Category: People Performance

02/12/2024

The Strategic Imperative of a Job Description

The ability to craft precise and comprehensive job descriptions isn’t just a routine HR exercise; it is a strategic imperative that lays the foundation for your organizational excellence. …

06/09/2023

Employee Evaluations: Are they still relevant?

Most employees dread the traditional look-back performance evaluation model as do most supervisors. The innovative employee evaluation approach we are developing at Achilles Group is what we call agile growth and development….

05/31/2023

Benefits of Employee Continuous Growth Plan

When you bring in a brand-new employee, you usually focus on the first day, first week, first month of their integration into the position and team. You get them up to speed, oriented in the…

05/02/2023

5 Steps for a Positive Work Culture

Keep Your Most Competitive Advantage Healthy There’s much in the design in nature that parallels with how we humans are designed. In vegetation, emerging signs of droop or brown leaves signal a lack of water, sun,…

04/24/2023

17 Tips for Employee Recognition: Make it a Cultural Reflex

We each must condition ourselves to “See the Good”. Take the time to gather positive feedback from clients, customers and employees, and recognize contributions at team gatherings. Walk through the business and connect with team…

04/24/2023

Steps to Build a Feedback Culture

If you were about to take a hike through the wilderness, would you take a compass with you in case you got lost? Of course! And much like a compass helps you find your path…

04/13/2023

Cultivate Growth in Your Employees

Cultivate Growth The HR Professionals at Achilles Group invest time, expertise and resources as we cultivate leadership capabilities within our client businesses. And, just as in nature, different seasons of business require adjustments in how we…

04/13/2023

7 Steps to Address Poor Performance

We don’t hire people to lose them. If you have an employee who is not performing up to their potential or who has strayed from their usual high standard of work, take a positive approach…

01/17/2023

Business Plans Need Focus

The December cold snap left most of us with a lot of soggy stems, mushy ground cover, and sad-looking flower beds. Now we must clear the debris, let in the sun, water the roots, cultivate…

08/18/2022

Is Your Team Prepared to Weather Any Storm: Navigating Threats to Business

If You Are Calm, They Will Be Calm Just listen… The howling winds of news and business chatter are filled with storm warnings of inflation and recession relentlessly hurled in our direction as if by a menacing…