Should Your Performance Management Strategy Include Continuous Evaluation?
Performance management has long been a critical component of human resource management. Traditionally, it involved annual performance reviews that often left employees feeling anxious and managers overwhelmed with paperwork. However, in recent years, a new approach has emerged: continuous evaluation.
Optimize HR management end to end to maximize value from your employees
Employers are facing increasing challenges in attracting and retaining the employees they need. Growing demand, labor shortages and changing expectations around reward and work/life balance are just some of the factors that make it harder to get and keep staff with the key skills organizations need. In our recent eBook we examined how a fresh […]
The Importance of a Permanent C-Suite Seat for HR Management
Human Resources management has been the Rodney Dangerfield of business operations for many years. That is, it gets no respect. HR management has traditionally been viewed as a cost center for organizations, not a profit center. As such, it has taken a long time to make its way into the C-Suite, and even longer to […]
A New Age for HR Management
Global business is going through turbulent times. The economic hangover of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of the war in Ukraine and pressures on global supply chains would be more than enough to deal with alone, yet these represent only the short-term challenges, with factors such as the drive to net zero and ongoing digitalization […]
Navigating Uncertainty: Leadership Accountability in a Time of Crisis & Adversity
We live in uncertain and insecure times. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has created significant challenges for leaders in industries across the world as organizations need to adapt and turn challenges into opportunities. In the face of adversity, leaders may struggle to manage their teams effectively. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, over half of all […]
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – Hollywood Fall Out and Impact to Business
Hollywood has been center stage for the wrong reasons lately. As the number of celebrities in Hollywood grows for both being exposed for sexual misconduct and for taking the steps to report on being subjected to sexual harassment, the impact to the world has been dramatic. We have seen “Me Too” posts beyond imagination on […]
Executive Compensation Framework for Ontario BPS Organizations – A Summary of Recent Changes
On June 8 and 9, 2017, the Ontario government made a series of significant changes to the Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation Act (BPSECA) Executive Compensation Framework. The changes include amendments to the content required of compensation programs The timing of the development of those programs The process organizations must follow to implement their […]
Bullet-Point Summary of Proposed Ontario Labour Legislation Changes: ‘Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs 2017’
The Ontario Government has recently proposed a number of changes to the Employment Standards Act. Called “Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act 2017”, this Act has a broad scope and will affect almost all employers. While it is not yet law, you should start to plan now, as it will take effect as early as January […]
Performance Management is NOT Dead!
There has been much controversy for the last 3 years and it is increasing in its intensity around the viability of performance reviews. It is not an anomaly as in 2016 and 2017 almost all HR Technologies are undergoing immense changing from being HR driven to employee driven. What do I mean by HR Driven […]
SAP SuccessFactors Named Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant – Again
Once again, SAP SuccessFactors is named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. SAP SuccessFactors is highest rated in BOTH the ability to execute, and the completeness of vision in the latest Gartner report published February 2017. Gartner determines a provider’s position in the Magic Quadrant graphic by evaluating ratings in 15 categories including scope […]