The Changing Future of HR
Before the pandemic, digital transformation was a competitive advantage, but an optional one. It was often cited as a priority for HR and business leaders, but not treated with urgency. Today, however, digital transformation is table stakes for identifying and meeting the needs of your workforce and monitoring the productivity of that workforce — two foundational elements of companies that will thrive post-COVID-19.
This eBook represents three ways HR leaders must adapt to the future world of work.
The Right Tools to Thrive as a People Leader
Your expertise is in leading people - so why do you end up wearing so many hats in your organization?
Learn about the importance of efficiency when managing a growing - and increasingly remote - workforce. With over 80% of U.S. small and medium sized businesses implementing robust HR software, what are the key functions a tool needs to provide to those organizations?
This eBook represents 6 reasons why people leaders are switching their teams to focus on digital workforce management.
5 People Metrics That Matter
Cut through the noise with HR stats that matter most. Today, as HR has become influential in driving ideas towards sustainable change, the easy-to-understand HR “People” metrics have become vital for evaluating business processes and developing ‘people’ strategies.
To help you drive HR strategy with concise data, our industry experts have developed this list of the top five “people” analytics. You’ll also get concrete advice to translate each metrics’ results into actions that will help you drive more successful business outcomes.
Innovative Solutions That Actually Work
Technology is often a driver of innovation, especially in the people management, HR, and payroll space. But far too often, technology becomes an additional burden HR and people leaders must bear while they try to make changes and go after bigger, more positive outcomes.
The good news is, there are HCM systems out there that accelerate you forward, causing positive disruption.
The Changing Future of HR
Before the pandemic, digital transformation was a competitive advantage, but an optional one. It was often cited as a priority for HR and business leaders, but not treated with urgency. Today, however, digital transformation is table stakes for identifying and meeting the needs of your workforce and monitoring the productivity of that workforce — two foundational elements of companies that will thrive post-COVID-19.
This eBook represents three ways HR leaders must adapt to the future world of work.
The Right Tools to Thrive as a People Leader
Your expertise is in leading people - so why do you end up wearing so many hats in your organization?
Learn about the importance of efficiency when managing a growing - and increasingly remote - workforce. With over 80% of U.S. small and medium sized businesses implementing robust HR software, what are the key functions a tool needs to provide to those organizations?
This eBook represents 6 reasons why people leaders are switching their teams to focus on digital workforce management.
5 People Metrics That Matter
Cut through the noise with HR stats that matter most. Today, as HR has become influential in driving ideas towards sustainable change, the easy-to-understand HR “People” metrics have become vital for evaluating business processes and developing ‘people’ strategies.
To help you drive HR strategy with concise data, our industry experts have developed this list of the top five “people” analytics. You’ll also get concrete advice to translate each metrics’ results into actions that will help you drive more successful business outcomes.
Branding With a Shot
Alina Wheeler’s book Designing Brand Identity is considered a bible for brand professionals. In this breezy, inspirational e-book, you’ll glean insights from two chapters of the book:
- How brand governance has evolved.
- Why Deloitte’s brand center is a best-in-class benchmark for brand teams.
Sustaining Brand Beyond Day Two: A New Approach to Modern Brand Governance
In this webinar, join Kelley Grover - Senior Global Brand Manager at Deloitte - as we discuss the evolution of Deloitte's brand center, Brand Space, and introduce the “new rules” of brand governance that all brands should follow.
Three key takeaways you’ll learn:
- How has brand governance been disrupted?
- Why do 70% of rebrands lose momentum at or around the 18-months post-launch?
- What are the “new rules” of brand governance that all brands should follow?
Brand Asset Management Comparison Worksheet
Through research with brand leaders and an analysis of many brand center RFPs we've found it takes more than features and functionality to choose a solution that will help you manage your brand successfully.
Many evaluation criteria ignore important criteria that are key to ensuring that you choose not only a system, but the right partner that will help you achieve your long-term brand management objectives. Use this worksheet to inform the criteria your using and evaluate the solutions that best fit your goals.
Brand Management Scorecard
Evaluate and prioritize which activities can be improved to best deliver against your goals.
A brand’s health starts on the inside. It combines components of governance and the evolution capabilities over time to scale brand. Seeing the landscape of brand governance from an internal perspective helps brand managers lobby for budgets, build long term plans, and address short term issues.
There is no one-size-fits-all model for brand governance. We created this updated scorecard to help brand leaders understand strengths and opportunities to benchmark their brand governance activities against best in class.
The Great Automation 2023 State of the Law Report
As we look at today’s legal landscape, the Smokeball team is in awe of how rapidly the legal community has adopted new ways to attract and serve clients since the global pandemic began in 2020. Smokeball surveyed 200 law firms with less than 30 employees across the United States to better understand these industry shifts and emerging trends. In three short years, legal professionals have learned how to work from anywhere, provide clients with the same (or better) levels of service remotely, and run their law firms as efficient, profitable businesses.
But there is still a long road ahead to harness the true power of adopted technology. The next era will focus on streamlining: unifying systems to improve law firms’ workflows, increase profits, and better support client relationships.
Getting Automated
Smokeball designed this guide to help you understand and overcome your automation gap so you can offload all the work you don't want to do on a cloud-based platform. We'll walk through all the tasks your firm can automate, how to implement automation and measure your success.
Automation doesn't happen overnight, but you can transform your entire practice with the right tools, strategy, and action plan. Let's get started.
How to Buy an LMS for a Compliance-Driven Business
Are you tired of grappling with the challenges of compliance training? Look no further! An LMS will help you manage your immediate challenges when it comes to completion rates and overall compliance. With its ability to automate compliance, centralize training materials, and track progress, an LMS is the ultimate tool for talent development leaders in high-consequence industries. And with our E-book, you'll learn how to choose and use the perfect LMS for your needs.
We've done the work for you. All you have to do is download the e-book now!
Company Travel Policy Template
Want to put together some guidelines on how business travel should be booked, approved, and expensed? We’ve got you covered with this fully-customizable travel policy template. We've done all the research and hard work for you – we talked to travel managers and finance leaders from various companies & industries to discover what essential elements should go in a robust travel policy. Here's what you’ll get:
- A concise, simple-to-understand, and easily customizable travel policy template that you can edit in minutes.
- Guidelines on all the essentials such as expense reporting, safety information, and flexible booking.
- Top tips on how to make the most of your travel policy such as guidelines on approvals, improving travel policy compliance & more.