There are some board-level people metrics that are sometimes labeled as productivity metrics but are probably better understood as administrative bloat … Read more
3 Ways You Can Make Headcount Reports a Powerful Tool
A simple tally of employees should be shared without controversy, but when an HR executive presents the headcount report during the monthly P&L meeting … Read more
There’s Value In Pulling Together Metrics
The hype about HR analytics is sufficiently disconnected from reality that it’s worth taking a step back and reviewing where we are. Most of the work that … Read more
Everyone’s Got HR Metrics. It’s What You Do With Them That Matters
When Google Analytics debuted in 2005, the ability to look under the hood, and see who was viewing your website (and for how long), was all at once foreign … Read more
The HR Analytics Rocking Horse: Lots of Action, Little Progress
As we head full-on into the second month of 2017, a friend sent me the link to a survey analysis that is extremely eye-opening. Still Under Construction: … Read more
The Difference Tech Is Making In Benefits Analysis
We live in an era of digital transformation, and digital HR has become the new normal. Take it from HR visionary Josh Bersin: “Today we want HR technology … Read more
Is Collecting the Data Taking Too Long? Here’s Help
While many aspirational HR leaders look to mature their strategies to include a variety of workforce and talent analytics, the majority of HR teams remain … Read more
The More You Use Data, the Better the Business Performs
Since joining Visier, I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of workforce analytics. I came to this organization because in my prior life as a … Read more
Improve Your Hiring Quality With These 3 Measures
One of the most valuable performance metrics for recruitment is the quality of each hire made. However, most talent leaders believe they aren’t measuring … Read more
Measuring the Value of Both Types of Diversity
In 1979, a Korn Ferry International survey of Fortune 1000 firms found that females and African-Americans comprised less than 0.5% and 0.2% respectively of … Read more
Are You Managing to the Right Metrics?
We’re at it again. Wells Fargo is being fined $185,000,000 because employees created about 2,000,000 bogus accounts. Why would good people do this? To meet … Read more
Here’s What HR Must Do to Have the Business Impact CEOs Want
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 … Read more
6 Steps to Building a Winning Team
(Based on a recent article written by Pat DiDomenico for Business Management Daily.) Put your players in the right positions, but don’t be afraid to shift … Read more
Would You Believe Spending $10,221 Per FTE On HR?
SHRM Released its Human Capital Benchmark Report recently and it’s loaded with a ton of metrics to compare your HR and TA operations against. The survey … Read more
The 4 Metrics You Must Track (And What to Do With Them)
Historically, human resources hasn’t exactly been high on the list of departments that make use of metrics. But in an age where we have more access to data … Read more
Don’t Start Crunching Numbers Until You Know What Numbers to Crunch
I was helping a manager with the company’s analytics; the problem was framed as “falling engagement in front-line staff.” Now that is a good start … Read more
How Business Intelligence Will Transform HR
TMA’s 2016 Human Capital Analytics Summit made it clear to me that despite the enormous financial benefit of an engaged workforce, the practice of … Read more
Use Your Turnover to Know If You Have a Problem
High employee turnover hurts the business bottom line. It’s estimated that the average cost of a lost employee is 38% of the employee’s annual … Read more