Archive - 2010

A Merit Resource Group contact recently commented on the "Resource Centers" we have available here on our site. She had not discovered them before and found them helpful.

Regardless of economic conditions businesses must continue to plan and make commitments to their futures if they are to keep up, compete and maintain their viability.

It is an exciting, challenging, anxious time to be in HR.

We've heard most of this for some time — but you have to start fully embracing it if you are serious about being in human resources management, convinced your professionalism is a necessary ingredient for business success, and you are doing everything you can to contribute to that.

And that about sums it up. You literally need a plan for everything.

What's your reputation worth?

A challenging question for businesses because it is so difficult to measure "reputation's" impact on the bottom line — until something goes very wrong.

I participated in a Webinar a number of weeks ago, part of DNA Global Network's global citizenship series, where the topic of Tech Savvy was covered and the importance of using technology to connect, communicate and collaborate was pointed out as critical to global leadership.

I've written recently about creating sound footings for your business that make sustainability possible. Risk management is another one of those tenets or principles that serve to protect your opportunities for succeeding by helping you avoid unnecessary liabilities that can rob your bottom line. Liabilities that can affect either the physical, fiscal or cultural aspects of your business and brand.

The heartbreaking stories from the devastating earthquakes across the globe recently — Haiti, Chile and China — invariably talked about the increased destruction and loss associated with poorly constructed commercial buildings, schools and dwellings. Absent well-designed and constructed foundations and infrastructure, these structures collapsed or at a minimum experienced far greater damage than the rest. A clarion call for building structures securely in the first place and for avoiding the misery that can ensue otherwise.

I think this is a great metaphor for businesses.

A strategic move today for some companies that are anticipating more aggressive business levels as the recovery progresses is proactive use of mentoring programs to enhance the development of current talent and enrich jobs.

We have talked about "flexible staffing" as a business concept for years — primarily because we are in the talent management business and have long understood the blend of contract, temporary, regular fulltime positions and use of consultants to be one of the most powerful and efficient approaches businesses can take to fill human capital requirements for business strategy and goal attainment.