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Case Study: Talent Management
Client: Financial Services Institution Project: Employee Exit Process Redesign The Challenge A large financial services institution lacked consistency and clear HR roles for their termination process....
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Best Practice: Review performance of contractors
Description Collect performance reviews similar to employees for contractors. The purpose of the assessment is not career development for the contractor but to collect information on the skills &...
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Case Study: Project Reporting
Client: Financial Services Institution Project: Develop IT reporting capability Overall Project Mission A global financial services firm with over 10,000 IT staff worldwide lacked an integrated system...
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Best Practice: Reward managers who have achieved higher retention rates for...
Description Track the retention rates of high performing individuals. For those that have remained with the organization longer than the average tenure, determine the managers with whom the individual...
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Case Study: HR Process Transformation
Client: Financial Services Institution Project: HR Process Analysis The HR Challenge A large financial services institution wanted to review all of their core HR business processes affecting the...
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Best Practice: Obtain the optimum balance of skill sets & experiences on a...
Description When allocating resources to a project, review the project team as a whole rather simply one individual at a time. Final assignments to the project should consider the strengths &...
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Case Study: HR Effectiveness
Client: Financial Services Institution Project: HR Effectiveness Assessment HR Effectiveness A European financial services firm with approximately 2,500 staff in the US wanted to assess the...
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Best Practice: Promote a virtual collaborative environment
Description Promote a collaborative environment by making virtual collaboration tools available to all individuals. The value added of such tools as web conferencing increases exponentially if the...
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Case Study: Improve Business Development Process
Client: Executive Coaching Firm Project: Improve Business Development Process The Business Development Process A global executive coaching firm wanted to redesign and automate business development and...
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Best Practice: Develop a standard competency model
Description Define a set of standard job roles. For each role, define a set of standard skills (both hard & soft) and experience levels that are required. Develop a competency model that includes...
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Case Study: Change Management for PPM Rollout
Client: Global Financial Services Firm Project: Change Management for PPM Rollout Overall Project Mission A major financial services firm wished to implement an integrated, enterprise-wide information...
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Best Practice: Utilize a balanced scorecard to assess recruiting performance
Description The performance of the recruiting function will impact many parts of the organization. Take into consideration these broad impacts by developing a balanced set of metrics to measure the...
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Case Study: Improve Human Capital Allocation
Client: Global Management Consulting Firm Project: Improve Consultant Resource Allocation Overall Project Mission The project mission was to improve resource management for a global management...
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Best Practice: Allow project resources to bid on upcoming projects
Description Capture descriptions and resource requirements of upcoming projects. Allow project resources to view upcoming projects and express their interest in working on them. When selecting...
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Case Study: Ad Agency Job Tracking Portal
Client: Global Advertising Agency Project: Job Tracking Portal Implementation The Challenge A large global advertising agency desired to implement a customized web-based job tracking portal as a front...
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The Myth of Multi-Tasking
Trying to do more than one thing at once (i.e. multi-tasking) is a waste of time & effort. The fact is that you can only do one thing at once and every time you start a new task requires a degree...
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Dynamic Project Planning
Project plans outline a path into an unknown future. They help us define tasks, assign work and specify timeframes. In a perfect world we’d be able to create a detailed project plan and then follow it...
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Getting to a Zero Inbox
Like it or not but email is a major means of communication and won’t be going away anytime soon. Email gets a lot of criticism but it’s not inherently bad. It provides a record of communication that’s...
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Separate Project & Change Manager?
Do projects need a separate project manager and change manager to be successful? It’s a critical question for project planning & budgeting and to come up with the right answer a number of factors...
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Obtaining Senior Executive Engagement
Senior executive engagement is critical to the success of any complex project. It can have a direct impact through budget allocation, resource assignment or the removal of obstacles to change. It can...
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