Practicing What You Preach - Why Corporate Koolaid Is A Good Thing

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

HR Marketer’s Mark Willaman recently did a post on how companies need to use their own products and services. The post is definitely worth a read and gives some great non-HR examples including a “secret shopping” CEO doing his own research in the grocery store. Willaman’s point is that employees ...
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Tips for Creating Effective Employee Evaluation Forms

Friday, August 1st, 2008

A well-designed evaluation form can improve your employee performance management process and encourage dialogue between managers and employees. If it’s easy to use and prompts managers to consider all aspects of employee performance and development, it can be one of your key talent management tools. Recently, we wrote an employee ...
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Generation Y and Performance Management

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I came across an interesting blog this week – YourHRGuy.com. According to his bio, Lance Haun is a 26 year old Human Resources Generalist practicing in the field for the past five years. His professional interests include recruitment, team building, training and development, employee relations and “restraining himself from beating ...
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Do You View Employee Training as a Talent Management Tool?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

In today's world of shrinking economies and diminishing labor pools, employee training can be one of your most valuable and critical talent management tools. Say what? Aren't training budgets typically one of the first things you slash during an economic downturn? Wise companies think otherwise… If you know how to get the most out ...
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Succession Planning Made Simple

Monday, July 14th, 2008

If you ask 100 people about succession planning, you are likely to get 100 different responses about what it actually is and how their organization is handling it. But you will get the majority of the people to agree that it is important, and a growing concern for them. As ...
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