But the professional approach would be to conduct a periodic gap analysis, you know, for the HR department to conduct a gap analysis on itself, as a performance management measure that would yield the sort of credible quantifiable and qualitative information we can reference when reporting on the status of our department.
A gap analysis is an examination of your current performance for the purpose of identifying the differences between your current state of business and where you’d like to be. Basically it boils down to three questions – where are we now; where do we wish we were, and, how do we close the gap?