If one thing is for sure, it's that Performance Management is a rapidly evolving aspect of the Human Resources landscape. Bersin by Deloitte's 'The Guide to Performance Management Software: 2015' outlines the main trends in the changing world of Performance Management and the progress that software providers need to make to support that change.

The two recent 'Thought Leadership Papers' by Avril Henry have highlighted the key intergenerational factors in attracting and retaining employees. It's clear that Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y all value different things, and as the mix of generations in the workforce shifts, it's important for HR Professionals to have intimate knowledge of what makes each generation tick. We've put the essentials into an InfoGraphic to make it easy for you keep track of what matters most.

Ahead of next week's second paper from Avril Henry, we continue our deep dive into the current Human Resource, HRIS and HR Software trends. This Blog looks at the predominant HR trends in small and medium sized businesses. Because the industry is constantly evolving, with regulations regularly adapting to market forces, and employee desires and values changing as well, small and medium sized businesses have to be flexible enough to keep up with them.

Training, or Learning and Development (L&D), is a critial part of any organisation's retention strategy. As we've already discovered in the first paper of our Thought Leadership Series, Learning and Development is critical to Generations X, Y and the Millennials. However, the optimum way for a workforce to learn skills is not 'one-size-fits-all,' and there is an ever-increasing pool of technologically enhanced development pathways for employers to tap into. Advances in technology mean that L&D Professionals are now expected to be not only learning experts, but also fluent technology purveyors, capable of selecting the best fit-for-purpose and most cost-effective learning solution. Modern HR Software makes all this possible in a much more cohesive mannaer than was possible in the past. This Blog explore the top L&D trends for 2015 and beyond.

As part of our 'Thought Leadership Series,' we have an Australian HR expert providing a deep dive and sharing her years of experience across a broad range of HR issues, including intergenerational trends. These papers also illustrate the importance of HR automation in improving the efficiency of HR processes and procedures. In between each monthly paper from Avril Henry & Associates, we're going to take a look at some of the other current trends in work and the workplace according to market research. We want you to have the most well-rounded and accurate understanding of the future of work as possible.

Subscribe-HR is committed to providing customers with the latest, most efficient means of streamlining HR processes and procedures. We are pleased to announce that the new LinkedIn Job Wrapping Service is now available through the Subscribe-HR e-Recruitment Software and HR Software system. Improve your time-to-hire and enhance your ability to tap into Passive Candidate pools accurately. This integration will also greatly reduce the amount of time you spend on manually keying in data and greatly inhance your recruitment automation.

If you're an HR professional who is new to the world of HR Software Cloud SaaS and you're not quite sure where to start, this blog will outline the headlines of how to assess and align your organisation with best practice when selecting and implementing an HR technology solution. We have also created a downloadable checklist that will enable you to assess your organisation against best practice benchmarks in order to make a fully informed decision about which Cloud HR solution is best for you. Essentially we want you to have as much information as possible, so that when you embark on a transition to the Cloud, you're as well prepared as you can possibly be.

Last week's White Paper on Inspiring Transformational Leadership contained some valuable insight around what's required for leaders to be able to inspire their employees and transform their organisations for future success. One of the points raised, related to the increasing necessity of having the right resources, systems and processes in place to 'take care of business' so that everyone is free to work on what really matters. IBM's research on market leading organisations, which they call 'Pacesetters,' indicates that it is early adoption of Cloud SaaS technology to 'take care of business' which has given these organisations their competitive advantage.