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Budding Strategies for Spring: Cultivating Smarter Talent & Performance Systems
Spring tends to bring a certain energy with it, and that makes it a good time to step back and ask whether your hiring, onboarding, and performance systems are still working the way they should. This post offers three practical HR strategies worth carrying into the season: hiring for potential instead of perfection, building onboarding that actually empowers people, and moving away from rigid annual reviews toward something more continuous and useful.
The Importance of Success Metrics for Each Role Within Your Organization.
Measuring time in a seat is not the same as measuring contribution. A lot of organizations operate as if those two things are equivalent, and that tends to create a particular kind of frustration: managers who can't tell who's actually performing, and employees who have no clear idea what "doing well" even looks like in their role. This post makes the case for outcome-based success metrics and walks through how to build them for every role in your organization.