talent management Archives

Podcast Series with First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Tony Radakin CB ADC – Part 3 of 3, Your Twitter questions answered.

June 3, 2020May 25, 2020

Find out how Admiral Radakin answers your Twitter questions on subjects like Naval platforms through to people issues and lots more....

Opinion

Rethinking How and Who to Recruit: Disrupting Talent Management

Emma MooreNovember 21, 2019November 18, 2019

by Emma MooreNovember 21, 2019November 18, 201902046

This is the written version of a speech delivered at the Royal United Services 2019 Land Warfare Conference in June 2019. In order to remain...

Denial of Virtue Services: Senior Leader Words and Actions

LenSeptember 21, 2019September 22, 2019

by LenSeptember 21, 2019September 22, 201901796

September 2019 has seen three incidents of Senior Leader behaviour that are difficult to reconcile with the UK Military’s public calls to “fail fast” and an...

Maximising Talent: Rhetoric or Reality?

Stuart PotterMay 23, 2019May 20, 2019

by Stuart PotterMay 23, 2019May 20, 201902194

Here we go again, the Army, this time under the guise of Programme CASTLE “is rethinking career structures, learning and development and talent management”. In...

What does the Army Leadership Code tell us about what the Army values?

JosephMarch 7, 2019March 8, 2019

by JosephMarch 7, 2019March 8, 201903568

THis article questions if the Army Leadership Code drives the right behaviours for military leadership...

Land People and Leadership Short Read

Is it time to rethink Army contracts?

Joe BFebruary 14, 2019February 6, 2019

by Joe BFebruary 14, 2019February 6, 201902463

The article aims to spark debate and seek feedback because these contracts, and wider issues of service, are being examined by Programme CASTLE; in which...

Land Opinion People and Leadership

‘Leading by Example’ – A Response

TomSeptember 6, 2018October 7, 2018

by TomSeptember 6, 2018October 7, 201802220

In two recent articles a Wavell Room contributor discussed at length their thoughts on the current state of leadership in the Army and put forward...

Army Officer Career Management

GilesJuly 27, 2017October 7, 2018

by GilesJuly 27, 2017October 7, 20188 3469

A 2015 article in ‘The Atlantic’ magazine https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/us-military-tries-halt-brain-drain/413965/ laments the poor retention of talented officers within the US military and identifies their rigid and archaic career...