Recent Posts by Jeff Haynes

Written by: Jeff Haynes, Director, Baker Tilly Human Capital Consulting Practice From shoulder pads to big hair, John Hughes movies to Madonna, the 80s gave us some iconic trends. One of which was the most popular hairstyle– the mullet – that will haunt every family portrait until the end of time. It turns out that the mullet actually makes for a pretty good metaphor when it comes to human capital management (HCM) implementations. The phrase “business in the front, party in...

Article written by Jeff Haynes, Director Human Capital Consulting, Baker Tilly and Spencer Varney, Senior Consultant, Human Capital Consulting, Baker Tilly Does your HCM roadmap have you singing the blues? Too many priorities, in too many regions, with too many disparate processes could leave your HR organization struggling to find its voice. But have no fear, a little harmony can get your HR organization back in-sync (say bye bye bye to the roadmap blues). A pre-implementation...

Do your candidates, managers and employees say things like: “Your career site looks so… 2012.” “Why do I have to click 27 times to update my address?” “Our system looks weird on my mobile phone.” “This HCM Cloud thing doesn’t make sense for my country.” “I know Oracle has updated this thing several times, why does our system never change for the better?” Even the best-executed HCM cloud implementations can become stale if you are not actively adopting new functionality as...

 Guest post written by Jeff Haynes and the team at Baker Tilly's Human Capital Services practice.  Has your core seen better days? Has it been several years since your core was worked on as the foundation for all the critical activities that add value? Wait, are we talking about your life or your HRIS?  The analogy doesn’t end there.  Just like anyone who has hired a personal trainer knows – everyone’s fitness goals are different and personal trainers do not always take...

Written by Michael Windham and Jeffrey Haynes, Baker Tilly Human Capital Services Much has been written about the benefits of onboarding—the reduction in manual effort, the reduced time to productivity, and increases in employee retention, etc. Published data builds the case for a strong ROI as well: UrbanBound estimates that UK and US companies spend $37 billion dollars annually to retain unproductive employees who don’t understand their jobs, while, amazingly, 35% of those...

“The only unique assets that a business has for gaining competitive advantage over its rivals are the skills and dedication of its employees. There is no other sustainable advantage in the modern, high-tech, global economy.” —Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor The post-recession labor market faces a paradox: Worldwide, more than 200 million people are unemployed, but to sustain economic growth by 2030, Western Europe will need to add 45 million workers with specific...

HR Leaders Must Become Proponents of Talent Analytics to Drive Business Results The US unemployment rate is at its lowest since 2001's 5.5 percent. There are 11 million people looking for work, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But, 5 million jobs remain unfilled because it is highly unlikely that those two unemployed external candidates for every available job will have the critical skills your company requires. Talent constraints result in lost business opportunities...

A very well respected Singaporean HR professional (and a true friend!) once told me a story . . . a story of a frog sitting contently in the bottom of a well. The tale goes something like this: Once there was an old frog who lived inside a deep abandoned well. The Frog was so happy with his home that he never came out. He had no awareness of the outside world. All the Frog did, day after day, was sit on a lily pad at the bottom of the well, and appreciate the sky above his well. He...

The Bartender says, ?Hey the two of you make a nice couple, what kind of work do you two do?? The HVAC Guy says, ?I design and maintain systems that keep organizations productive ? I keep things cool in the summer, and warm in the winter ? nobody complains, everybody stays focused and engaged in the buildings I maintain.? The bartender then turns to the lovely Investigative Reporter. She stares at them both incredulously ? not speaking at first - and then finally says, ?I...