PUTTING GLOBAL PEOPLE AT THE HEART OF GOOD WORK
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people development’s CEO, outlined the context for human resources, talent managers, pay and reward specialists, recruitment, learning and training professionals. Among the key themes was the
notable shift in the agenda from performance to social responsibility and sustainability. As evidence of this shift, Mr Cheese cited research that showed more CEOs lost their job for ethical transgressions than for poor performance in the last year. “This is a critical agenda for our profession and function,” said Mr Cheese to a capacity auditorium and via video link to the overflow auditoriums. “Skills are also critical,” he
continued. “What skills do we need for the future? There are lots of skills mismatches and a lack of investment in skills, particularly in this country
t the start of the two-day annual CIPD conference, Peter Cheese, the
and especially at the moment because of short-term pressures.” Talking of the ongoing migration
debate, he said the same is true in most countries, but this mustn’t detract from “the fundamental debate” about the future of skills. “What are those essential skills we all need, regardless of technology? These are fundamentally the human skills of resilience, learning, critical thinking, empathy, teamwork.”
THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Speaking later to Relocate Global managing editor Fiona Murchie, Mr Cheese expanded on these broad themes from an international perspective and the UK’s place in the world post-Brexit. At a conference where the UK’s role in the world has never been more firmly in the spotlight, Mr Cheese shared his views on how important international experience is for today’s leadership and future leaders. He said, “I think it’s fundamental. In my
experience, there have been lots of opportunities to work internationally. International experience is as much about developing behaviour as much as technical job competence. The more behavioural stuff is around dealing with
uncertainty and the role of building personal experience in different situations.” “We’ve got to be open-minded and expose
ourselves to different contexts, so we can say ‘we’ve seen this before and this is how it works’. A lot of business cultures have been very dominated by Anglo-American ways of doing and we can all learn from each other.”
DEALING WITH POLITICAL
UNCERTAINTY Relocate Global also asked Mr Cheese about what he sees as the important issues in the 2019 general election campaign. “It’s about being open for business,” he said. “We see ourselves as a country leading the way in good working practices and leading the way in transparency. “In many ways, the UK has historically
been held up as having reasonably good practices. If you look at it from the perspective of our professional bodies, we have a good reputation. We are often held up as exemplars and we need to keep building on that. This is about businesses behaving responsibly, both now and when we are more separate from the EU and formulating trade deals.” Acknowledging that the key challenges
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