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Audits and assessments

Audits and assessments

- Maya Angelou's got a famous quote. "You can't really know where you're going "until you know where you've been." And it definitely applies to strategic HR. Before you develop any sort of strategic plan, it's important to assess what's happening so you can build from there. An HR audit could be really useful for you if you're new in an organization or new to your role, if you're building an HR program from the ground up, or if it's been a while since anyone did it. There are four types of HR audits, including compliance, which focuses on whether your policies and practices are compliant with the law, or functional, which focuses on a specific area, such as payroll, recruiting, onboarding, or training. A best practices audit focuses on competitive advantage or how well you're living up to HR industry best practices. If our industry is saying you should be using metrics to make decisions, you'll want to audit what metrics you…

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