Integrated Human Resources Management Workshop Agenda
DAY ONE
Morning Session: 9:00am – 12:30pm
- The Practice of Human Resources
- HR as a Strategic Practice
- Challenges to Human Resources
- Re-Integrating HR
- Introduction to Job Design and Evaluation
- What is a Job, what is a Team?
- Principles of Job Evaluation
- Rank-in-Person vs. Rank-in-Job
- Job Evaluation
- Job Evaluation Framework
- The Factors of Evaluation
LUNCH: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
- Job Evaluation (continuation)
- Community™ Levels
- The Fundamental Focuses of Work
- Sequence of Functional Progression
- Job Evaluation Exercise (How and Why Jobs)
- Starting Principles
- Measures of Success
DAY TWO
Morning Session: 9:00am – 12:30pm
- The Language of Work
- Why is Writing a Good JD Important?
- Challenge of Current Job Descriptions
- The Value of Standards in Job Design
- How to Write Better Job Descriptions
- Job Design Methodology
- Job Design Template
- Articulating Functional Statements
- Revising Existing Job Descriptions
- Demonstration of a Re-write
LUNCH: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
- Applications for Job Evaluation and Job Design
- From Jobs to Markets
- Compensation Cycle
- Methodology for Compensation
- Introduction to Compensation
- The Purpose of Compensation
- Perspectives on Pay – Labor Market vs. Cost of Living
- Community Values and the Value of Mission
- The Nature of Emerging Markets
- Understanding Context – the Uniqueness of Emerging Markets
- Structure of the Survey – Jobs
- The Primary Unit of Measure – the Job/Grade
- Job Matching – The Foundation of the Survey
- Structure of the Survey – Salaries
- Three Reference Points – Why More Than One
- The Questionable Utility of Incumbent Average and Occupation Data
- Structure of the Survey – Benefits
- The Purpose of Benefits – Why not just cash
- Pension and Insurance
DAY THREE
Morning Session: 9:00am – 12:30pm
- Data Aggregation – Building Your Market Proxy
- Position and Composition
- When is data ready to be used?
- Building the Salary Scale
- What is a Pay Scale?
- The Three Judgments and a Prayer
- The Art of the Curve
- Testing the Fit
- Practical Exercise – Scale Construction
LUNCH: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
- Special Topic: Salary Scales, Incumbent Salaries, and Perceptions of Inequity
- Benefit Package Design
- Thoughtful Benefit Design – What to Consider
- Sustaining Compensation Over Time
- Continuity in Market Intelligence
- Bringing Transparency and Predictability
- Maintaining Salary Scales: Interim Survey Updates
- Managing Through Volatility
- Challenging Situations
- The Use of Special Measures
- A Tale of Four Organizations
DAY FOUR
Morning Session: 9:00am – 12:30pm
- Markets to Skills and Performance
- Living In the House
- Beyond structure, what happens to the people?
- How do we know what you know?
- How to Adjust Individual Salaries?
- Time as an Inconsistent Unit of Measure
- Challenge of Open Range pay scales
- Differentiating Knowledge from Achievement
- Community™ Skills Assessment
- Skills Progression – Factors & Indicators
- Skills Grounded on Job Foundation
- Skills Checklist
LUNCH: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
- Skills Assessment Exercise
- Setting Pay Using Skills
- On Recruitment
- On Skills Movement
- Developing Skills
- The Role of HR in Learning and Development
- Targeted Development
Special Topic: The Birches Group Experience
- Skills to Performance
- The Problem of Performance Platforms Today
- Skills + Performance
DAY FIVE
Morning Session: 9:00am – 12:30pm
- Community Performance Part 1 – Purpose and Design
- The Importance of Measuring Performance
- Why Consider Performance-based Pay/Rewards?
- What about Management by Objectives?
- Job Level-based Performance
- Community Performance Part 2 – Ratings
- Four Ratings
- The Measures of Performance
- Contextualizing “Exceed”
- The Performance Continuum
Performance Evaluation Exercise
LUNCH: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
- Community Performance Part 3 – Multi-Rater
- Good Peers
- Benefits of Multi-Rater
- Community Performance Part 4 – Presenting Results
- Individual Results
- The Advantage of Standardized Measures
- Cross-Functional Comparisons
- Strategic HR
- Going Deeper in HR
- Roadmap to a Strategic, Integrated HR
- Who Are You?
- Integration
- Thoughtfully designed Tools
- Re-Integrating Human Resources
- Time and Place
- Looking to the Future