Construction & Manufacturing
Hiring Temporary Employees
Hiring temporary employees is on the rise because of the great flexibility it offers organizations. Although these assignments may be short-term, it is still important to give careful attention to hiring temporary employees that fit your culture and values.
Promises Kept is Money in the Bank
Statistically speaking, a company that keeps its promises achieves better financial results than firms that do not.
You Can’t Send Eagles to Turkey School
You can hire the most qualified people in the world, but unless you provide them with a supportive environment for them to perform, you will be destined to waste their, and your company's, potential.
Crafting Effective Strategy
So many strategic planning processes result in well-thought and worthy goals that in hindsight are never reached. Other companies disguise operational planning for strategy, and it is no surprise why they end up stagnating, or worse, from one year to the next. The key to effective strategy is no secret, nor is it simple to execute. Garnering results from strategy requires an effective model and the discipline of working it.
Are We Getting Better? An Introduction to the Experience Index
Large corporations use hundreds of metrics to gauge their ongoing performance and to try to get a bead on progress and how to affect it. The truth is most of the data points they observe are not giving them the information they need to make choices that drive performance. This paper looks at the Experience Index as a preferred statistical method of understanding, and driving, your business. The EI lets you focus on the key things that make a difference, rather than the many different things that are presumed to be important.
Performance-Based Selection versus Profiles
Profiling is a popular but critically flawed method of making hiring decisions employed by a number of large organizations. This paper describes the flaw and the preferred method of basing hiring decisions on the objective performance dimensions required for a particular job. While more rigorous and valid, performance-based selection does not require more time to implement or execute. In fact, you get better results through a more efficient hiring process.
Engaging and Retaining Exceptional Employees
Leanne Buehler, PhD and Chris Arreola, Vice President of Training at Bonefish Grill, discuss best practices and insight into engaging employees in ways that drive company performance and results.