Sliced Cheese: 2/14

In the CIPD’s Look Ahead To 2014 podcast, head honcho Peter Cheese explains that HR should no longer feel the need to prioritise cost-cutting over creating healthy corporate cultures.

Thanks to the UK’s more buoyant economy, he looks forward to a growing confidence in business leadership, a clearer strategic agenda, and innovation in HR.

A ‘common language’ for the country’s finance, business and HR communities is still wanting, though. Echoing his thoughts on the ‘struggle to find any consistent definition or understanding of what continue to be termed the “intangible” assets or value of business’ in Personnel Today back in December, he discusses the need for better metrics and a commonly accepted framework for the HR profession.

To address this in 2014, the CIPD have launched the Valuing Your Talent programme in collaboration with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Investors in People, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Chartered Management Institute and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

The aim of the project, a CIPD priority for this year, is to find new ways for organisations to present the achievements of the talented people they employ. You can read more about it here.

All this cheer is clearly pepping up Cheese’s twitter disciples – to follower Karina Rook, who found his speech at the HR Leaders Network on Human Capital ‘reinvigorating’ he replied, ‘let’s spread the evangelism!’ He has also taken to the rallying cry ‘This is HR’s time!’. All rousing stuff.

With the bastion of HR on such fighting form and the CIPD pledging clearer communication systems to its members, we can surely expect a productive year. Go the Cheese.

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Amelia Walsh

When not writing about HR, Amelia likes to indulge her fondness for full-fat mayonnaise and sitcoms. She is very small and has been asked whether she will be travelling without a chaperone on more than one recent occasion.