Top HR Content Profiles: Trish McFarlane

Trish McFarlane, author of the HR Ringleader blog, is the VP of HR Practice/ Principal Analyst for the Brandon Hall Group. A former HR executive with over 15 years of experience in Big 4 public accounting, PR, healthcare, and IT, Trish’s expertise in leadership, performance management, training & development, change management, social media, and innovation, enables her […]

Care and Compassion are Vital HR Skills

When we look at the standard HR job description, we usually see things like knowledge of federal and state labor laws and experience with workplace investigations, benefits, training, safety, recruiting and strategic planning. It is not common to see something about the ability to care for employees on the list of requirements even though it […]

When Team Skills Don’t Equal Team Performance

The gap between skills and performance is a frequent frustration and worse, a conundrum, for leaders. The team appears to have all of the skills required to excel but doesn’t measure up on key performance metrics. The most frequent performance inhibitor is lack of team synergy. Getting along well together isn’t enough. High performance teamwork […]

Another take on the dreaded, outdated performance review!

Ah, the performance review. Please allow me to add my two cents to this topic. It’s been well documented that performance reviews are rife with deficiencies. Too often, they are used to place blame. Objective criteria becomes subjective. Rating scales save time, but don’t gauge performance OR identify areas for improvement. The process itself is […]

Would Unlimited Vacation Fly at Your Company?

“While unlimited vacation policies have been lauded in larger companies … , the question is whether they’re plausible for smaller businesses that can’t afford to always have someone fill in for unavailable staff members. By Chad Brooks Employers have found a new way to entice top talent to their company. They’re giving employees something they’ve only […]