ChapmanCG Global HR Interviews

The rise of the matrix organisation has meant the emergence of a truly multicultural workplace. As business leaders, we understand the importance of diversity: the integration of different ideas, perspectives, and priorities to yield a superior, highly relevant, and diversified product or service. But achieving that—bringing together a team from different business units, geographies, and cultures—to work on a shared purpose is easier said than done and poses a real challenge for many organisations.

Alessandro Preda, Chief Executive Officer at Autogrill-Europe and former CHRO, discusses how to get the most out of the new matrix, multicultural workplace.

The global talent shortage is forcing every organization to create an employer value proposition that extends beyond compensation. Companies are forced to evaluate not only how they pay for performance, but the entire employer-employee dynamic: working hours, workplace set-up and location, training and development offerings, not to mention internal and external communications.

And with employees seeming to have so many options, how does an organization become an employer of choice? How do you retain high performing employees and keep them engaged when competition is so fierce?

Boyd Williams, Asia Pacific Human Resources Director at Bacardi-Martini*, discusses how to retain key talent for future growth in a highly competitive marketplace. (Since the recording of this podcast, Boyd has moved on from Bacardi-Martini).

The role of HR has evolved from one of a transactional nature to one that aligns itself with the business to help achieve organisational success. But to do this, it is critical that HR becomes adept at building relationships based on trust and credibility. HR must be able to influence business decisions for the greater good of the organisation—yet many HR teams struggle to achieve the necessary buy-in from the business they need to deliver the best solutions for the organisation.

Carl Segerstrom, AVP & Head of HR for Europe and Canada at Merck discusses how to create HR as a credible business partner.

Learning to lead in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous environment has been key to our survival on many levels. But advancing technologies has given us an excess of options and has increased the speed and distance in which we interact with one another. It has created a new environment where different leadership attributes are needed.

Merche del Valle, Regional Head of Talent, Leadership and Organisational Development at Prudential Corporation Asia, discusses the evolution of leadership and how to lead in today’s world.

For more information on the C World, please refer to Merche's article "Vuca is so last season...Are you Ready for the C World"? ://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vuca-so-last-seasonare-you-ready-c-world-merche-del-valle

The power of social media is its ability to streamline information and make it accessible. It creates connections and develops new relationships with the click of a button.

More and more employers are harnessing this power to increase their business and communications effectiveness, while at the same time more and more employees are using their social media profiles to increase their marketability.

Oscar Fuchs, Managing Director and Co-founder of ChapmanCG, and Matt Chapman, CEO of ChapmanCG, discuss social media in the workplace and what it means for the future workplace.

A key hurdle for all organisational success is finding the right talent that can help grow the business. Regardless of the industry, region, or company size, the demand for high-quality talent that can grow to become future leaders has never been greater. This intense competition for talent has created the need for a landscape where high potential and high performing employees can excel.

Anne-Christine Ahrenkiel, Global Head of Human Resources Officer at Egmont, discusses their plans to create a corporate environment where talent can flourish.

As new markets emerge, businesses jump at the opportunity to develop new revenue sources, but an entry strategy that works in one market doesn’t always work in another.

With so many new markets emerging in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, they’ve finally gained a seat at the strategy table. More business leaders are accepting that to succeed, they can no longer take the top-down (or West to East) approach, but they must listen to and introduce ideas that originate from these markets.

Joy Xu Jing Hui, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, APAC region at PepsiCo*, discusses how APAC and the Middle East and Africa are beginning to set the global HR stage. (*Since the recording of this podcast, Joy has moved on from PepsiCo.)

Everyone uses social media—or at least it can feel that way. Between LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, the overwhelming majority of our professional and personal contacts are online in some form.

So why not use it as a tool to gather more information about your potential job candidates?

Michael Pilnick, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at First Advantage, discusses the appropriateness of using social media when evaluating potential employees for your organisation.

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One of the toughest recruitment challenges is not just finding talent who meet today’s business needs, but also finding talent who show the potential to grow and evolve with the organisation.

Talent experts are building pipelines and looking to digital and social media solutions to help identify the next generation of employees who possess the potential to turn into business leaders.

Maarten van Beek, the HR Director at ING, discusses how to recruit talent to serve a company’s growth strategy.