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“The HR Summit and HR Directors Forum are a very important events for the HR Industry as they provide an opportunity for HR Professionals to regroup and openly debate the challenges facing the industry and identify solutions to the issues”, says Mettle Consulting’s Craig McCallum, GM Marketing & Corporate Services.

It is Mettle’s position that company’s first need to recognise that strategy without talent and an aligned culture is just a thought on paper – usually reams of it. Companies need to develop the skills to plan and initiate talent attraction, retention and HR strategies to develop and harness the skills that will enable the company to achieve its strategy. Lasting competitive advantage will only eventuate once companies understand and initiate the involvement of HR in strategy formulation and aligning talent, culture and HR methodology to the agreed strategy for effective people execution. In return however HR needs to be prepared to play this crucial role also. Bottom line, without the people, there is no strategy.