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Focus, Consensus, and Trust by Performance Management
June 28, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management

These days, talking about performance management, I am wondering if the performance management system most of us know and practice is the right approach in order to foster high and excellent work outcome within the strategy channel. In many cases it comes with a management by objectives checking strategic fit and a behavioral part checking [...]

Crushing Caring Leadership
April 12, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Leadership

Recently, I experienced in two different settings outside my company a crisis of caring leadership. In one case, I myself was in the lead, in the other I was observing the issue not being directly involved. In both cases, the representatives of caring leadership were failing to hold up to their standard and image, promoting [...]

Why Marketing and Culture Need to Amalgamate
March 22, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Marketing

Ten years ago, student a second time, I started a new professional career as management consultant. My first job was a project called “Employer Branding” at Merck Thailand in Bangkok.
Twelve years ago, McKinsey just started to talk about the “War for Talent”. I remember the article by Elisabeth Chambers, which Heinz Landau, MD of Merck [...]

Make It Work: Employer Branding IV – Retain Them!
March 8, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing

What are you doing to retain those who are the best fitting people in your various business contexts? Those who are most promising with their potentials aligning to your strategy? After having identified them, how do you deal with various target groups, age groups, potential segments, and career paths? How do you do that in [...]

Make It Work: Employer Branding III – Be Perceived as Top Employer!
February 22, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Marketing

Let´s presume you have executed surveys. You now know what you are currently offering and what you should offer as top employer in the perception of your existing workforce. Let´s presume you have an action plan in your hand whose execution will close up the gap that still might keep you away from internally being [...]

Make It Work: Employer Branding II – Implement It!
January 28, 2010, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Marketing

Just at the moment, the shareholders of the companies I worked for understood that implementing employer branding will affect their whole company, internally and externally, they sometimes lost courage because they where – I guess – afraid of an all pervading change management and high investment. In this blog (and upcoming occasions) I will show [...]

Raks Thai Foundation and Merck Thailand: Evolving CSR – Partnerships
January 22, 2010, by Promboon Panitchpakdi in Corporate Social Responsibility, Features, Leadership, Management

Many of you may not have heard about “Raks Thai Foundation” and are much more familiar with CARE International in Thailand. The two names actually refer to the same organization. CARE International Thailand (or CARE Thailand) began operating in Thailand since 1979, initially responding to the influx of Cambodian refugees along the Thai-Cambodian border and [...]

Generation V
December 18, 2009, by Heinz Landau in Leadership

When I was driving my car during a trip to Germany earlier on this year, I listened to an interview in the radio with Prof. Dr. Horst W. Opaschowski, one of Germany’s leading futurologists. He stated that in Germany, “Generation V” has arrived. Generation V, a term coined by Opaschowski, stands for the German words [...]

Effective Leadership Communication
October 28, 2009, by Heinz Landau in Leadership, Management

Mastering your skills in connecting with people by making them feel that they matter to you is a key element of caring leadership and is crucial to the success of any leader and any organization. Effective leadership communication typically increases trust and respect, can build morale and manage conflict, influences employees, can win hearts and [...]

Retaining the Talent of Our Future
October 6, 2009, by Stephan Polomski in Human Resources

Recession and world-wide crisis especially in the automotive sector turned HR-priorities in many mainly medium-sized companies upside down. Where there was still twelve months ago that fierce need for engineers, there is today the concern to engage and retain employees which had been recruited in a real war for talent.
Currently reflecting opportunities and threats for [...]