SAME SITUATION BUT DIFFERENT RESULTS – AN EXAMPLE Let’s start with a basketball analogy to stimulate your thinking. First compare two teams that play in the same league and in the same city. The L.A. Lakers and the L.A. Clippers.   If you compare the two teams you will find …

HR faces many challenges but the one that can easily be classified as the "last major unsolved HR problem" is the selfish and territorial "silo" behavior within most HR departments.

They Care About What Is Measured And Rewarded CEO’s are always impressed by people that understand what is important to them. And in all cases I’ve ever run across, what is important to them in business is reflected in their evaluation and bonus criteria. Yes of course everyone is influenced …

Why Using Metrics Is Essential In a highly competitive world dominated by performance driven organizations and CFO's that want to cut your budget, it is no longer optional to demonstrate your value. The environment dictates that everyone be accountable! If you are in a situation where “charm” has run out …

Given that businesses today are faced with greater and greater challenges, the ability to strategically leverage the benefits of an effective DRP can provide firms with a valuable competitive advantage. The global business arena is faced with overwhelming pressure for constant innovation and reinvention.  Successful DRP’s provide the potential to …

It's all about productivity! Become an "HR Hero" HR needs to recognize (if it doesn't already) that during tight times the CFO and managers alike all want one basic thing. And that thing is… increased productivity which they define as results or outputs per dollar spent.  Incidentally they don't particularly …

Productivity Defined The term productivity means different things to different people. To an economist, it is a relatively dry economic term that compares the output of entire countries relative to each dollar invested. However, for the purpose if this article productivity will be defined as a measure of efficiency with …

Action Steps That You Can Take To Develop a "Position Marketing Template"   In order to make your descriptions compelling, you need to develop a template that can easily guide position description writers to produce great sales descriptions every time. Here are the steps in that process: Find the current …

In addition, the increased access to the Internet coupled with better hardware and software means that metrics can be calculated almost instantly and reported to almost anyone at minimal costs.  Fields that used to rely on intuition such as marketing, purchasing (now known as supply chain) and manufacturing have made …

What is a Rolodex Party? Rolodex parties are informal departmental or business unit meetings where top performers are brought into a conference room and are then asked to "download" and share from their personal contacts the names of the very best individuals that they know at other firms. If you …