How to Preserve Institutional Knowledge and Prevent Brain Drain
Brain drain is a situation where organizations are faced with older staff leaving and retiring at a faster rate than new employees reach equivalent levels of skill and expertise. This can be a problem in organizations of all sizes. While especially relevant to fast-scaling startups who often outpace their own ability to onboard effectively, brain drain impacts even massive companies with tens of thousands of employees. Preventing knowledge loss often means creating preventive strategies, effectively [...]
4 Tips on Getting Actionable Employee Feedback
This is a guest post from Ashley Wilson. Ashley is a digital nomad and freelance writer from San Diego, California. When she is not busy baking cupcakes, Ashley loves writing about business, digital marketing, and finance. Connect with Ashley via Twitter @ashleygwilson. Most businesses understand the value of getting customer feedback, but many are missing out on a much more valuable source of actionable intelligence: their own employees. While customer feedback is important, it often [...]
Your HR manager should have these 5 competencies for success
HR managers are more than just hiring and firing - they are critical business leaders that should help to shape and drive your company’s future. Which also means that HR managers should have more than just a qualification - your HR manager should also have the competencies for success. The top HR manager competencies The remit of an HR manager is never-ending - from attracting talent and resolving grievances, to creating a culture and developing [...]
5 Ways to Build Success Profiles
Success profiles can help your organization to improve hiring, leadership development, and role planning, giving you the tools to strategize who and why you hire and develop. However, the value of these success profiles often lies in their validity, relevance, and ability to adapt to the future, which means that the process of building success profiles is just as important as actually using them. While your organization can take many approaches to building success profiles, [...]
How to Gauge Your HR Department’s Performance Quarterly
Investing in your workplace often means investing in HR so they have the resources to hire, train, and develop individuals to help the organization. Once you’ve made those investments, how do you ensure HR stays on track? How do you review HR’s performance? While there are numerous ways to track the efficacy and efficiency of HR, quarterly reviews are one of the best methods you can choose. Unlike year-end performance review, quarterly reviews allow you [...]