How to Reclassify Senior Roles Without Losing Top Talent
As your organization grows, technology changes, and products evolve, roles will naturally change as well. Reclassifying roles becomes necessary when either a litany of small changes or several larger ones have made parts or all of a role defunct, the role is misclassified and could be better moved to another department, or the role is otherwise not performing to its possible potential. While this step is often necessary and valuable for organizations, it must be [...]
A basic checklist for business travel
Traveling for work is something that many professionals will have to do eventually. To avoid problems and ensure a smooth work experience, HR should double check this quick and simple checklist during the planning process, before someone departs, and after they return. If you're the one doing the traveling, double check this list as well and send it to whoever is responsible for organizing the trip. Before the trip Most of the preparation that needs [...]
Empowering Employees in the Age of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation offers the opportunity to optimize, expand, and streamline processes, but for employees, it often means taking on risk. Employees switching to new tools, new work processes, and even new roles will experience skills gaps and job insecurity, which can lead to resistance, even in the face of positive change. Taking the steps to communicate changes to your workforce, educate employees to avoid skills gaps, and empower your employees throughout the digital transformation process [...]
Creating a Culture of Coaching
Coaching is an extremely valuable tool that can help you to train new leaders, balance weak points in skills and behavior, and bring new people into your company culture. Coaching, or one-on-one training, typically through both example and advice, will help employees to build themselves at every level, and it is something that will benefit your organization. At the same time, fostering a culture of coaching, where individuals automatically reach out and help others, automatically [...]
Are Competencies Enough to Build Strong Teams?
Employee assessment tactics like behavioral competencies are extremely popular in HR, and often for good reason. Recognizing how and why an individual will react and act in any given situation gives leaders the opportunity to put those people into work environments where they will excel, to offer training to help people excel, and to recognize when people will and will not work together. Behavioral competencies are also more and more often used to find and [...]