A Manager's Guide to Developing Competencies in HR Staff (Tips and Tools for Improving Proficiency in Your Reports)

Workplace leaders are challenged with not just having people who can do the job today, but who are prepared to step up when things change tomorrow. For HR talent strategy, workforce planning, organizational design, and employee development to be successful, HR executives and managers need to understand and use SHRM competencies effectively. The Guide provides an easy-to-use roadmap for HR managers and small business executives to develop employee proficiency in the core HR competencies. Loaded with tips, techniques, assessments tools, and real-life stories of management successes, it takes the mystery out of HR staff development by showing the value of the SHRM competencies in business and then clearly establishing the links between various competencies and HR functions. It also offers activities HR managers can use to develop their own competencies and features Proficiency Indicators for different levels of HR staff and charts and forms to help make the process of developing HR staff a little easier.