Process and Facilitation

 

Strategic Planning Process

 

If you are the pivotal executive in your organization, the chair of a committee or the leader of a group, you can’t structure and facilitate a strategic planning process and participate fully at the same time! Glacier HR Services, Inc. can structure and facilitate your planning process to create a vision for change and guide your planning team to make key decisions about your organization’s future.. Read More...

 

 

Develop Strategic Planning documents

Overview

 

Key Strategic Areas with Goals & Objectives and a Critical Path or Action Plan on how to accomplish the Goals and Objectives. This would include both Short-term, Tactical Planning (1 – 2 years) and Long-Range Planning (4 – 6 years). The objective of completing the above would be to produce a document that could be edited or updated slightly each year for 5 – 6 years, and then revisited for a complete revamp 6 or 7 years out. Read More...

 

 

Prohibited Pre-employment Interview Questions

To avoid legal problems, keep your interview questions and testing job related. If the questions does not relate to the job—DON’T ASK IT!

 

Do not ask The applicant’s age, birth date, or other age identifying questions (i.e. dates of high school or college graduation). It is OK to ask if the applicant is over 18-years-old. If the applicant has children or the children’s age, or who will care for children. Directly or indirectly about the person’s race, color, religion, national origin, or citizenship. (It is OK to ask if the individual can submit verification of his or her legal right to work in the United States.) Read More...

 

 

Assessment and Selection Strategies

Case Studies and Examples

 

Glacier HR Services, Inc. partners with well established assessment and testing organizations to provide the research, databases, and validity to the instruments we use. We have access to simple, valid instruments that will give an individual feedback on their style and performance behaviors from leadership to sales to customer service. And, we can provide an extensively researched and validated job-fit assessment for the individual or a number of individuals for selection purposes. Read More...

 

 

Facilitation Services

 

Facilitating a meeting or project means thinking through and managing the how, what, when, who and why: enabling people to do their best thinking and make decisions with commitment, passion and enthusiasm. Having an outside facilitator means everyone is allowed and has the time to participate equally. A skilled facilitator can also bring objectivity, inspiration, drive, accountability, and balance to the process. Read More...

 

 

Behavioral Based Interviewing

 

Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance. Therefore, job selection interviews and questions should be structured to have the applicant describe past behaviors in various performance situations. These situations should correlate to the job criteria of the position for which the applicant is applying. This information should be in the Job Description and/or the Job Posting. Read More...

 

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