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Let’s face it, doing more with less has been an ongoing theme in business for longer than anyone cares to remember. Being resourceful is what Human Resources is all about through developing managers, staff, and teams to improve outcomes and reach organizational goals. Let’s take a look at how to do more with your organization’s human resources in 2021 through professional development and education. If your company has not yet embraced digital training, now is the time to start. New technology solutions open the door for innovative ways to provide professional development and training to an organization with a diverse set of skills - whether they are working in the office, from home, or on a job site.  

The third annual State of Performance Management Study, conducted by HR.com and sponsored by LightWork® Software, reports that the primary objectives of performance management are employee and organization growth, at 71 and 70 percent respectively. The more than 340 human resource professionals that took part in the study are from across the globe but are primarily in the U.S. They represent companies with as few as 50 employees up to 20,000+ employees.

While it takes time and energy to locate candidates who match your company’s job openings to apply for a position, it also takes asking the right questions to determine which candidate is the best match. After reviewing resumes for matching qualifications such as skills, education, and experience, asking the right questions and knowing what skills are needed to be successful are the next steps in the hiring process.

Showing up is half the battle, and documenting is the other half. That isn’t exactly true, but sometimes it may feel that way as an HR professional. Having a system for tracking time means that you at least have a way to document employee attendance. 

Remember when the only ‘secrets’ you were allowed to keep were the combination on your bike lock and your school locker? Simple three or four number combinations that kept our life's belongings secure. Now, the reality is that if you live and breathe on Earth you have not just one or two combinations to stay secure, but instead, you have dozens of digital codes and passwords that allow access to absolutely everything. A code to open the garage and front door, turn off an alarm, to access your phone, computer and tablet. Once you have accessed a device, there are literally a plethora of number, digit, and special character combinations to open an application, start a class, or call a colleague. You must log in to absolutely everything! It can be maddening. So as human nature does, we migrate toward the path of least resistance, we create a password that will work for every single thing we need to get into, and then when our browser asks us if we want to save that password we say, “Yes” of course we do, and whisper, “thank you” because you know you were probably going to forget the unforgettable password you created just minutes before. It's human nature.