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Supercharge your Job Descriptions into a Powerful Performance Management Tool
Want to immediately improve the performance of your workgroup or organization? Go up in the attic and dig out those job descriptions you wrote years ago, update them, and instead of throwing them in the drawer until the next ...
Talent Strategy is a MUST HAVE!
The recession may just be the best thing that’s happened to talent management. Layoffs and cost-cutting have been dramatic, but for many companies that reactive stage has come to an end; their expenses and employee base have been trimmed, ...
Top Five Reasons Why You Should Use Assessments
Over the years, I’ve met many Human Resource professionals who expressed considerable skepticism toward the use of assessments. I have to admit that I ...
Are You Ready For Evidence-Based HR?
Whether we like to admit it or not, HR management, like management more generally, is full of fad and fashion. The pressures on human resources to adopt some of these apparently “new”, “cutting edge” and “best practice” techniques can ...
Employee Engagement – Critical to Recovery and Renewal
Engagement represents the emotional and intellectual commitment of an individual to build and sustain strong business performance. It’s about the desire to produce results. Employees with an above-average attitude toward their work will generate higher customer satisfaction, higher ...
Be Clear on the Goal — HR Transformation or HR Effectiveness?
I think we’ve all been there before. Senior Leadership states that “HR isn’t strategic enough,” and the whole HR department springs into action to prove that they are indeed making a strategic contribution. Often times these efforts are ...
Improving Your Return on Investment in Competency Models
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” In its report “Developing Business Leaders for 2010″ the Conference Board predicted “we will ...
Results-Focused Job Descriptions – A Solid System for Accountability
While executives spend significant time crafting organizational strategies and goals, employee understanding of how their job connects to these strategies is still extremely low. Consider the following data points: In Towers Perrin’s 2007 “Rewards & Challenges Survey”, they ...
