A Brief View on the Employee Training Plan

The objective of an employee training plan is to define the strategies, tasks, and methods that can be used to meet the training requirements in an organization. Most of these training initiatives are linked to the mission, goals and the outcomes in an organization. It calls for a shared delivery system that consists of facilities, learning technologies, distance learning and instructional design. The employee training plan is evaluated to determine its effects on intended outcome.

Outsourcing is One of the Top HR Issues

HR managers fulfill a lot of responsibilities in an organization. These responsibilities range from payroll management, formulating recruitment policies, induction, handling legal issues, company structure and other similar matters to name a few. They are also faced with a large number of ethical and sometimes moral issues when it comes to dealing with staffing matters related to outsourcing, some of which includes confidentiality and privacy.

What is Strategic Human Resource Management

Everybody, including your mom, is talking about the role played by human resource managers in an organization and its success. The strategic human resource management is the new buzz phrase which is being thrown around as a solution to all your woes. But do we all even understand what exactly strategic human resource management is! Lets take a brief yet strategic journey into the an HR managers mind.

Important HR Strategies to Implement in a Recession

If you are not living under the rock, I’m sure you are already aware of the recession which is hitting us hard. Not many talk about the duration and the reasons for this cycle. Estimates for recovery vary greatly from country to country. No one is sure and business worldwide has surrendered to this fact. Some brave ones are looking at it as an opportunity. It is these companies that are employing new age HR strategies to create a positive atmosphere world over.

Importance of Online Human Resource management

Over the years online human resource management has evolved considerably. But challenges in the globalized world are much more than ever before, especially when things relating to human capital management are moving to the online world. The web is playing an important role in spreading the word and making human resource management practices accessible to lot more people.

Importance of Modern HR Practices

Generally it is assumed that human resource managers deal only with salary issues and some internal employee related functions. This cannot be farther from the truth! An HR manager plays a very important and critical role in the success of an organisation. He is the person responsible for increasing overall profitability and works together with everybody else to increase quality of the output.

Role of HR in Recession

Recession brings new challenges for an HR manager and the biggest one during such times is attrition. People lose jobs or they start looking for better opportunities, and this is where the role of an HR manager becomes critical. The process of retaining and improving the motivation levels has gone a level higher than what it was before. The dissatisfaction levels at any given point could be as high as 80-90 percent. It is a scary situation.

THFDigital- A Leading Human Resources Magazine

With a circulation that goes beyond just HR professionals and a reach that has crossed boundaries to reach diverse views and perspectives; THFDigital has carved a niche for itself. There is no other online magazine that rivals its popularity. It has slowly built a sophisticated knowledge base and is part of one of the largest associations in India devoted to human resource management.

THFDigital – Human Resources Magazine of Future

Magazines are a great source of knowledge but there is a dearth of good human resources related magazine in the market. There are very few players who are in the position to fill this need gap. THFDigital is one of the few digital content providers, who have, over the years, mastered the art of informing the people about the latest in the HR world.

Human resources development

In a globalised world, businesses have to compete with each other for market share. It isn’t easy to hold on to a market position, more so if the human resource is not skilled. It takes people with excellent education and superior experience to stay on top of the business world.

Role of Empowerment in Human Capital Management

Human Resource Management

Human resources training, and the consultants providing talent management solutions are confronting daunting challenges these days, as both the employees & their career paths are evolving at breakneck speeds. Most organisations are working round the clock to ensure that right people possessing the right kind of skills are employed in the right roles at an appropriate time. This leads to a positive and serious impact on the performance and growth variables of an organisation.

Talent Management Strategy Development

Talent Management

Talent management consulting, often times referred to as Human Capital Management Consulting is the process which includes recruiting, managing, developing and sustaining PEOPLE, the most important resource of an organisation. The talent management solutions must be a part of an integrated strategy in an organisation as it involves -

Social Media and Personal Branding

Social Media

A recent article in a talent management magazine stated that “Web 2.0 and talent recruitment are integrated part of talent management solution”; and this fact got me thinking about the latest trend in talent acquisition-Social media!

Succession Planning

Success

People come and people go is the fact of any human relationship. In an organization it isn’t any different! Just as life, which doesn’t stop and moves on, an organization must be able to make a smooth transition with minimum hoo-hah! All this requires a succession plan. This is where having a good human resource management system helps.

Human Resource Management System: Ways to Build Gen-Y Workforce

Human resource management system is growing out to be a game changing empowerment structure in organizations, where, it is said, it could eventually bridge the gap between the management teams and the employees. But what would you do if this gap is much more than hierarchical, and is also a generational one?

Social Networking and Recruitment

The days of going through employment newspaper ads or similar online portals to find jobs may be history pretty soon. E-recruitment through social networking sites is the new buzz among human resource management personnel.

social-media-recruitment

Human Resource Management System Demystified

HR Management

We all know the role played by human resource management is nothing but administrative and requires a lot of manual labor for each and every function ranging from selection, training and the payroll processes. It’s not only time consuming, but complicated and expensive.

Training as a Talent Management Tool

Talent Management Tool

Talent management consulting is an up-and-coming business function and is often used to establish competitive advantage for several different business affairs. For a talent manager, the human capital is the primary resource that must be managed properly and there is no better tool than providing appropriate training to its employees.

Challenges of Talent Retention

Talent Retention

HR professionals are fighting day in and day out to retain and manage top talent in their organizations. It’s an issue that is as important & is even related to maintaining a positive growth curve and sustaining profits.Human resource management teams are finding it difficult to deal with the factors that contribute to an employee’s decision to leave an organization.

Importance of Employee Training Programs

Training Programs

Having an employee training plan is an important factor which, in the long term could ensure the success of an organization. Training the employees is known to increase the overall productivity and decrease general expenses of hiring a new person year in and year out.

Enhancing Employability of Indian Graduates

Indian Graduates

Everyday we here that out of millions that pass out of India’s educational institutes, very few are employable and job ready! The recent recession had worsened the situation, but things aren’t looking bright even today. Business leaders and providers of talent management solutions need to refocus their attention towards this talent crunch and discuss solutions.

Induction Assessment Aftermath – Two Scenarios

Induction Assessment Aftermath

Induction assessment has become a tool that the providers of talent management solutions dig into to uncover hidden answers that dominate the association between employee performance during the duration of an induction program and their success over a relatively long period of time.

HR Tools for Employee Retention

HR Tools

In a global work scenario, providers of talent management solutions have their work cut out to retain its knowledge bank or the employees. Resignation of an employee results in a loss of time and money for an organization and eventually leads to overall reduction in efficiency and negative outcome.

Importance of Retaining Star Employee

Star Employee

It’s a war out there; war to retain your most talented employees. The providers of talent management consulting are having sleepless nights to come up with a solution and retain workers who possess key skills. It makes a lot of sense for the employers too. Retention of talent is the key for any organisations growth & success. It’s economical and saves a lot of cost of undertaking a recruitment process and training a new joinee.

Seven Qualities Good Leaders Express

Good Leaders

The sole aim of any hr training program is to create leaders who are capable of creating and managing teams that would eventually increase organizations profits, fulfil goals and break into new markets. For this, a leader should have skills and sensitivity in dealing with people of different backgrounds and practical hard-headed ability to comprehend new situations.

Why Companies Shouldn’t Block Social Media in the Workplace

Access Denied

It’s often believed that online social interaction kills employee productivity and is of little use. But the recent study conducted Anand Tiwari Inc. (ATI) believes otherwise! Hence, the question being asked by most bosses these days is: Are you on Facebook or Twitter? If you’re not, then get over yourself and get on it!

How to Align Priorities & Expectations in an Organisation

New job can be baffling for most new employees and looking for your key responsibilities among the rapid and continuous delivery of information can be a daunting task. At the same time we have managers who keep pushing the employees under them, build process, procedure and performance. We need to get rid of the tensed environment and defog the situation.

Role of the Manager and the Need for Re-Motivation

Do you hate getting up in the morning or to be more precise hate your job? Most of us have had similar feelings about our work or professional life at some point or the other. But who is to blame here? You may think the problem lies with your attitude, but it cannot be further from the truth.

Bridging the Generation Gap at Workplace

In a booming IT economy of India, with youth being its biggest asset, the constant challenges faced by the leaders and bosses who belong to a different age group is to ensure that there is compatibility in opinions and actions between the traditionalists’ and the generation next! The providers of talent management solutions in a company have to make sure that the process of integration in the group is as smooth as possible.

Five Qualities of a leader in Hope

We keep hearing about the importance of a leader in an organization. But before doing that, let’s define and differentiate between a “boss” and a “leader”.

An Open Letter to the Employees

Dear all,
I don’t often write letter as a post. But you all, you are a bunch of very special people.

Let me start with a question: What motivates you as an employee of an organization?

Truth is, as a member of talent management consulting team, I’ve wanted to ask this for a very long time now!

The Impact of Employee Satisfaction on Consumer Behavior

Measuring true satisfaction levels of your customers isn’t easy, and for once you wish you had a crystal ball! There are several criterions that would give you an approximate idea of it, & among those, the one which is often ignored is the relationship between customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction.

Telecommuting: A Modern Day Mantra

IT revolution, globalization and modern hr practices have affected every aspect of our lives. With the emergence of new working styles and radical shift in organizational structures, we have been introduced to the concepts like telecommuting or e-work &, flexi timings.

Importance of Employee Experience

Life of providers of talent management consulting in an organization is like an echo-What they send out comes back. The way they treat people and the employees is like an echo. Organizations are built on this echo or a foundation, which is about how the people are treated and the experiences they may have as an employee.

Avoid Micromanaging your Team

As a member of the much abhorred human resource management team, you must try and pay heed to the plight of an employee stuck in a micromanaged work environment. Micromanagement could have its benefits, but having a classic autocratic boss overseeing your every step, finding fault and assuming that you would be incapable of performing without his/her help can be de-motivating for anybody.

Importance of Gender Diversity at Workplace

The role played by gender composition on the overall performance of the employees is often ignored at workplaces. Most people handling talent management consulting are too shy to talk about it and lack the confidence to acknowledge its importance.

How to be Happy at Work

Look around your colleagues at workplace. What do those faces tell you? Do they look happy? Are you happy with your job? If not, what can you do about it? A dream employer for one can be devil in disguise for the other.  The providers of talent management solutions and human resource management teams keep working to improve the happiness quotient but, what can you, as an employee, do to feel happy?

5 Key Qualities of a Great Employee

We always talk about how an employer should treat its employees and tend to ignore the needs of an employer. The potential employee too does no research on it and goes in for selection procedure demanding & expecting the best for him.

Advocating Suggestive Behavior

Heard of Corporate Suggestion Box? Chances are that you got the wind about it through some human resources magazine but if you haven’t, then you must give it a shot and try it out in your organization.

Start Your Own HR Blog

Blogging might not seem like an important activity for the members of talent management consulting firms, but believe you me; it can help you to separate you from the rest of the pack in HR.

Five Tips for a New Employee

Are you a new employee in an organisation and feel lost? A new employee must do a lot of things on joining a company of his/her dreams to bring value to the organisation and differentiate himself from the crowd, and create a unique personal brand identity.

Impact of a Bad Boss or Manager

The most important & undisputed reason for which an employee leaves his/her job is bad management. No HR magazines articles on talent management want you to know this. The reasons often given are that employee wasn’t happy at work or had money as his prime motivator or was just not good enough, but no where you’ll find that a boss or the manager was being held responsible.

Road to Careers in HR

HR is about more than just dealing with employees and being a people’s person. HR careers and functions of an HR manager has evolved and changed with times. If you are looking to make a career out of this & make it big in the industry then go through the following pointers.

Evolution of Human Resource Management

The role of human resource management is evolving in the global market and modern hr practises have changed and now plays a more strategic role in the success of an organization.

THFDigital : Contemporary-Actionable-Cutting Edge

THF magazine is one of the most widely read Human Resource magazines in India. The magazine very carefully picks top HR stories and provides a vital platform to create intellectual capital. THFDigital brings together thought-leaders and industry experts to help you gain insights on critical human resource issues.

Reinventing Talent Management through THFDigital

Talent management magazine, as the name openly spells out, is any publication dealing with building & developing, sustaining and retaining the talent pool in an organization to fulfill its mission and goals.

HR Forecast & its Importance

HR forecast is all about predicting the future. Still think it’s not possible? Well people handling the HR management think otherwise. Forecasting utilizes information (past & present) collected from both internal and external sources to key out the expected future conditions. These predictions can of course go wrong and it is here that experience of the manager comes in. HR Forecast is a tool employed to plug any existing organizational holes and ensuring the success of its long term plans.

THFDigital: More than Just HR Insight

As a developing economy if you are still amazed by the way India has increased efficiency, improved productivity and profitability & caused operational refinement, then you must go through THFDigital to get HR insights that has led to this change.

Importance of Employee Development and Training during Recession

The world economy has gone for a spin. People are worried all over again. It is now about losing jobs, losing benefits, defaulting on loans, losing homes etc. It is a very scary situation to be in. But what can you do about it? Economy isn’t under your control! Well, all is not lost and you can cross-train yourself to make sure that your services will be required by your company in times crisis too.

What Makes a Good HR Magazine?

Most HR magazines generally do what the name suggests: talk about ups and down in to the life of an HR manager and the effect it has on an organization and its functioning.

Transform your Organization by Implementing HR Strategies

A thriving organization calls for a workforce that is satisfied and content with their job functions and can contribute to the success of the organization. The HR strategies and planning are usually employed to help the organization identify its vision and take necessary steps to meet those visions.

New Age Hr Techniques

Many organizations make a mistake of handling its employees as single homogeneous physical entities. With ever evolving hr techniques, companies will have to face the reality and adopt new set of ideas to manage its human resource.

Importance of HR Tools

It isn’t easy to hire an employee and the whole process is way more complicated than it might seem to an outsider. A written exam or even an interview isn’t a proper tool for hiring an employee. There has to be a planned hiring method to get the best suited person on board as it can be important for your organizations future.

Value of HR Training

HR Training is essential to help people perform at their very best. Hr is all about people and it’s important that every one in your organization grows with time. Agenesis leads to dissatisfaction and possible demotivation to work for the benefit of the company.

Human Resource Issues

Most organizations are busy implementing strategic HR activities without much thought. Also since there isn’t much written about the success of such activities therefore there remain several ifs & buts when a manger wants to undertake such capabilities.

Thank God it’s Monday – 5 Steps to Beat the Blues

We all have Monday blues, except the HR guys & your boss! The transition of a weekend to the Monday, the dreadful first day of the week, isn’t always easy. We all come back full of energy to meet the deadlines but by the end of the Monday, we feel tired and unhappy!

Human resource management consulting

Human resource management consulting is an inseparable part of industrial practices in today’s times. Basically it is used to increase the efficiency of the people engaged in every day affairs of the company.

Importance of Human resource management system

Times have changed and the organizational processes are evolving at a rapid pace. The aid of modern systems is needed to be in place to manage the resources just the way we handle other assets of our organization.

Opinion: Outsourcing Human Resource Services

It is common knowledge these days that human resource services are being outsourced to cheaper destinations. This isn’t just a passing fad. We all know outsourcing has its benefits that cannot be ignored.

Importance of Talent management Consulting Firms

Talent is a rare resource today and hence it must be properly managed and monitored. Success and failure of any organization depends on the people, its most valuable resource. Hiring the best talent is only a first step towards achieving your goals. The other is dealing reasonably and carefully with the talent that you have got within the walls of your organization.

Importance of HR Function

HR function has moved from being just a hiring-firing function to becoming a complete strategic partner at the organisation. The HR now also takes care of functions that are not centres of profit for the organisation.

Leadership Development

Leadership development is a process where an organization tries out a program in which its prospective leaders undergo training to develop their skills. It is the burning topic these days.

HR Blogs – Times are changing!

Do we need blogs? I know at one point in time blogging was the most sought after activity online. We had all kinds’ blogs coming up every day, so much so that Google started a search engine dedicated to blogs. Every wannabe writer has one now. Organizations too have started their own blogs to connect with their clients and customers. But is it of any use? Is there anybody reading them? What is the point?

Human Resources Training

A great human resources training coach is akin to an artist. He is creative and motivates enough people to create an artwork that is both beautiful and priceless. He is one of those guys who doesn’t teach people how to do things but tells them what to do, and gets the desired outcome which is not only astonishing but also surpasses expectations.

HR Careers – Do you have it In You?

Which is the most coveted career choice during recession? Careers in HR are pretty much the aim of most graduates these days. The foremost reason is that it is recession proof. There are very remote chances that you will ever be in the firing line. Actually more often than not, you’ll be the one who gets to act like God and decide who needs to stay and who goes.

Advantages of Implementing Talent Management Solutions

Managing talent sounds like an easy job but in reality, it is way too complicated than what your HR manager might want you to believe. It is a job of a specialist & the solution provider focuses on developing the potential and possibilities for your organization.

Career in Human Resources

Manpower is a key resource for any organization. Managing this manpower is not easy. Just like everyone, people related issues prop up all the time, and if not handled properly it could hamper organizations growth and overall productivity.

THFDigital – Insight into HR trends

THFDigital is known for its insights on real-time strategy development and its implementation in organizations. The digital magazine talks about handling unexpected challenges and other HR issues that are relevant to an employee and the employer.

HR Forecasting

Forecasting is by definition is an analysis of past and current data to predict future outcomes. The HR department has found a use for it to seal any existing holes in the organizational system and working. Predicting isn’t always easy and several mathematical models are put in place to turn approximations into relevant solutions to help the company’s growth and aid its future prospects.

Importance of HR Forums in an Organization

THFDigital is one of the fastest growing HR forums on the web. Basically a digital magazine but it also offers a space where people can discuss their issues with others. The online forum allows all kinds of discussion related to the field of human resource management.

HR Guru – A Mentor for Working Professionals

HR Guru is offered by THFDigital, a Planman group initiative, as a virtual guide and advisor for working professionals. It is a unique online employee development resource offered through online social networking site Facebook, and provides professionals a platform where they can discuss their daily issues and problems.

Importance of HR Strategies

If your organisation is looking to succeed then implementing acceptable HR strategies becomes a must. Such implementation requires lots of planning to motivate people and push them towards their personal and organisational goals.

HR Interviews don’t have to be Scary!

Job interviews can be nerve wracking and scary. But the truth is that HR interviews are designed to stress you out and test your ability to stay calm even during trying situations. The fear of dealing with somebody you are unfamiliar with is the cause of nervousness and one has to overcome the mental weakness to succeed.

THFDIGITAL : An HR Magazine with a Difference

Other than entertainment, no other magazine in India has had any kind of mass reach until THFDigtal sprung on to the scene. And before I forget to add, it is not an entertainment magazine! THFDigital is a very niche magazine that has achieved mass popularity, and a huge reader base that can put some of the most popular mainstream magazines to shame.

HR Techniques of Training and Development

HR training techniques ensures that organisational learning takes place in a structured format. The point of employing HR training is to reduce the randomness while understanding behavioural changes among employees in an organisation.

Globalization and Human resource Issues

Not much is known about the success rate of HR management and its human capital development activities. These activities are not easily measurable, at least not in a short run. Over a period of time, lot of strategies can be implemented but if there are any ifs and buts related to HR strategies then things could go drastically wrong.

A brief look on HR Services

Human resource is a field that has become really important in today’s globalized world. People have started moving from one country to another in search of better opportunities. This has made the job of a manager more challenging as he has to look after several aspects to keep the workforce motivated to get an edge over competitors.