Business is forever changing and evolving. The things you need to do to stay up to date can be daunting but the alternative is falling by the wayside.

Plus, when 78% of millennial customers won’t give you a second chance, your day-to-day interactions count more than ever.

That’s why you need a solid knowledge management system. It’s the only way to reliably manage the resources available to your team and make sure that everyone can perform to the best of their ability.

So, today on the Process Street blog we’ll be covering:

• What is knowledge management?
• Why does knowledge management matter?
• The history of knowledge management
• Types of knowledge
• How to build a knowledge management system
• Manage your knowledge effectively with Process Street

Enough dawdling – let’s get started!
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It wasn’t until 1997 that the term talent management was properly explained. Since then, the practices associated with it have evolved and are still developing.

In this Process Street article, we’ll take a look at talent management, its strategies, why it is so important, and how you can implement it in your own company.

This article has been split into the below subheadings:

• What is talent management?
• The benefits of a talent management system
• Tips for a successful talent management system to optimize talent development
• How you can use Process Street in your talent management strategy

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The 5+ million people who work in HR in the United States have their work cut out for them.

From hiring great-fitting talent and helping with their onboarding, to monitoring employee performance and even resolving any employee conflicts, there’s a lot of ground for HR teams to cover – and in such a short amount of time.

Imagine if there was a way for HR teams – not only in the U.S., but around the globe – to time-save, cost-save, and labor-save, and take control of their recurring tasks like never before…

Wouldn’t that be a dream? 🤩

At Process Street, we rather like turning dreams into reality.

That’s why we’ve hand-picked our most effective, most useful HR processes from our extensive library and are presenting it in this ultimate HR process pack.

Think of it as your one-stop-shop for all the human resource processes you’ll ever need.

Read through the following sections to learn how to revolutionize your HR department, on top of getting your hands on over 60 (yes, 60+) free process templates:

• Why use templates and checklists for HR processes?
• Utilize our human resources best practice templates
• Human resource processes #1: Pre-hiring processes
• Human resource processes #2: Hiring processes
• Human resource processes #3: Onboarding processes
• Human resource processes #4: Performance processes
• Human resource processes #5: Workplace processes
• Human resource processes #6: Diversity processes
• Human resource processes #7: Aptitude tests
• Create your own HR processes with Process Street today!

Now, let’s stop dilly-dallying and get to it!

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As organizations get larger they get more and more complex.

So many different people pushing and pulling in different directions.

This slows an organization down and makes it hard to operate. It makes it hard to achieve the best results.

Human resources departments should be the ones who sort out this mess. The ones who make sure everyone is working toward the same goals. The department which facilitates the other departments to do their best work.

But for many companies, HR isn’t working.

According to McKinsey:

1. 42% of HR professionals are not taking action against priority areas
2. 65% of HR professionals are not pursuing innovative approaches
3. and 68% don’t have confidence in their strategy

That’s why, in this Process Street article, we’re going to take this problem seriously and look at:

• What is HR management?
• What are the current HR best practices?
• How to manage digital transformation in HR
• Netflix and the modern HR revolution
• How to use Process Street for human resources

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Did you know that 69% of millennials would rather make $50k a year at a job they love, than $75k a year at a job that they think is boring?

On top of that, the cost to the US economy of a disengaged, dissatisfied employee can be up to $500 billion a year.

So how do you make sure that you provide an enjoyable position, one that addresses the needs of an employee at all levels, whilst also working with your company goals?

The answer is by adopting our HR best practices, which are detailed below.

At Process Street, we recognize the hr department as a kind of middle man between your business and your employee. By adopting our HR best practices, it ensures that a balance between your business and employee is obtained.

In this article, we will discuss the following:

• HR meaning: Understanding what HR is
• HR: A brief history
• Good HR practices and the benefits they can bring to your business
• The best HR practices used in business today
• Unique human resource practices 
• How you can implement the best HR practices

At the end of this article, you will be presented with a set of free to use templates, to help you implement the best HR processes within your business today.

Ready to get started?

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“… 71% [of organizations] said their leaders are not ready to lead their organizations into the future. Only 25% of organizations said they had a ready and willing successor identified for one out of 10 critical leader positions.” – Brandon Hall Group, State of Leadership Development 2015: Time to Act is Now

Great leadership is like electricity.

Without study, it’s a one-shot, lightning-in-a-bottle event. However, with a solid theory to explain how it works and how to harness it, you can use it to power your team like a well-oiled machine.

That’s why it pays to know your leadership theories, and why this post from the Process Street team will teach them to you.

Using these theories of leadership you can analyze your leadership style and find out what kind of leader you are and how to more effectively manage your team.

We’ll be covering:

• Great man theory
• Trait theory
• Behavioral theory
• Contingency theory
• Transactional theory
• Transformational theory
• Situational theory
• Leader-member exchange theory
• Power and influence theory

However, before we get stuck in, let’s have a quick recap on why these theories matter…

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Career aptitude tests are powerful tools for both employers and employees alike. They can be used to gain insight into personal tendencies and make informed responses to career and hiring decisions.

Tests like these can differ in:

• Purpose (i.e. for career placement, selection, counseling, or training)
• What they measure (i.e. what they are designed to measure, be it personality type, skills, work approaches, values, or vocational interests)
• What they predict (i.e. performance, quality of work, management potential, career success and satisfaction, your next job)
• Format (online, paper form, in-person)
• Standardization and rigor (how subjective or objective are the test results?)

Some tests are highly structured, with definitive quantifiable outcomes; others are more flexible, and designed to be personally interpreted.

This article will look at six different types of aptitude test, broadly defined, and run through the process of how you can build your own aptitude tests using Process Street.

We’ll cover:

• What is a career aptitude test?
• How to build an aptitude test with Process Street
• The Myers-Briggs / Jungian Types Personality Test
• Free aptitude test template: Big Five Personality Test
• Free aptitude test template: Holland Codes
• Free aptitude test template: Leadership Tools
• Free aptitude test template: DISC Assessment
• Free aptitude test template: IQ Test
• Superpowered checklists

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“I realized I had a challenge… [people] didn’t think they needed to be trained as a leader.

I realized I had a real uphill battle because people thought leadership was a noun.”

– John C. Maxwell, John C. Maxwell Defines Leadership

Not all leaders can lead effectively.

You might be a manager in name but that won’t inherently make your team like you, respect you, or do what you tell them to.

That’s why today I’ll show you the 10 main schools of thought for the behavioral theory of leadership.

By the end of this post, you’ll be able to identify what kind of leader you are, what kind of leader you want to be, and how to bridge that gap through your behavior.

If you’d rather skip to a particular section, go ahead and use the links below:

• What is the behavioral theory of leadership?
• The 10 types of behavioral leader
• The skills and behaviors of effective leaders
• How to build your leadership style into your processes

There’s also a free process template based on Ray Dalio’s methods up for grabs, so let’s get started.
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$4,129 is the estimated cost of a new hire, making that empty chair an expensive one to fill.

You want to get your hiring process right. You want to hire the ideal candidate. But where do you start?

At Process Street, we say you start your recruitment process by writing a solid job description.

This is no easy task, you have around 14 seconds to convince applicants that your job is the perfect job for them.

Get your job description right, and you can draw in the most qualified, skilled and well-fitting applicants.

This is why Process Street has created these 14 easy and free to use job description templates, for you to obtain the best applicants for your advertised role. Our 14 job description templates are listed below:

• Accountant Job Description Template
• Copywriter Job Description Template
• Customer Service Manager Job Description Template
• Customer Service Representative Job Description Template
• Editor Job Description Template
• Graphic Designer Job Description Template
• HR Manager Job Description Template
• IT Manager Job Description Template
• Marketing Manager Job Description Template
• Receptionist Job Description Template
• Sales Manager Job Description Template
• Software Developer Job Description Template
• Web Designer Job Description Template
• Web Developer Job Description Template

Before we jump into these templates, let’s take a moment to consider what a job description template is, and why they are needed.

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Employee engagement is the key to having a productive team while also making them happy and motivated.

It’s also often thought to be a load of old rubbish that doesn’t exist.

I’m not about to defend how frequently some bandy about the term, to the point that it loses all meaning. It’s less of a hard factor that can be measured and more a collection of aspects that enhances your team.

However, considering that disengaged employees cost US companies $450-550 billion every year, it’s not something that can be ignored.

That’s why this post will show you what employee engagement is, why it matters, highlight 8 core strategies for how to improve employee engagement, and why communication is so vital.

If you want to skip ahead, you can do so using the links below:

• What is employee engagement?
• Why employee engagement matters
• Employee engagement strategies
  • Set clear values and goals
  • Show why their work matters
  • Communicate clearly and frequently
  • Create a solid, friendly company culture
  • Help employees with their problems
  • Give room for personal growth
  • Give recognition where it’s deserved
  • Set hard limits on work hours
• Communication is king

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