How retentive are you? Find opportunities for improvement, develop conclusions and make recommendations that will benefit your next project and other projects as well with this Employee Retention template.
This template is designed to assist the project manager with identifying and resolving retention issues.
Your project workforce can be better motivated and more effective if it is aligned with the overall business goals of your organization. Use this template as part of your employee motivation and retention strategy and see how quickly performance improves.
Get help defining the policies and practices governing the life cycle management of records within your corporation using this detailed sample policy.
The freedom to pursue quality of life, work and a promotion? The dream is still alive, but achieving it has become a nightmare for many workers. As a manager, it's your responsibility to ensure you're providing enough opportunity for your employees to enjoy it all. Here's some hints to help you--and your staff--make the dream a reality.
There is a subtle but important difference between measuring outcomes and measuring people. So what should we measure? Here are five measures that can bring about extraordinary results.
It's easy to find a million ways that software managers can fail with their teams and their projects. This article prioritizes seven practical leadership tips and techniques that can help build great teams that consistently deliver great projects. And these habits are so simple, you can put them into practice immediately!
This project plan will help you navigate yoru way through software process measurement.
Even though you've built the perfect data warehouse, it's better to be safe than sorry if something goes wrong during its operation and you need to restore the original data files. Take the time to document your backup and recovery procedures, as in this example.
This template is designed to assist the project manager with establishing a compressed workweek policy. Such a policy may be used to enable the workforce to improve a work/life balance, thus improving retention and reducing turnover. Certain operational needs may require longer daily shifts.
Is working from home not the dream you envisioned? Do you find yourself even more busy and frantic than you were in the corporate office? It's time to step back and re-evaluate how home office productivity should lead to measurable success.
Leading with simplicity, engagement and trust is the way to go. Here we explore the three cornerstones of good leadership.
Although the metrics used to communicate risk mitigation and ROI are different, the reality is that--despite it being a lightweight framework--Scrum puts a much greater emphasis on these two areas than waterfall.
The economic downturn has companies cutting budgets and employees fearing for their futures. No one likes facing layoffs and benefit or pay reductions, but these are the things that carry us through tough times. Here's how you, as a manager, can keep your workforce morale from sinking as you weather the current economic storms.
Was it your grandmother who said, "You get more flies with honey than with vinegar"? Why Granny wanted to get flies, I'll never know, but when you're trying to get happy, productive, team members, positive reinforcement is the honey you've been looking for.
Stop the insanity! These three tactics are designed to help you solve today’s leadership problems and distinguish yourself as an effective leader--just when your workforce needs as many as it can get.
Recent appointments, promotions, openings and awards in the world of project management.
This presentation has been designed to proactively reduce ineffective supervisory actions that have been identified as critical to employee satisfaction and workforce performance. It clarifies the role of the supervisor in implementing effective strategies to handle employee performance and behavior problems, both major and minor. If supervisory competency in these areas is inadequate, this presentation can be delivered in the Activation Phase of the project.
Few would argue against continuous training of team members, but many fail to consider how that training will ultimately benefit the organization. By creating an overall L&D strategy, you can maximize your training efforts and see better business results than you may have thought possible.
Using extreme PM tips and techniques will only be successful if you know how to effectively and consistently manage the human element. This is particularly difficult when dealing with creative types. The key ingredient of software development leadership success can be represented as a balance of planning, process and people leadership in order to produce quality products.
Fringe benefits that is! We have all seen the latest recruiting trends that have made us green with envy. You have encountered top talent that you would like to bring on board, so you offer them a great salary with a juicy sign-on. Wait a minute! What do you mean they want more? Why I remember when I started out in this businessHOLD EVERYTHING! That is just the point or, depending on which side of the offer table you are, that is the greatest difference between being a candidate today and five years ago! Candidates want it all and, in reality, top talent can go out and get it.
It used to be that workers were simply beaten or intimidated to get them to perform. For some of us, this time continues, but for others the world has become more complex. We need an organizing principle for workforce management. Even though we are familiar with the traditional concepts of quality, cost, and time, these are merely measurements of some higher standard.
One employer estimates that a top worker generates as much as 200 times the value of an average-performing worker.
If you thought compliance obstacles, goals and requirements were tough, brace yourself. Compliance issues for 2008 include tougher regulations, new security threats, better technology and much more.
While training sessions have moved mostly online, there is actually a greater need for traditional training methods than there ever was. Whatever became of designated trainers and committed attendees going to a conference room? Can we bridge the gap?
Your job is too complex for a traditional job description. The same is probably true for those who work with you. Here's an idea: Get rid of the job descriptions and focus on role definitions to maximize performance.
Nothing makes executives salivate like when you hit their hot buttons with your justification. Executives’ top three drivers of competitive advantage should be your guide.
Is a mechanism really needed to provide structure for making key project decisions? Yes. Being in a leadership role, you’ll be pressured by people wanting decisions made for the best interests of the company, the employee or the customer--and they typically conflict. Let’s look at the three categories of influences.
Each employee or team member is unique, with specific skills, talents, weaknesses and work style. Shouldn't your employee incentive and reward program reflect that individuality? This set of checklists and worksheets wil help you develop a program to keep employees happy and motivated, with appropriate incentivies and rewards--developed with input from each of your charges.
Recapture the vitality of a startup by thinking like a pioneer. That's the idea behind Larry Davis' book Pioneering Organizations. Here's an interview with the author himself.
Many aggressive IT managers intent on building their own careers push their employees beyond their limit. Be aware of these potential problems and solutions to prevent conflict.
Keep a lid on contractor costs by formalizing the process of “casual” or “temporary” position requisitions.
Alignment is always an important issue - and not just on a business level. Organizational interests and personal interests must be aligned to really make things happen. Post-mortem focus - How did corporate performance reviews and individual development planning programs impact your project? This questionnaire will allow you to analyze these processes, develop conclusions and make recommendations.
There are two key parts to employee evaluations: How they're doing, and where they're going. This template will help you with both the "now" of the performance appraisal and the "future" of that employees career path and development.
Evaluating, correcting and planning employee performance is essential to your role as a leader. This extensive set of checklists will help you with all your performance management details.
It's a taboo topic, something you learned not to discuss with your friends or co-workers and something that can be a major deciding factor in what kind of career path you take. It's your salary, and we're going to talk about it.
This five-part Employee Engagement and System Alignment Guidelines and Checklists allow you to look at how your employees find themselves engaged with or disengaged from their workplace in relation to their understanding of leadership values responsible for the workplace culture and philosophies.
Your employees spend a lot of time online, but what exactly are they doing on the Internet all day? It is wise to have a policy to outline what is expected of their Internet use.
Can't get no satisfaction at your company? Find out why--and how to fix the problem--using this employee survey.
Almost a quarter of CIOs say IT staff need to improve project management abilities.
It's always important to cross all your Ts and dot all your Is before making that new hire. Use this form as another safety in screening prospective employees.
Even if you aren't working under contract, it's wise to make sure employer and employee are on the same page. This agreement defines the terms of employment at will for any situation.
Performance problems? This form will help you stay focused and professional when discussing performance problems and solutions with employees.
Have you implemented a policy requiring all of your employees to report to work completely free from the presence or effects of drugs or alcohol?
Get started on the right foot in human resources procedures using this list of relevant laws and theories.
Here's a sample performance appraisal form for measuring productivity, initiative and other areas for non-exempt employees.
Why struggle finding great candidates for open positions? Let your current employees do it. Develop or promote such a program using this guide.
One approach to improve project management maturity is through a project management community of practice, an informal group of PM practitioners who share advice, tips, techniques, lessons learned and promote relevant topics in the project and program management domain.
The ulimate goal of any organization is to keep its stakeholders happy. That's how you thrive in business. This presentation explains how you can design your IS function to uphold the objectives of the organization in meeting this most important goal.
Many PMOs are struggling to survive the cost-cutting knife, facing staff reductions and increased workloads. It is during these periods of adversity that PMO leaders must take steps to discard the PMO’s image as a cost center and recast itself into a profit center.
