The end-of-year holiday season is a time for friends, family, parties, and gifts, but it is also a time for project close-outs, strategic planning, and budgeting for the next fiscal year. Juggling all of these home and work demands at the same time can be stressful. To help take the pressure off…

"Painful," "too much effort," "not popular," "a necessary evil"—when employees use these kinds of words to describe a particular process you know that process is broken and needs to be improved. These were the words that APQC employees used to describe APQC's pre-2012 employee performance…

The Houston Chronicle recently named its Top Work Places for 2013. APQC was named 21st out of 140 best small organizations to work for based on the results from employee surveys. More than 68,000 Houston area employees were surveyed by WorkplaceDynamics on issues such as their benefits and pay…

A number of talent management best practices have been revealed again and again in APQC’s human capital management research studies. Five of these tried-and-true talent management best practices include: defining talent management broadly, yet integrating the many elements of talent…

C. Jack Grayson, founder of APQC, former professor and business school dean, and former chairman of President Nixon's Price Commission, turned 90! To celebrate the occasion, Jack's relatives, friends, and the APQC family headed out to Sealy, TX to watch Jack go skydiving with Westside…

Recruiting professionals, what do you need to know to do your job effectively? People often ask APQC, "what do top performers in recruiting look like?" and "do top performers in recruiting cost (i.e., low cost) also have high-quality recruiting processes?" We are also asked about popular trends…

The Houston Texans are a popular NFL team, particularly among employees that reside in Houston, TX. As part of a long-standing employee engagement initiative, APQC held a Texans tailgating party so that employees could spend time networking with one another and share in a common interest. APQC…

Forbes wrote an article on the top qualities for leaders today. But what is the state of today's organizational leadership? APQC conducted a brief survey on the state of leadership in today's organizations. Employees and leaders are interested in the factors that affect existing leadership…

APQC and other survey results show that few HR functions are working closely with business leaders to set and deliver upon organizational strategy. Most HR functions only occasionally engage with internal client leaders in a business partner, strategic advisor capacity. What are strategic HR…

APQC recently remodeled our Houston, Texas office space! Much of the remodeling focused on updating the current space to ensure employees were comfortable in their work environment so they could do their best work. In a recent report on Work Environment Redesign, authors at Deloitte University…