In the hunt for scarce talent and an eagerness to seal a deal quickly, it can be tempting to settle for establishing a candidate’s skills, abilities, and performance through internal selection processes. However, in many roles leadership potential, business attitude, and cultural compatibility are crucial when it comes to making the right decisions in a hiring process. This article explores how getting a second opinion can make a difference in the recruitment process, avoid bias, and improve employers’ ability to make the right choice.

People—and how we invest in and develop them—will ultimately determine whether organisations thrive or merely survive. This article outlines how some principles of ‘Adaptive Leadership’ can support you to focus your priorities on your most important asset.

What is going wrong with succession planning when four in ten [1] of the internal job moves made by ‘high potential’ people ends in failure? Do we promote people to leadership roles using the wrong criteria? Daniel Mannheimer, Senior Consultant and Chartered Occupational Psychologist at Alumni explores the reasoning on which we base promotions, how the idea of good leadership is shifting and how we can start turn things around to build organisational resilience for the future.

A truly healthy organisation is one which strategically integrates employee well-being into its business objectives and reinforces it through improving and developing their leadership practices. Read more about how leadership impacts organisational health.

Healthcare systems worldwide are faced with escalating demands from the populations they serve. It is vitally important that we now take the necessary steps to realise the opportunities that do exist and only then will we emerge with a sustainable model of healthcare that delivers to patients and populations the care that they deserve. We present latest thoughts from Professor Sir Robert Lechler, Associate Advisor to our Global Healthcare Practice at Alumni

As an intelligent, capable and experienced person you may feel ready for the next step in your leadership career, but are you fully aware of why? Do you have a plan for what you want to achieve? Have you had time to reflect on what motivates you? This article looks at how you can recognise your own personal drivers and how aligning them to your role can be vital for your professional and personal development.

If the pandemic can teach us anything it is that employees want to feel valued by their organisations and its leadership. They crave meaningful interactions, not just transactions. Investing in creating a new kind of leadership that understands the motivations behind the widely reported ‘great resignation’ may be key to businesses mitigating high levels of churn and winning the war for talent.

Imagine your dream job landing in your inbox. Or perhaps you are thinking it’s time for a career move but feel unsure about the options available to you? Regardless of whether you are actively looking or simply job-curious, it’s likely that your future career opportunities will be in the hands of executive search specialists or ‘headhunters’. Here are some top tips from Alumni about helping you get spotted by people like us and matching your potential with an exciting new role.

Victor Reis at Alumni, in this serie of short articles, provides a brief overview of some of the most common and influential theories within leadership. First up: Transformational Leadership.

In recognition of International Women’s Day, Victor Reis, Consultant and Chartered Occupational Psychologist at Alumni discusses the facts around gender bias and how best to mitigate against it within the context of recruitment.

To make or maintain a company’s profitability, leaders of companies must work hard to engage their employees and this is never more true during this period of global business uncertainty and the ever-increasing prevalence of skills shortages.