HR as a strategic business partner
- Organisational Performance
- Published on 19 Jul 2012
- Dedre Lemmer
Creating a comprehensive and compelling HR strategic plan, one that is geared to enable the achievement of business objectives, is vital to secure HR’s position as a strategic partner. HR’s credibility in the boardroom is undermined when the strategic plan fails to take cognisance of key business drivers.
How leaders create meaning
- Organisational Performance
- Published on 18 Jul 2012
- Jane Macgregor
Creating meaning applies to leaders of large and small organisations, team leaders as well as individuals leading their own lives. Once meaning is defined and linked to measurement of performance, people become engaged in their organisation, team and their own lives.
Performance management and KPIs
- Organisational Performance
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Yolande Boshoff
Managers talk a lot about employee performance. There's constant pressure to achieve performance targets, to reach higher performance levels and to ensure that work supports and furthers the organisation's goals. Performance management is the process used to manage this performance.
Focus on outcomes for sustainable performance improvement
- Organisational Performance
- Published on 18 Jul 2012
- Belia Nel
The world is becoming highly competitive and this also applies to HR and training professionals. Information through technology is flattening the world and we need a way to distinguish ourselves from other HR practitioners. As business partners we are responsible, alongside management, to drive and improve performance in the organisation.
We also need to be credible and provide performance solutions that are backed by a methodology which will consistently produce results in all our performance initiatives.
Positive psychology increases performance
- Organisational Performance
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Yolande Boshoff
Jason works for a major local bank; he is in middle management and faces the daily stress of possible retrenchment - as result, Jason should feel hopeless - but, surprisingly, he doesn’t. Why? Although, a general feeling of pessimism is common in today’s current global economic turmoil, Jason’s HR manager has focused on creating a positive mind-set through the use of positive psychology techniques.
