The Big Issue

West moves East - and vice-versa

2008 is going to see rapid growth in new thinking and knowledge sharing between well-established and well-resourced HR professionals in Western Europe and their counterparts in emerging Eastern Europe - and further east, in Russia.

Rhema has rightly earned a reputation as a perceptive and imaginative global operator in training and development. So I very recently found myself in Moscow in mid-winter as a key speaker at a conference on HR – the European Experience. I was addressing a large audience of HR professionals who fully demonstrated their accelerating interest in such new thinking and knowledge sharing. The Russians are keen to learn about European best practice as their emerging market status attracts European companies – offering not only a boost to the national economy but the possibility of employment and personal development.

And it will certainly be a two-way process, as Europeans need to learn the business culture and practices of 21 st century Russia.

Not only will Rhema be involved in further such conferences – some bringing Russian HR professionals to the UK – but it is already well placed to offer excellent practical help in the East-West HR dialogue, via our soon-to-be-launched Rhema Resources online service. This will be a globally accessible, any language, tool in this knowledge sharing and best practice facilitating process.

This newsletter includes more detail on both these topics, alongside news and opinion which follows the same theme.

Managing Director