Josh Bersin
JANUARY 21, 2009
It’s now official. After surveying our entire research membership and having more than 30 conversations with leading HR and learning leaders (including with Xerox, Accenture, British Telecom, Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 28, 2009
I've written before about some of my thoughts regarding the responsible use of social media and whether or not we can count on people do the right thing when it comes to blogs and Facebook and Twitter. In general I tend to believe that if you can't trust your employees to behave appropriately on a social network, then you probably shouldn't be trusting them to go to meetings, answer phones or have customer contact in any way.
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Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 27, 2009
I was recently laid off with 60% of my department. I got 3 months of severance pay by signing a General Release that basically said I won’t sue the company for any reason, and I can’t work there for 6 months. I’ve tried to find out why this “6-month rule” is part of the General Release. Two hiring managers want to hire me back, but are hitting the 6-month rule roadblock.
Transparent Office
JANUARY 6, 2009
Since I spoke last month at Social Media for Government , I've been having a lot of conversations with beltway folks. There's a ton of interest in social media in government. It all started back in 2006 when the intelligence community launched Intellipedia as a community-based forum for sharing vital information across intelligence agencies. I started getting involved with government uses of social media when I joined Socialtext in the fall of 2007.
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Nobscot
JANUARY 30, 2009
'I''ve been having great fun over the last couple years following the hottest recruiting oriented blogs and more recently connecting with recruiters in the Twitterverse. (You can follow me on Twitter: here.) It''s been excited watching all the changes in methodologies since my recruiting days back in the 80s and 90s.
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Josh Bersin
JANUARY 9, 2009
This week Barack Obama appointed a Chief Performance Officer for the Federal Government, focused on assessing the performance of government programs and finding opportunities to reduce waste and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: lean Leadership Development Lowes chief talent officer starbucks people performance model people model chief performance officer Talent Management Performance Management six-sigma Enterpri
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 12, 2009
I'm currently reading Lewis Hyde's wonderful book, The Gift: Creativity and the Ar tist in the Modern World. In it, he explores the nature of the "gift economy" vs. the market economy and how creative types are caught in between these two fundamentally different ways of operating in the world. One of the issues Hyde discusses is the difference between labor and work.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 27, 2009
My mother sent me this joke: Some cannibals get a job in a big corporation on the condition that they don't eat any of the other staff. Things go very well until their boss calls them into his office one day and gives them some bad news--a janitor is missing in mysterious circumstances and the cannibals are under suspicion. The cannibals get together after work.
Transparent Office
JANUARY 27, 2009
I had a great conversation recently with Headshift 's Penny Edwards and Jon Mell. We were talking about social software adoption patterns in law firms--a topic over which a lot of digital ink has been spilled lately. Our conversation helped me connect some dots. I've blogged them here, and I also encourage you to check out the musings of Penny and Jon, both of whom are active on Twitter and their own blogs.
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Reviewsnap
JANUARY 20, 2009
'In a move to offer current and future clients a comprehensive performance management system, ReviewSNAP announces the launch of the new 360 Degree Feedback module, ReviewSNAP360TM. A division of Applied Training Systems, ReviewSNAP provides a fully automated, web-based performance review solution. ReviewSNAP360 is a complete multi-rater 360 degree feedback solution with fully automated functionality.
Working Girl
JANUARY 29, 2009
'I dislike most reality TV but I found myself getting pulled into ''I Want to Work for Diddy'' because of its unexpected insight into HR topics. The basic premise is that they pull a bunch of people together who admit they don''t want to do any real work and one token achiever, then give them annoying and impossible tasks to perform as a team. People get voted off until one finally gets to work for Diddy.
Josh Bersin
JANUARY 30, 2009
We just finished an assessment of our research members and felt it was urgent to publish this important research. If you are trying to find ways to improve the operational efficiency and reduce the. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 7, 2009
Yesterday's p ost on reducing my personal mental clutter apparently struck a chord with a lot of people. Farhan and Steve Bridger are with me on the whole multiple open tabs thing. So is Talia. And Sarah Stewar t apparently distracts herself with Twitter, while Christine Martell shares my angst about needing to get clearer about her big goals. This is good.
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Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 27, 2009
I was recently laid off with 60% of my department. I got 3 months of severance pay by signing a General Release that basically said I won’t sue the company for any reason, and I can’t work there for 6 months. I’ve tried to find out why this “6-month rule” is part of the General Release. Two hiring managers want to hire me back, but are hitting the 6-month rule roadblock.
Nobscot
JANUARY 20, 2009
'Isn''t it great the way we onboard the President of the United States? After the President was "hired" on November 4, 2008 we provided a transition period for him to prepare for the new job. He was able to spend time with his predecessor and plan his strategy. On his start date, today, January 20th, 2009, we celebrated his hire, introduced him to. err.
Reviewsnap
JANUARY 19, 2009
'The use of 360 degree feedback surveys has grown and is continuing to grow at a very fast rate. The idea of surveying employees isn’t new, but the notion of having multiple employees rate a specific “target” employee to provide as much unbiased input about that person’s performance is a relatively young concept. But why does 360 degree feedback work and what can it do for an organization?
Working Girl
JANUARY 5, 2009
'Lots of people have weighed in on this question and after years of painstaking research I found a list of manager qualities I like here. And in case this site moves or vanishes, here''s the summarized list from Jan Gordon, Executive Career and Personal Coach, with my comments: Creativity – capture people’s attention and pull different elements and players together into a cohesive whole Structure – work within structure without getting bogged down by it Intuition – make good decisions on a gut l
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Josh Bersin
JANUARY 16, 2009
The Training Measurement Book is on Amazon’s Top 10 Business Books for 2008 This week we published the Corporate Learning Factbook® for 2008 and sure enough, corporate learning and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: gotomeeting the training measurement book training costs adobe flypaper articulate i-linc training budgets webex training measurement brainshark suddenlysmart altus interwise adobeconnect Ent
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 20, 2009
In a comment on yesterday's post on the tyranny of dead ideas , Ken Allen wonders how we identify the the dead ideas--that is, of all our beliefs, which ones are actually dead? I think that's a great question and one that got me thinking. I agree with commenter Kate Riel that it starts with getting clear about the assumptions we make in regard to ourselves, our relationships, the organizations in which we operate, etc.
Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 27, 2009
My mother sent me this joke: Some cannibals get a job in a big corporation on the condition that they don't eat any of the other staff. Things go very well until their boss calls them into his office one day and gives them some bad news--a janitor is missing in mysterious circumstances and the cannibals are under suspicion. The cannibals get together after work.
Nobscot
JANUARY 15, 2009
'Another interesting, controversial and not exactly correct bit of advice from the self described brazen careerist "Penelope Trunk." While I love "Penelope''s" writing style and her generally acerbic wit, I get concerned that people might actually take her seriously.In a recent post, she lambastes five career tips often given to women in the workplace.
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Reviewsnap
JANUARY 9, 2009
'Competing in today''s markets can be difficult. It is made even more difficult by a lack of awareness of your business, product or service on the part of prospective customers. Positioning your company properly in the minds of potential customers is a critical, yet often overlooked part of promotional strategy. When you are faced with several competitors in a market, it is likely that the firm with the highest level of market awareness will have some level of credibility established unless it h
Workday
JANUARY 29, 2009
'Cliche, perhaps, but please indulge me as we start the year. As I sat down to think about the year to come, what’s interesting is that in spite of all the talk of global uncertainty there are some things about 2009 that seem pretty crystal clear. Let me know if you agree.
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 6, 2009
Being away from my computer for much of the past few weeks really showed me how much mental clutter I've been accumulating as a result of my bad digital habits. Over the past several months, I've taken multi-tasking to new and dangerous levels and had noticed a precipitous drop in productivity that seemed like it was spiraling out of control. I literally felt like my brain might explode.
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Evil HR Lady
JANUARY 26, 2009
I have a question I am hoping you can answer as I have been searching the Internet for about three hours now and have found nothing. I did what was probably a really stupid thing to do. I was very ill and so not using my best judgment I wrote an email to our (evil??) HR lady. In this email I expressed my gross intolerance for a coworker. I posed, in a not so nice way, the question of why someone as inefficient as them could be allowed to keep their job for so long.
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 30, 2009
Here's the deal. Unlike a lot of people in this economy, I'm very fortunate right now to have a stable consulting practice that actually looks like it will improve when the stimulus package goes through because of the nature of much of the work I do. And honestly, I feel a little guilty about this. I see how many people are struggling and, while I feel incredibly lucky that things are going well for me, I also feel like it's incredibly unfair that so many other people are NOT doing well.
The Bamboo Project Blog
JANUARY 26, 2009
I'm currently working on a longer online workshop version of the webinar I did last year on how to create an online portfolio. I had collected a number of great examples then, but I'm wondering if you've run across any that you think are noteworthy and should be included? I'm interested in portfolios that have been created using free, readily available tools, as opposed to portfolios developed as part of proprietary systems, like through a university.
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