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 |  |  | |  The Creativity Advantage: Is your organisation leader of the pack?
Success in product and service innovation depends on creativity as a key input. Without a healthy and continuing supply of ideas, most organizations would cease to exist. Peter Cook, author of the Best Practice Creativity explains to Abeceder that the fundamental challenge facing leaders in the twenty-first century is how to profit from individual potential and leverage it so that it produces organizational innovation and excellence.
This article takes a strategic view of creativity as a key element of competitive advantage. It outlines the conditions for creativity to flourish and is supported through the use of a number of case studies.
Creativity is not predominantly something that can be ‘forced’ through creativity ‘techniques.’ It depends crucially on the setting of an appropriate context for ideas to emerge and their subsequent mobilisation into innovative products and services. When the context is right techniques can play their part in raising the level and type of creativity within organizations.
Testing Times…Taking Psychometric Tests - a guide for candidates
If you are currently applying for managerial or professional roles, then chances are that you’re going to be taking some form of psychometric test. However, there is very little common understanding amongst the general public about what exactly psychometrics are, how they work and where they fit into the general recruitment process. In this article Abeceder associate Jane Addy looks at some of the frequently asked questions about testing and hopefully will put your mind at rest.
A risk based approach to managing employee competence pays dividends
The phrase “our people are our greatest asset” can only be the expression of a powerful business culture when business leaders act upon it.
The difficulty facing companies is how to use limited resources to greatest effect including the priority and effort given to training and developing people and sustaining the skills acquired.
In this article Abeceder associate Paul Richardson outlines an approach to competence and performance management which focuses on those employees whose actions or inactions generate the highest uncontrolled risk.
Assessment Centres Assessed
While the use of assessment centres is on the increase (according to a recent CIPD survey, 34% of employers surveyed had used them), the importance of adopting good practices cannot be over-emphasised. Assessment centres aim to provide ‘accurate’ assessments but this can only be achieved through careful and effective design and implementation.
In the third of several articles on competencies, Abeceder Associate Gayna Deacon takes a look at the purpose of assessment centres, as well as the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ to using assessment centres for selection as part of a wider competency-based recruitment and selection process.
HR professionals changing to meet the needs of business leaders
Michael Millward, Abeceder Managing Director describes how the role of HR professionals has always been dictated by the needs of business, and examines how as organisations, of all kinds, strive to be more entrepreneurial their role will again have to adapt.
Dealing with Rejection
Abeceder managing director, Michael Millward offers some consolation to those who don't get the job offer and suggests some ways to learn from the experience
Volunteering provides development opportunity
Abeceder managing director Michael Millward discusses the interim findings of research conducted by Abeceder on behalf of Business in the Community, which show that employee volunteering can be used as a cost effective employee development tool.
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