As an HR professional, you are integral to ensuring that new hires, existing employees and promoted employees are set up for success. A well-designed 30-60-90 day plan can help new employees and promoted employees navigate their new workplace and roles. It provides structure and direction around company culture, processes and expectations and should be integral…
Unlimited paid time off (PTO) is a simple idea: employees are given an unlimited number of days off. They neither accrue nor are they assigned a number of vacation days per year. It may sound crazy, but companies like Goldman Sachs, Netflix, Oracle and LinkedIn are doing it. The goal is to give employees greater…
Job analysis provides a way for organizations to fully understand the nature of a job. It helps draft better job descriptions and develop effective training and development programs, leads to a safer work environment and more effective workforce planning, and is pivotal in performance management. Job analysis touches multiple key HR functions, so you must…
How an employee leaves a business can be as valuable as how they are recruited and hired. Remember, if they are a talented employee, they probably have a wealth of knowledge that you’d like to stay in the business. By maintaining a good relationship, you also leave the door open for them to return in…
With a performance improvement plan (PIP) template, you have a tool to create an individualized, action-orientated, step-by-step plan to improve the performance of employees who are either not meeting their manager or supervisor’s expectations or would benefit from a more structured action plan. Contents What is a performance improvement plan?Why use a performance improvement planWhen…
Employees that are a flight risk in your organization can harm the business more now than ever before. In recent years, organizations increasingly face talent acquisition and employee turnover challenges. According to a recent Mckinsey report, 40% of people surveyed in six countries are unhappy at work and are considering quitting their job in the…
When talent is scarce, conducting a skills audit helps you to gain a thorough understanding of what skills you have in your organization and which you need to develop or hire for. ContentsWhat is a skills audit?What are the types of skills audits?When should you conduct a skills audit?Why do organizations conduct skills audits?10 tips…
Agile performance management helps individual employees and teams perform better, develop their skills, and achieve their goals. Let’s have a look at how you, as an HR professional, can implement agile performance management in your organization! ContentsWhat is agile performance management?How is agile performance management different from traditional performance management?How to implement agile performance management…
High-potential employees have the aptitude to become the future leaders of your organization. However, many businesses struggle to identify, develop, and retain such employees. Here’s all you need to know about high-potential employees. ContentsWhat are high-potential employees?Characteristics of high-potential employeesHigh potentials vs. high performersWhy should you identify your high-potential employees?How to hire, identify, develop, and…
One of the important responsibilities of HR professionals is to develop leaders and managers and ensure that they’re equipped with all they need to be effective in their jobs. What exactly is manager effectiveness, how do you measure it, and what can HR do to help improve manager effectiveness? ContentsWhat is manager effectiveness?Why manager effectiveness…