Best performing organizations will see recruiting and onboarding as a single process with the purpose of using the most cost-effective methods to put the right people in the right jobs and bring them to full engagement as soon as possible.

Beginning with my immersion long ago into TQM as a trainer and team facilitator, through my experience in “team” projects in graduate school, and through years of HR work and talent management consulting with all types of organizations, I have come to form the gut-level opinion that the best way to make a project longer, costlier, and less effective is to manage it by committee. That we now call committees “teams” has not changed on iota their potential for ineffectiveness.

When we are asked the “best practices” question, we normally seize on the opportunity to educate our clients on the meaning of “best practices” and why there is no best single solution, but that the best practice for one organization may not be the best practice for another. We find that the performance rating scale, however, is an exception to that rule.