NoExcusesHR
OCTOBER 1, 2012
'Stay focused. Don''t lose sight of your goals. Distractions will only slow you down. Worry about your own business, not someone else''s. These are great little sayings.if you''re not a leader. A Broader View The world has become very specialized. Academic programs, computer programs, physical training programs, and on and on.all target very specific skills or areas of interest.
Insperity
OCTOBER 23, 2012
An org chart is more than just a 2-D snapshot of a company’s hierarchy. When properly used as a workforce planning tool, it allows you to make staffing decisions that spur growth, including those involved with succession planning. Here are some ways an org chart can help you put together a strong succession plan, so you can quickly curb any disruption to your business when key employees leave.
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David Zinger
OCTOBER 3, 2012
A personal quest to improve work and well-being through the principles of engagement and gamification. Buzz for the 2012 Experiment. I have been playing with engagement, gamification, work, and well-being this year. I still have 3 months to go but I thought I would let readers know about the success I have been experiencing by creating a low tech game to increase my work accomplishment and enhance my overall well-being.
The Bamboo Project Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2012
I first "met" Soha El Borno online when she was working at Wild Apricot as a Web Copywriter and blogger. She always posted great content and was an excellent resource for social media and nonprofit work. . When I put out a call for your career transition stories, she responded to me quickly by email, telling me she wanted to share hers. . As you'll see, she's like a lot of women who go through career transition when they start trying to juggle a desire to be home with their children with their p
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TheHRBlog
OCTOBER 25, 2012
“Human Resources.” When it comes to your career, those two words will ultimately influence whether you are hired or fired, have to relocate your family to move up or move out, and whether you receive a holiday bonus or that dreaded membership to the “Jelly of the Month Club” a la Clark Griswold. If there’s […].
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NoExcusesHR
OCTOBER 2, 2012
'I like to stay on top of things. My Inbox, task list, projects, new ideas, and the list goes on. Life just seems to go more smoothly for me if everything goes according to my plans and exactly on my schedule. Yes, that''s just how I like it. Then I wake up, realize my little dream is over, and go to work. In Control.Really? One of the painful lessons I''ve learned over the years. err, continue to learn.is that I simply can not control, manage, react to, and effectively address all of the issues
QAspire
OCTOBER 14, 2012
Photograph by Tanmay Vora. The best way to grow is to help others grow. In process of elevating others, you have to elevate yourself. However, you have to adopt a posture of generosity and abundance. In school, I heard a story of a farmer who was known for producing best crops and sharing his best seeds with other farmers in the vicinity. When asked why, he said, “It is a selfish act.
David Zinger
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Results: Strengthen the Pyramid of Employee Engagement One Block at a Time. I developed the 10 block pyramid of employee engagement model to demonstrate the keys to employee engagement. Here is a link to a 50 page booklet on the pyramid. After taking the strengths inventory Strengthscope from Strengths Partnership in the UK, I was determined to make a systematic application of my 7 significant strengths applied to each of the blocks of the pyramid.
Conversation Matters
OCTOBER 10, 2012
As Knowledge Management professionals our job is the help organizations leverage their knowledge. Our attention is focused on the knowledge worker and our major task is to devise ways for those knowledge workers to share the knowledge they have gained with their peers. In other blog posts I have suggested a second task KM professionals should be engaged in, that is, helping organizations address the complex issues they face - those that are not amenable to technical or improvement solutions.
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TheHRBlog
OCTOBER 18, 2012
HR is not just about liking people. HR isn’t the job for you if you’re not a ‘people person’, but liking people won’t be enough on its own. More precisely, you have to be interested in getting the absolute best out of people. It’s not just the softer ‘people skills’ that are important. You’ll have a strong interest in business and the […].
Strategic HCM
OCTOBER 10, 2012
' Today is going to be a busy blogging day as I''m at the Melcrum Summit for some inputs on internal communications from GE, Shell and a range of other companies (Rebecca Edwards from GE has just been talking about the ''lots of conversations'' they needed to have HR to open their internal communication site, [link] out to the public. I take it these were difficult conversations so not the greatest start to what I was hoping would be evidence of growing integration between HR and IC !).
NoExcusesHR
OCTOBER 11, 2012
'Next week I have the privilege of speaking at the Minnesota SHRM Conference. My friend Josh Rock and his organizing team have been kind enough to let a guy from Florida invade the ( almost ) frozen North. I''m going to be speaking about HR Transformation; specifically, how my organization went on a wild ride and made huge changes within our HR function over the last year, and what we now have to show for it.
QAspire
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Appreciation is a fuel that helps others move forward in direction of their goals, yet we often see that managers take others/their work for granted thinking, “So what if they’re doing it – they’re paid to do just that.” When organizations establish 1:1 link between outcomes with pay, they breed mediocrity because people will also reciprocate by doing minimum that is required to get that paycheck.
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David Zinger
OCTOBER 22, 2012
7 Significant Strengths. Strength application at work benefits both the organization and the individual. Strengths and performance. There is a very strong connection between the application of personal strengths and employee engagement. Gallup has demonstrated the relationship in many studies including a dramatic finding on engagement, strengths, and performance: If a manager did not talk with an employee about their performance there was a 40% chance that employee was disengaged.
Bersin with Deloitte
OCTOBER 28, 2012
I just finished a marathon travel-week which included a few days at Elliot Masie's Learning 2012 conference and several days at the HR Tech Europe show in Amsterdam… and some comments on "the power of personas." (Slightly long blog post, but filled with information I hope.) Masie Learning 2012 Conference: Energizing and Informative as Ever Elliot […].
TheHRBlog
OCTOBER 27, 2012
Some of you may have watched the iconic American Movie Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet .The Sinking of the Titanic provides invaluable lessons of leadership. “We have struck iceberg … sinking fast … come to our assistance.” On a cold evening in 1912 that message came blistering across the airwaves. Before they tapped the last bit of Morse code, those […].
True Faith HR
OCTOBER 24, 2012
'With the news today that hotel reservations are now being accepted for the 2012 SHRM Annual Conference, I bring you my 4th annual expose of SHRM hotel costs. I look at selected SHRM conference brochures (i.e., the ones that I still possessed) over the past 13 years to see what it would cost a person to book a single room on a per night average. Clearly, prices in 2001 will be different than in 2013, so I use an inflation calculator to adjust costs to today''s dollars.
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NoExcusesHR
OCTOBER 22, 2012
'One of the questions that comes up frequently when I’m discussing the power of social media and its direct application to modern HR practice is about voice. So many new users of social tools worry about how they will “sound” to those listening on the interwebs that they often don’t find the courage to jump in and start exploring how to use the various tools like twitter, LinkedIn and facebook (at least facebook in a professional context.
Strategic HCM
OCTOBER 6, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.
David Zinger
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Zinger Friday Factoid: Thinking? David Rock offered us something to think about: A study of 6,000 people conducted by the NeuroLeadership Group in collaboration with a large healthcare firm asked respondents questions about where, when, and how people did their best thinking. Only 10 percent said it happened at work. Commentary. You almost don’t want to think about this and if you are at work it looks like you probably are not thinking all that well.
Bersin with Deloitte
OCTOBER 13, 2012
This week LinkedIn announced the Talent Brand Index, an exciting and innovative new tool to help companies target and improve their talent acquisition programs. In this blog post I'd like to explain it in a little detail. Recruiting: Meet Marketing. Marketing: Meet Recruiting. Businesses spend more than $3,000 per hire on recruitment, and often 20 […].
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TheHRBlog
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Once a quarter or so, I find it valuable to step back and ask: How am I doing? Otherwise, you can end up consumed by work for years at a time and not be really happy, or not be really getting anywhere. So it’s helpful to take some time to step back and check in with […].
True Faith HR
OCTOBER 11, 2012
'Last Sunday, the fifth iteration of HRevolution took place in the West Wing of the McCormick Place with over 100 attendees and guests in place. Already, reviews have come in fast and furious - check out: Ben Eubanks: HRevolution 2012 - What Just Happened Bonnie Titgemeyer: No Nudie Pictures on LinkedIn & Other Tips from HRevolution Robin Schooling: Communal Collaboration Robin Schooling: The Pushback on the Push-Pull After attending all five events, speaking and presenting at the last three
NoExcusesHR
OCTOBER 25, 2012
'Over the years I''ve had the privilege of working with a lot of really smart people. Whether they were in formal or informal leadership roles, practiced clinically or worked in finance, information technology, marketing, and yes human resources, my industry is packed with really bright people. Over those same years I''ve seen many of those bright people struggle mightily and in some cases fail.
Strategic HCM
OCTOBER 10, 2012
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.
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David Zinger
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The leaves have fallen off the tree in my front yard for yet another year. Here is a 3 minute slide and voice recording on employee disengagement that was inspired by the falling leaves last autumn: Leaves of Employee Disengagement from David Zinger on Vimeo.
Bersin with Deloitte
OCTOBER 12, 2012
At HR Tech in Chicago, Josh headed a discussion on the use of mobile in the workplace – and it was standing room only, full of HR and IT professionals trying to really understand the impact on the “build it first on mobile” revolution. Vibrant discussion on which devices, the “BYOD” (bring your own device) […]. The post What a Difference a Year Makes: The Mobile 2.0 Revolution appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.
TheHRBlog
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Happiness–in your business life and your personal life–is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Aristotle said “Happiness depends upon ourselves” Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: 1. Blaming. People make mistakes. Employees don’t meet your expectations. Vendors don’t deliver on time.So you blame them for your problems.
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