By: Edwin Ebreo Most training plans I’ve seen are products of training needs surveys; hence most of them are basically lists of training programs to be run one after another. What is wrong with that picture? Whether or not you identified the right programs to run and identified the best trainer to run it, there…
By: Edwin Ebreo How do you know you have a successful performance management system? That’s when your employees’ performance are improving and you have a definite way of telling. How do you know it isn’t working? If managers are doing as little as possible to achieve minimum compliance, which is probably to submit shabbily filled out…
By: Edwin Ebreo Work gets done, problems get solved, customers are happy and goals are achieved. Such is the power of communication. Without it, the opposite happens; people yield to mediocrity, problems linger, customers misunderstand, hence, they are unhappy. All these block your team from harmoniously working together and achieving organizational goals. There can be…
By: Edwin Ebreo In all my years as a team building facilitator and participant, I have observed that five factors affect the success or failure of teamwork. They are: • Leadership • Team Dynamics • Communication Skills • Team working environment, process or tools Of all these, leadership is pivotal. As I facilitate teambuilding workshops,…
By: Christine Dapa They say good things come to those who wait. This used to be true even for talent selection and acquisition but not anymore. The rule of the recruitment game has changed. This is due to the ever increasing disparity between needed talents and their availability. There is a tough competition for talent out…
What is the Difference? Task managers see to it that employees are busy, that they are doing things exactly as they are told. That they are racking up enough hours of work. The more hours they spend at work, the better employees look in the eyes of their managers. Task managers complain about the lack…
By: Geraldine Cruz I just read what could possibly be the most self-centered piece of advertising I’ve read for a long time. The Grammar Pulis is still on vacation, so there will not be any grammar critiques. I am responding to this ad as a consumer and a target client. My knee-jerk reaction to this…
If HR is to play a strategic business partner role in the organization, it needs to streamline its activities so it can find time to handle the rigors of strategic HR Management and Development. When HR Transforms into a strategic partner, it cannot shed off its transactional activities like pre-employment screening and administration, personnel administration…
See if this scenario looks familiar: The CEO calls for a regular Management Committee meeting. The committee members prepare their own updates to be presented to the group. The head of IT, HR, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Marketing and Sales and others deliver their presentations one after the other. The CEO throws a few questions. Others…
While many companies realize the importance of training in improving employee performance, many are also frustrated by the apparent lack of return in training investment. While there are several reasons why this is so, ( I plan to discuss everyone of them soon) I’d like to discuss one particular reason that you can do something…