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How improving your effectiveness and efficiency will make you a more valuable individual?
Do you feel that destiny is not kind to you and you deserve much more than what you have got. Irrespective of whether you are an employee or a business owner, the remedial measures lie with you.
Skillscape interventions can help you have an objective assessment of yourself. That will systematically enhance your competencies and skills to improve your effectiveness and efficiency. To see how we can help you achieve your dreams, please explore the following links:
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4 Tips For Motivating Employees to Complete Surveys
Author - Colleen Welch
Implementing an internal employee survey is a great way to measure your employees level of engagement, loyalty and contentment with their job and the company. But how do you get employees to complete the survey and take it seriously?
Why, What and What Not of Effective HR Outsourcing
Author - Ashok Grover
The routine activities of HR may guzzle up to 40 percent of the management’s precious day. Is it possible to outsource your HR activities and relax? How to ensure that the employees do not get wrong message instead of feeling valued and remain productive?
3 Ways to Know if Training is Effective
Author - Leigh-Ann Zaharevich
Have you ever been in a training, on either side of the podium, and realized that the participants are not getting what the trainer is talking about? It can be uncomfortable for both sides, and make for an ineffective presentation.
The Importance of Employee Feedback Surveys
Author - Claire A Morgan
How critical is the regular pulse check of employee satisfaction and engagement are critical? Research shows that satisfied, motivated employees will create higher customer satisfaction and in turn positively influence organizational performance.
Human Resource Policies
Author - Artur Victoria
Formulation of Human Resource policies is a complex process. One needs to consider many angles, such as social forces, political environment, legal environment, local labor market, company's as well as external economic environment et cetera, et cetera.
The Convenient, Disposable Employee
Author - Dr. Ben A Carlsen
Human Resources decisions are seldom easy. We may live in a "throwaway society" but this norm is based on convenience and low cost. Does the same norm apply when it comes to people?
Succession Development Planning
Author - Melissa Jain
Should the term "Succession planning" be eliminated from your vocabulary? Should you focus only on the development of leaders? Or do they go hand in hand? The focus need to be clear!
What is the Secret of a Great HR Manual?
Author - Ashok Grover
With ready-made drafts available for HR manuals, isn't it extremely easy to prepare one? That's what one thinks... only later, to start wondering why such an exhaustive HR policy manual has created more problems than it solved!
Negative Side of Competency Mapping
Author - Ashok Grover
Competency mapping is a very effective tool for improving performance of employees and in turn that of the organization. But is it really a safe bet? Not necessarily, unless handled with care!
9 Steps to Succession Planning for Gen X and Y
Author - Cheryl Cran
Succession planning is not a top-down activity involving management and seasoned professionals. It must involve Gen X and Y as well so that they can help create a vision that involves all of the generations in a company.
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Clear ways to communicate to your workforce your health and safety policy
Author - Innes Donaldson
To be effective, the management commitment should not only come in the sahpe of well written down policies, these must be clearly communicated to the target group - by words, action as well as example!
Employee Morale, Employee Retention and Common Civility
Author - Helen Wilkie
The author has shared the case of a major law firm, where the morale among employees was low, and employee retention was beginning to be an issue. It could be a story with any other organization! What is the solution?
Business Leadership Training and Succession Planning
Author - Andre Boykin
All businesses need to have great leadership; but does it mean great leadership only in the top management of the company? What is the importance of business leadership training?
What Are You Looking For? Best Candidates Or The Best Employees?
Author - Ashok Grover
If you are wondering why in spite of your rigorous selection process, the new employees are not able to come up to your expectations, you will probably find the answer here... and certainly the solution!
Putting Succession Planning in Practice
Author - Ashok Grover
Succession planning is not just putting a couple of names against identified positions in the organization. But, do not try to look for the best practices in this area. Rather, address these questions!
The Top 9 Policies That Should Be Part Of Every Employee Handbook
Author - Dianne Shaddock
Why to have an employee handbook? How to ensure that it highlights your expectations for the workplace, puts in writing any legal requirements requirements and sets employee guidelines for workplace practices and behavior in black and white.
Why to Discuss a Manpower Review?
Author - Artur Victoria
Do you know that more productive and constructive man-manager appraisal discussions result from the use of a performance appraisal form prepared by the subordinate as contrasted with the usual form prepared by the manager? Interesting (and useful!)
Employee Satisfaction or Employee Engagement?
Author - Ashok Grover
Are you measuring the Employee Satisfaction or Employee Engagement? What is the difference between the two? Or was Shakespeare right when he said, "What is in a name?"
Improve Recruitment Decisions Through DISC Psychometrics
Author - Ashok Grover
Have you come across the statement “We hire people for their technical skills… and fire them for behavioral faults?” An effective solution lies with psychometric tools like DISC, which is quite simple, yet powerful one.
4 Tips to Streamline Your Company's Hiring Process
Author - Dave Dart
Hiring is a time consuming and expensive affair. An effective hiring process can not only save time and money, it can also help the organization to attract the right talent. Here are some golden tips on how to go about it.
Hiring Managers Are Utilizing Social Media
Author - Darwin Redshield
With so much information about you available on the social media, do you think that it affects hiring decisions of recruiters? Here are some useful tips for stakeholders on both the sides!
Training OR Development ?
Author - Ashok Grover
The term “Training & Development” is used quite often; but have you ever pondered what is the difference between “training” and “development”? Do they mean the same thing? If yes, then why use two terms instead of one? If not, why not?
Catch Them Doing Something Right
Author - DP Sabharwal
Everybody yearns for recognition, more so because most of the time, they are hearing words of negation and criticism. Small gestures like noticing your subordinate doing some good work and compliment him then and there, can do wonders.
Five Solid Tips to Make Variable Pay Work
Author - Ashok Grover
Do you find it difficult retaining performers? Are you skeptical about this variable pay thing? Does it work? Will it increase or reduce your wage bill? Here are answers to all your doubts!
Focusing on Attrition Reduction? Retain What You Want!
Author - Ashok Grover
Are you happy with low attrition rate in your orgnization? What else do you want? Perhaps, it is the time to pause for a while and think! Think that as an organization, what are you developing and retaining, rather than from the standpoint of curbing high attrition.
Future Use of Technology in Talent Acquisition
Author - Supriya Nigam
In this fast-paced world, rules of the game have changed and staying up-to-date with the latest technology in talent acquisition is vital to becoming effective in recruitment. Have a look at the options available.
Eight Ways to increase Trust in the Workplace
Author - Beth Armknecht Miller
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
Human Resource Planning - How to Go About It!
Author - Shyamala Sankaranarayanan
The rule of supply and demand is applicable universally. Careful methodical planning, little ahead of time can provide a breather to think about the pros and cons of human resource management.
Getting Rid of Performance Evaluations Is a Bad Idea
Author - Marnie Green
Thinking about Eliminating Performance Evaluations? Is it in fashion now-a-days? Beware! This article discusses what will happen if your organization gets rid of the performance evaluation.
Staff Development Options
Author - Deborah Laurel
Organizations that invest in staff development have found that it improves efficiency, productivity, employee morale and job satisfaction while ensuring the continuation of institutional knowledge and reduction in employee turnover and costs.
Recipe for Making a Good Trainer
Author - Ashok Grover
Going with the spirit of ROI, any HR training must focus on business through improved competencies hence performance, reduction in costs and a congenial working environment. How to become a trainer to ensure this!
Practices That Will Surely Improve Employee Retention in Your Office
Author - Ashok Grover
Employee retention is an issue with practically every organization. The good news is that you can really retain your people by following a few rules and practices. All of those secrets are revealed here!
How to Extract Superior Performance from Your People
Author - Ashok Grover
What do you do when your team does not appear to be performing in spite of your pushing it to the limits? What are the options available to you? What is the right approach?
A Different Approach to Workforce Management
Author - Gayla Hodges
Performance Management or Performance Punishment
Author - Jan Sky
The performance appraisals are aimed at continuous improvement. However, poor performance managers 'performance punish' their staff and create situations such as overlooking achievements and focussing on what staff are doing wrong... thus instiling 'fear' in staff members.
Firing With Dignity - Making Job Termination As Amicable As Possible
Author - Elizabeth Repchuck
Your goal as an employer is to make the separation as amicable as possible, allowing your employee to walk out the door with their dignity. Here are some basic, simple rules to ensure the same.
Building a Virtual Team: 4 Tips for Hiring Remote Workers
Author - Richard Lepsinger
While self-motivation, trustworthiness and functional skills are essential requirements for any employee, these qualities are even more critical for someone who is going to be working from a distance. How to ensure these while choosing for a virtual team!
HR Strategic Planning: Meeting The Workforce Planning Needs
Author - Kristy M Lopez
Developing an HR strategic plan is becoming more common, as it should. Reviewing the current workforce, revamping trainings, planning the workforce needs in the future, or implementing the plan - all areas are important to creating a plan that works for the organization.
Conducting Effective Exit Interviews
Author - Tim Connor
Do you have an exit strategy in your organization? Do you conduct exit interviews regularly? Do you take what you have learned from them and apply it to your organization's policies, procedures or philosophy? Is the process working?
Employee Surveys: a Strategic Tool for Positive Change
Author - Marcia Zidle
Employee surveys can be efficient and low cost methods to connect to your people, to show them that their opinions count, and to act as lightning rods for change. Did you know if you can measure it you can manage it better?
Talent Management: The Line of Attack for Employee Retention
Author - Aumaima A
Employee retention can prove to be very expensive to manage. Organizations can make a big difference by doing simple things and can create a win-win situation for both themselves and their employees.
How Big is the Challenge of Manpower Planning?
Author - Ashok Grover
Many organizations are not able to conduct this important exercise, because the task of manpower planning is too complex and yet not error proof. Let us have a look at the complexities of this continuous, dynamic exercise!
Have Exit Interviews Lost to Stay Interviews ?
Author - Ashok Grover
In corporate world, exit interviews have been in vogue for a long time. Can the relatively new concept of Stay Interviews that provides a lot of value, replace exit interviews? Are exit interviews no more relevant? Read here.
We have really enjoyed working with Skillscape to supplement our recruiting efforts with their psychometric profiling of the prospective candidates and extremely useful recommendations. They understand our needs and are highly responsive to our urgent requirements. Their value addition has saved us a lot of resources by hiring only quality candidates. Skillscape, as a knowledgeable and extremely organized HR partner is an incredible benefit to our organization.
We had opportunity to work with Skillscape on assignments of Competency Mapping & Individual Development Plans for Senior & Mid level executives in our organization. They conducted Assessment Centers with a highly qualified team of assessors & feedback from all participants has been very positive.
We found their team members highly experienced, practical and expert on strategic HR issues. I
Ramesh Kundu
Vice President - HR, IR & Admin
Groz Engineering Tools P. Ltd.
We have had the opportunity to engage the services of Skillscape for a variety of HR interventions. Skillscape brings in a wealth of expert knowledge coupled with a high integrity and professionalism. Their highly practical, progressive and results-oriented approach makes them a trusted and reliable advisor partner indeed!
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