Calibration
What is calibration?
Employment calibration is the process of measuring an individual's overall performance and identifying areas where they should be focusing their efforts. It's a way of ensuring that you're getting the most out of your employees, so they can do their best work, and it also helps with succession planning.
Employee calibration programs typically involve a combination of assessments that measure skills, abilities, and other factors such as personality traits or cultural fit. The results are then used to create an individual development plan (IDP) for each employee; this includes goals they should focus on in order to improve their performance at work.
Why do you need calibration?
Employment calibration programs are vital to the success of your business. If you don't have one, you're at risk of losing key employees, clients, and opportunities.
There are many reasons why you should have an employment calibration program. The most obvious is to protect your company from lawsuits, but there are other reasons why this is important:
- To ensure that you are not discriminating against anyone.
- To make sure you are paying people the correct amount of money for the job they do and their experience level.
How to develop an employment calibration program
To develop an employment calibration program, you will need to:
- Develop a plan.
- Identify the risks.
- Create a strategy for addressing each of those risks. This can include things like:
- Creating policies and procedures that clearly outline what is expected of employees in terms of their conduct at work, how they should communicate with coworkers and supervisors, and what kind of behavior is unacceptable (e.g., sexual harassment).
- Ensuring that HRs are trained on how to handle complaints about harassment or discrimination so that they can deal with them appropriately (e.g., by investigating).
- Taking steps toward eliminating any barriers to reporting misconduct internally by making sure all employees know where they can go if they have concerns about something happening at work (e.g., setting up an anonymous tip line).