Clayton J.C Tan | July 28, 2010
I’ve seen so many organizations with succession planning in place (some of which even have a dedicated person to manage succession planning). While CEO succession is something that have been talked about for some time, cascadding succession planning initiatives to other levels are somewhat new to many organizations. Though it works theoretically, many are still [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | July 13, 2010
The Star carried the news “Talent Corp to woo back 70,000 Malaysians” emphasizing that this is one of the key focus of the 10th Malaysian Plan. While I see this as a very positive move by the government. I would also like to raise my concerns and hope that the government will execute this with [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | July 6, 2010
As a HR practitioner, I do get questions about:
What do you think about using Social Network to Recruit?
Is it a norm for HR to check on employees behaviour via Social Network?
Is it ethical for HR to be spying on employees (or potential employees) using Social Network?
Before I give my answers to these questions, let me [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | June 9, 2010
While world cup is around the corner, much have been talked about the final 23 selected by each country, the havoc created by injuries and team coach’s changes of plans and strategy leading towards the world cup. I was looking at the news and the players selected for World Cup this year as compared to [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | April 19, 2010
Since young, I always wanted to become an entrepreneur. Maybe it was an influence by my dad who runs his own telecommunications business and very much enjoying it. To a large extend, it could also be influences of success stories in the Dotcom era (or rather since the technology era) - Bill Gates, Michael Dell, [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | April 12, 2010
Have you ever asked yourself that question? What’s your brand identity? How do people recognize you? How does people in the industry relate to you? What do they talk about you? This is exactly the point I’m getting at - What’s the brand that represents YOU?
While many may not realize, from the day we begin [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | March 30, 2010
Having read “A Story about Motivation” on the Harvard Business Review, it got me thinking about the rational of having benefits and long service awards which usually among the “key attraction” of large companies. Today, most organizations around would boast of having additiona benefits such as car allowances, birthday celebrations (to create family environment) and [...]
Share on FacebookClayton J.C Tan | March 18, 2010
I’ve finally completed facilitating my first 3-day session of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” program for my organization. I thought it was about time I write something about this program (one of which I think is among the most essential program for anyone - fundamental yet paradigm changing and inspiring).
7 Habits of Highly [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | March 9, 2010
This is a very much overdue post. I was all the while thinking about sharing this simple assignment I did as part of my DBA program. The questions is - “Is HR on the table? or under it?”
My immediate reaction was “HR is NOT YET at the table”, and there’s a web of issues that [...]
Clayton J.C Tan | February 12, 2010
I was recently in a good debate and discussions on Linked-In about Gen-Y - the similarities and differences accros culture and how to deal with them. It triggered me to think about how to bridge the gap between the different generations.
Sometimes I do keep wondering why we often see programs, articles, workshops focusing on “how [...]
