Laurence MAYER's List: Training related topics

• HR needs to become 'business-critical'
• the importance attached to developing HR teams has fallen dramatically from 34% last year to a mere 3% in 2011.
• HR functions needed to address gaps in their structures, processes, systems, content and skills if they were not to risk being sidelined.
• HR will need to live the values of a post-downturn world – speed, pragmatism, tangibility, impact – in its own evolution or else risk being left isolated in a business world, which has to get on with things with or without its help,"
• the second most important priority for managers in staff development terms behind positioning the organisation for growth was the retention of talent

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