A Harvard Business School study indicated that goal setting was more than 70% more effective when they were written vs. floating in someone’s head. That story has been floating around for more than forty years. Notable statement, but it doesn’t address goal setting methodology, especially for HR. Merely writing down...
Global membership in The Society of Human Resources Management, http://shrm.org exceeds 250,000 and is the oldest association in the US. Human Resources is often referred to as Human Capital Management, Talent Management or simply HR.
The question we asked was “We are studying performance management and would love your opinion. Do you think there is value in the employee doing a self evaluation as part of the performance appraisal process?”
Feel time slipping through your fingers? What about slipping through your HR department resources? Chances are, whether you are an employer or an employee, these are important questions worth considering. Let us begin by taking a look at time management from an individual’s standpoint.
So easy, even a Cave Man can use it. Unless you are living under a rock, you are aware of the impact of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like. Social Networking has become the way of marketing, branding and networking for business, ahead of all other media. Within just a few years, this phenomenon has...
Ask your staff and you will get all sorts of answers. In reality, there are only four key fundamentals on which to focus your resources. There might be some debate, but when the rubber meets the road, and the margin between success and failure is so slim, these tenets of business are the deal-makers; everything else is...
In this digital world, coupled with our litigious society, ensuring you and your business is covered legally is an all-important facet of business. Without sufficient written acknowledgment (digital or otherwise), a document lacking one becomes nothing more than fodder for with which the lawyers can wipe the floor. Should...
Recognize these two people? Of course you do, unless you are under the age of 21. This sexual harassment case happened to astound and amaze, while shaming this entire country and the world to this day. Our nation’s most embarrassing and “borderline unbelievable” case of the ultimate misuse of power, the...
Sexual harassment, that is. This is a topic nearly everyone in business shies away from due to its negative and quite frightening overtones. The truth of the matter is that there were more than 11,700 sexual harassment lawsuits filed last year alone. All fifty states saw their share of litigation; no business is immune...
Enough SPAM gets through today’s sophisticated email systems that one would think that people would be content to merely discard email all together. Instant messaging, texting and other technologies have certainly taken a toll on the once hot way to market, but people are flat out sick of being SPAMMED, sold or otherwise...