Working Girl

OCTOBER 28, 2008

'In my role as an HCM strategist for a business software company I’ve been thinking about talent management and have identified what I think of as five popular ‘myths’ about talent management – there are probably more but these are my favorite five: Myth 1: Talent Management and Core HR are separate functions – this seems to be the de facto position of leading talent management solutions, but effective talent management requires consolidated access to employee, staffing and business data.

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Nobscot

OCTOBER 21, 2008

'When I hire new employees I look for people who are excited about the opportunity and not just in it for the money. This has served me pretty well throughout my years as a business professional, entrepreneur, recruiter, and HR Staffing Manager.

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Transparent Office

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Do you feel like wearing a costume? by D avid Zinger. Halloween is fast approaching. The world economic situation is turbulent to say the least. As a manager do you see this as a trick? Do you see it as a treat? Or do you add an h to treat and get t-h-reat! I am interested in the impact of this turbulence on your and your managing: Has your work changed?

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Josh Bersin

OCTOBER 26, 2008

In the last year many of our research members and clients have come to us for help in restructuring their HR or Learning & Development organizations. There have been three major forces at play here. 1. Reducing costs: In nearly every industry organizations are going through restructuring, mergers, or other cost-cutting efforts. The HR department.

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Knowledge Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Through a tortured path, I came to July 2008 Gartner analysis of future trends, specifically on the future of work and "Generation Virtual." Gartner Says Enterprises Must Create Separate Marketing Strategies for Generation Virtual. Gartner has identified four levels of engagement within Generation V, addressing both the extent to which customers will engage with other customers, as well as the level of engagement needed from businesses to enable the community.

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Evil HR Lady

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I had asked one of our HR ladies via e-mail 3 different times to supply me with the tuition reimbursement policy our company has. After waiting over 6 months I went to our companies intranet site and searched "tuition reimbursement". I found the policy and sent her the link since she obliviously didn't know where to find it. A few minutes after finding it I received an e-mail from our evil HR.

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Reviewsnap

OCTOBER 20, 2008

'The title of this article sounds cold and impersonal. But it''s not meant to be. You and your people are the number one key to the success, or failure, of your business or work unit. Taking inventory of your employees simply means taking stock of the quality of your people in order assess: 1) how well you have been hiring, 2) how well you have been training them, 3) how well they are being managed and 4) how healthy your company is likely to be.

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Transparent Office

OCTOBER 21, 2008

What non-blog business site is in your sight? by D avid Zinger. I spend most of my time reading management/leadership blogs. There are a few management or business sites that are not strictly blogs that I also follow. Do you have a favorite non-blog site you visit for management or business information? Here are a few of mine: BNET - The Go To Place for Business.

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Josh Bersin

OCTOBER 26, 2008

In the last year many of our research members and clients have come to us for help in restructuring their HR or Learning & Development organizations. There have been three major forces at play. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: clorox restructuring HR cpg Talent Management organization and governance Performance Management HR Systems Enterprise Learning altria.

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Nobscot

OCTOBER 16, 2008

'Employee Retention is not just a North American challenge. In some global markets, the rate of employee turnover is reaching close to unsustainable levels. According to an article in MIT Sloan Management Review Fall 2008, some companies in India are experiencing turnover rates of young professionals of up to 50% per year. Can you imagine 100% turnover every 24 months?

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The Bamboo Project Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Linkedin View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: linkedin kawasaki ) It must be LinkedIn day, because in addition to this great presentation I found from Guy Kawasaki, I also see that LinkedIn has launched a suite of Applications that you can add to your profile, including apps for: Your Amazon Reading List. Slideshare. Linking your Wordpress or Typepad posts to your profile.

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Evil HR Lady

OCTOBER 28, 2008

I am interviewing for an HR/Information Assistant position this Thursday (October 30). I really really want to get this position, as I am very interested in working for Human Resources. However, I do not have any prior experience in HR, and have heard that it is difficult to get into the department without prior experience. Is there any advice you could provide for someone like me, who really wants to prove to the employer that I am serious about this job, and that I am the perfect candidate?

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Knowledge Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2008

If you are interested in corporate uptake of the services that let people connect with one another to share experience, knowledge and ideas, it might be smart to come up with another term than "social networking." Why? How about this for a knee-jerk quote (more-or-less direct): "Social networking is big in the world and huge with the 20 somethings (or my teenagers), but I am not sure of the utility [at SuperMegaGlobalCorp].".

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Transparent Office

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Last year, I talked about how you could save $100,000 by getting a Personal MBA. I still feel you can get nearly as much info by reading books as you can from B-school. One person completely agrees with me, and has stepped up BIG to the challenge. Olivier Roland let me know about this massive goal in a comment on my Personal MBA post: “To read 52 books of the PMBA list in 52 weeks, and write a an article per week on my blog.” .

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Josh Bersin

OCTOBER 2, 2008

This week we introduced some important and groundbreaking research on a new, important category of enterprise software: the market for corporate Social Software platforms. Traditionally our research has focused on identifying the strategies, processes, and systems which help corporate HR and L&D drive effectiveness and business value. But as we continued to study the.

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Reviewsnap

OCTOBER 16, 2008

'Let''s suppose you''re hiring for a key mid-level management position. You''ve gone through an extensive search and interview process and you are ready to extend an offer to one of the candidates. Before extending the offer, three references are checked. One reference gives a glowing recommendation, the second gives a positive, but more subdued thumbs up and the third provides a somewhat useless report simply confirming hire and termination dates along with position held.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2008

I’m just back from a long week of training and Wii bowling with Christine Martell , which explains my unanticipated blogging break. I had intended to write, I swear, but somehow time changes and cross-country travel got in my way. And yes, the afore-mentioned Wii bowling didn’t help either. One of my stops was to Portland, where I did a day-long session on blogging, podcasting and screencasting with about 25 members of ASTD Cascadia.

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Every company aspires to be the best, and performance reviews are the cornerstone of that journey. However, discrepancies in how managers rate their teams can lead to unfairness.

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Evil HR Lady

OCTOBER 28, 2008

I am interviewing for an HR/Information Assistant position this Thursday (October 30). I really really want to get this position, as I am very interested in working for Human Resources. However, I do not have any prior experience in HR, and have heard that it is difficult to get into the department without prior experience. Is there any advice you could provide for someone like me, who really wants to prove to the employer that I am serious about this job, and that I am the perfect candidate?

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Knowledge Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Paul Young of Product Beautiful has a useful piece on The Next Frontier of Finding Prospects. Everyone is online today, everyone who matters anyway. There are Billions of people online, and you must find a few needles in a very large haystack. Thankfully, the tools you need are just a few clicks away. We've been hearing so much about job hunting and friend finding online that this advice seems almost too obvious.

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Transparent Office

OCTOBER 19, 2008

One lucky Slacker Manager reader will win my ticket to Seth Godin’s Tribes book launch. I got it because I bought 3 copies of Tribes from 800 CEO Read. You could buy 3 copies like me (click on 3 copies of Tribes ), or you win my free ticket, because I can’t make it to New York. Here’s the rules: 1) You must be able to be in New York City on October 22nd at 9:12 AM. 2) You must use a valid e-mail address. 3) You must leave a comment telling me why you read Slacker Manager (and if you’ll b

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Workday

OCTOBER 2, 2008

'Benefits administration is a headache for HR people, balancing the needs of the employee for great coverage with the needs of the organization to maintain a reasonable cost profile. To make things simpler, organizations often integrate the benefits provider’s online capabilities with their HRMS, eliminating some of the pain associated with keeping employee records accurate.

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Reviewsnap

OCTOBER 8, 2008

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The Bamboo Project Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Blogs and educating the eflective practitioner. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: elearning professional ). Over at Work Literacy this week, we hosted a great webinar on using blogs for reflective practice. It was run by Paul Lowe , who is a senior lecturer and course director at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

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Evil HR Lady

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I had asked one of our HR ladies via e-mail 3 different times to supply me with the tuition reimbursement policy our company has. After waiting over 6 months I went to our companies intranet site and searched "tuition reimbursement". I found the policy and sent her the link since she obliviously didn't know where to find it. A few minutes after finding it I received an e-mail from our evil HR.

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Knowledge Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Beth Kanter has an amusing quiz for to test your your personal information overload. How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz. So, here's what I'd like you to do - look at the questions and see if they make sense for social media and information overload and suggest changes. I'm trying to look at social productivity here as well - there's a fine line there.

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Transparent Office

OCTOBER 17, 2008

I’m always looking for ways to make better decisions. As an IT manager, I get to make a LOT of decisions every day. Some big ones, some little ones, but lots of decisions. So when I read the latest ChangeThis manifesto listings, the Persian’s guide to decision making caught my attention. “…businesses should also take advantage of other means of introducing constructive contention into their decision-making, because disagreement, managed correctly, turns out to be crucial

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Nobscot

OCTOBER 20, 2008

'Bob Warfield over at the Smoothspan blog ponders how Start-Up companies, which should be running lean and mean, are able to cut 10% or more of their staff as they are being asked to do by their Venture Capital investors. He suggests that in a start-up environment, you should never have a single employee that is not indispensable to your success. I agree.

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Reviewsnap

OCTOBER 7, 2008

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