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Talent and skills
Empower your workforce to continually evolve
Due to ongoing economic uncertainty, rapid advances in digital automation, living in a post Covid-19 world and changes in workforce attitudes has meant the approach to talent, skills and learning has had to fundamentally change. By optimising talent acquisition and learning and development functions, organisations can glean significant improvements to experience, workforce productivity and efficiencies, as well as support the engagement and retention of key talent.
The move towards becoming a skills-based organisation will enable rapid responses to changing business models and technological advancements. To yield these benefits HR are required to re-imagine their core functions and competitive differentiation. However, a transformation of this scale requires a new strategic mindset towards a flexible workforce,, continual reinvention of skills and the imbuing the right culture to support it.
This requires a fundamental shift in understanding the current and future workforce skills requirements, evolving the culture of the organisation and investing in HR technology to enable this.
How we can help you
Reimagine your talent roadmap
Are you striving to build out a world-class candidate experience through a talent acquisition transformation project, but need some help?
We help organisations to reimagine their talent, skills and learning approach to deliver a greater return on investment. We work with your business and key stakeholders to develop a business aligned strategy and roadmap that’s fit for the future.
Build your skills and talent value case
Are you adopting a skills-based approach to identifying the future skills your business needs? Are you thinking about where you need to reskill parts of your business but you’re not sure where to start?
What talent technology do you have? Is it working for you? Are you able to articulate the benefits to the business?
We do an in-depth analysis of your functions, assess your technologies and develop a value case for how you may best optimise them.
Independent advice on the right tools to manage your talent
With so many different types of talent and skills technology out there in the market, where do you start? How do you know what is right for your business that suits your requirements?
We are vendor agnostic, so can provide an independent review and identify opportunities to deliver a greater return on investment via third parties.
What makes us fundamentally different:
We are experienced talent, skills and learning experts
We are technology agnostic, so can provide objective thinking for greater opportunities
We’ve been you, so know the challenges you face and can provide experience led insights
We are flexible and tailored in our approach
Meet our team of experts
Aaron Alburey
Managing Director and co-Founder
Cathy Acratopulo
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Emma Leonis
HR Transformation Executive Director
Pavan Bilkhoo
Director
Our top client story
HR’s one big thing – focusing on solving the ‘talent’ question
In the second of our series of 'fireside chat' videos, Chris, Tim, Alice and Chris sit down to discuss one of the top three issues given to us by CPOs as being their 'one big thing' i.e. the biggest challenge that is keeping them up at night that - if they could -...
Fireside chat – reflecting on HR’s ‘one big thing’
Last year we released our HR's 'one big thing' report, which looked at what the biggest strategic issues are for Chief People Officer's (CPOs) and, following a campaign in which we've looked in detail at the 'top three' key issues that CPOs said were keeping them up...
Reflections on ‘HR’s One Big Thing’ – how has it changed?
Over the last three months our team have been drilling down into some of the most pressing concerns of Chief People Officers / Chief Human Resources Officers to find out what HR's 'One Big Thing’ is. We’ve run a host of events, podcasts, as well as blogs and short...
Talking talent – a pulsecheck of current and future challenges
What better way to discuss the challenges in the talent space with thought leaders and senior HR professionals than at an exclusive dinner? In February 2023, we did just that by hosting an invite-only dinner to talk all things talent with a laser sharp focus on...
What is the future of recruitment? Could it be the talent marketplace?
What is the future of recruitment? The talent marketplace connects and matches people with job opportunities, it’s enabled by people and technology. Rather than a single place or system they need to use it’s more of an approach to talent management. The talent...
Protirement: Is the UK Government about to redefine ‘retirement’?
In one of our latest pieces, Tim Ringo from our team takes a look at a recent article in The Times that focused on a government campaign to bring over-50's out of retirement, assessing the impact for businesses. Could this be a talent pool that businesses can...
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