Articles → Human Resource Management

*New articles*

• Creating a Human Resources Strategy for the Employee Lifecycle

  Is your employee lifecycle mapped to your organisational strategy?

• Employee Engagement Checklist

  Employee engagement? Check.

• Managing performance – getting the balance right

  Are you managing the 70, 20 or 10?

• Measuring and managing your performance management system

  Are you getting the best out of your performance management system?

• Seven Signs of Employee Disengagement

  Can you see the signs?

Human Resource Management

• Seven Deadly Sins of Empowerment

  When is empowerment not a good thing?

• Family friendly workplaces for organisation friendly employees

  How family friendly is your organisation?

• Closing the loop – giving quantitative feedback

  Why should you give feedback to your employees?

• Write a job description that works for your employees

• Conducting exit interviews

• Managing people; setting boundaries

• Seven Deadly Sins of Managing People

• Hire and retain baby-boomers to increase productivity

• How to get the best out of working for a bad boss

• Recognising a turkey of a reward

• The top ten failures we make as employees

• Managing people's performance

• Competency frameworks, the good the bad and the ugly

• In search of the HR silver bullet

• Setting standards; clean up your act

• Seven steps to motivating people at work

• Emotional intelligence at work in high stress situations

• Grow your subordinate's competence by being less tolerant

• Behavioural event interview questions

• Managing people for profit

• Time management; are your people assertive enough?

• Surprise! It's performance appraisal time

• How to get value from a mentoring program

• Managing people techniques; being insistent, persistent and consistent

• Performance indicators for coaching retail staff to improve performance

• Managing people; handling difficult employees

• Feedback is the the breakfast of champions

• How to measure people's performance

• Coping with the baby boomer brain drain

• Coaching, counselling and confronting

• Work life balance; it's our choice

• Building blocks of a performance management system

• (Succession) Planning for success

• Where has the human in human resources gone?

• Psychometrics and their undisciplined use

• Unleash the potential

• Compensation methods; the pros and cons

• Appraising performance using six independent variables

• Seven Deadly Sins of Mentoring

  Is your mentoring program is sin-free?

• Leading a Goal-setting discussion

  Are you ready to kick some goals?

• Giving and receiving feedback

  Can you give it? And receive it?

• Developing strategies and tactics to increase employee retention

  How can you get them to stay?

*The Power of Y*

• Employee growth and development: what NOT to do

  Looking to develop Gen Y talent?

• Finders Keepers

  Looking to attract and retain Gen Y talent?