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People make your business which is why employee engagement has been one of the top priorities for many organizations lately. However, in today’s uncertain times, it can be a challenge for leaders to connect with their employees. Connecting is not just a matter of giving employees the right tools to perform their work from home and providing them with trust and flexibility. To foster business growth and maximize employee retention, it is important that leaders actively pursue employee engagement. But the question is how? How do you engage your employees? Are there tools that can support employee engagement?

Succession planning is an important aspect of any company’s Talent Management strategy. It prepares for the inevitable changes in a company’s workforce, whether that is through new hires, separations, or transfers. SuccessFactors Succession Management allows a company to plan for all these factors.

SuccessFactors is an expansive system, designed to enhance your employee’s human resource experience. Employee Central, although fairly new, continues to provide solutions to all your needs. With many of the platform updates becoming more predictive and automated, SuccessFactors HCM Employee Central brings Intelligent Services to the table.

As we see more companies moving to an agile way of working, we often have our clients requesting how to adapt this approach for their SAP SuccessFactors system support.

In these challenging times when working remotely has become the new reality, virtual learning sessions are more relevant than ever. Organizations that conduct classroom trainings for their employees can leverage online meeting spaces to conduct instructor-led trainings.

SuccessFactors Compensation offers an easy and convenient style to compensation management which generates a more precise budget while creating the risk of information loss. We’ve learned from our countless implementations that preparation before the project starts is a key to success. Here are 5 steps for consideration that will help you prepare for your SAP SuccessFactors Compensation implementation.

As your company is moving from SAP HCM (or any other HR system) to SAP SuccessFactors your administrators will require a different skillset and approach. As an SAP SuccessFactors partner we are all experienced in providing support for your solutions, however your internal workforce should include a well-developed SuccessFactors analyst and / or admin to internally meet your business expectations.

Human Resources, as a practice, is ever evolving and growing exponentially. As it becomes more intuitive, we seek to find a way to keep pace with its new direction. This is how SuccessFactors can help:

RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solution is an implementation methodology style geared towards clients who are looking to take advantage of an HRIS system, but do not feel they need all of the “bells and whistles” of a full-scale, custom configuration.

Major changes are coming to SuccessFactors, and if you’re a Whitaker-Taylor client or another company using the software, you should understand how these changes affect you. New upgrades will take place for the Succession Org Chart & Matrix Grids v12, MDF Talent Pools, and Talent Search v2. Previous versions were automatically updated in preview instances on May 31st and will be ready for full production instances on June 29th.