People
Beth Bayes
Beth, SHRM-SCP, SPHR is a versatile human resources executive with over 30 years of experience in a variety of industries with Fortune 100 companies as well as private organizations. As an Independent Consultant she is leveraging her change management experience to assist companies in attracting and engaging talent, improving internal communications, developing leadership and aligning human capital initiatives to achieve business goals.
Success Factors for Today’s People Leaders
The proverbial phrase, “people don’t leave organizations, they leave poor leaders,” is as accurate as it is insightful. The accumulation of unresolved challenges and the disruption created over the past few years has had a considerable, and yet disparate impact on...
Hybrid Doesn’t Just Happen
By Beth Bayes and Maggie Norris A Harvard Business Review article, entitled How to Do Hybrid Right, prompted a discussion with my colleague, Maggie Norris. Our initial impressions gravitated to our respective areas of expertise, only to discover a far more...
Is your HR partnership, evolving or dissolving?
If you were asked about the changes made within your organization since the beginning of the pandemic, how would you respond? If your initial response represents consistency, as in continuing to operate as you always have, you may already be falling behind. The world...
Effective Communications
All organizations understand the fundamental need and critical relevance of access to accurate and timely information. And yet, how often do we find ourselves wondering where the breakdown in communication occurred? Admittedly, this past year of virtual connections...
Business Concern: Leadership Investment and Development
Business Concern: Leadership investment and development During a recent introductory conversation with a new client, I was reminded of a similar discussion pertaining to a new leader struggling with the transition from being a member of a team to managing a team....
Human Capital
Business Concern: The demand for talent exceeds the availability of talent. A commonly recognized concern among business owners is that the demand for talent exceeds the availability of talent. And yet, this concern is all too frequently over-simplified or dismissed...
Benefits- Do I have the right “stuff”?
Collaboration by Maggie Norris and Beth Bayes. Living through a pandemic and understanding the need to attract and retain talent in the growing business, a client of mine realized it was time to look at their benefit plans/offerings. The reference to benefits is not...
The Fatigue Effect
With this year, there is the acute awareness that 2021 is not a “fresh start” kind of year. We continue to carry the burdens and concerns of 2020, escalated by the confusion and disappointment of recent events and exhausted by the relentless force of the pandemic.
Measuring Remote Worker Productivity
When the pandemic struck this Spring, my business made a quick shift to remote work. Not only did we discover that our team could perform well even when fully remote, but we learned how to measure remote work and gained confidence in the approach as a long-term option.
Six Critical Elements of an Effective Incentive Compensation Plan
It is estimated that 30% of companies pay incentive to employees who do not meet performance expectations. A well-designed incentive compensation plan is merely the start. There must be connectivity of strategic goals to daily activities with effective metrics and feedback loops in place in order for the IC plan to be effective and positioned to eVolve with your business needs.