Monthly Archives: November 2015

Talent Congress 2015

Our Chief Teaching Officer, Dr Will Thomas, will be the chairperson for Talent Congress 2015, today and tomorrow in Singapore. We hope to bring some insights from the event to the blog soon.

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Continuous Improvement

If you keep changing how you do business — or, even more drastically, keep redefining your business — your employees are likely to just give up after a while. If there is no consistency in your company they will find it hard to know what to do. Take a week’s vacation, then come back and […]

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Recruiting Practices From the Job Hunter’s Perspective

When you are looking to hire new people you may have a system that works pretty well for you. You have your own way of advertising, your own system for accepting CVs and applications, your method for doing interviews, your timeline. While you may think all this works well for you, you need to consider […]

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Hiring a Vet

Retaining employees

No, no, not hiring a veterinarian…hiring a veteran. Since today is a day for honoring military veterans in many countries, we are reposting an entry from September: THE MILITARY-TO-CIVILIAN TRANSITION Last week, Designing Leaders hosted a small discussion session in Singapore on the issue of hiring leaders and managers who have just left the military […]

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Cross-Border Supervision

Office meeting

We recently spoke with someone who works in marketing for a popular international chain of gyms, and he has run into a problem that Southeast Asia is going to need to deal with: cross-border supervision. A growing number of firms in Southeast Asia are expanding their operations into other countries, a trend that will continue […]

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