The Chrysalis Consulting podcast invited Tom to talk about Lean Recruitment and Lean HR. Chrysalis Consulting are ripping up the rulebook and transforming HR and learning for the 21st century. Their podcast includes interviews and discussions with industry experts discussing how we can create and develop the workplace and workforce of the future and include […]
Lean HR and Recruitment Workshops Our Lean HR and Recruitment workshops are confirmed and up and running for the next 6months. If you are keen to learn more about how to analyse and fix your own Recruitment and HR processes, then get in touch Recruitment is sooooo stressful. Improve your process Learn the small changes […]
Had great fun talking about LeanHR at DisruptHR London earlier this week. If you want to see a man get 4 years experience into 5mins and look like a nutter doing it!!!! Check out the DisruptHR video below, 6min 30 seconds!! Might make you laugh, and you never know you might learn something! Lean HR: Fix It Yourself […]
Talentlink and other Projects Improve and Consult has been busy these last few months growing our client and partner database and working on large scale Talentlink projects. Talentlink is an ATS product owned and sold as a SAAS offering globally. Some of our recent partnerships include Broadbean, StemX and YearWood Associates. We have just delivered […]
Free problem solving template Looking for some quick changes and improvements at work, but don’t have time to fix them? Use our free problem solving template, handily all on one page and which can be used with clients and hiring managers, as well as HR team members. The A3 one pager contains all the info you need […]
Lean Recruitment Bitesize is up and running Many of you are aware that we help businesses and HR departments with their HR and Recruitment processes, well now we are offering free advice and tips on our Video Blog, Lean Recruitment Bitesize. Its essentially 60-90 second videos discussing recruitment and HR focused topics and throwing out […]
Introducing our new Recruitment Audit, Documentation & Templates service As part of our new Recruitment Audit process, we give you our years of experience and knowledge in documents and templates….don’t reinvent the wheel. Audit Speak to your hiring managers – find out how your teams are performing, they are the customer after all. Map your […]
Lean Recruitment We have all worked in HR departments where things haven’t changed in 10 years and we still fill out the same old forms and no-one ever asks why? If you do ask why its always the same old answer “its how we’ve always done things”. In my last job, we had a million […]
We can Audit, Review and improve your HR and Recruitment Processes in just a few days. When was the last time that you reviewed the performance of your recruitment or HR teams? When did you last sit down with your internal customers and ask them “how are we doing?”… a multiple choice survey once a […]
Visual Management Boards, Target Boards, Performance Boards… whatever you want to call them, they work. By visually displaying performance and productivity in a daily huddle or scrum, you can: a) Gain an understanding of a target that you might not hit, unless you change a few things. “we’ve only organised 2 interviews this week, how […]
You don’t need an RPO or new ATS…. Ask your team members how to make things better! I have been attending a lot of HR networking events recently and I keep hearing the same stories. “Things aren’t working, we’re thinking of implementing a new ATS” “Things aren’t working, we’re not hitting our targets, we’re thinking […]
Ask your Hiring Manager what they actually want from your HR and Recruitment teams If I hear “We know exactly what our hiring managers want and are hitting our targets” Im going to go crazy. When was the last time you asked a hiring manager, recruiters and HR teams what they wanted from your processes. […]
What does Waste mean, what is DOWNTIME and how does it affect the world of HR? Toyota created a lean framework with the following 8 lean manufacturing wastes, the acronym for these eight wastes is DOWNTIME. The wastes below are present in all of business processes and if you can address them and strip them out, […]
Every company I have ever worked for had waste in its HR and shared service processes. What do I mean by Waste? Forms completed incorrectly and then had to be re-completed and resubmitted Hiring Manager’s hands being held way too much through a process, because they are too busy, untrained or are being lazy. Waiting […]
So you are looking to make your HR processes lean, what are the main ingredients of this recipe? Ingredients: 1 Manager/Process owner 1 Engaged Team (all main stakeholder groups represented) 1 roll of Brown Paper 2-3 packs of coloured Sticky Notes 2 packs of coloured sticky dots 1-2 Files of sample Data 1 pack of […]