Category: Human Resourses Training

Linking Human Resource and Business Metrics

Many organizations maintain department-specific metrics and dashboards to track their success. True organizational integration and performance demands that departments work together to identify the metrics that cross boundaries for greater success. Here are three examples of how HR metrics and analytics can be integrated with business measures to assess human…
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Rating Recruitment: Human Resource Metrics

Recruiting is usually a core activity in Human Resources (HR) Departments, and developing meaningful recruitment metrics can help HR clearly and succinctly communicate its success in this area. Here are some examples of HR delivery metrics specifically related to recruiting, and why they are important. Number of applicants per position: Knowing…
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Quick Tips for Human Resource (HR) Dashboards

Everyone loves dashboards, and the modern automobile has seduced us into thinking they are easy to build and maintain. The real world, however, is more complex. Here are some factors to consider when selecting and constructing a dashboard for your organization. Data Availability. Dashboards rely and report on underlying data.…
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Negativity in the Workplace: How to Deal – Video

Transcript In every workplace there are negative attitudes that eat away at the productivity of everyone associated with the organization. These people may go unidentified for some time, all the while causing major damage. Quite often they're good at their jobs, but like an infection, their attitudes can spread rapidly,…
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Navigating FOUR Generations in the Workplace – Video

Transcript Nowadays companies find themselves handling four generations of American workers. Each group has its own distinctive characteristics, ethics, and approaches toward work based on its generation's life experiences. Let's take a look at the four generations in the workplace and how they interact with one another. The first set,…
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5 Tips for Surviving a Costly Audit, Investigation or Lawsuit – Video

Transcript Let's discuss five tips that will help your company navigate tricky HR issues, and hopefully avoid a costly audit, investigation, or lawsuit. Tip 1: Know the law. HR laws vary from state to state, so be sure that you're enforcing the appropriate laws if your company operates in more…
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Is the Use of Volunteers Legal or Not Under FLSA? (Video)

Transcript Have you ever had a fundraiser or a special event? Maybe you're going to set up a table at the county fair and exhibit your business and answer questions and collect leads. And you think, "If I just had a few employees kind of come in and help, they…
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Employee Termination: 3 Tips for Success (Video)

Transcript Terminating employees is never an easy chore. It can be a land mine field full of little errors and mistakes and missteps just waiting to blow up. So what is a manager to do? When it comes time to terminate, there are three pretty solid things you can do…
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Do You Provide Paid Leave? (Video)

Transcript Are you providing paid sick leave to your workers? Well, if you're not, it might be something to consider-- at least on a small level. Many studies have shown that more and more employers are offering paid sick leave. Very often, this is in the format of 12 weeks…
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Update: Overtime Exemptions Final Rule (Video)

Transcript So December 1, 2016 came and went. And guess what employers around the country did not do? You guessed it. They did not implement the new rules governing overtime exemptions. Why not? Is the whole country suddenly non-compliant? No, of course not. You know better than that. What did…
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