Over the last few weeks I’ve been in Copenhagen and India, as well as the UK of course.  That not only makes me very lucky, it also gives offers some interesting insights as the world waits: in the words of the bloggers, what will be the future judgement of history, Hopenhagen or Nopenhagen?

Personneltoday.com has just begun a five week series of interviews exploring Tomorrow's Global Talent - starting with an interview with me, before it gets really interesting with a series of interviews with Gary Browning of Penna Consulting, Ken Rowe of YSC, Tanja Kuveljic of B-Live, and Caroline Waters of BT.
 
When we set of with Heidrick and Struggles, together with BT, Career Innovation and the Talent & Enterprise Taskforce, to explore 'how leading global companies will create value through people' we had some idea of what we were about to unleash, but now that the genie is out of the bottle, and that the 'Tomorrow's Global Talent conversation' has begun, it is interesting to connect this conversation to others

Last week I spoke to 2.7 million listeners across the UK, together with Ben Taylor of Vodafone – talking with around 15 national and regional radio stations up and down the country.   The findings of the Working Nation report describe a nation on the edge of a skills precipice – cutting to the bone, the collective capability of firms under serious threat, 4 in 10 firms stating that they may have cut too far.  But the findings are more challenging still, showing that women are twice as likely to develop new skills to cover gaps in the workforce as their male colleagues.

 

 

 

I came across Tomorrow’s Company’s view on the 'hunt for talent' and felt that it resonated deeply with my own experience...

Leadership isn't just for leaders.

 

Pete Burden argues that leadership is a behaviour, something we can all take responsibilty for. And that we submit to others as leaders at our peril.