Conversation Matters

JUNE 25, 2012

I recently conducted a study of eleven non-profits to find out how knowledge management (KM) was being implemented in developing countries. In this article I have 1) outlined the findings from that study, and 2) developed a knowledge management strategy based on the findings. Many of the Aid Organizations interviewed provided some form of healthcare aid (reducing mother and child mortality, AIDS/HIV) however several provided aid in a different area such as micro financing, agriculture, or enviro

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ExactHire

JUNE 8, 2012

Around here, we sometimes call the unique job specific screening questions available in our applicant tracking software portal the “deal-breaker” questions. You may attach these questions to individual job postings in order to gather more objective information about applicants up front. In turn, the Screening Questions Reports allow you to quickly compare applicants’ answers to one another and change status codes on the fly.

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Josh Bersin

JUNE 23, 2012

Am I a girl? I love Pinterest. Whenever a new website enters the market I try to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out Twitter, and I still don’t like Facebook (I dont like sharing. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

JUNE 6, 2012

look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for mission. Move sideways, move down, move on, move off. Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they're going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don't plan too much, and don't expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career. -- Sheryl Sandberg.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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HR Software

NoExcusesHR

JUNE 29, 2012

'It''s been a tough week. I know e veryone goes through tough weeks too, and I''m certainly not special. In fact, I think I''m quite ordinary. But this week was very different in my routine, ordinary world. One week ago today a sixteen year old boy died in a tragic car accident. But his death hit far closer to home than the ones we see on the evening news and so quickly dismiss.

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David Zinger

JUNE 5, 2012

Drop the surveys and open your ears for employee engagement (Part 1). . 25 years in counselling psychology. For 25 years of my life I taught counselling psychology at the University of Manitoba. Engaged listening is a foundation for counselling and I also believe it is a foundation for management and leadership as work has become increasingly social in nature and method.

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ExactHire

JUNE 22, 2012

For those of you who read my first Unique Job Specific Screening Questions blog, then you know that many of the deal-breaker and essay questions sampled in this piece are especially common to high-volume positions for which one may recruit frequently. But what about your organization’s leadership roles? While you may not be creating these types of job listings in your applicant tracking software very often, it is still critical to identify the make-it-or-break-it questions for these high-l

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TheHRBlog

JUNE 25, 2012

Using the STAR method is one of the most effective ways of getting your message across to potential employers whether in your resume or at interview. Applied correctly the STAR method can significantly improve your job search. It works! The STAR acronym stands for: Situation Task Action Result Following the STAR technique enables you to […].

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The Bamboo Project Blog

JUNE 26, 2012

One of the hardest questions for me to answer is "what do you do for a living?" Unlike most people I know, I don't have one, simple bite-sized nugget to describe what I do. Depending on who you are, I might tell you that I do one or more of the following: . Help people work through career transitions and develop their career/professional development plans. .

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 28, 2012

'In his classic book 1984 George Orwell imagined a world that monitored every facet of society. Nothing went unnoticed.and everything was fixed appropriately. I loved the book, but shudder at the thought of a real Big Brother staring down at my every move. Who would ever advocate for someone reviewing every one of my mistakes and making corrections?

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Achievers

JUNE 29, 2012

What’s your favorite aspect of employment at your organization? Is it the corporate culture, perks and benefits, or just the overall mission statement that fuels your fire to succeed? Furthermore, what gets your coworkers excited about coming to work each day? Most employees have different opinions about why their workplace is great; yet, they are unaware of how their opinion compares to others at the organization.

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David Zinger

JUNE 14, 2012

10 Tidbits – Kevin Bishop – Anecdote – Employee Engagement – Boston Story Course. David Zinger picture of swans at Boston Commons (June 2012). Stories are engaging. Stories create a fabric and foundation for our organization. Stories powerfully communicate what is going on in employee engagement in our organization. Kevin Bishop from Anecdote in Australia conducted a one day workshop on story and leadership in Boston this June.

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Josh Bersin

JUNE 13, 2012

I’m excited to announce that this week we launched our Employee Recognition research, a program we started early last year. As I’m sure you know, organizations around the world are. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Reviewsnap

JUNE 12, 2012

'“And I Should Give You My Feedback Why, Exactly?” OK, OK. We know you get it. You’ve heard it from speakers on the talent management circuit long enough. You’ve read it in enough academic blog posts and best-practice-type white papers. You know by now that the most effective performance review systems include assessments of managers from their direct reports.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Earlier this week I referenced an excellent article by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen, Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Their first piece of advice was to ask more and different questions. Their second suggestion was to start looking at the real jobs that need to be done, not at the jobs you once did: . . when people become aware of a "job" that they need to get done, they search for a product or service to "hire" for getting the job done effectively.

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 20, 2012

'I get fired up about Human Resources work. Not because I''m supposed to.and not because it''s my job.but because it matters. Doing HR well can actually make a difference. We all see the obvious examples: great changes to a benefits program, maintaining merit increases when competitors have stopped giving raises, and creating more and more opportunities for employees to participate in decision-making across the organization.

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Achievers

JUNE 28, 2012

Hey A Advisor, I need your help improving my recruitment program. We only have a few positions to fill, and even though we’ve seen some great applications, we haven’t had much success in bringing those candidates into our organization. Our problem seems to be somewhere in the interview process: it can often take a week or so to have an application approved by our leadership team, and almost every time we become excited about a new candidate they’re no longer interested by the time we contact the

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Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

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David Zinger

JUNE 27, 2012

Think Different Inside the Hive. Engage the connection between social media and a living social beehive. Today between 9 and 10 CDT, I will be putting a computer live inside a beehive. The hive is located near Starbuck Manitoba and belongs to an extraordinary beekeeper, Phil Veldhuis. The computer screen will be turned on to a Twitter page set for #orgbee.

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Screening Employee Engagement Compliance Training 79

QAspire

JUNE 17, 2012

My last post emphasized on balancing processes and practices with emotion when leading projects. HR folks know this as “employee engagement”. In simplest terms, people have a choice to do a great job or a mediocre one. They exercise this choice based on the emotional connection with purpose of project/team/organization. Why all this buzz around [.

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TheHRBlog

JUNE 20, 2012

It’s hard to forgive. The hardest part is not knowing where to start. We know that we should forgive those who have hurt is. Not necessarily because they deserve to be forgiven but more for our benefit. Forgiveness leaves the past behind and allows us to move on once and for all. This post will […].

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The Bamboo Project Blog

JUNE 19, 2012

This morning I'm re-reading Steven Pressfield's Do the Work. It's become a go-to-book when I need to remind myself how to start creative projects and move through the massive resistance I face whenever I want to bring something to life. . Lately, I've been sifting through various options for where I want to go next, noticing that I've lost some of the passion that had fed what felt like awesome ideas only a few months ago.

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 8, 2012

'What are the core competencies for Human Resources? What are we expected to deliver to our organizations not only on a day-to-day basis, but strategically over time? Are we destined to be burdened with the transactional processing that is so inherent in onboarding and terminating staff? Do the benefits programs need to be administered as part of the HR department; or is an alternative vendor solution the most practical?

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Achievers

JUNE 27, 2012

Have you ever tried learning French from a Spanish teacher? It’s impossible, simply because people can’t teach you what they don’t know. Timothy Clark uses this analogy in his article, “ The 5 Ways That Highly Engaged Employees are Different” to illustrate that in order to build employee engagement, you need to analyze and understand the characteristics of highly engaged employees.

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David Zinger

JUNE 19, 2012

The Engaged Listener Equation. Introduction. Are you an engaged and engaging listener? Have you leveraged the power of listening to draw more engagement out of the people you work with? Here is a cogent formula to help you capitalize on the 3 main elements of engaged listening. The equation. Listen for content, emotion, and intention. This skill is based on your ability to hear what is being said and to find an engaging way to respond to what was said.

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QAspire

JUNE 10, 2012

A start-up or a fledgling organization relies on individual heroism of their people to successfully deliver projects. These team members are enthusiastic, engaged and willing to see the project succeed. They are emotionally connected to the purpose of project/organization. Emotion is the basis of how they operate. Then the organization starts growing.

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Josh Bersin

JUNE 23, 2012

'Am I a girl? I love Pinterest. Whenever a new website enters the market I try to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out Twitter, and I still don’t like Facebook (I dont like sharing. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Learning 2.

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Bersin with Deloitte

JUNE 22, 2012

I'm going to start a series of blogs on the topic of BigData in HR (aka Talent Analytics). In this installment I want to help you make some sense about what is going on. This is a preview of some of the topics I will be discussing on next week's webinar on BigData in HR (Tuesday […]. The post Making Sense of BigData in HR (aka Talent Analytics) appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 6, 2012

'What have, you, achieved.now you''re old? Did you fulfill, ambition. Do as you were told? Or are you still doing, the same this year? Should I give sorrow, or turn ''round and sneer? I know, that the prospects weren''t all that good. But they improved, and I''d have thought that you could.have strived for that something we all have deep inside. Not let it vanish, along with your pride.

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