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Mission Success Bingo: Do Not Forget the “O” in Bingo!
Please join us for a little game of Organizational Success Bingo! Successful mission execution requires organizational effectiveness, which always includes efficiency. While efficiency may not be a sufficient condition for effectiveness, effectiveness is not fully realized without paying attention to efficiency. And without both of these, you cannot get to successful execution. So, simply put,…
Pulse Surveys: A Valuable Source of Workplace Data and Insight
Now more than ever, organizations need to act fast, adapt quickly, and derive data-based insights rapidly to remain competitive. An increasingly popular data-based tool for enabling this sort of rapid adaptation is the pulse survey. Pulse surveys represent an efficient method for gathering employee feedback and/or assessing perceptions1. Compared to “traditional” surveys, pulse surveys are…
Surveys in the Virtual Workplace: Tips for Addressing Common Issues
With the rise in virtual work brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly crucial for companies to effectively leverage online surveys.1 Although surveys have many advantages, they also have some drawbacks which, if not addressed, can limit their usefulness. Knowledge of common survey issues and how to address them is crucial for companies to get the most out of their surveys and engage in effective data-driven practices. Below, we discuss some common problems associated with the use of surveys and offer some tips for addressing these issues. COMMON SURVEY ISSUES AND WHY THEY MATTER Nonresponse Bias: Ideally, everyone who is…
Writing Strong and Effective Surveys
Every month we dive into what we are all so passionate about here at FMP: human capital management. With so many people working from home during the pandemic, employers and brands across the globe are sending more and more surveys to help take a pulse on their employees’ and clients’ needs, attitudes, and feelings. Unfortunately,…
A Quick Intro to Workforce Planning
Workforce planning is a systematic process to align an organization’s future workforce to strategic priorities by anticipating and identifying work requirements, to include both the numbers and types of employees and skills the future work will require. Organizations typically plan workforce needs 3-5 years in the future and develop action plans to mitigate identified gaps….