performance

Creating a stellar employee onboarding experience that helps employees soar!

May 24, 2016 Marcia Scheffler Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development, Union Relations

Starting a new job is a bit like taking a trip. You do the research online, check out TripAdvisor, book your tickets, pre-book your seats, board the plane and hopefully everything goes well and you enjoy your vacation destination! This blog will go through the onboarding process for new employees in such way that employers […]

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Fostering gold medal performances in your organization

February 24, 2014 Marcia Scheffler Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Payroll, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development, Wages and Compensation

It’s been hard to miss the Olympics, and face it, who would have wanted to miss the exhilarating, elegant and extreme gold medal performances of the 2014 Sochi Olympics! Canadian athletes came out on top of the podium in multiple events including the nail-biting women’s gold medal hockey final and Alex Biloudeau’s flawless repeat gold medal run in moguls skiing. Russia had some incredible performances in figure skating from both an aging star and an emerging one in the team skate event. Both Canada and Russia performed very well in the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

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Breaking the traditions!!! from recruitment metrics to talent acquisition analytics

December 20, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics Employee Relations, HR Analytics, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

At this time of year, we are reminded of many things – one of which is that traditions are everywhere… culturally, personally, in-business and life-at-large. Even though traditions are tremendously important to us and for our families, we sometimes need to break the old, and create new! Which is what I suggest with the way you might have been measuring, tracking and managing your recruitment and talent acquisition activities.

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Understanding top talent

November 26, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics HR Analytics, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development

When I hear people talk about top talent, I get reminded of the elusive (and sometimes voodoo) experiences that I had in the past in corporate environments when identifying top talent.
I have to say, it always conjures up memories both good and bad.

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Move from traditional recruitment metrics to talent acquisition analytics to drive results business executives care about

September 24, 2013 PeopleInsight Workforce Analytics HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

Talent Acquisition is no stranger to data and metrics and the most progressive of leaders in this space are taking advantage of the wave of workforce analytics to get results – for their organizations and for themselves. While the past was focused on using analytics primarily to monitor the efficiency of the recruitment process, Talent Acquisition is now involving itself in measuring the effectiveness of its efforts. Connecting the activities of Talent Acquisition to business outcomes is something every Talent Acquisition leader should be working towards.

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Performance management matters despite Dilbert’s mockery!

November 8, 2012 Marcia Scheffler Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Training and Development

It is annual performance review time for many organizations! The actual performance review may be a simple rating sheet, a multi-page document, a massive competency check-lists or an online 360 review. Whatever the format of your reviews, it is your entire performance appraisal process, which includes the manager & employee performance appraisal meetings that determines the effectiveness of your appraisal system for your organizational development goals. Scott Adams has dedicated a multitude of Dibert strips mocking performance reviews (scroll to end of article) but for organizations today, performance management still matters.

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Facebook and employees’ rights

April 10, 2012 Adam Gorley Employee Relations, HR Analytics, Human Resources, Human Rights, Privacy and Security, Recruiting and Hiring

You’ve probably heard by now that some employers in the United States have come up with the idea of asking prospective employees for their Facebook passwords so they can take a closer look at what these candidates are all about. Is it legal? Is it ethical? Is it fair?

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High achievers = high anxieties in the workplace

August 12, 2011 Christina Catenacci Employee Relations, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

Is there an overachiever at your workplace? Do you have trouble understanding and working with them? High achievers, sometimes known as workaholics, have been found to be secretly plagued by fears and self-doubts and prone to resist change. Though it is important to be hard-working and have a drive to achieve in order to be successful, it can get out of control.

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Let me compare thee…

July 14, 2011 Ian J Cook HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Union Relations

To achieve the best of both worlds it is important to align your data with common standards that are most likely to provide the opportunity for like with like comparison and like with unlike comparison. This creates the capability to compare in a way that confirms your performance or compare in a way that pushes your performance. As with all data and analytic practices the right thing to do is the one which moves the performance needle for your organization. The more HR can do this AND demonstrate this the better.

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Performance is relative

June 9, 2011 Ian J Cook HR Analytics, HRMS, Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring

How do we resolve this dilemma? Time to Fill does tell us something important, yet we cannot be sure whether a change to this number is due to our own efforts or the effects of the overall job market.

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Are our devices harming our health?

February 1, 2011 Adam Gorley Health and Safety, Human Resources

I’ve caved. The end of my phone contract has been looming large, and as I pondered my options, somehow I thought, “I’d really like to be more connected.” So I’m ditching my two-year-old, decidedly not smart, flip phone and getting an iPhone—and a data plan. Soon I’ll be able to tweet and update my Facebook status and share photos wherever I am. And I’m afraid.

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Time for compensation planning

January 5, 2011 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Payroll, Wages and Compensation

The beginning of a new year is the usual time for owners, managers, HR and payroll professionals to work on their compensation planning. The objective of compensation planning is determining what to pay employees to entice them to continue to work for your company.

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Multi-tasking: the unfulfilled promise of doing more with less

August 23, 2010 Adam Gorley Human Resources, Training and Development

The common meaning of multi-tasking is doing more than one thing at once, like walking and chewing gum. Do you hold several conversations at the same time—on the phone, on Facebook and in person? Do you listen to music or the radio or watch TV or eat lunch while you check your favourite blogs and watch your auctions on eBay? Do you have several work projects on the go, spread across your real and virtual desktops? Is it hard to keep track?

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