Scotland Human resources News

We are delighted that Dan Heath, author of Switch and Made to Stick, and Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days will be speaking live at our Benchmark For Business Event in London on the 12th May.

For nearly 60 years social scientists have been studying the factors that cause people to be influenced by the requests and proposals of others, especially in the fields of customer management, marketing, sales and advertising.

Why should anyone be led by you? This simple question has caused leaders throughout the world to stop and pause for thought - pondering their right to lead, as well as how to improve their leadership abilities. London, Kings Place, 3rd February 2011

JB Management Ltd, one of Scotland’s most prolific training providers, is the latest company to complete accession to membership of the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle.

JB Management has secured Skills Development Scotland funding, and can now offer Ayrshire companies 16-19 year old Business and Administration assistants for 13 weeks under the Targeted Pathways to Apprenticeship programme.

Multi award-winning Digital agency Line has appointed former Wheel CEO Philip Hunt as Non Executive Director.

Leading life and pensions company, AEGON UK appointments two key additions to the company's risk function, with Stephen McGee as Insurance Risk Director/Actuarial Function Holder and Pauline Colvin to the role of Enterprise Risk Director.

South Ayrshire Council has appointed a new Executive Director to its Corporate Management Team with responsibility for planning, tourism, roads, waste management, property and assets, environmental health, trading standards and customer service.

Benchmark for Business is delighted to offer you a unique opportunity for you and your team to attend a world class business event with Sir Ken Robinson and Patrick Lencioni, author of 5 dysfunctions of a team.

AEGON UK today announces the appointment of Gill Scott as HR Director.

Identifying, recruiting and retaining top talent will be one of the key differentiators of excellent organisations in the future. Taking those individuals and building them into effective teams is an even more significant challenge.

Two of the world's most in-demand management thinkers Dan Pink and Marcus Buckingham will join 400 business leaders at the Hilton Deansgate in Manchester for a day of inspirational, thought-provoking learning and networking.

Queen Margaret University has been awarded a contract to research the extent and impact of bullying in the workplace on young workers.

9-20 recruitment grow again after successful period for company.

The Institute of Occupational Safety & Health has placed their reliance for monitoring lone worker staff safety with Argyll the UK’s leader in lone worker protection services.

Argyll are delivering a contract for more than 1,600 Identicom devices aimed at NHS lone workers operating in the South of Tyne and Wear area. This contract represents the largest deployment of Lone Worker devices and services within the NHS to date.

The Institute of Occupational Safety & Health has placed their reliance for monitoring lone worker staff safety with Argyll the UK’s leader in lone worker protection services.

After a year of analysts prophesying gloom, prospects for Scottish jobs are surprisingly bright for 2010 according to leading jobs website Search.co.uk

Award-winning digital agency Line and Revolver PR have agreed a partnership deal to provide a range of online PR services geared to help businesses maximise the return on their internet investments.

Leading online jobs advertising site Search.co.uk says that the online recruitment procedures of many organisations are failing to treat job applicants with respect.

Search.co.uk has praised the online recruitment market for adopting the revolutionary 'pay per response' billing model it was first to introduce

Scotland's number one commercial radio station recently teamed up with the country's leading jobs website search.co.uk to launch a dynamic new recruitment service for listeners.

Search.co.uk has praised local authorities in Scotland for harnessing the benefits of online recruitment through their adoption of a new jobs portal and a partnership trial with commercial job boards in Scotland.

In the first ever national awards, sponsored by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), the Scottish Training Federation has named Pointer Training as Training Provider of the Year. Pointer Training is a subsidiary of Pointer Limited.

Freelancer Report 2009 captures financial experiences and attitudes of small businesses and freelancers.

Founder of the TLG Education, Norma Corlette has first hand experience of the difficulties faced by redundancies, restructures and cut backs and their impact on the on staff motivation and morale.

Norma Corlette is back with Sulis Enterprises