Welcome to your HRD Connect daily update!

Working flexibly and logically at PwC

PwC is now allowing new hires to work the hours they want to through their Flexible Talent Network, we spoke with Helen Hopkin, Head of Workplace Strategy at PwC to understand how this will look and why it has been determined.

This new PwC initiative allows potential employees to list their skills and favoured work pattern during their application. PwC then determines based on your chosen working schedule whether they can accommodate these needs within the business.

We spoke with Helen Hopkin, Head of Workplace Strategy about why this particular scheme has been introduced, what flexible working looks like at PwC currently and quickly disappearing talent pools that companies will only have access to if they do not change to more flexible ways to work.

“I think building in much greater agility and mobility into our workforce is going to be absolutely critical.” – Helen Hopkin

Talent management vs. talent acquisition: hire and hold top staff

Finding the right employees is always a challenge, but retaining a company’s best and brightest is harder still, so HRD Connect has identified some unique talent acquisition and management styles to serve as scaffolding for others to follow.

The value of introverted leadership

Our now traditional view of leadership seems to paint a picture of heroic and charismatic traits, being at the front of the charge and fighting dragons. There are definitely some stock figures that come to mind – not very representative of an introverted personality? Or is it? Sara Duxbury helps answer just what is introverted leadership?

HRD Connect’s Editorial Advisory Board

We are delighted to launch our HRD Connect Editorial Advisory Board. It’s important to keep our HR community as informed as possible and with the help of our dedicated Editorial Advisory Board we can do so, our board will be providing their expert opinion across all areas of HR and leadership. With their industry-leading insights and advice, HRD Connect will continue to grow in resource, intelligence, and trustworthy information sources, continuing to enlighten and report across the world of global HR. Click below to meet our board.

Are you coming to next year’s gathering of the Who’s Who in the HR industry?

In today’s diverse and complex business environment we understand the challenges facing the business leaders of today. If you’re wondering how to create a profitable organisation whilst ensuring the wellbeing of your employees then we can help put you in front of the visionaries that have done exactly that.

We only assemble the best of the best – speakers confirmed for 2019 come from a variety of companies leading the way to include Virgin Money, HSBC, Sodexo, Sky, Thinkers 50, Bersin, Cisco, ThermoFischer Scientific and many more.

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I hope you enjoy the features.

Best wishes,

Emily Sexton-Brown,
Editor, HRD Connect