by Triangle Performance Staff | May 20, 2007 | Kevin Berchelmann, Organizational Effectiveness
Many people — mostly consultants, I know — make incentive-based compensation planning complex and overly difficult to create, implement, and manage. It simply does not need to be that way…
Understanding incentive compensation is simple, and is largely human nature. Just realize the following:
1. That which is rewarded is repeated,
2. You don’t get what you want, hope for, manage to, or request — you get what you pay for (as a tenet of compensation, not necessarily a life philosophy), and
3. Simplicity wins. (more…)
by Triangle Performance Staff | Apr 29, 2007 | Kevin Berchelmann, Organizational Effectiveness
So, last night, I took my wife and daughter to Gratzi’s italian restaurant in Spring, Texas.
Now, some of you may know… I decided late last year to finally get my physical fitness under control. What that means to me (30lbs. since November 15, thanks), is just be realistic. I exercise, reduce my portion size, don’t do anything colossally stupid, and I never withhold something I really crave.
Well, this night, I wasn’t particularly ‘craving’ anything, and didn’t want to do anything ‘colossally stupid,’ but I just couldn’t find a good way to do that. I mentioned that to our server, who promptly brought out the chef to discuss.
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by Triangle Performance Staff | Apr 10, 2007 | Kevin Berchelmann, Organizational Effectiveness
Someone asked me recently if (a) the ethics in human resources are becoming suspect, and (b) if ethics can really be taught to anyone.
My first reaction, of course, was to nearly scoff at the “ethics” question, thinking that frequently, our profession may even OVER-think the ethics component in an otherwise common-sense situation.
Then, I gave it some more thought… (more…)
by Triangle Performance Staff | Feb 5, 2007 | Kevin Berchelmann, Organizational Effectiveness
Penelope Trunk is a freelance writer with a column in the Boston Globe, and calls herself “The Brazen Careerist.” She recently wrote an article that was published on Yahoo!’s personal finance page, entitled Steer Clear of Bad Job-Hunting Advice.
The article lists 8 currently “Bad Rules” for job hunting/hunters, and includes some known HR staples such as resume misspellings, complete disclosure, etc. Then, a littany of comments follow her article, likely many of them from human resources professionals. As Penelope has given me her permission to do so, I’ll list the 8 “Bad Rules” here for convenience: (more…)
by Triangle Performance Staff | Dec 6, 2006 | Kevin Berchelmann, Organizational Effectiveness
We spend no small amount of money on employee retention. Do we spend the right money on retaining the right employees?? Hmmm, I wonder…
Employee retention, the RIGHT employee retention, is a significant issue for businesses today.
Retention is personal; there are some things we can do to create a generally favorable environment, but that’s a small piece of the big puzzle.
You know how to retain key employees?? You ASK them what it takes to keep them. This isn’t rocket science, though we sometimes try to make it as difficult as possible.
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