Let’s imagine that you have a retention issue at your organisation. It started around 9 months ago, and you are seeing a growing trend in resignations from employees in a certain job family. We all know that resignations cost a lot of money to the organisation, and even more so when “good” employees leave. So…
The challenges of writing good job descriptions
September 18, 2012 by 2 Comments
Ah, the good old job descriptions ! We all have a love-hate relationship with them, especially when it comes to writing them. The organisation can basically go down two roads : external or internal. This will most often be a choice dictated by a combination of budget /accessibility (or not) of funds and the time…
A graph based on a pivot table – can it make it easier for you to grow your credibility?
September 16, 2012 by 4 Comments
Did you know that you can create a graph based on a pivot table in Excel ? This is a little-known yet highly effective tool to quickly visualise aggregate data. Simply create your pivot table based on your data source. I advise creating the pivot in a new worksheet/tab in your spreadsheet. Here is a…
It’s the team you build
September 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
Patty Azzarello has written what is, in my opinion, one of the best books to help manage your career : Rise – 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life. She also authors a great blog which I regularly quote in Share the Knowledge, my roundup of…
Recruiters and the pay compression challenge
September 11, 2012 by 2 Comments
In today’s Reader Question I would like to thank Miatta, one of my newer subscribers, for sending me the following comment on pay compression : “My main struggle in Comp and Ben has been why it is difficult for recruiters or managers to understand the importance of why compensation professionals insist on making salary offers within certain…
FTSE 100 companies due to report employee engagement level
September 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
My latest post was about the metrics that can be used in order to assess a decrease in engagement levels. I expanded that post from a slide extracted from one of my workshops on designing retention and recognition schemes – and the metrics all came from my experience at past companies and also, common sense…
Which metrics indicate a decrease in employee engagement?
September 6, 2012 by 3 Comments
I have written about employee engagement in the past, and how pay is only one component of what motivates employees and drives them to greater discretionary effort… and therefore greater results for the organisation. It is actually easier to identify signs of decrease in employee engagement than to track positive KPIs of engagement (unless you’re…
