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Recent Trends in Government: Skills-Based Hiring
The recent introduction of the Allowing Contractors to Choose Employees for Select Skills (ACCESS) Act (H.R.7887) has continued the movement incorporating skills-based hiring into the federal government. In September of 2023, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a completed list of common federal skills supporting this broader hiring initiative1. Skills-based hiring has received significant…
FMPers Co-Author a Newly Published SIOP White Paper
We are thrilled to share that FMPers and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) members Nate Voss, Marni Falcone, Risa Witherow, Natasha Tenreiro, and Mike Camburn have co-authored a SIOP white paper that can now be accessed through SIOP’s website. The white paper, entitled Competency modeling: An essential practice for the future of strategic…
Keys to Successful Project Management with Jacob Flinck
Human capital consulting projects vary depending on the client and desired outcomes, but all share a focus on delivering the best product or solution to the client and require essential processes to be effective. One such process is project management. Project management consists of the methods, strategies, and decisions that a manager makes when overseeing…
Systems Don’t Make Change. People Do.
Meet Bob. Bob wanted to deploy a new project management system at his company. He conducted research to select a decent product, hired a vendor to help with implementation, developed a project rollout plan, and met every milestone. On paper, his plan was a success, but a few weeks post-rollout, most of his employees were…
Conversations with FMP Leaders: The Future of Strategic Human Capital
Since March 2021, FMP has been proudly celebrating its 30th anniversary. As we close out our celebration, we are highlighting FMP’s three major capability areas. In the second part of our 3-part interview series, we are thrilled to gain special insight from Marni Falcone and Bryanne Cordeiro Reynolds, two Strategic Human Capital thought leaders at…
Hitting the “Sweet Spot”: Getting the Most Out of SME Partnerships during Course Development
I am always excited to find the elusive “sweet spot” with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) when designing and developing a technical training course. That is the spot where you have a truly collaborative partnership with SMEs leading to: Minimal client revisions to materials, An enjoyable course development experience, Training that is timely, accurate, and instructionally…
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…
Technology Trends in Human Capital: How A.I. is Changing Recruitment
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has become a major tool leveraged in the human capital space to help organizations develop solutions and achieve goals in the workplace. As A.I. has become an increasingly more powerful and widely used tool, we wanted to take a closer look at how it has been used to pave the way towards…
Remote, but Not Isolated: Developing and Leading Virtual Teams
Every month we dive into what we are all so passionate about here at FMP: human capital management. The current events are influencing topics within industrial organizational psychology that are increasingly necessary to examine and discuss, such as virtual teams. Virtual teams are on the rise, especially due to organizations’ responses to the global coronavirus…