Category — hr

Human Resource Management - Focus Groups

Strategic HR managers and executives may not have direct power but you do have influence. I’ve discovered a way to increase your influence and get the results you want.

Your people live in an age of anxiety; about their jobs, their families, their finances, their lives. They are under constant pressure to perform. They feel insecure and threatened. they need your understanding in order to commit to performance.

Focus groups with your people enable engagement and give you “evidence” to support your strategic planning and programming in such areas as:

• lower absenteeism and turnover
• enhanced quality and efficiency
• change management
• recruitment and retention
• career pathing
• employee engagement and commitment
• incentives and compensation
• collective bargaining
• training and development
• safety and wellness
• employee satisfaction
• best fit and best practices issue management, PLUS

Engaging and listening to your people communicates that management is listening and values their contribution. You can uncover new facts about your organization and it’s relationships with customers, suppliers, etc. You can gain insight into your corporate culture and the meanings and motivations of the people who shape your success. You can learn the attributes to measure in your metrics and surveys with confidence that you are not data blind and missing something important.

Discover the value of listening to your front-line workers - they know more than anyone about how your organization is performing; and where it can improve.