quite absurd. Yet organizations seem to operate as if achieving high performance (in individuals and corporate cultures) was something contrary to natural human desire.

In this paper we seek to understand human performance and its management by organizations through new insights emanating from the field of neuroscience.... download to read more.

Previous White Papers

expand text Neuroscience of Learning & Development - Crystalizing Potential

In the beginning was life and then there was learning and, for the duration of our existence, there is life-long learning.

In the latest whitepaper in our Neuroscience series, we explore the neuro-scientific underpinnings of the learning process, factors that hinder or limit our learning ability, including ways to optimize this most fundamental attribute of being human.

Our latest whitepaper explores the new age of talent management.... download to read more.

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expand text The Neuroscience of Talent Management - Insights into unleashing workplace potential

Talent Management in the knowledge age is possibly our greatest challenge. There is ample evidence to show that what science knows about what drives people and what business does are not aligned.

Our latest white paper explores the new age of talent management.... download to read more.

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expand text ITM - Ready... Set... Go!

Embedding Integrated Talent Management (ITM) and managing the associated change process

This white paper explores practical steps to manage the change process through system implementation and ongoing, to derive maximum value from your talent management solution... download to read more.

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expand text Integrated Talent Management - The Evolution

How Technology will Enable the Transformation of HR and Business Management

This white paper focuses on key organisational trends and technologies for the future of Talent Management. PageUp People explore the changes in the business landscape including the market, technology, workforce analytics and business buy-in to HR and what this means for the future of Talent Management... download to read more.

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expand text Business Success through Performance Development

Business survival depends upon efficient and effective systems and processes that result in positive shareholder returns. In an ever changing economic environment, organisations are faced with human capital decisions about downsizing, restructuring, developing leadership capability and retention of critical employees. More than ever therefore, they are scrutinizing performance, at the organisational, divisional, team and individual level... download to read more.

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expand text Talent Management - Raising the Bar

Combined with the changing workplace expectations of Generation Y and the struggle for businesses attracting and retaining the quality and quantity of human capital they require, the issue of Talent Management has been elevated to the top of strategic human resources management challenges. The ability of organisations to take a strategic approach that puts them on the front foot will determine the winners and losers in this evolving environment... download to read more.

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expand text Business Sustainability through 3G HRM

The convergence between the challenges confronting business, the need for top talent to deliver, and the emerging shortage of just that talent calls for 3G HRM that is strategic, influential and credible... download to read more.

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expand text Utilisation of Talent Pools for External Recruitment in Australia
(Results of a Two Year Study)

A two year study of Australia's Top 100 companies by employee number was conducted to establish their approach to talent pool management for external recruitment purposes. In total, of the 75 companies that participated in the study 43% had a talent pool by the end of year two. Of those organisations without talent pools, one third of these companies recognised the importance of building a candidate database and were planning to implement technology to do so within the next 12 to 18 months. By the end of 2007 talent pool adoption is predicted to be 63%... download to read more.

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expand text Integrated Talent Management

Integrated talent management shifts the human resources philosophy and subsequent approaches from a disparate set of specialised functions to a coordinated and interdependent series of connected activities that provide additional leverage at each stage. Talent management is one of the biggest challenges facing organisations this century... download to read more.

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expand textSuccession Planning and Management

Businesses are operating in a different financial landscape than they were 12 months ago. Surviving and prospering in the current economic environment requires leaders to review their talent management approach carefully before reactively shedding staff. Those that already have a SPM program in place should focus on overcoming their unique obstacles to a best practice system; those who do not currently invest in SPM should perhaps consider the value it could add over the medium to long term... download to read more.

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