Personnel Management and Staffing

Dr. Mark C. HumbertDirector of Financial Aid, SUNY Oswego

Agenda

• Introduction

• Leadership

• Setting the Tone

• Human Capital – The team

• Human Resources

Introduction

• Who am I?• Who are you?• How do you hope to benefit from this session?• Is there anything you hope we will talk about?• Is there anything you hope we don’t talk about?

Discussion and Questions

Leadership

• Effective leadership is essential for effective personnel management and staffing• Style matters • Is it all about you? Are you sure? • Do you really want to lead or do you just want the title?• Get to know and understand those around you in the organization • Influence, not authority• Emphasis on growth and development…..of others!• Model the way• “What you are going to be, you are now becoming” Chester Dayton

Discussion and Questions

Setting the Tone

• Clearly articulate vision, values and expectations• What are your non-negotiables?

• Our non-negotiables are to treat those we work with and those we serve as we would like to be treated.

• What is the theme of your leadership?• How can people expect you to respond when they bring you a concern?• “What went wrong, how do we fix it and how can we make sure it doesn’t

happen again? “• “Mistakes are a part of life, it is our response to them that matters”• “We don’t have problems, we have challenges” Chester Dayton

• What if this doesn’t work….and sometimes it won’t

Discussion and Questions

Human Capital

• The Team• Broader category than personnel or staffing• Talent• Potential

• Implies value to the persons in our organization.• Identify talent• Develop talent• Empower talent• Evaluate talent

Discussion and Questions

Human Resources

• The nuts and bolts of personnel and staffing• Know your HR system• Know your HR personnel• Recruiting• Hiring• Evaluating

Discussion and Questions