In order to make sound business decisions, we need reliable data. What happens when that data simply does not exist or, even worse, the data you have is bad data? Marcus Buckingham makes the case for bad HR data in his recent article for the Harvard Business Review: “The research record reveals that neither you …
A good performance management system lays the foundation for all kinds of employment decisions, motivates employees by recognizing success and corrects issues before they get out of control.Sounds great in theory, right? Unfortunately, we are often so busy that we do not always think to formalize performance management beyond the annual review. Let’s take a …
This should be common sense, but there are certain things employees want from their employer most the time that can elude even the best of HR teams. And it doesn’t matter which industry we speak of or how long the employees have been working at a company. Every single employee wants to be treated fairly …
Most managers, who can hold extensive discussions about strategy, implementation and effective usage of resources will find themselves at their wit’s end, when asked what they’ve done differently to motivate their teams, of late. Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup in his blog estimates that out of the US’s roughly 100 million full time …