Human Resource Departments have traditionally been concerned with the processing of transactions and administrative functions - often with little or no objective data to provide them feedback on:
Human Resources metrics allow HR professionals to:
This interactive HR metrics training will provide an overview of frequently used HR Metrics and describe a methodology for implementing them in your HR function.
The Benefits of HR Metrics to HR departments and Organizations
Identifying What to Measure
Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection Metrics
Compensation & Benefits Metrics
Training & Development Metrics
Retention Metrics Formulas
Measuring Other HR Processes
Strategically Implementing Your Action Plan & HR Dashboard
HR professionals leading many of the best-managed HR departments across the U.S. rely heavily on HR Metrics to guide and improve their departments' performance. They recognize that metrics offer significant benefits to both their departments and organizations.
These HR professionals recognize that:
Metrics is the 'language of businesses. Senior leaders are seeking objectivity. They don't speak in generalities and don't make key decisions based on opinions. Metrics communicate by painting an unbiased, objective, and believable picture
They are in the service business and their H.R. function can be seen as only an overhead expense until others see value in the function. They appreciate the fact that the results that they don't objectively report often don't count
They need metrics to be able to compare themselves to standards and 'best practices in other organizations. That metrics provide early warning signals and identify performance gaps. And that it is difficult to control & improve upon any HR process that is not measured. Metrics provide a means of increasing visibility, clarifying performance expectations, and setting goals. Just measuring an HR process conveys its importance and tends to improve the performance of the process.
Since the leaders of the other functions within their organizations -manufacturing, sales, accounting, customer service, etc. - measure and report their contributions and performance, they as HR professionals should as well.
At the end of this HR management training, participants will be able to:
Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:
The Focus Group has provided these consulting & training services to manufacturing & service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe & the Middle East.
Pete has worked closely with the senior leadership teams of organizations such as Brink’s, EMC, State Farm Insurance, Marriott, N.C.I., Freddie Mac, and YKK Pete is also co-author of Leading Your Organization to the Next Level: The Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth. Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry College
& Masters degrees in both Business Administration & Industrial Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.