Mid to late fall is one of the more popular times of year for organizations to conduct performance appraisals. As the HR leader, is your organization taking the right steps to make sure both your managers and employees are prepared? Just a bit of upfront preparation can help make the process go smoothly.

When you lead the market in customer satisfaction, and are chosen by customers for product “ease of use,” making overhauls to your products’ user interface requires some very thoughtful planning and consideration. For Halogen, when it came to overhauling our UI and overall user experience, we focused on ensuring that the suite was both more usable and learnable for every single type of user.

Jim Holincheck at Gartner noted in our announcement: “HCM [...]

New offering supports the delivery of outstanding service to citizens with ongoing development and measurement of employee performance

Ottawa ON – May 12, 2010 – Halogen Software today announced a new talent management solution that makes it easy and affordable for public sector organizations to align their workforces and drive a culture of high performance, ongoing development and commitment to quality service. Halogen’s Talent Management Suite for the Public Sector delivers the rich content and [...]

The HR industry is blessed with so many talented bloggers with groundbreaking ideas that they are willing to share. I read a lot of blog posts in the average week, and the quality and insightfulness of so many of these bloggers will never cease to amaze me. Here are a couple of my favorite posts from the past few weeks:

Periodically, I come across yet another article calling for the “death” of the performance appraisal. I am starting to look at these sort of like the recent spate of death hoaxes on Twitter; they get a lot of media play, but there’s not a lot of credibility.