Dream Teams

Continuing on the theme of partnering I wanted to look at an often overlooked form of partnership… partnering with employees.

Businesses and other organizations often talk about how their employees are their most important and valuable asset.  Yet we often talk of partnering with other companies, partnering with customers and partnering with suppliers… but employees are often excluded or organizations “pretend” employees are partners.

For the sake of this discussion I am going to define employees as people employed, on the payroll or on a contract basis, by a business where both the business and the employee are benefiting from the arrangement.

Now based on my previous […]

It's easy to become complacent (take things for granted) and not notice remarkable things happening around you all the time. I was recently observing the behaviours of my team members and didn't really notice anything special. It took outsiders to really bring home the significance of their work.

If someone does a really great job on something, above and beyond what you were expecting, you are likely to notice and think "Wow, that was remarkable!".

If that person does a great job on a regular basis, above and beyond the average, you have a tendency to starting thinking that this is normal behaviour. […]

Understanding demographic changes in your workforce is important these days. Every year your existing workforce gets a year older, a year closer to retirement. Competition for your talent is increasing every day and employee turnover is often increasing to match.

You can set-up and run a number of reports on your current demographic mix. Based on these reports you can easily do some rough predications on retirements and terminations over the short term. It will take some effort but it’s possible.

Adding in new entrants then complicates the predictions as they will impact both terminations and over the longer term, retirements. […]

(or What's Been Keeping Me Busy!)

What if you could predict the future without error? What if there was a solution that could solve all your workforce issues?

In actual fact, there is no way to fully predict the future. Neither can any one solution solve all your workforce issues.

Let’s face it, if it were that easy Human Resources (HR) professionals would not be necessary to the strategic and operational success of an organization. They would be providing administrative and clerical functions only. Attracting, training, motivating and retaining employees are an age old issues that are actually getting more complex, not […]