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Employee Spotlight: Savannah Roder
Tell us about yourself! I am originally from Memphis, Tennessee and attended The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to earn my bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing. After graduating, I spent a year serving as a sorority consultant traveling to different chapters throughout the southeast to assess their functioning. After that, I made the move to…
Six Tips to Help Improve Well-Being and Avoid Burnout at Work
Sometimes focusing on your well-being is easier said than done, especially in today’s world. We are all doing our best to adapt and move forward in a world that’s still healing from a global pandemic – continuing to adjust to rapidly evolving ways of working, interacting, and existing. For many, these changes in our communities and workplaces have uprooted daily routines and presented a variety of new obstacles to maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While everyone is…
Best Practices for Competency Development
In my last blog, I discussed how competency models are more important for effective talent management than ever before in a post-2020 world. In this blog, I will review best practices and considerations for competency development. Competency models provide a common lexicon, or framework, that describe what is needed for organizational success. With proper development…
Employee Spotlight: Nate Voss
In today’s new hire spotlight, we are featuring Nate Voss, who recently joined FMP as a Consultant after completing his PhD at Kansas State University earlier this year. Nate brings a wealth of experience in both research and applied work, which enables him to present his clients with proven best practice solutions. Read on to…
Post-2020 Human Capital: Why Competencies are More Important than Ever
Competency modeling has been a part of effective human capital strategy for decades but defining competencies through competency modeling is more important than ever before. 2020 was a critical point in our history for a myriad of reasons, but its impact on work is undeniable. COVID-19 has shifted the world’s approach to how and where…
Navigating Workplace Transformation: Strategies for Supporting Employees
When COVID first began and organizations shifted to telework, many employees and leaders likely assumed this would be temporary. Now, well over a year after COVID began, conversations regarding return to work have started. Despite these plans, we’re likely to see some continuation of remote work. In uncertain times, the focus of leadership should be…
Scrum Outside Technology Development
What Is Scrum and Why Does It Matter? If the first thing you thought when seeing this article title is, “What is Scrum?” Be sure to check out this definition and accompanying videos. For those of you already in the know, you may have heard about a scrum framework being utilized in a technology development…
Mentorship: Back in the Spotlight
FMP has had a mentorship program (in some form) for over 15 years. But, like any program, it’s important to evaluate progress and make adjustments to keep things fresh and relevant. Overall, staff were happy with our mentorship program, but it had become something only mentioned during employee onboarding and occasional word-of-mouth. Earlier this year,…
What Is Succession Planning and Why Do It?
Succession planning is essentially workforce planning targeted at a defined set of key positions. It is a future-focused process for developing a pool of talented employees to fill leadership roles in an organization and is a tool for managing human resources strategically. This blog will outline how succession planning can be done using a six-step…
New Normal, Same FMP Culture: How FMP’s culture allowed us to adapt during the pandemic
It has almost been 18 months since the pandemic began, and we’ve had to adapt how we approach our work (more than once) at FMP, just like everyone else. Our culture has played a big role in being able to overcome the challenges we faced both on an individual and organizational level. In this blog,…