Leadership in an era of cost-savings
By David Hammond, Head of Consulting & Public Sectors, Tribe. Personally, I was not horrified by the removal of the four well-beings from the Local...
Category : Recruitment
Recruiting locally versus from overseas
Way back in January 2008, David Law, an employment relations and recruitment consultant, wrote an article relating to the fight for talent among local authorities....
The founder dilemma
‘I wish there were a button’ … that’s a statement that needs some context – doesn’t it? asks David Hammond, the Executive Search Lead at...
Chief executive performance committees
David Hammond, Executive Search Lead, Tribe. It should be easy to develop the Terms of Reference (ToR) for a Chief Executive Performance Committee (titles may...
Recruiting executives in tough times
We are in one of the toughest periods for leadership in our modern history. If it feels that hard to you as a governance board...
How to lose a good chief executive
We know that retention of a good Chief Executive (CEO) is one of the major risks faced by organisations in a world where there is...
Should we be using more commercial talent
By David Hammond, Head of Tribe Leadership Executive Search. Should we freshen the local government sector with new blood who have commercial executive skills brought...
Better council governance
In my work, there has been a noticeable uptick of governance review and capability-building work in 2022. By David Hammond, the head of Tribe leadership...
Local government executives and recruitment
Caption: Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga David Hammond from recruiting specialist Tribe talks with Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, former Minister of Local Government, about the role of executives...
The career waka jumping trend
A recruitment report [2019] iterates how businesses and organisations are struggling with staff retention, with 66 percent saying it’s now harder to retain talent than...