2 Posts found for Publisher: Optimize

Have employees start their careers by completing a “passport” profile that accompanies them as they move between projects and assignments. As each project is finished, a manager signs off on what the employee accomplished and what skills were updated or acquired. Job responsibilities are defined and competencies clearly indicated for each role, making it much easier to determine specific training and education needs. Succession planning … [ Read more ]

Author: Maria Schafer | Source: “The Human-Capital Balancing Act” | Original Publication: Optimize | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

A very successful technique for educating IT professionals in business strategy is to assign them to mentor senior corporate executives. In what turns out to be mutual mentoring, the business professionals learn what the company’s IT systems can do, how to evaluate and use different PC software, navigate the Internet, and how to better understand IT as they’re teaching the IT professionals how rational decision-making … [ Read more ]

Author: John Logan | Source: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” | Original Publication: Optimize | Subjects: Human Resources, IT / Internet / E-Business, Management