Why is it that despite significant investment in recruiting senior hires and high potential individuals each year, attrition rates within two years are still disappointingly high? Nigel Benwell, a partner with Moloney Advisory, helps you ensure your senior and high potential hires are successful in their first 100 days and beyond.

There is no magic formula for developing a global talent strategy but Inger Buus, managing director of Mannaz (formerly the Danish Leadership Institute), explains that it is prudent to tailor talent development to context

Does your organisation have hidden bright sparks in its workforce? As Lucy Samuels, partner with European patent and trade mark attorneys Gill, Jennings & Every tells Katie Pattullo, registering a patent can be a tool to increase your organisation’s competitive edge – and don’t go looking for any mad scientists, your innovators can look deceptively normal...

Many organisations believe career planning is one of the most important means of developing and retaining their key people. Chris Paden, an independent consultant, describes his work with global beer behemoth InBev to use career
planning more strategically to develop the breadth of talent the company needed.

When Hudson, the international recruitment and talent management consultancy, sent a group of high potential employees on a group sabbatical team-building experience to a far flung corner of the world they found it to
be more challenging and more full of lessons to be learned than initially imagined. Tom Mason, director of talent management, takes us through Hudson’s experience

Those that have benefited from having a mentor range from Alexander the Great to maverick entrepreneur, Richard Branson. It seems obvious… what better way to learn the skills and knowledge of those at the top than by sharing their wisdom? Anna Tobin looks at the role of mentoring as an effective and cost-effective way to develop top-tier talent. This is not just another feel-good tactic employed by HR, it can really make a difference to your leadership pipeline.

Procter & Gamble is the world’s number one maker of household products. Divided into three global units — beauty, health and well being, and household care — brand names such as Gillette, Braun and Wella, among others, come under its umbrella. Christos Manolis, talent supply manager for the UK and Ireland talks to Talent Management Review about the importance of talent managers being able to anticipate future trends and how the success of their employee surveys helped them win The Times Graduate Employer of Choice.

Jo Causon, director of marketing and corporate affairs with the Chartered Management Institute, thinks organisations should focus less on the negatives and more on the benefits transparency can bring.

Homeworking is beneficial for both employers and employees, the Telework Association has suggested. The association’s chairman Brian Higton says business owners can benefit from a reduction in costs, flexibility and “improved staff loyalty and retention”.