How to set the right KPIs for your employees
“Business! Business! Numbers!” This quote from “The Lego Movie” reflects the idea of KPIs perfectly. In order to keep the business growing, everyone on a team should know what’s going on in the company right now and what has to be done next. But if a manager says: “We have to do better next month!” it can be understood in a dozen different ways. Should we do better in terms of motivation? Does it mean [...]
4 Tips on Getting Actionable Employee Feedback
This is a guest post from Ashley Wilson. Ashley is a digital nomad and freelance writer from San Diego, California. When she is not busy baking cupcakes, Ashley loves writing about business, digital marketing, and finance. Connect with Ashley via Twitter @ashleygwilson. Most businesses understand the value of getting customer feedback, but many are missing out on a much more valuable source of actionable intelligence: their own employees. While customer feedback is important, it often [...]
How to Implement Strategic Talent Management
Managing a workforce over time, as organizational needs change, is one of the most difficult jobs handled by HR. Strategic talent management is the process of optimizing recruitment, hiring, and internal development in line with business goals and needs, so that the workforce is always ready to meet those goals. Although many HR teams don’t implement talent management beyond the basics of acquiring, hiring, and retaining skilled individuals, strategic talent management can offer a great [...]
5 Ways to Build Success Profiles
Success profiles can help your organization to improve hiring, leadership development, and role planning, giving you the tools to strategize who and why you hire and develop. However, the value of these success profiles often lies in their validity, relevance, and ability to adapt to the future, which means that the process of building success profiles is just as important as actually using them. While your organization can take many approaches to building success profiles, [...]
5 Tips to Improve Employee Assessment Practices
Employee assessment and performance reviews have been under fire for some time. Studies show that not only do people actively dislike performance reviews, they dread them, allowing them to interrupt real productivity and value delivery. At the same time, most experts agree the real problem isn’t performance reviews or employee assessment, it’s organizations using outdated assessment practices that fail to take the individual, goals or other factors into account. Performance reviews can add a lot [...]