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New HR trends always come onto the scene and people practitioners will have to decide if they're worthwhile and will help them improve the employee experience, boost productivity and performance and, ultimately, improve business success.
Often, it's useful to speak to the experts to see what they consider a useful trend, when trying to discern whats going to change HR and what's just noise.
One HR practitioner who has shed some light on what he thinks will be a big trend in the HR space in the next year is Arne-Christian van der Tang, Chief HR Officer at TomTom. In a recent interview with HR Grapevine, he said that the conversation in HR has shifted from ‘winning the war for talent’ to a more strategic realisation that ‘people drive competitive advantage’. Van der Tang explained that this conversation is focussed on three key area, as have been listed below:
Skills – how do we ensure our people are constantly learning and progressing?
