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Having recently been involved in the due diligence phase of an acquisition process Phil Jones discusses his experiences with communication during this uncertain time. Read about it in his April 9th blog post
Phil is the author of Communicating Strategy and Strategy Mapping for Learning Organisations
Gower will be at HRD Olympia next week in conjunction with Middlesex Business School. Please do come and visit us both on Stand 300. On Wednesday 25th we will be having a book launch for Human Resources or Human Capital? at 12:30pm where the author, Andrew Mayo, will be signing books and will be available for you to speak to. If you are attending the event, Gower and Middlesex Business School will be delighted to see you.
This year’s Simply Summit (26th/27th April, Prospero House, London SE1) looks very good indeed. Along with speakers such as Euan Semple and Jim Ylisela, there is a wonderful programme exploring emerging developments in employee engagement and organizational social media. Plus delegates will have the chance to hear John Smythe talking about his research and the subject of his forthcoming book: The Velvet Revolution at Work: The Rise of Employee Engagement, The Fall of Command and Control. Simply Communicate, who host the event put on extraordinarily good and thought-provoking events so I am looking forward to it. We’ll be exhibiting copies of The Gower Handbook of Internal Communication and offering a draw to win free copies.
On Tuesday, May 15th 2012, People in Business are hosting a free seminar which features an overview of their findings, drawn from their project-based experience and a number of two day employer brand knowledge-sharing sessions run with over a 100 hundred local ‘talent managers’ in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzen.
During the seminar, led by Richard Mosley, Global SVP of Employer Brand Consulting, People in Business will be covering:
• The trends shaping the Chinese labour market
• Attraction drivers, including the relative appeal of Chinese vs. Foreign enterprises
• Recruitment media channels and usage
• Engagement and retention drivers
• Future challenges and opportunities
Over a series of similar sessions, Richard will also be sharing similar reviews of the talent markets in India, Russia, and Brazil.
This is a unique opportunity to share ideas, and capture best practice in managing your employer brand in emerging markets.
Places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. To book your place, please email nell@pib.co.uk. If you have any questions, please call Nell on 020 3375 4180.
Gower author, Simon Barrow, is Chairman and founder of People in Business. His book, Employee Communication during Mergers and Acquisitions, with Jenny Davenport, is available from Gower Publishing.
Simon Barrow has recently written a very insightful blog on why employers need to be more courageous and truly represent the essence of what it is like to work for them. Simon is the co-author of Employee Communication During Mergers and Acquisitions published by Gower.
Gower author, Penny Pullan talks about A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management with co-author Ruth Murray-Webster, explaining how their ideas came together to create the finished book . Penny’s video interview along with the transcript can be found here: pm4girls.
Much has been written about leadership and team building, but there are still major gaps in thinking and research about how to engage senior stakeholders in support of an organisation’s projects. The central role of stakeholders in the successful delivery of organisational strategy is becoming increasingly recognised, as is the importance of developing a sponsor culture to support more collaborative practices within the organisation. Building, and managing, relationships with senior (upwards) stakeholders is essential for success.
Find out more from Lynda Bourne, author of the forthcoming Gower title; Advising Upwards, A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders who will be speaking at the following conferences this year:
Conference Keynote: Motivate your Manager! PMOZ Sydney, August, 2011 (next week)
The Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting http://annualmeeting.aomonline.org/2011/ San Antonio,Texas,USA. August 2011 part of:
Stakeholder Engagement is ‘free’! The Zero Cost of Stakeholder Relationship Management
PMO Symposium : http://pmosymposium.org/Loews Royal Pacific Resort,Orlando,Florida. November 2011
Lynda regularly bloggs at http://stakeholdermanagement.wordpress.com/
The Relationship Awareness Conference 2011 is an opportunity for SDI practitioners to interact and share ways they are using Relationship Awareness Theory to make a positive impact on people’s lives. Conference topics allow attendees to learn how to be more effective in their delivery of Relationship Awareness concepts
On Friday September 30, Gower Author Donnie MacNicol, Team Animation Ltd (Bio) will be speaking along with Steve Hastie, Vice President of Professional Services, NDS Americas (Bio) on Development of Global Soft Skills for Project Managers Using the SDI at the 8am breakout session. Outline of session:
This interactive session will describe the design and delivery of a global soft skills development programme for project management professionals for NDS, a market leader for digital pay-TV solutions. The second part of the session will focus on this work and its broader application in the emerging discipline of Organisational Project Management which is being done in collaboration with a leading Business School in London. This presentation will be appropriate for any level facilitators.
Donnie MacNicol is author of the forthcoming Gower title Developing Project Leadership, part of Gower’s Advances in Project Management Series edited by Professor Darren Dalcher.
There is surely no factor that’s more problematic in a commmunications campaign than the challenge of making it work globally. Many large organizations now work across borders and cultures and face the difficult task of making these global networks effective. Bill Quirke’s article in Strategic Communication Management on how to work together in communications globally is, as you’d expect from one of the leading thought leaders on communication, sensible, pragmatic and great read. Bill Quirke is author of Making the Connections: Using Internal Communications to Turn Strategy into Action.
Prompted by ‘Madmen’ the TV show when a US agency is taken over by a British one, Simon Barrow discusses classic M&A errors via his blog.
Simon is the co-author of Employee Communication During Mergers and Acquisitions.
