Decision-Making Best Practice 6 – Follow-up Assessments
Decisions, both large and small, define an organization, its culture, its direction, its public image, and ultimately its success or failure. Each decision and the process of making and executing on it provide all those involved with a new experience from which to draw upon when making future selections. Organizations, however, are living things; people come and go, memories fade, and circumstances change. Therefore, in order to fully benefit from the hard won and often expensive experience gained through decision-making, a mechanism must be in place to gather, assess, and then make available these lessons learned.
Management Observation Program Best Practice 8 – Cross Organizational Trending
Management observation programs generate a wealth of individual and workgroup performance data. All too often, workgroup managers view their employees job functions as being singularly unique and so don’t consider pooling their observation results with peers. Doing so, however, creates the possibility of identifying broader organizational trends that may be culturally driven and more economical to resolve with a single integrated initiative.
Decision-Making Best Practice 7 – Identify the Decision-Maker
Organizations confer varying degrees of decision-making authority to their executives, managers, and employees typically based on their positions within the organization. In many circumstances, this results in more than one individual possessing the authority to render a decision for the particular question at hand.
Portfolio Management Best Practice 2 – The Project Registry
How frequently do organizations duplicate effort because the same initiative is unknowingly performed by more than one group? Probably far more often that one might think and certainly more frequently than one would want to admit.
Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice 3 – Continuing Education
It is simply not enough that individuals holding senior positions be highly experienced. The narrowness of early career positions and the limitations of time necessarily prevents an individual from being deeply experienced across the full range of functions within the organization. Thus, those relying purely on experience often lack an understanding of the broader spectrum of organization functions and opportunities that would help them be more successful in senior positions requiring multidimensional business understanding.
Resource Management Best Practice 3 - Establishing the Foundation for Personnel Resource Sharing
No longer can personnel resources be underutilized in either skill or capacity. Today's dynamic business environment demands a degree of responsiveness and cost competitiveness that can only be achieved through heightened personnel flexibility and interchangeability. To achieve this requires the building of a foundation of standardized policies and procedures that align personnel resource management practices across the organization.
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