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5 Tips to Master the Art of Business Process Modeling

Even though Business Process Modeling is a very effective way for business organizations to keep track of their inner workings, many beginner modelers tend to design them incorrectly and make mistakes, which decrease their potential. The following are certain tips and suggestions you should keep in mind when designing your very own Business Process Model.

HR Planning Guides

Employee Offboarding Checklist: A Complete Guide for HR Managers

Employee offboarding is the process of managing the departure of an employee from an organization. It involves various tasks such as conducting exit interviews, revoking access to company resources, collecting feedback, and ensuring compliance with legal and contractual obligations.

Remote Working Guides

The Practical Guide to Working from Home as a Team

During the pandemic remote working enabled to keep the work going on across sectors in a situation where offices had to be closed down physically and maintaining social distance among people became mandatory.

Meeting & Visual Collaboration Guides

The Ultimate Guide to Retrospectives

Chapter 1: Looking Back to Move Forward ‘Actionable Learning’- that’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in Agile circle. The continuous improvement ethos is based on finding effective ways to test and improve every aspect of a team’s performance. But we all know that’s easier said than done. And what often gets forgotten is the discipline of learning how to learn.

Project Management Guides

Creative Ideas to Visualize Your To-Do List

One of the simplest joys in life is to cross off a completed item from your to-do list as it gives you an amazing sense of accomplishment. In this post, we are going to talk about creative to-do list ideas and ways in which you can visualize them to keep a track of your day-to-day tasks.

HR Planning Guides

Effective Employee Onboarding: Setting Your New Hires with Editable Onboarding Templates

Onboarding is more than just paperwork and introductions—it’s the foundation for long-term success. A well-structured employee onboarding process helps new employees feel welcomed, understand their roles, and quickly become productive members of your team.

Strategy & Planning Guides

Business Model Canvas: Explained with Examples

What is a Business Model Canvas? The Business Model Canvas is a one-page strategic tool that helps visualize and assess a business idea. It simplifies traditional business plans by breaking down nine key elements. The right side focuses on external, customer-related factors, the left on internal business operations, and the center highlights the value exchanged between the business and its customers.

IT & Operations Guides

What Is an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)? | An Introduction to ER Diagram

So you want to learn Entity Relationship diagrams? This ER diagram tutorial will cover what is an ER diagram, its usage, history, components of ER diagram, and how to use Creately to draw them. We’ve also added some templates for you to get started quickly.

Strategy & Planning Guides

6-Step Guide to Crafting the Perfect Communication Plan

A communication plan is a key to developing an effective and consistent messaging strategy. It helps guide the process of setting measurable goals for your strategy, profiling your target audience and creating and successfully delivering your message.

Strategy & Planning Guides

How to Create an Action Plan: Step by Step Guide with Templates

What Is an Action Plan? An action plan is a detailed outline that defines the actions needed to achieve a specific goal. It includes tasks, deadlines, assigned responsibilities, required resources, and milestones. Creating an action plan helps teams and individuals stay organized, focused, and accountable, whether in personal projects, business strategies, or academic endeavors.

Production Manufacturing Guides

5 Business Process Mapping Best Practices to Effectively Visualize Work Processes

Why Business Process Mapping is Important Businesses don’t just crop up overnight. Every objective is achieved through systematic processes. Business process modeling lets everyone from the heads of departments to concerned staff figure out the why, what, where and when of these processes. Process maps take all the data from here and present it visually.

HR Planning Guides

5 Reasons Why HR Managers Love Organizational Charts

HR managers in companies have been using organizational chart software for decades to fulfil a very basic but significant function. These managers have used org charts to form the modus operandi of a company, where questions of “Who is Who?” and “Who does What?” are answered. Organizational behavioral experts are aware of the issues that arise when lines are vague when it comes to job roles and responsibilities. Org charts need to be properly used to define the function and role of every single individual in a company so that there is room for accountability.