Conversation Matters

MAY 3, 2011

Knowledge workers in any organization have a wealth of insights that are available to their organization to address the difficult issues the organization is facing. Drawing out those insights requires bringing knowledge workers together in meetings that are expressly designed to take advantage of collective knowledge. Over the years, as I have designed such meetings, I have come to rely on seven principles that work together to make the most of collective knowledge in conference settings as well

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Working Girl

MAY 24, 2011

'Guest post by Pam Fox Rollin You plan to keep your best employees, right? You know it''s going to be tough as more companies return to hiring. But, hey, you do a decent job of creating a good place to work, and your people aren''t looking for jobs. Check that. Even if by some chance your employees aren''t looking, other companies are looking for them.

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Josh Bersin

MAY 18, 2011

This last few weeks has been a season of meetings with talent management software providers. As we work to complete our 2011 Talent Management Systems research (which should be published in June), I want to mention an important trend which seems to have radically changed this market: redefining the category itself. The independent markets for. Read more» The post Talent Management Software: The Category Takes Hold appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 20, 2011

Are your employees not as engaged as you'd like them to be? Perhaps the rewards you're offering leave much to be desired. Here's what you're doing wrong and how to fix it.

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David Zinger

MAY 24, 2011

What is your employee engagement story? The Key Idea: When we master our stories through increased mindful vigilance and intervention of our incredibly rapid and mindless story creation we navigate more effectively through work and other situations. Pay attention to your own stories and mindfully notice where they are taking you. One cent. A penny for your thoughts.

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Business Management Daily

MAY 24, 2011

Different employees crave different things from their managers. Here’s practical advice you can give the bosses in your organization. You’ll help them focus on the managerial qualities that matter most to employees—and forget about the window dressing workers don’t care about. The post 9 things employees want from their managers (and 5 things they don’t) appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Working Girl

MAY 21, 2011

'To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question. My project social partner Dave and I were discussing social media the other day and got on the topic of why we re-tweet (or don’t). You can read about how to get re-tweeted by Dave over at HR Official and chew the fat with Lyn about the synergies of Twitter and bacon over at The Bacon Hut. (Get it? Chew the fat?

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Josh Bersin

MAY 19, 2011

Today LinkedIn went public with a huge (somewhat controversial) valuation of 46 times 2011 earnings and and around 10-12X 2011 expected revenue. This makes the company worth around $4.3 billion. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 4, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, Will you please stop telling people to network in order to find jobs? I appreciate the need to keep in contact with former colleagues and to speak with people I meet at professional conferences. I know that I will some day want a new job and I hope my contacts will help me. But, I’m happily employed. In fact, the problem is I have a good job with a good company.

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David Zinger

MAY 18, 2011

Are you on the grid? Making change? Are you looking for a set of tools that can help you make change? Perhaps you want to improve specific elements of employee engagement. Can you differentiate what is needed to change behavior one time versus from now on? How well do you distinguish what is required to perform a new behavior versus decrease the intensity of an existing behavior?

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Strategic HCM

MAY 1, 2011

'I’ve posted previously about my intent to blog on each of the words Gary Hamel suggests distinguish the more people focused language and behaviour we need to encourage in our organisations (see this post on trust – including Hay’s Trust conference ). I had planned to start with some of the easier words such as equality, wisdom and justice, but there were a couple of things come up at HRevolution which made me think about love, so I’ve decided to start here.

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True Faith HR

MAY 19, 2011

'A running theme over the past few months has been Zombie HR. Ben Eubanks has written " 10 Reasons to Hire Zombies." Doug Shaw made his own contribution with " Zombie HR." Jay Kuhns wrote last week that " Service Zombies are not World Class." Today, Dwane Lay staked his claim with " The CDC and the Zombie Apocolypse." Coincidentally, the University of California-Santa Barbara has taken a new approach to the zombie discussion : About 800 students showed up to The Hub at 8 p.m. for the second annu

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Working Girl

MAY 29, 2011

'Dave, Lyn and I decided to carry on with the ‘social’ themes we’ve been tackling lately and discuss the different social mediums we are active in and how we use them. Dave already has his post up at HR Official and Lyn’s aiming for Monday over at the Bacon Hut. When it comes to social media, I pretty much stick to the basics: LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , blog.

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Josh Bersin

MAY 10, 2011

Today Stepstone Solutions, one of the largest providers of talent management software solutions, changed their company name to Lumesse. While everyone has their own opinions of naming and branding. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 27, 2011

What if you had unlimited paid vacation days? Would this be a good thing, or it would it just bring additional frustration, because who has time to take a day off work? What If You Had Unlimited Vacation?

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David Zinger

MAY 8, 2011

Boost Energy and Ignite Performance Review, Plus 40 minute webinar with the authors on May 16. A Review of Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization’s Energy and Ignite High Performance b y Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel. Organizational energy – the extent to which an organization, division, or team has mobilized its emotional, cognitive, and behavioural potential to pursue its goals…it is the force with which a company (or division or team) works.

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Strategic HCM

MAY 20, 2011

'I’ll also be presenting at this event on Thursday 23rd June organised by SAP: No-one knows better than HR professionals that it''s people, not organisations, that make business happen. HR is shifting from an employee management cost centre to a highly strategic business function. The question is, how can you equip yourself to handle the challenges and opportunities this transformation entails?

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Transparent Office

MAY 12, 2011

When I talk with CIOs these days, there's one question that comes up again and again: How does it all fit together? How does Social play with my Intranet? How does Social play with my document management system? How does Social play with my ERP system? How do Social profiles play with our HR directory? How does Social play with my CRM system? CIOs are asking these questions at level of both technical integration and user experience.

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Working Girl

MAY 11, 2011

'My project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chatting last week about HRevolution , which sounds like it was a great event. I was jealous but my newborn has very self-centered ideas about my travel availability. Anyway, there seem to be a LOT of HR conferences to choose from these days and some folks seem to attend quite a few of them. So Dave was wondering why and how they do it, which he’s written about over at HR Officia l, and I was wondering who benefits and where you draw the line.

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Josh Bersin

MAY 25, 2011

I&# m very excited to announce that starting in a few weeks our analysts will be going on a roadshow around the country to present our latest research and best-practices on social and informal. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 31, 2011

What is the most important relationship at the office? It just might be with your peers. Here are 6 ways to manage these sideways relationships and get ahead doing it.

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David Zinger

MAY 17, 2011

How do we lead for employee engagement? My colleague, Jean-Francois Hivon from Shared Visions wrote the following distillation of 5 myths of leadership presented by Margaret Wheatley at the Saskatchewan Leadership Conference 2011. Dr. Margaret Wheatley gave an inspiring and energizing keynote to open the University of Saskatchewan Leadership Conference.

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Strategic HCM

MAY 30, 2011

'I’m one of three UK bloggers (with Bill Boorman and Peter Gold ) invited to participate in a ‘blogathon’ supporting what was Stepstone’s recent rebranding. We’ve been asked to write blog posts and other things based upon content supplied by them and interviews with their people etc - and the blogger with the most points from the following activity wins an ipad 2: Own Blog post (4 points) Guest blog post (4 points) Tweets using hashtag (2 points) Retweets (3 points) YouTube video interview ( 5 p

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True Faith HR

MAY 2, 2011

'As mentioned, Laurie Ruettimann and I presented on "Pop Culture, Politics, and HR" this past weekend at HREvolution. I imagine that the presentation would have been vastly different if the Obama news came out Friday night instead of Sunday night (in fact, Laurie''s blog this morning would have most likely been a centerpoint of the discussion). In any case, given that there were so many good sessions competing with our own, here are the questions we were prepared to ask the audience in our sessi

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Working Girl

MAY 23, 2011

'Anyone who reads this blog knows I care about corporate sustainability. If this is a topic that also interests you, or you''ve been asked to look into sustainability reporting at your own company, here are a few resources: Elaine Cohen''s CSR for HR blog. The corporate sustainability posts here at Working Girl. Workday''s 2011 Corporate Sustainability Report Join the discussion at Focus.com about how companies are adopting green initiatives.

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Josh Bersin

MAY 18, 2011

This last few weeks has been a season of meetings with talent management software providers. As we work to complete our 2011 Talent Management Systems research (which should be published in June), I. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 16, 2011

My BNET Colleague, Penelope Trunk recently wrote a column titled Why Women Should Lie Even More Than They Do, in which she advised women to lie about everything from their height to their salary. She argues that lying just makes everything “fair.” It may have been a little too long since Ms. Trunk worked in a normal office job, where you need coworkers to trust you, where HR departments run background checks and where people actually interview you in person.

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David Zinger

MAY 7, 2011

Finance acumen. making numbers work for all. no cutting in line.

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