Many organizations use assessments in hiring and career development. If used properly, they can bring tremendous value. There are legal considerations regarding the use of assessments. Today’s post is not going to focus on the legal aspects of assessments. Rather, I received a reader question about “sharing with an employee the results of a personality test.” It’s a logical question. MORE

View manufacturing as an opportunity to deliver quality products that are cost competitive and offer unique customer value with this Blueprint for Success: Manufacturing report. Learn how to achieve best-practice performance levels in manufacturing with the help of this report, which includes: read more. Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Reports and Books 4.0 Schedule production 4.3.2 MORE

A little over a week ago, I lost a dear SHRM HR friend and peer, Sharon Connell-Rick from North Dakota. It is tragic because Sharon was a victim of domestic violence. I don’t pretend to understand this in any logical way whatsoever. It hurts to know that a friend is gone and that a family is going to face incredible challenges going forward. You may not want that to happen !! Period. Stop it. MORE

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Should I tell my boss I’m leaving because of his remarks about my race? I’ve been at a startup (no HR department) for under a year in a senior admin role and while I love the company’s mission, the CEO/founder seems to have a thing about my race. He’s white, I’m black. Sometime around the 2-month mark, I noticed that a week wouldn’t go by when he wouldn’t reference my race or point out that I’m black. Sometimes it’s complimentary. Two weeks ago now, I broke my foot. Ignore it. MORE

View manufacturing as an opportunity to deliver quality products that are cost competitive and offer unique customer value with this Blueprint for Success: Manufacturing report. Learn how to achieve best-practice performance levels in manufacturing with the help of this report, which includes: read more. Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Reports and Books 4.0 Schedule production 4.3.2 MORE

What if you committed to goodwill? Friday, bereft of sleep – having been on the road for a while changing time zones twice – and running on reserves (which I do not recommend) I had to make it through a … Continue reading → Leadership Reflection goodwill interaction people reflection work MORE

In a few months, I’ll be celebrating six years with Workday. When I stop to think about that, what strikes me most is how much change has occurred in those years—not just at Workday, but to all of us. Think about how our everyday lives have changed. We carry smartphones loaded with every lifestyle application imaginable. We have the option to work from anywhere, because our work is in the cloud. We order our entertainment on demand and manage our travel entirely online. More and more of us drive hybrid vehicles. Payphones, paper maps, and video stores are practically ancient history. MORE

The legacy software industry does not have a good reputation for customer satisfaction. So when we started from scratch with Workday, it wasn’t just to build better enterprise applications, it was to create a better customer experience. As a cloud-based software provider, an exceptional customer experience is imperative to our long-term success. Cloud vendors sell software as short-term subscriptions. So if customers aren’t satisfied, they’ll take their business elsewhere. As Workday has grown into a global company, we’ve worked hard to maintain our passion for high customer satisfaction. MORE

There’s an important concept here at Workday that impacts our entire community called the Power of One. If you’ve spent time with Workday or attended Workday Rising, you know this is a concept we speak of often. Why are we so passionate about the Power of One?  We thought we’d take a moment to define it and why it’s at the heart of everything we do. At Workday, we have one version of software, one customer community, and one codeline. Together, these things empower us all in ways that weren’t possible in the legacy software industry. This approach doesn’t empower a community, it drains it. MORE

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." - Steve Jobs. “A dream is not something that only comes to you when you sleep; instead it is something that does not let you sleep” and I have been re-living every minute of the saying. Remember time is such a gift. MORE