Are You Ready To Start Hiring?
As your business grows you may consider obtaining help, whether by outsourcing tasks to free up your time or hiring staff. Either way, are you ready for all that involves?
The Delicate Subject Of Owners Salaries
Most businesses start out with a very simple model that says "we all earn the same amount'. This is very egalitarian and is a no-brainer at the start.
7 Steps To Streamline Every Area Of Your Business
For every step you introduce into a business process, the complexity increases exponentially. In a complicated world, with complicated customer requests, how do you simplify your business processes quickly and easily?
A Blueprint For Getting Maximum Impact From Your Talent Management Planning Process
Talent Management Planning, an integrated process for aligning business strategy with people systems, can have a powerful impact on business performance, with greater organisational efficiency, greater employee engagement and a framework for continuous improvement.
Re-Designing The HR Function In Your Business
When was the last time you considered how effectively you are running your HR function? The good news is that there is a remarkable degree of agreement on best practice in human capital management. You might already be headed in the right direction but the devil is in the details.
Every Leadermanager™ Is Responsible For Succession Planning
Succession planning is not just about executives, it is about every role in your organisation.
Human Resources Planning - More Than Filling Vacancies For The Next Few Months
Workforce planning for many people is just about looking at new jobs coming up and how they might fill the vacancies. To do it effectively requires a little more forward vision. A few of the steps you may wish to include are listed below.
Leaders Cannot Lead Without Organisational Intelligence
Wouldn't if be great if the COOs and CEOs of all organisations were confident that their work in leading talent management efforts was, in fact, adding lots of value?!
Unconventional Succession Planning
With a highly competitive environment for talent, old methods of succession planning are no longer viable. For many companies, HR processes are not well positioned, or integrated enough to support a culture of development required to growing talent.
Optimising Human Capital
An organisation is rather like a pipeline for people. We recruit people and feed them in at the start of the pipeline. How long they remain in the pipeline, how effectively they perform and their level of contribution depends on a number of factors, many of which are under the direct control of the people who are responsible for leading the organisation.
Workforce Planning Starts With Understanding Demand
Stated very simply, the key to successful workforce planning is making sure your organisation has the right people available for the right roles at the right time - so the right things get done.
Succession Planning - It's More Than Just Replacing People Who Leave
We tend to think of succession planning as having a few plans in place if a key person gets hit by a bus or someone retires. In practice it has to be more than this if you want to avoid continually trying to "catch up".
Talent Management - What Is It Really?
There seems to be a constant flow of new buzz words popping up and a recent one is 'talent management' - logically following on from 'the war for talent'. Depending on where you look, you will find various definitions of it. We won't try another definition here but let's assume it is about finding talented people, having them perform well and keeping them in the organisation.
Putting Those Plans Into Action - Starting With The People Is A Good Idea
The early part of the year is often taken up with planning. Very soon after that we get caught up in what we think is our normal business. Towards the end of the year we'll wonder what happened and find out that much of what we planned just didn't eventuate.
Human Resources Planning Checklist
This template is designed to be used to collect relevant information from corporate strategic plans to ensure HR plans are comprehensive.
Performance Management Implementation Checklist
An effective performance management program can make a significant contribution to a business. It brings together a number of fundamental people management systems and processes such as job design, measures, development and rewards and ensures they are linked to overall corporate goals.
Sample Management Development Program Outline
The following briefly summarises the elements and module objectives you may consider when introducing a development program for front line managers.
Workforce Planning... It's Not Just About People
Bringing in new staff can be part of the solution, but there are other factors to take into account.
Essentials Of Workforce Planning
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
- Aesop, Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
Managing Your Talent... Planning Versus Reacting
Planning ahead for future needs - especially when labor markets begin to tighten up - is not an easy proposition. What follows are some practical ideas to establish a long-term, yet flexible, talent management program with the goal of putting the right people in the right jobs at the right time.
Cause And Effect: People Practices And Financial Results
Companies are constantly searching for the "missing link" of human capital management: the cause and effect between people practices and financial results. Our work shows that the alignment really hinges on the ability of the organisation to address key questions: Do we know where to invest our human capital efforts to support our business strategy and market orientation? Are our human capital practices integrated and aligned with one another?
Why HR?
In this article we will provide you with an insight into the role and purpose of HR and why every business needs to develop its own HR system.
Ready For HR Process Engineering? Here’s How To Start
Many organizations, in order to affect better management, embark on business process improvement projects. These endeavors can be time-consuming and, if not properly conducted, can disrupt workflow in the very groups that they are intended to improve.
Preparing Effective Workplace Training Sessions
Staff training is a means of “closing” specific competency gaps in the skills and knowledge of each of your staff. You should have identified these gaps via a thorough workplace needs analysis.
How A Business Can Suffer Without Ongoing And Effective Staff Training
Well-trained employees are integral to achieving your business objectives. Your staff need up-to-date skills and best practice methods to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.
Are People Your Most Important Asset? - Not Necessarily!
The challenge for existing businesses is this: to carry out effective planning and setting the direction, you need to involve key people.
Succession Planning For Your Staff
Insurance for your business.
Human Capital Management For Small To Medium Enterprises - RIT-AIR ™
Unleash the potential of your people. The implementation of strategy, and the ability to achieve a company's objectives, is largely dependent on the people in the organisation. People are undoubtedly our greatest asset, but are often one of the poorest managed.
When Training Can Really Work
Well-trained employees are integral to achieving your business's objectives. Their development needs to be ongoing. They need to have the up-to-date skills required to do their job using best practice methods. Forget ad hoc training which may or may not happen. You need to be serious about staff development and build an integrated training process into your business plans.
People Strategy - A Business Process Perspective
This article addresses contemporary organisational thinking on issues of people strategy. Where appropriate linkages are drawn with remuneration management.
Training And Development
It doesn't have to be a training course. Having people who are capable of doing the job effectively is often a result of recruiting the right person in the first place but, with the pace of change in business today, current employees also need to adapt and learn new skills over time.