The HR models pocketbook

Find a useful model for the problem in front of you.

I wanted an HR pocketbook on my phone. Something that could point me towards useful models in a minute. Start with what is happening, not the name of a framework.

Start from the symptom

Pick what is actually happening. The name of the model is rarely the thing you remember. Wrong-model errors beat no-model errors.

Triage the request first

Skill or will? Most training requests are expectations, feedback, or incentive problems.

It really is a capability gap

Design it as development, not an event, and decide measurement before you build.

Why this exists

The reference I wanted on my own phone

I wanted an HR pocketbook. Something on my phone that could tell me, in a minute, which models might help me frame the problem in front of me.

When someone says a change has stalled, a team is underperforming, or they want training, you usually answer from experience. Sometimes that is enough. Sometimes you need another lens.

Everything I found was organized by the model’s name. That was not how I searched. I remembered fragments: the shape of an idea, a question it asked, or a situation where it might help.

So I built this library from the HR books, case studies and frameworks I had collected over the years. It began as a PowerPoint I kept for myself. Lovable allowed me to turn it into the phone reference I had wanted without first having to become a software developer.

Every established model credits its originator. Every card says when to use it and where it breaks. I often use several models together, with room for evidence, context and personal judgment.

Harsimran Kaur Kapoor, CPHR, MBA

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