The Cost of Higher Quality Decision-Making
How do successful human resource teams manage to do more with less, thus earning their respective title? Less staff, less outsourcing… all thanks to higher quality decision-making, which drives lower [...]
Developing Technical Competencies
The demand for and interest in creating technical competencies has significantly increased in the past few years. When the concept of competencies first emerged, the focus was largely on [...]
Selecting for Success: Succession Planning
The challenge with any corporate succession plan is ensuring its adaptability to the dynamic nature of the actual succession process, as well as the shifting demands of a given [...]
Test for Competence or Intelligence?
The first competency model was developed in the early 1970’s by the eminent psychologist Dr. David McClelland and consultants from McBer and Company2. McClelland was a Harvard professor who published [...]
The Basics of Performance Management
The basics of performance management is this. Performance is the true test of survival in the marketplace. High-performing employees contribute superior performance, giving your organization its main competitive advantage. You [...]
The Competent New Human Resources Manager
You most likely already know that competencies help define the basic skills employees need to perform their job duties. But did you know that new managers in the human resources [...]
The Analytics of Managing Performance
The demand for performance-driven analytics has never been greater. By understanding the power of analytics within the human resource function, you can become predictive, and thus provide the answers to [...]
Better Hiring, Less Firing
Hiring employees is one of the most crucial decisions an organization or business owner will make. Compensation certainly is a large expenditure, especially when an employee ends up not being [...]