Welcome to Drake's publications library.
This extensive knowledge center has been created for our clients and partners to
access critical business information. Here you will find research and business advice
on essential issues in human resources, management and leadership, training and
development and improving businesses productivity.

Effective
Hiring - Innovative recruiting and behavioural-based testing to ensure your future
success
This whitepaper focuses on how Predictive Performance Profiling can increase successful
hiring and reduce costs. It will also examine the costs associated with selecting
the wrong candidate within your organisation and the elements that are at risk in
terms of time, company performance and relationships.
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Employee
Retention - Reducing recruitment by increasing retention
This whitepaper focuses on how Drake's innovative solutions can create a successful
retention program that will reduce your staff turnover. It will also provide practical
tips for developing a productive and happy workforce, discovering the causes for
undesirable turnover, retaining your best staff and establishing effective employee
retention tactics.
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Onboarding
and Orientation - Maximizing the performance of new employees
This whitepaper focuses on how a successful Onboarding and Orientation process can
significantly reduce the time it takes your new employees to become effective within
your organisation. It will also provide practical tips for developing and structuring
your Onboarding and Orientation programmes, building a team of top performers and
helping your employees become effective faster.
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Exit
Interviews - Using exit interviews effectively
This whitepaper focuses on how you can convert Exit Interviews into a valuable management
tool. It will also examine the root causes of staff turnover, how to obtain open,
honest and impartial feedback and how to structure an Exit Interview effectively
and evaluate your ROI.
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Avoid
the Counterfeit Candidate - Know who to hire through effective resume screening
and interviewing skills
This whitepaper focuses on how Drake's Advanced Profiling and Selection Solutions
ensure the best screening and interviewing practices for your organisation. It also
provides practical tips for developing an effective candidate sourcing strategy,
improving your resume screening practices, conducting clear and structured interviews
and how to measure your ROI to build a successful process.
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Health
& Safety - Reduce your risk: Make your workplace a safer place
This whitepaper focuses on how to implement an effective Workplace Health and Safety
Consulting Programme in order to protect your company's liability, your personal liability
and your employee's safety. It also examines the costs of an unsafe workplace, compliance
and injury prevention, strategies for change and how to measure the ROI of your
Accident Prevention Program.
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Corporate
Hide and Seek - Finding hidden profits by centralizing contingent staffing management
This whitepaper focuses on the benefits of using Drake Online, a powerful and proprietary
web-based tool that offers real-time visibility to staffing levels and expenditures.
It also examines a framework for measuring and managing your contingent workforce,
the hazards and inefficiencies within a traditional procurement process and how
to implement a successful VMS solution for your organisation.
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The
Art and Science of Flexible Staffing - Delivering shareholder value
This whitepaper focuses on achieving the optimum balance of staff to workload by
reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving your organisation's bottom
line. Discover ways to right-size your labour force, control costs and boost productivity
with Drake's Workforce Optimisation Solutions. This whitepaper will also outline
the steps involved with implementing a flexible staffing model to deliver shareholder
value.
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Team
Building Magic - The secret behind high-performing teams
This whitepaper focuses on how organisations can build highly effective teams composed
of the right mix of people. It will also outline helpful and informative ways to
understand the strengths of individuals and what they can contribute so that your
organisation's financial performance does not suffer. Low productivity, low
morale, high confusion, apathy and rapid turnover are all signs of underperforming
teams and Drake's Human Resources Consulting and Team Building Tools will enable
your managers to create and manage teams to succeed.
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Developing
Great Leaders - Great leaders grow profits
Leadership is highly correlated with organisational success, profitability, retention
of a high quality workforce and recruitment of the "brightest and the best".
This whitepaper focuses on driving immediate business results by accelerating your
leadership development. It also outlines how Drake's HR Consulting Services
and Team Building Tools will help your organisation develop leaders who are focused
on results, not just activities.
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Optimize
Workforce Planning - A little planning eliminates a lot of panic
Scheduling and managing vacations, sick time and employee leaves of absence are
a concern throughout the year but can be exasperated during holiday time. Failure
to manage absenteeism can increase costs and failure to accurately track absences
can lead to violations of labour law. This whitepaper will focus on Workforce Planning
and the issues managers face with tracking and managing scheduled and unscheduled
leaves of absences. This whitepaper will also outline how Drake's Workforce
Planning experts will audit, analyse and develop an end-to-end solution to proactively
plan and manage your workforce needs.
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Performance
Reviews - Getting to the heart of the matter
Reviewing the performance of your employees is important. Whether it is done informally
or on a frequent basis, effective performance reviews help to improve employee results
and engagement. This whitepaper will focus on how Drake's Career Performance and
Development Solutions will drive organisational productivity and profitability to
build organisational strength.
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Mature
workforce - Putting experience to work
A huge shift is taking place in the demographics of the workforce because of the
decline of baby births since 1964 and the increased longevity of the boomer generation.
This whitepaper will focus on the fact that employers are realising the value of
recruiting and retaining the 50 plus age group because of their experience, knowledge
and loyalty. It will also outline the myths and false perceptions about this age
group and how we can embrace them as a valuable human asset. Read this whitepaper
and find out how Prime50, a division of Drake will assist your organisation in effectively
hiring a mature workforce.
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HR
Trends - Creating a strategic profit partner
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, business leaders are realising that
creating a passionate customer service experience will be a key differentiator,
helping to capture and retain loyal customers. Human Resources practitioners are
a strategic part of this change. Learn how Human Resources can move from management
to leadership in this new profit model.
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