“The FPA Competency Model is about clarity, intention, and giving financial planners the tools to lead with purpose,” Paul Brahim, 2025 FPA president, said in a statement.

A competency-based approach in HR recruitment involves determining how many vacancies exist, identifying the basic and preferred requirements for each position and how the recruiters will go about ...

Ulrich listed a number of practices he believed marked out the most effective HR departments, including: sharing a common purpose, respecting each other’s differences, being positive to one another ...

Dave Ulrich: It's a great concept. You have to have good people. I love the term you used, “pivot.” It isn't shifting. A pivot means you keep A, while you still do B, and you still do C. So ...

As Boroughs concludes in his paper, organisations should be “aware that there is a limit to the benefits that can be derived from excellence in HR operations”. The next 10 years, he adds, should see a ...

A recent article posted at SHRM.org explains how in 2012, SHRM developed a competency model that spells out nine basic skill sets that HR professionals need to have to be at the top of their game ...

Eighty-one per cent of HR professionals are still using the Ulrich model, developed by University at Michigan professor David Ulrich in the late 1990s. In order to meet the demands of today’s ...

After 18 years of the Ulrich Model, 63% of HR business partners still retain “too much” transactional activity in their role Most large organisations are missing significant commercial opportunities ...