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, [...]
5 Tips to Improve Employee Assessment Practices
Employee assessment and performance reviews have been under fire for some time. Studies show that not only do people actively dislike performance reviews, they dread them, allowing them to interrupt real productivity and value delivery. At the same time, most experts agree the real problem isn’t performance reviews or employee assessment, it’s organizations using outdated assessment practices that fail to take the individual, goals or other factors into account. Performance reviews can add a lot [...]
How to Get Corporate Buy-In for Your HR Initiatives
Starting a new initiative in HR can dramatically change the face of an organization, either through improving hiring, streamlining payrolling, or making data more accessible and available. No matter what your initiative is, you likely need corporate buy-in, both from financial decision-makers and from the leaders who must serve as examples and first adopters of any initiative you push to the organization. Have a Plan The first step of garnering corporate buy-in for any initiative [...]
Top HR Books to Read This Year
Whether you’re working to improve yourself and your approach to HR, looking for ideas to implement into HR practices in your organization, or want to learn more about your industry, reading is an excellent way to do it. Human Resources is an incredibly popular subject, with thousands of books published year on using data and analytics to manage people, on best practices for people and team management or setup, on emotional intelligence and leadership development, [...]
Why Emotional Intelligence Components Are Vital In HR Assessments
This is a guest post from Melisa Marzett. Melisa is a freelance writer currently working for a thesis writing service. Emotional intelligence (EI) is one of the most critical indicators affecting the success of an employee's career in many positions. Every HR manager should know what it is. Different levels of emotional intelligence play a role in various areas of life and can be assessed using different tests. Intellect is a person's ability to think [...]