Use the HR Matrix - to Balance and Align Your People Department.

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The HR Matrix gives you more information than an HR audit.

The HR Matrix suits most organizations better than “benchmarking.”

The HR Matrix helps you define what being a business partner really means.

If you are growing, your People Departments are going through known growth phases.  What you are experiencing is so normal it has distinct known phases!  Unfortunately, most leadership and/or HR are not trained and do not realize there are defined stages.  While you evolve from crawling or clawing your way along to walking and then jogging to running, wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple tool to help your People/Talent Management departments evaluate where it is and what it needs to do next?

Pricilla Claman, co-founder of Career Strategies in Boston, has a simple free tool, “The HR Matrix”.   USE IT! Designed by Lloyd Baird of Boston U and Ilam Meshoulam of Tel Aviv University, I have recommended and utilized it for years.  It may be the simplest and best HR departmental assessment tool you will ever have.  It is manual with no software to lease or buy and works with any budget.  With modification its works in and for other departments, but don’t tell Pricilla that.

Go to her site (link below) and then to free resources and download the 2-part tool (Transition Growth Phases and the Matrix), instructions and sample interpretations.  If there are problems, let me know and I will get  them to you (need email address) and let Priscilla know the link isn't working.

http://www.career-strategies.com/pages/hrPubs.html

Thanks for your knowledge, input, wisdom, kindness and willingness to help, Priscilla.

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