The first part of this series introduces you to the concept of performance management - it incorporates a set of integrated practices that enable an organization to meet defined goals and/or objectives. Part two takes a look at steps to...
The cartoon Calvin and Hobbes occasionally featured a game called Calvinball in which the little boy made up the rules, changing them as it suited him. While it made for humourous reading, playing his game would not make for a...
The first part of this series introduces you to the concept of performance management — that it incorporates a set of integrated practices that enable an organization to meet defined goals and/or objectives. Part two takes a look at steps...
Anyone who knows anything about the nonprofit sector knows that nonprofits attract passionate, committed, caring people – but that those people must operate on a shoestring budget, where needs perpetually exceed resources. This “nonprofit starvation cycle” is described by the...
The first part of this series introduces you to the concept of performance management — that it incorporates a set of integrated practices that enable an organization to meet defined goals and/or objectives, whether those goals are to generate revenue,...
Performance management incorporates a set of integrated practices that enable an organization to meet defined goals and/or objectives, whether those goals are to generate revenue, increase customer satisfaction or create a better product. And while a performance management system (the...
The first part in this series brings attention to three key elements of the termination event, while the second part brings attention to the need to give thoughtful consideration to three preparatory elements. I’m taking this opportunity to again reiterate...
Want to enhance your HR department’s status, save on budget and simultaneously create happy staff? The answer may lie in one concept: Mentoring. With the advent of new software technologies as well as a philosophical shift in how employees can...
The first part in this series serves to bring attention to the very important need to give concerted consideration to three key elements of the termination event: namely, who, why and when. Additionally, and as HR professionals, it is increasingly...
In early March, my executive director invited my colleagues and I to take part in our organization’s first ever professional development day. Each staff member was to follow a day-long program of their own design made up of any task...
