Category: Newsletters
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Short Kaizen Events: Or How to Maintain Enthusiasm by Identifying Improvement Opportunities
Often, our clients ask us to do "something" to raise awareness about the importance of Continuous Improvement. Other times, they want us to help them maintain their people's enthusiasm for programs whose results are declining. Depending on the situation, sometimes our response is…
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Comprehensive Development Human Resources Area
This annual plan helps position the HR department as a strategic partner of the organization while managing and developing talent. Comprehensive Human Resources Management: A Comprehensive Human Resources Project consists of the development and implementation of a plan for acquiring, stimulating, and developing…
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Selection and Psychometric Tests: Myths and Truths
I've been involved in recruitment for over 25 years. The doubts, questions, and misconceptions about the process are almost unchanged. So, I'm going to try to clarify how it works. The Myths Myth #1: If the candidate has the skills, then they're guaranteed to do well. FALSE!! People have knowledge…
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Measuring Staff Productivity
In my consulting and training visits to numerous companies, I've concluded that there must be as many employee productivity metrics as there are companies I've visited. At first glance, that wouldn't be a cause for concern. The problem arises when we delve into the calculation formula, the underlying assumptions, and what lies beyond…
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Putting into practice what you have learned
A company's success depends not so much on the quality of its strategies, but fundamentally on the ability and discipline to implement them. When anxiety takes center stage, decisions are rushed, and the organizational consequences can be very negative. The urgent prevails over the important…