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 [...]
Talent Management: The Strategic Connection
There is one key element that defines the effectiveness of implementing competencies into a talent management system, and that is a strategic connection between business objectives and said competencies. Essentially: [...]
The Trainer’s Role in Developing Competencies
Competency modeling provides a truly ideal framework for your training programs. Studies show that competency-based training offers a return on investment (ROI) nearly ten times higher than the ROI of [...]
Key Ingredients to Organizational Success
Conversation, Compensation, and Competencies Do you feel overwhelmed with managing your employees’ expectations? Do they not understand your company culture and what is expected of them to keep progressing? You’re [...]
The Right Choices for Successful Workforce Planning
Staff turnover can be costly, not only in terms of the hiring and training process, but also as you transition between employees. That gap slows down your productivity and can [...]
Competency-Based Succession Planning
For most employees, the potential to access other, oft-higher positions within an organization is a great incentive to maximizing performance. As an HR professional, it is therefore important that [...]
The cost of a wrong hire: Competencies to the rescue
When it comes to the recruiting and hiring process, technical knowledge, education and experience, while important initial screening criteria, are not the elements that distinguish between average and superior performance. [...]