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360-degree feedback and Leadership Development Programmes are key methods of improving performance, engagement and retention. Here’s why.

Competency profiles provide an objective way of measuring the behaviours essential for effective performance. Here’s how to avoid making these 10 mistakes in the profiling process.

Research shows that Learning Agility accounts for 54% of leadership success. Here’s why it’s critical for your business to measure and grow its Agility.

We’ve put together a summary of the key outcomes from the 2021 South African State of Succession survey. See more and download the infographic…

Have you ever promoted a star performer, only to find that they are out of their depth in their new role? If so, you may have experienced the Peter Principle in action.

360-degree performance feedback is a critical part of succession planning that can help you identify and empower future leaders. Learn more in our article.

What are the costs of poor succession planning? These five steps provide the ideal structure to get started or improve on existing processes…

How do South African organisations tackle the Succession puzzle? See the key outcomes from the Solving Succession Planning webinar

See the answers to the audience questions from the Solving Succession webinar, on where to start, how to get buy-in from leaders and more

This is the HFMtalentindex ultimate resource on solving the succession planning puzzle, setting the direction for effective development and growing future leaders

Find out what to look forward to at our upcoming webinar on 20 October: Solving Succession – Leadership Evolution in Times of Uncertainty

We interviewed ENSafrica’s Lebitso Mokgatle, HR Executive, and Thabang Ratau, Senior HRBP about their graduate programme, the role of Agility, and how they invest in the right talent.

Future-proof your organisation and start the search for your future leaders. Here’s why hiring graduates is a great idea.

Agile leadership plays an essential role in organisations of the 21st-century. In order to be proactive and stay ahead of the shifting demands of business, leaders need to instil and drive an agile culture within the organisation.

As times change, organisations need to keep up. Hiring and developing agile leaders is key to ensuring success

Top organisations know that Leadership Agility leads to business growth. Find out more about the theory of Agile Leadership and how to develop it in your organisation

See the answers to the audience questions from the Agile Leadership Unlocked webinar, on building an agile culture, assessing agility and more...

We've put together the ultimate resource on building a culture of agility, including resources from the Agile Leadership Unlocked webinar

How agile is the leadership of your organisation, and what stands in the way of them becoming more agile? See the answers and other notable outcomes from the Agile Leadership Unlocked panel discussion.

Join us on 18 August for insights from dynamic business leaders on change resilience. Find out more about the topic and submit your questions to be answered.

Recruitment screening tools help you assess huge volumes of candidates. Learn how you can use these tools to make better, faster, and more objective decisions.

How do top corporates run their graduate programmes? We sat down with two HR experts from the Maitland Group to share their learnings and best practices

Time lost, large costs, and data inaccuracies are just a few of the issues in selection. Volume Candidate Screening is a major step in the right

We share our learnings on how to implement a successful 360-degree programme and create more value from feedback

Graduate recruitment insights from our interview with UCT GSB Corporate Partnerships Manager, Azvir Rampursad

Unexpected undesired voluntary turnover is debilitating. Most of us know the huge costs that come with it. There are also hidden costs, including knowledge gaps and a huge burden on employees to get more done with key roles unfilled.

Here's why Learning Agility is an essential component of graduate screening and recruitment

If you want to see your organisation keep up with constant change, understanding and developing the agility of leaders and teams is critical.

Unexpected undesired voluntary turnover is debilitating. Most of us know the huge costs that come with it...

We investigate the four key areas that can be proactively measured to benchmark Leadership Agility and preempt the negative impact of change.

Here’s how to measure time to hire, and use this information to make your candidate screening and recruitment process more efficient.

The ultimate guidebook to Zero Talent Waste and uncapped recruitment , including all the resources from the candidate screening webinar

Learning Agility drives leader success and is a key competitive advantage. Here’s how to leverage it to create a truly agile culture in your organisation.

Our 'Learning Agility & Remote Leadership' booklet provides coaching tips for each Learning Agility dimension, categorised into lower or higher scores, to help you optimise your remote leadership ability

We've put together together our top audience questions on Zero Talent Waste, online screening, recruitment ROI and selection best practices.

See our key take outs from the Zero Talent Waste: the Pathway to Uncapped Recruitment webinar with CHRO...

See what we learned and what we shared with our HR peers at the 2021 virtual Indaba, held on 30 March 2021.

Offer your candidates insight into their own talents during the selection process...

We’re excited to launch our new uncapped assessment and online screening solution this year...

Our latest webinar, in partnership with CHRO, takes place on 15 April 2021. Find out more about the topic, the speakers and where you can submit your questions upfront.

We set out to discover the top talent trends experienced by our HR network in 2020. Read on for the insights shared...

The science of strategic workforce planning involves being able to predict talent gaps and fill them with the right employees. This planning process needs to happen five to ten years in advance, to ensure that talent within the organisation is nurtured and developed effectively.

Recruiting new employees is one of the most important and costly processes that companies need to go through. The goal is always to hire the most talented individuals – yet there is always a risk of making the wrong selection decision, with all of the associated cost and time implications.

As employees move up the corporate ladder, the amount of ambiguity and uncertainty in their environment increases ten-fold. Managers and leaders need to be both effective and proactive in dealing with constant change, to ensure their own success and that of their team.

In every organisation you are likely to spot shining stars – those employees with all the right indicators of potential. Yet sometimes these employees may not be meeting your expectations in terms of performance.

If you have completed a Learning Agility assessment, then you have a clear picture of the extent to which you are ready for the inevitable changes within roles, functions and organisations. These tips and tricks are designed to help you develop the “skill” of Learning Agility further.

The first step to recruiting or developing leaders is to assess those competencies that are important components of the performance puzzle. While each organisation or industry is different, these six competencies have been commonly linked to high performing, engaging and effective modern-day leaders.

Find out how to apply Learning Agility toward the creation of successful, fast moving and change-focused agile teams...

Learning Agility and effective collaboration is the competitive edge necessary to thrive in volatile and changing business environments...

Download the ‘Learning Agility & Remote working’ ebook - a guide to self-development and Learning Agility in the era of working from home...

Join the HFMtalentindex certification training to be accredited in our tools and online platform

Find out about the concept of Learning Agility with our fun, informative 90 second explanimation...

It is critical for organisations to ensure their employees work together in high performing teams. In this article I examine the factors that affect team performance and the research into Learning Agility and group success...

Find out more about Career Drives, a workplace assessment of employee drivers and team role preferences

Your yardstick comprises three indicators that are specifically relevant to a particular position: behavioural criteria, the candidate’s cognitive ability and his/her Learning Agility...

Ever get the feeling that you’re not sure what questions to ask in an interview? What about the feeling that you dislike the candidate…but you’re not sure why?

Organisational effectiveness is achieved through team effort. Whether you are working with a temporary project team or a long-term team with a lot of experience, high performance depends on team cooperation.

This team-building exercise requires no special tools and is a simple way to get to know the quirks and behaviours of your colleagues…

Each of the areas assessed within the Select play an important role in the selection decision...

Research shows an important link between Learning Agility and development of team performance, particularly with regard to People Agility and Self-awareness...

We interviewed Gerlof Schutte to find out how he is using Learning Agility as part of his talent management strategy...

Here's why it's critical to focus on the strategic power of data analytics within the HR talent management lifecycle…

An agile culture, agile mindset and learning agile people. The term Agility is increasingly front and centre in the strategy of organisations.

As a large retailer in a competitive market, PEP is constantly striving to make sure they are a learning organisation...

With an online development assessment, Pro Senectute identified each employee’s development opportunities and needs...

A large number of practical case studies and testimonials speak to the power of Learning Agility in predicting high potentials and future high performers...

Since the launch of our Learning Agility assessment in 2014, HFMtalentindex has been conducting a global research study into the functioning and effectiveness of Learning Agility...

Organisations in South Africa are undergoing a lot of changes in terms of digitisation, new technologies and shifting job roles...

Nowadays, every employee needs to be learning agile to cope with the ever-increasing rate of change. But what about HR?

In the future of work, no one really knows exactly how job roles and responsibilities will shift. One simple fact remains clear amongst the unknown – your employees will need to be learning agile to proactively lead the way through these new challenges...

Onboarding is the natural starting point for development and performance management within your organisation

Self-awareness is one of the core dimensions of Learning Agility. Here’s how to develop your Self-awareness skill, which has a positive effect on all other areas of your Learning Agility, both at work and in your personal life.

Whether you are completing a psychometric assessment for selection or development purposes, it can be an anxiety-inducing process. We’ve outlined five strategies below that you can follow to help you do your best.

Join the final webinar in our three part series: Developing entrepreneurship and innovation in education

Conducting recruitment interviews can be a tedious and difficult task, especially when you may be unsure whether a candidate really fits a function. Here are four reasons why a potential candidate’s real, raw talent may be overlooked, and how you can avoid dismissing someone that may actually prove to be an invaluable member of your company.

ooba – a key player in the property finance industry – identified a strategic imperative to refocus on their sales effectiveness within the rapidly evolving landscape....

The need for rapid change is impacting both job roles and organisations. We look at three industries and the effects of these changes...

If you've completed a Learning Agility assessment and received a low score, here is some relevant information for you...

What does entrepreneurship look like within an organisation?

Does your organisation 'handle' change or 'harness' change, and what is the impact on your talent management strategy?...

See research into the effective management and leadership of Millennials, otherwise known as Generation Y...

This article answers common questions we often receive about competencies, including how to create an effective compentency profile...

We consider key questions that will help you to shape your post-pandemic talent management strategy in the areas of selection, development and more...

Do you know what your organisation will look like five years from now?

HFMtalentindex answers a wide range of questions in the field of HR. Some questions pop up more often than others....

The use of psychometric assessments, especially online-based, needs to be proactively managed to avoid any bias or harm to candidates. This means being aware of and taking into account learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

One of my favourite Chinese idioms is, “…while it is easy to raise an army of 1,000, a competent General is hard to come by.”

For many HR managers, the big challenge is to embed this focus on talent management in their organisation as a structural feature.

To what extent does measuring Learning Agility help us to predict the performance of professionals and leaders in the workplace?

A newly formed layer of Senior Vice Presidents (SVP’s) was needed to further professionalise Heerema’s management...

To remain at the summit, it is absolutely critical to possess both learning agility and emotional intelligence in managing one’s self and others...

Unsurprisingly to many, pilots took the number one spot on the list. This was due mainly to their long working hours, extended periods away from home, the potential for personal risk and the taxing mental demands of the role.

Find out more about the factors that motivate employees to actively and passively seek new jobs...

HFMtalentindex has adopted the following guidelines to continue to serve our customers in a safe and adequate manner

Considering the cost of hiring and developing staff, it is imperative to have a strategy in place in order to recruit, train and retain your key talent.

HFMtalentindex South Africa is proud to announce a two-part webinar series in partnership with the NeuroLeadership Institute of South Africa...

Your HR strategy needs to give direction to your organisation, whilst remaining flexible enough to deal with the challenges of the modern workplace. Here are six of our key learnings that can be applied to improve or refine your strategy, keeping you ahead of the curve (and your competitors)…

One of the highlights of the HFMtalentindex 2019 Learning Agility Seminar was the addition of an Insights Board – a way for delegates to share their thoughts and questions about Learning Agility...

In order to be successful at finding and keeping top talent within an organisation, there is a need for a competency-based talent management strategy – one that speaks to each stage of the employee lifecycle.

This year’s theme was “The Impact of Learning Agility”, including the latest agility research and discussions on its applications in both selection and development...

Here is a comprehensive guide to understanding your own Learning Agility. Find out more about the scoring, structure and sections of your report and how to get the most from your results. If you haven’t completed your Learning Agility test yet as part of our HR Learning Agility research study, do so now and then return to this article when you have your personalised report.

One of the common debates in the assessment field revolves around the accuracy of psychometric tests...

We’ve put together a guide of best practices when setting out to create a competency job profile. The HFMtalentindex online competency library is a free, interactive, online tool that is designed to be used in conjunction with this guide.

The employee makes the difference at Staples, the market leader in office solutions...

We’re excited to announce that three new HFMtalentindex tools - collectively known as the Go Change suite - have now been launched to our South African partners. Find out more...

See the highlights video from the 2018 breakfast seminar...

Research shows that effective, multidisciplinary teams are critical in complex and constantly changing work environments. Team performance can be the decider between success or failure.

Here’s how to deal with a selection scenario in which your candidates show evidence of social desirability...

Many employers use lack of experience as the number one reason to reject potential employees...

Which talent management methods help their employees be so successful and productive?

Learning Agility is the ability to quickly develop new effective behaviour based on new experiences. This ability has a direct impact on an individual’s performance and behaviour at work. Below are seven important attributes, some or all of which are typically shown by learning agile employees:

Economic and political concerns have increased over the past few years. Interestingly, the current survey shows that these areas are of greater concern in developed countries (such as America) than in developing countries (such as South Africa). This trend may be influenced by recent events in Europe and America, including Brexit.

Organisations who are able to base decisions on what works for them, and them alone, will spend less money, know what to expect in the future and be able to plan for different scenarios.

Recruitment is the core of a successful organisation. And keeping up to date with the latest trends seen in organisations around the world is the best way to ensure that your company is at the forefront. We’ve put together a snapshot of the top global and South African HR trends for 2016, as measured by LinkedIn in a recent survey