Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Dear Evil HR Lady, I am 48 years old with an MBA in business management from a non-traditional university. In my younger years, I would skip around from job to job as boredom would quickly overtake the excitement of a new career path. Today, I find myself unemployed after being part of a department-wide downsizing a year and a half ago. For the past year and a half, I have been self-employed and have worked to build name recognition, but now I want to go back to being an employee.

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Josh Bersin

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

One of the privileges I have in my role is the opportunity to meet some of the great world leaders in corporate learning and development. In the interest of helping our industry understand the. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Enterprise Learning Learning 2.0 career development chief change officer chief culture office chief performance officer chief talent officer cio clo high impact learning culture qualcomm southe

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Conversation Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Like many organizations, the US Army holds a Knowledge Management Conference each year. And like most conferences there are three kinds of activities, 1) keynote speakers, 2) practitioners telling about their KM successes, and 3) long breaks for people to network. The speaker format is also typical - three or four speakers in a row with a few minutes of Q & A at the end of each speaker’s time and then on to the next speaker.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

I'm sorry to say that I've been spending a lot of time lately with staff working in organizations that aren't that into professional development. Because of time and financial constraints, training is not a priority and there is little attention paid to ensuring that staff have the skills and knowledge to perform their jobs. The best these people can hope for from their employers is that they will be allowed to sit in on a webinar or attend a 1-day training session once a year.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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Working Girl

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

'As we go into the holiday season, consider talking turkey with your employees. If you''re a typical manager I''m guessing you don''t do this too much. Other stuff gets in the way. You have your agenda and work schedule and meetings. Your employees seem reasonably happy and productive. You probably assume things are fine. And maybe they are. But extrapolating from recent studies about employee engagement, they probably aren''t.

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Josh Bersin

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Our soon to be published TalentWatch® research for Q4 2010 shows a tremendous growth in hiring going on: in mid 2010 32% of organizations cited talent shortages as critical to growth; this month. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Sourcing and Recruiting employer job seeker recovery unemployment.

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Workday

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

'I’ve obviously been to many customer conferences, and still, year after year, the Workday Rising conference amazes me with the positive mood that prevails when our customers, partners, employees, and even some prospective customers gather together.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Peter Bromberg over at ALA Learning is asking about how you create a culture of curiosity , something that's been on my mind of late. He points out that curiosity is the. only known antidote to the single biggest block to learning: the idea that we already have the answer (and it’s 1 st cousin, “I don’t care about the answer”.) Being in a state of curiosity means looking out at the world, collecting data, observing human behaviors and interactions, and asking “why?

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Are You Mything Out on Employee Engagement? Employee engagement has been capturing the attention of organizations because of the potential benefits ranging from better financial results to employee well-being. Here are 5 myths or mistakes that many organizations make with their employee engagement work. Engagement measures must be anonymous. Engagement requires a name and a face not an anonymous survey.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

'There have been some fairly consistent views about social recruiting expressed this morning at Alan Whitford and Vic Okezie’s social recruiting conference… Views which I think contrast to the way many if not most organisations looking at social recruiting are trying to do it, and to those expressed in a few different articles recently, eg this one from John Sumser.

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True Faith HR

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

'These have not been the best of times for SHRM. Departures from the C-Suite. Blogger peanut gallery. Rival factions. SHRM is so under siege, I half expect Steven Seagal to be elected next CEO. Yet, the highlight of the SHRM year (at least that is what they have said at each of the previous 10 opening sessions) is the descent of the SHRM volunteer army attending the SHRM Leadership Conference.

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Working Girl

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

'My Project Social partner Dave Ryan and I were talking about what topic we wanted to tackle next and decided on the role of HR during good and bad times - Dave''s post can be found here over at HR Official. An old friend of mine came over for coffee on Sunday. She currently works as a recruiter but worked for years in HR at both big and small companies.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Few Parallels Between Sports, Life and Leadership Last few months, I have been playing Table Tennis regularly. From a complete novice to a reasonably comfortable player has been a wonderful road so far. With each game, I am getting more confident because I learn some new tricks, understand the nuances and find better ways to handle different situations.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A Facebook friend shared an excellent link today to an article in The Economist on a new study about the most effective ways to serve the homeless: Broadway tried a brave and novel approach: giving each homeless person hundreds of pounds to be spent as they wished. According to a new report on the project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a think-tank, it worked—a success that might offer broader lessons for public-service reform and efficiency.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Changes to the model for 2011. The Zinger Model of Employee Engagement has been revised for 2011. The biggest change is a move to more simplicity with each element having just 2 words while the core of CARE is one word for each letter of CARE. The revision makes the model easier to view and more visually appealing. Other changes include: Change element to: esteem organization.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

'The last presentation today (just before a Bill Boorman panel) is with Colin Minto , Global Head of Resourcing at G4S. I’ve been following the progress of G4S’ new system since meeting Colin at a Connecting HR tweet-up earlier this year. And the system’s now been live for one week and one day. For G4S, social recruiting is an aspect of their direct resourcing strategy which supports their EVP / employer brand (on the slide).

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Your company has not been nice ever since the economy started to go south. In fact, their general attitude is that you should just suck it up because at least you have a job. Here are 5 things you can do to make it more tolerable.

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Working Girl

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

'My youngest daughter had her fifth birthday a couple of weeks ago. We celebrated at the local pony club, where she and several friends from Kindergarten rode miniature ponies around in a circle for about an hour, followed by pizza and cake. A former equestrian myself, I was proud to note my older daughter’s straight back and general competence on a horse.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons When a project is executed, a plan is established. Work is broken down into smaller pieces and a neat schedule is created. Team members ( often referred to as “resources”, unfortunately ) are assigned, milestones are created and the schedule is circulated to all concerned.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Last night I had dinner with my husband, my two daughters, my ex-husband, his wife and their 5 month old baby girl. We ate Chinese in the house my ex and I bought together 10 years ago, gathered around the dining table his new wife brought to the house when they married. My daughters sat at one end passing their baby sister back and forth between them, while the four parents sat at the other, watching what we've created together in the past 7 years.

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Increase Employee Engagement by 20%. Last Thursday we began the 20% campaign on the employee engagement network. The goal is to increase employee engagement 20% by the year 2020. This is our 20/20 vision for work and the near future. What have you done to take steps to increase employee engagement today? This could be for yourself, a person who reports to you, a person you report to, the organization, etc.

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

'I’ve got an article on HR 2.0 in the current edition (volume 9 number 6) of Strategic HR Review. I suggest that HR practitioners wanting to gain benefits from social media need to: Develop a vision of the future Take their first steps towards the vision Provide governance and training Sponsor HR 2.0 themselves Monitor and improve. There are good examples of organisations following this sort of approach in the journal – although it’s a shame that some of them are rather similar to each other eg

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

So, I've written about workplace bullies before. ( My HR Department Bullies Employees , Workplace Bullies , and Bully Boss.) But, nothing, and I mean nothing compares to this This American Life episode: Petty Tyrant. Here's their description: In Schenectady, NY, a school maintenance man named Steve Raucci works his way up the ranks for 30 years, until finally he's in charge of the maintenance department.

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Transparent Office

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Usually I use this space to advocate use of social software "in the flow" of work. I write a lot about business processes, workflows, incentives, and IT integration. Today I want to talk about something completely different. Yesterday, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals leader Hospira created a Veterans Day Blog on their internal Socialtext implementation.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Improvement, Change and Strength of Belief In Outcomes We all find it difficult to stick to our new year resolutions beyond a few months. A lot of people wish to focus on their health and start exercising. Many people I know want to quit smoking. We have a lot of “wishes” on improvement, but we often fail to take some real actions.

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Reviewsnap

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Now versus Hope. I have no hope for employee engagement. Hope is an emotional trap that gets us focused on the future. We need less hope and more gumption and robust engagement with work. Let the future take care of itself by engaging in the task in front of you right now, connecting strongly with others at work, and strengthening your connections to results and your organization.

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