Impact Executives Hold Annual Business Breakfast

LONDON, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Executives held their Annual Business Breakfast at The Lanesborough Hotel on Thursday 27th January 2010. Guest speakers were Deborah Baker, Group Director of People for Sky and Dr. Nigel MacLennan who has been leading leaders to make successful changes for over 20 years.

Deborah Baker discussed Sky's commitment to ensuring that the people plan reflects the key business drivers, how impact and output is imperative to all parts of the business and gave some practical examples on how they have achieved this. Across the business they recruit for attitude; you can always train skills but you can't train attitude. They are continually seeking to remove bureaucracy and have created a flatter structure that ensures anybody in the organisation, irrespective of role is encouraged to have creative input and decisions are made faster.  They have created a Development Studio and internal social networks to assist with the relentless pursuit to seek out the best and as the Sky strap line says, "Believe in Better".

Dr. Nigel MacLennan set out to prove how HR can add more value than all other functions in any business.  By creating organisations that are outcome focused and by systemising cutting edge techniques HR can add massive value across the business. A typical change programme costs Euro 15m and 85% of these fail. By engaging the cutting edge techniques waste can be eliminated resulting in successful change programmes.

Both speakers agreed that it is a business imperative that their leaders are leading and people plan is aligned to the business agenda. In times like this the people element to any business is critical. If the people department is able to get this right then the business will flourish.

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About Impact Executives

Impact Executives is a leading interim management provider to organisations of every size in the UK and globally. Originally formed as a specialist practice within PA Consulting Group, over the past 20 years Impact Executives has helped more than 2000 companies. These include more than two-thirds of the FTSE 250 - find the very best executive interim management talent.

With offices covering the UK, continental Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia, Impact Executives is part of the global services consultancy Harvey Nash Group plc, giving clients and interim managers the confidence that we have the resources, expertise and focus to deliver results - fast.

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