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Effective leadership strategies
Global HR expert Angus MacGregor shares insights into effective leadership practices, talent management strategies and the challenges leaders face in nurturing talent and fostering diversity within large organisations and corporates with Marianne Curphey.
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Turbocharging performance: creating spaces to thrive
The pace of working life and speed of change makes it hard to focus on our most intractable challenges and build the skills and insights to address them. Yet investing time to refresh your perspective could make all the difference to your team, career and business.
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Deconstructing the glass ceiling: women’s paths to leadership
Women often outperform men in both education and the workplace. Yet when it comes to making it to top leadership positions, a significant gap remains between men's and women’s access. There is evidence the ‘glass ceiling’ still exists, writes Marianne Curphey.
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A class act: education of the future
Covid turned education on its head and there is a growing movement of educators that feel it’s time for a serious overhaul. They champion a future based less around exams and more on the smart use of AI, project-based learning and hybrid teaching. Sally Robinson reports.
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Gender equality and allyship: actions to inspire inclusion in the workplace
Gender equality, flexibility, wellbeing and allyship are important ingredients in making the workplace better for women. On International Women’s Day, Fiona Murchie, managing director of Think Global People, facilitated a wide-ranging discussion on how to enhance the lives of women at work at our Think Global Women event at the Institute of Directors. Marianne Curphey reports.
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Cash boost for life sciences but skills shortage stays
Industry leaders in the UK's pharmaceutical, tech and health sectors have reacted with enthusiasm – and no small amount of relief – following the government announcement of a £650 million 'war chest' to boost the nation's life sciences.
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Skills shortage still preoccupying UK business
While inflation and an increase in interest rates have dominated headlines in the UK of late, it has been the tight labour market and growing skills shortages that have been preoccupying the minds of many industry leaders.
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Accelerating growth: are the brakes coming off global immigration policies?
Given the ever-growing skills shortage across the globe, it is small wonder that many governments are scrambling to liberalise immigration policies – while adopting programmes aimed at upskilling indigenous populations – in a bid to solve the problem.
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Skills-based hiring
For decades now, obtaining a university degree has been considered by many to be essential to obtain a 'decent' job. But not anymore. Increasingly across the globe, companies large and small are looking to recruit on the basis of individuals' acquired skills, rather than on their academic records.
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Changing skills needs pose growing challenge
There has been a noticeable decline in the number of learning & development (L&D) professionals in the UK who feel confident about responding to their organisations’ changing skills needs, according to research published on Tuesday.
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Business alarmed over visa crackdown
British business leaders reacted with concern on Tuesday after the government announced it was raising the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa to £38,700 from next April.
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Gearing up to realise AI’s productivity gains
Artificial intelligence once more grabbed the headlines in November when the UK government hosted the first international AI safety summit. Attracting political and business leaders from across the globe, it generated warnings aplenty about threats to security, privacy, employment and even the continued existence of humanity itself, reports David Sapsted.
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Businesses call for visa action over vacancies
To the consternation of British business leaders, official figures this week have shown that there are still more than a million job vacancies in the UK economy.
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Summer Magazine 2023 Coming Soon!
Welcome to the latest issue of Think Global People, Summer issue featuring our Relocate Global Awards supplement and 40 Outstanding Global Women supplement
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Summer Magazine 2023 Out Now!
Our recent Innovation Festival for Global Working and the Award Supplement and videos are testament to the strides, organisations are making to adapt and innovate in uncertain times despite the economic environment. Astronaut Tony Antonelli challenged our thinking and the need to aspire to ambitious global goals, learn from mistakes and the importance of pushing innovations forward whatever your sector. Our Hot Topic is a timely reminder of the duty of care responsibilities of those managing global mobility and business travel.
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Financial services demand easier mobility rules
The UK's leading trade organisation for financial and related professional services is calling for a government overhaul of visa rules to make it easier for firms to access the overseas talent they need.
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The drive for companies to become more entrepreneurially focussed in the new world of work
Our experts examine how an entrepreneurial mindset is essential to survive in the current economic climate, how today’s school leavers will shape future strategy and engagement, and why in many countries the concept of returning to the office full time is effectively finished
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Education in Switzerland
Switzerland has always ranked as one of Europe’s best destinations for education. The choices include a highly rated state system, bilingual and international schools and an elite boarding school network.
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Where next for UK immigration policy?
The British government is considering a recommendation from its independent panel of immigration experts to scrap the Shortage Occupation List (SOL). This is currently the easiest and cheapest way to get visas for foreigners with specific skills the country is short of, writes David Sapsted.
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UK expecting more visa curbs to cut migration
Faced with record net migration last year and a growing clamour from the right wing of the Conservative Party, the UK government is looking at further action to curb legal immigration.
