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30 projects
30 Collective Decidement Projects for HR
A collection of focused projects for organizational diagnosis, employee experience and talent development. Each project addresses one HR question—from attracting and onboarding people to retention, capability development and long-term HR priorities.
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Recruitment and Talent Attraction
01Why do strong candidates choose not to join us?
Project task: Contribute ideas on why strong candidates reject the organization or withdraw before reaching the interview stage.
Discuss this project →02What creates a strong candidate experience—and what undermines it?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the stages of recruitment that strengthen or weaken a candidate's trust in the organization.
Discuss this project →03At which stage do we lose the greatest number of valuable candidates?
Project task: Contribute ideas identifying the points at which candidates most frequently disengage or withdraw.
Discuss this project →04How can we make recruitment faster without compromising quality?
Project task: Contribute ideas on shortening the recruitment process while preserving sound judgment and accuracy.
Discuss this project →05Which selection criteria may now be too narrow or outdated?
Project task: Contribute ideas on criteria that may prevent the organization from recognizing suitable candidates.
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Onboarding and Early Integration
06What works well—and what does not—in our onboarding process?
Project task: Contribute ideas identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the process used to welcome and integrate new employees.
Discuss this project →07At which points do new employees most often feel lost?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the most confusing moments during the first weeks of employment and their causes.
Discuss this project →08What do new employees often fail to understand even though it should be clear?
Project task: Contribute ideas on topics, processes or rules that are not communicated clearly enough.
Discuss this project →09How can we help a new employee become effective more quickly?
Project task: Contribute ideas on shortening the path to confident, independent and high-quality work.
Discuss this project →10What most strengthens a new employee's sense of belonging?
Project task: Contribute ideas on actions and conditions that help a new employee feel welcomed, valued and needed.
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Motivation, Engagement and Employee Experience
11What strengthens motivation in the organization—and what weakens it?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the positive and negative factors that shape people's motivation.
Discuss this project →12Where do people lose the most energy at work?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the processes, habits or conditions that drain employees most.
Discuss this project →13What helps people experience meaning in their work—and what diminishes it?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that strengthen or weaken employees' sense of purpose.
Discuss this project →14Which work practices contribute most to burnout?
Project task: Contribute ideas on practices that progressively exhaust people and make their performance less sustainable.
Discuss this project →15How can we reduce unspoken dissatisfaction in the organization?
Project task: Contribute ideas on recognizing and addressing hidden tensions and dissatisfaction at an earlier stage.
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Interaction Between Managers and Employees
16What builds trust between managers and employees—and what erodes it?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the behaviors, decisions and practices that build or undermine trust.
Discuss this project →17When are employees most likely to withhold important information?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the conditions that discourage people from speaking openly about problems or risks.
Discuss this project →18How can we make feedback more useful and psychologically safe?
Project task: Contribute ideas on building a feedback culture in which messages are clear, constructive and easier to receive.
Discuss this project →19Which management behaviors help employees grow—and which hold them back?
Project task: Contribute ideas on leadership behaviors that encourage or constrain employee development and autonomy.
Discuss this project →20How can we close the gap between formal HR policy and employees' lived experience?
Project task: Contribute ideas identifying where official policies and everyday organizational practice diverge.
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Learning, Capabilities and Career Development
21Which capabilities will the organization lack most in the coming years?
Project task: Contribute ideas on capabilities that will be critical in the future and likely competency gaps.
Discuss this project →22What most constrains employee learning?
Project task: Contribute ideas on barriers that prevent people from quickly acquiring and applying new knowledge.
Discuss this project →23How can we make internal learning more relevant to practical work?
Project task: Contribute ideas on connecting learning more closely to real workplace challenges and outcomes.
Discuss this project →24How can we identify and develop internal talent more effectively?
Project task: Contribute ideas on recognizing potential earlier and creating the conditions for it to develop.
Discuss this project →25What most prevents employees from seeing a future career path within the organization?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the barriers that make people's opportunities for growth appear unclear.
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Retention, Culture and HR Strategy
26Why do valuable employees leave the organization too soon?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that lead valuable people to leave.
Discuss this project →27Which cultural signals suggest that the organization is becoming less attractive to employees?
Project task: Contribute ideas on early signals of cultural decline, fatigue or disengagement.
Discuss this project →28What most strengthens our reputation as an employer?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the factors that build the image of a trusted and desirable employer.
Discuss this project →29Which HR initiatives create the greatest value—and which are more procedural than effective?
Project task: Contribute ideas identifying HR activities that genuinely help people and the organization, as well as those that merely create the appearance of value.
Discuss this project →30Which HR priorities should the organization address next?
Project task: Contribute ideas on the HR areas that deserve the greatest attention in the near term.
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How many people take part?
The practical minimum for one problem area is eight participants with relevant knowledge. The method is most reliable with 15–20 or more people whose experience and expertise complement one another.
Which question should be addressed first?
In a short conversation, we can assess the situation, identify the right participant group, and determine how the project fits into a broader decidement sequence.