REFLECTIONS

Hi All

You may have noticed that the blog has been quiet of late. Well I(we)'ve been very busy of late. This will undoubtedly be our best year since inception and we once again thank all of our clients for their continued business.

VaLUENTiS/Int School of HCM
Our expanding work in the health sector has required us to set up a new operating division (www.valuentisNHS.com), particularly helping NHS Trusts become world class (literally) because they (we) deserve it.

The School has just completed its second year of HCMI intakes amd we are gearing up for the third year starting next month. My thanks to a great class this year.

There is much research being undertaken by us but more of that in the New Year as are the various publications under wraps.

Conferences seem to come thick and fast and the HR Directors Summit will soon be upon us. And of course another presentation.

But the year is tinged full of sadness due to untimely deaths (are they ever timely?) all happening in a very short space of time. A much loved family shareholder, a best friend of 30 years 'R' committing suicide and two other close friends of the family. Some things just stop you in your tracks. My thoughts are with my own and others' families.

That this should happen at the same time as we found out that some of our initial work had been passed off by others (see the press statement we had to release) was particularly hard.

I guess I should take some satisfaction that so much of our work and much of my blog entries should be copied or used by others. Yes, but attribution is all I ask. If you're new to the blog then I'd ask that you read some of the archives.

Anway onto the next decade
It's all about organisation performance (and resilience). Our thrust, in Human Capital Managment terms, and in direct contrast to others, has always been on the impact on organisation performance (but not of the silly, non-sensical shareholder return correlation kind).

It's time we blew away some of the more flaky stuff that still passes for HR management thought. It's time that thought imitators were exposed. It's time we moved people management on. It's time for the industry and practitioners to get a little more honest (acknowledging those already there). It's time we stopped using HR as PR. It's time.

See you in 2010. Have a good festive period.............

NJH