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Using Recruitment Metrics in Getting the Right Candidate
October 28, 2008
A company’s main asset is its workforce. It goes without saying that when a company needs people, it needs to get the right people. Otherwise, productivity would be compromised and expenditures increased. As it is the HR department’s responsibility to hire people for the company, it is their job to protect the company from these possible losses. The HR recruitment staff cannot just accept nor discard applicants without just measure. Thus, recruitment metrics comes about.
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Are You Spending Too Much Time Focusing Recruiting Or Retaining?
October 28, 2008
Companies spend too much time focusing recruiting rather than on retaining.
The rule is no longer if your employees leave it is now when will they going to leave. How many times have you spent hundreds to thousands of dollars in hiring and training an employee only to discover that they leave.
Why do they leave? Experts in this field will say because…
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Management Training - The Dirty Little Secrets
October 26, 2008
I am often asked if training really works. The answer is yes and no! Here’s why.
Sometimes, unless a training is made mandatory, those who need it the most will choose not to attend!
75% of the learning goes on after the employee comes back to the job. Said another way–employees will forget most of what they learned unless it is reinforced on the job after they come back from training.
Too often people are sent off to training in the hopes that they will get “fixed” when in fact if the training doesn’t incorporate good adult learning principles and isn’t seen as relevant from the trainee’s point of view, it will fail.
Employees are sometimes sent to training for specific skills when the real problem is attitude…ahem…I mean lack of professional behavior problems. -
Why Would a Business Want to Use a Temp Agency
October 24, 2008
Companies may wonder why they should hire an hr consulting firm, i.e., a temp agency, to locate quality employees.
In a highly competitive corporate world, knowledgeable help can mean the difference between a constant influx of clients and bankruptcy. Statistically speaking, every disgruntled customer that leaves your establishment equals seven or more people who won’t give you a chance based on word of mouth.
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Sexual Harassment Training
October 23, 2008
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome advances, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, seeking sexual favors, or inappropriate sexual interference of a person’s workplace or work performance.
What Law Says
Legally, sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - it is a form of a sexual discrimination. The act applies to a workplace where more than 15 employees work; this includes local, state, and federal workplaces as well as private sector businesses.
Part of doing business in civilized society requires that all employees have an understanding of responsibility in regards to appropriate behavior in the workplace. Harassment of a sexual nature can be curbed substantially-if not entirely eliminated-from the workplace by having complete and adequate knowledge and training.
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Hiring Expats For Work
October 19, 2008
Anyone engaged in business today recognizes the rising costs of labor as one of the major hindrances to expansion. While there are several ways that this issue is being addressed, one of the most viable is by hiring expat workers.
There are numerous advantages of having expats in your workforce. The first is that they are not difficult to find. There are now, in such countries as New Zealand Canada, Japan, the United States, several thriving expat communities. Undoubtedly there are also several more in other nations.
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Improving Your Personal Effectiveness As A Manager or Leader
February 24, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Careers, General Business, Workplace Communication
Your own personal effectiveness is a key contributor in terms of what you achieve as a manager or leader. It is easy to focus all of your attention on others but there are significant gains to be made by being more personally effective. What action can you take to improve your personal effectiveness?
Organise your time
As a manager or leader, do you really know where you spend your time? One of the most common complaints you hear these days is that there is not enough time or that time is scarce. Truth is there is the same amount of time today as there always was and some would argue that with advances in technology many manual tasks can now be automated. To organise your time you need to understand:
1. Your key deliverables. When working with clients, I am surprised how often people in management and leadership roles don’t fully appreciate what their key deliverables or results areas are. If this applies to you, make a point of finding out.
2. Where you spend your time. When was the last time that you analysed where you spend your time over the month? I remember having to keep a time sheet when I worked in the large accounting practices. While it was a bind at times, it was really easy to see where your time was being spent and whether you were focusing on key deliverables.
Manage your manager
Senior people can often interrupt or get in the way without even being aware of the impact they are having. You know the scenario. You are just in the middle of working through something technically complex when your boss wants to ask you that quick question or just quickly look at something.
Make a point of agreeing with your boss how you can work together in a way that minimises routine interruptions. You might need to start with a 15 minute meeting every morning and gradually move to a weekly meeting. Find out what will work best for both of you.
Work out what only you can do
There will be a lot of tasks that you are doing and chances are there will be a few that only you can do. This might be because you are the only person with the experience or qualifications. Go through the list of tasks you do and identify those that only you can do.
Start to delegate
Most people love to hold on to tasks. They might be worried that they will lose their job because they don’t have enough to do. They might be frightened to pass on tasks for fear that someone else will not do as good a job or even that they will do a better job. They might be convincing themselves that they don’t have the time to train someone else.
If you want to improve you personal effectiveness, start focusing on your key deliverables and start empowering others. After all is that not the reason you are a manager and leader?
Organise your office
Chances are you get a lot of paperwork. You might have files or bundles everywhere but are they really organised? Unless you can put your hand on things quickly and easily, chances are your office is not organised. Take the time to get your office organised. Better still delegate or give it to someone who will do it better like a PA or professional office organiser.
The demands on managers and leaders to do more with less is common and in many ways the norm. Yet by taking some simple steps, you can improve your productivity and personal effectiveness dramatically.
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Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements (G&A) works with professionals and progressive public and private sector organisations who want to develop their management and leadership capability in order to achieve more success. With 25 years business experience in a range of sectors, he understands first hand the real challenges of managing and leading in the demanding business world. You can learn more about Duncan, Goals and Achievements services and products and sign up for his free e-course and monthly newsletter at http://www.goalsandachievements.co.uk/ |
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