Human Resources Management Project
Increasing the quality of human resources management in DD
DD has undergone major changes over the past three years, mainly due to the pandemic – a change in the main source of income, changes in almost all administrative systems (financial management, accounting, office, IT, communication), formation of staff with a completely new profile, etc. Today, we have reached a new situation where an increase in the volume and impact of activities is expected, but in order to realize this, there must be a leap in development in the management of people (HR).
Managing, developing, and creating development opportunities simultaneously for volunteers and employees with a new profile is a complex challenge that we are undertaking in this project in cooperation with a development expert and external trainers. To do this, we will conduct an internal development program for our team leaders as well as develop new HR management systems to improve our processes.
The size of the grant is 24 847€
What we plan to do?
The goal of the project is to reach a higher level of human resources management in order to operate more professionally, effectively and on a larger scale. To achieve this, we are going to develop both our leaders and our systems.
Our leaders
We create a development program for our current and future leaders where we advance basic management skills and learn coaching under the supervision of Signe Vesso. This allows us to better manage our people and guide their development.
Our systems
In order not to forget the acquired knowledge and skills, we develop a coaching system and a manual for the annual development program for our team leaders. In addition, we establish an improved strategy for recruiting employees.
WHAT WE DID IN THE PROJECT:
TRAININGS FOR LEADERS
Signe Vesso trained our current and future leaders on coaching topics and Estel Pukk on leadership skills. The acquired skills were practiced indipendently and applied to the development of our HR management systems.
WORKSHOPS TO DEVELOP SYSTEMS
A total of 4 major workshops were held, during which we developed, gave feedback and further developed various HR management systems. Signe Vesso, our project development expert, supported us in creating the coaching system.
INTERNAL COACHING SYSTEM AND GUIDELINES
We created an internal coaching system, including detailed instructions for implementation, supporting worksheets, and a toolbox of coaching methods.
DD EMPLOYEE COMPETENCY MODEL
To support the development opportunities of our people, we created a competency model that describes the competencies needed to fulfill the role of DD employee - social change consultant.
RECRUITMENT SYSTEM
During the project, we also developed a new employee recruitment system (including communication plan and evaluation criteria), which allows us to find capable people with sufficient previous experience who match the new employee profile.
MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
We prepared several materials to support managing people (e.g. work organization agreements, project management guide), we thought through our leadership development principles, and we adopted Monday project management software to better organize the daily work of our employees.
Contact:
Triin Mirjam Tark
Project manager
triin (at) domusdorpatensis.org
Triin is the head of Human Resources in DD and the manager of this project.
