Strategic thinking means focusing on the desired plans and results of your organization and integrating this focus into the overall goals of your job and team. Increasingly, this type of thinking is necessary at all levels of the organization – not just at the top – and can greatly enhance your career. Here are some easy ways that any employee can become more strategic in their role.
5 Ways to Know Your Training Dollars Paid Off
As a business leader, you foot the bill for training, but how do you know you’re getting your money’s worth? You can, and should, rely on your in-house trainers and external suppliers to provide quality, meaningful training. But as the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water…
5 Common Management Challenges (and How to Overcome Them)
Trainers often get the chance to see firsthand what can happen when a breakdown in communication occurs between employees and their supervisors.
8 Resources Every HR Professional Should Know About
We’ve compiled a collection of eight (8) of our favorite HR resources – free comprehensive tools and information that many of our members find valuable for common tasks like staying compliant, administering FMLA, or finding and supporting employees.
9 Best Practices for Employee Engagement Initiatives
A successful employee engagement initiative can make lasting and effective changes in the workplace.
15 Ways to Reduce Hiring & Termination Liability
Issues involving hiring and termination liability are two of employers’ most common questions and concerns. Here are 15 ways that you and your managers can reduce liability when hiring and terminating employees.
3 Tips for Updating Your Compensation Program
Updating your salary structure? Market data discrepancies, pay compression, and alignment with the compensation philosophy are all problems employers experience when updating their compensation programs. Here are some tips to deal with these problems:
6 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process
Job candidate engagement and relationship management, recruitment metrics and streamlining, selection assessment, and hiring manager relations are all key areas of opportunity for many organizations and some of the major hiring practice trends.
8 Steps in a Compensation Project
Compensation initiatives are often on many employers’ agendas, so we’ve summarized eight (8) steps in a basic compensation project.
What a Manager Needs to Know to Drive Project Success
The challenge in project success rests in the ability to deliver to the desired business goal in the desired time frame and within the available budget. These three forces: time, cost, and quality, are often in conflict with each other. The Project Management Institute (PMI) has defined nine body of knowledge areas that when followed, would increase probability of project success. However, if you are not a full-time project manager and still want to increase your project results, follow these three project management principles:
Are Your Supervisors Prepared for These 5 Challenges?
The following is a complimentary audit and assessment consisting of key questions your organization should ask to determine if your supervisors and managers have the appropriate skills and competencies to combat the most common management pitfalls. Additionally, tips we frequently recommend to organizations in addressing these pitfalls are summarized.
Workplace Gift-Giving & Bonuses
Giving employees a year-end gift or bonus this year? Here are a few common questions and answers employers ask us about issues related to giving gifts and bonuses to their staff.
