Savvy HR Professionals Know the Learning Never Stops

In today’s dynamic workplace, educating the human resources professional about effective programs, practices and trends is critical to keeping ahead of the curve. Reacting to daily issues "in the moment" keeps you from focusing on your long-term goal of anticipating and identifying the future needs of your workforce and proactively setting out to manage them.

I’ve written the following articles to address your concerns and challenging situations. You’ll see that some of the titles take a contrarian approach – I’ve found that it helps to understand what doesn’t work before you take the steps needed to do it right!

Read on and learn more to help you with educating the human resources professional in your company.

10 Ways Not to Conduct a Market Pricing Study
What seems from the surface to be a fairly simple exercise turns out to be anything but! There are lots of technicalities involved in producing a quality market pricing survey of your jobs compared to the marketplace!  Read more ...

The Future of Training
Every successful organization’s strategy includes recruiting and retaining the best quality employee possible. In an expanding economy with a tightening job market, higher performing companies recognize the challenge associated with retention of staff. With multiple generations present in today’s workplaces, the need to provide customized and targeted training is key to the organization’s successful overall performance and retention of staff.  Read more ...

10 Ways Not to Hire the Best Person
In every company, one of the most critical responsibilities for every manager and supervisor is to hire the highest caliber of person to fill open jobs. Yet few managers have ever received training that teaches them just how to do this! Most managers learn through on-the-job experience, without knowing how to approach and prepare for the interview, which questions they can legally ask, or how to get answers on issues that they need to know.  Read more ...

To Manage Performance, or Not to Manage…That is the Question!
The high-maintenance employee. You know him. If he’s currently working for you, you’re regretting the day you hired him. And you probably don’t know where to begin in terms of managing him to perform, or managing him out of the organization. So you haven’t done anything, except hope that he transfers out of your department or quits.  Read more ...

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