How To’s & Templates
Career Development
Career Vision Exercise
A Career Vision Exercise is a reflective activity that evaluates your current career situation against your original desires and personal values and helps you become more self-aware of the actions you can take to bridge any gap.
Career Development Plan
Purpose: A Career Development Plan is a tool to guide career development conversations between you and your employees. This is not intended to be a contract for a promotion/raise, but a document that helps facilitate a career discussion. The process may help increase employee retention, productivity, and motivation.
Blueprint for Happiness
A Blueprint for Happiness is your personal map to guide you towards happiness in your your career and personal aspirations.
How to Ask For a Raise
Purpose: In this blog, I’ll cover the perspective of the decision-maker, how to frame your request, what phrases to avoid using, and how to create a contingency plan if your request is denied.
👉🏽 Blog Entry
How to Write a Promotion-Worthy Self-Review
In this blog, I’ll share with you four actions you can take to make your self-review more impressive. To supplement the reading, I’ve also created a template you can use to jump-start your process, including where to gather all the data for your self-review.
How to Write Your Resume
Resources for Job Seekers including resume templates and how to prepare for the interview.
How to Prepare for an Interview
Consider the following questions to help you mentally prepare for an interview and make it easier for you to call past experiences. Also, here’s a list of questions you can ask the hiring team to give you a better feel for the job, team, manager, and company culture.
👉🏽 Blog Entry
Interview Questions Library
Let’s say that you’re a recruiter or hiring manager who is looking for effective questions to ask during your interview, you can use our Interview Question Library to help you build out a standard interview guide. This page will give you more information on how to create more standardization in your interviews.
Performance Management
How to Make Every Performance Review Simpler
Purpose: There are three things all managers can do throughout the year to make every performance review simpler while avoiding conversations that catch employees by surprise.
👉🏽 The 5 Things The Best Managers Do During Performance Reviews
Performance Improvement Plan
Purpose: Performance Improvement Plans are used to notify the employee that their job is in jeopardy due to a policy infraction or poor performance. This notice should be written BEFORE the conversation. After this discussion, the employee should be made aware that continued violations will result in termination. Supervisors should consult with HR before administering the PIP.
Talent & Organizational Development
Learning Needs Analysis
Purpose: The goal of a Learning Needs Analysis is to pinpoint the specific behaviors and examples, not generalizations, of how and why employees are falling short and areas they need to improve. This information will help you determine the best training program to reach optimal, targeted performance.
👉🏽 How to Conduct a Learning Needs Analysis
Engagement Survey Questions
Purpose: Engagement survey questions are designed to gauge the level of emotional commitment, motivation, and satisfaction of employees within an organization. They aim to assess factors such as job satisfaction, organizational culture, leadership effectiveness, and opportunities for growth, providing valuable insights to enhance employee engagement and overall organizational performance.
New Manager Assimilation
Purpose: A New Manager Assimilation provides a platform for teams to build trust and a culture of psychological safety by allowing employees to give feedback to their new manager. This process fast tracks the relationship-building component and lays a foundation for open communication.