David Zinger

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Employee Engagement and Engaged Wellbeing with Attitiude. Heretic’s Manifesto of Engaged Wellbeing:  Let’s think (and act) differently just for the health of it. A new view of wellbeing. I believe we have too much fluff and far too many mistaken notions about wellbeing and wellness at work. Dodging a bullet. When the session was over one of the guys came up at the end. You are human.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is on my reading list and I was curious to have some initial reviews about the book. Matthew E. May recently reviewed the book on his blog. In a post titled “ The Zen Master of Subtraction: Steve Jobs ”, Matt shares some very interesting stories/snippets about how Steve Jobs generated extreme focus by virtue of elimination. borrow the following story from his blog: Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called “The Top 100.” People would fight to get their suggestions on the list. Most people (and organizations) do more on more.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, Due to your advice, I landed a great job about a year ago. There is only one problem. work for a small department, and we have a coworker, Jim, who is a very nice guy with a serious absentee problem. For example, this year to date, he has called in sick 32 times. (We have a shared calendar where we track sick days, vacation, events etc.) In addition to calling in sick, he is habitually late and during winter, he frequently calls in on snowy days and says he can't make it in. (We have another staff member who lives in the same area who has no trouble.)

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45 Things

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I recently watched a news clip about a local mall where the shop owners stated that not only were they currently hiring for seasonal jobs, but they were hoping some of those candidates would turn out to be permanent hires. Good news right? Then the reporter cut to an interview with a woman walking out of a local employment agency. Especially, since, like, you know, I got fired from my last job."

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I’m up at the CIPD conference for the next three days and will be blogging from a few of the conference sessions. But I’ll also be delivering a Twitterversity session together with Gareth Jones, my co-founder at ConnectingHR. Our twitterversity will be rather different, for example, we won’t be using any slides (it’ll all be on Twitter instead). CIPD11 Events Social media

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Even if ex-manager's claim that he was fired for making a black man a cashier is false, the franchise owner will lose if case goes to court To find out why, read here: Why Panera should settle lawsuit regarding racism

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David Zinger

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Employee engagement guidance for managers of virtual teams. Informative Webinar with Yael Zofi Monday November 14.    . The managers guide. completed reading Yael Zofi’s wonderful book, A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams. Yael has created a powerful and practical guide for managers of virtual teams. Virtual challenges. Performance. Communication. Delegation. Team Building. Conflict.

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TheHRBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

If you are about to apply for a job via email, the quality of your emailed covering letter to the potential employer is extremely important. After all, you are marketing yourself. This means that the employer’s HR department will first judge your capabilities by how you introduce and portray yourself. If clothes make the man […]. Career Tips Email Skills Employee Welfare Résumé Writing Self-Improvement Tips For Employees employee EVERY HR Human resources India Jappreet Sethi job Language Quality Resume Writing Self Improvement

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

My other current interest, other than integrated talent management, is human centricity (see this post on the recent ConnectingHR unconference ). believe there are three different ways that organisations can gain value from HR technology. The first, and I think least significant, of these is through the provision of a single (or at least a clearly defined) system of record.

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True Faith HR

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

I admit it. I am not a Google + user. Yes, I have an account, and I dabbled with it when it was first released. However, I never found the value added above and beyond what I get with Twitter and Facebook. As a result, I rarely look at it and haven''t posted on it in ages. However, each day I get two or three notices saying that someone has added me to their circle on Google +.

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NoExcusesHR

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Did you ever wish you could get time back? I do, particularly when I think about all of the meetings, strategy sessions, focus groups and vendor calls all intended to help me decide on the best creative campaign for my recruitment advertising needs. Yes, a SEPARATE ad campaign from the rest of the organization’s advertising efforts. Guess what, they’re not. On second thought, please don’t.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, Due to your advice, I landed a great job about a year ago. There is only one problem. work for a small department, and we have a coworker, Jim, who is a very nice guy with a serious absentee problem. For example, this year to date, he has called in sick 32 times. (We have a shared calendar where we track sick days, vacation, events etc.) In addition to calling in sick, he is habitually late and during winter, he frequently calls in on snowy days and says he can't make it in. (We have another staff member who lives in the same area who has no trouble.)

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

And while I’m on the subject of human centricity , let me point out that I, and ConnectingHR , are not alone in prioritising this. For example, it’s interesting to see that Julian Birkinshaw’s latest research is on “Employee Centred Management”. And in a session at MLab recently, Birkinshaw encouraged everyone to see management through the eyes of their employees. People management strategy

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Josh Bersin

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the same. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. HR Systems Learning On-Demand LMS, LCMS

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NoExcusesHR

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

“Things don’t feel quite right in this job. It’s not that the people are bad, aren’t committed to doing good work, or are disengaged. But there’s something missing…it’s hard to describe. I get along with my colleagues, but somehow I don’t think I fit here anymore.” Have you ever felt this way? It can be a lonely and scary place, particularly in an economy as tight as this one. But what should you do? Maybe the time is right to begin looking for something new? It’s almost an impossible topic considering the staggering unemployment rate right now though, isn''t it? know, because I’ve been there.

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Workday

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

As a finance guy involved in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world for the last six years, I’ve been truly amazed at the technical elegance of SaaS and the radical improvements it has made to enterprise software economics. But after hearing, “Yes, but it’s just technology, the business user doesn’t care,” one too many times—and after giving this quite a bit of thought—I can strongly say that idea is absolute nonsense

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I guess I should really be posting on the rest of the CIPD conference, not just my own interactive sessions ( 1 , 2 ). And today…. well that will probably be the hangover. This comment seemed to produce a fairly shocked reaction, which I must say surprised me, as I’ve always worked on this basis, and it’s not as if it’s not come up at conferences before. No innovation ever came from that.

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Evil HR Lady

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Even if ex-manager's claim that he was fired for making a black man a cashier is false, the franchise owner will lose if case goes to court To find out why, read here: Why Panera should settle lawsuit regarding racism

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NoExcusesHR

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

It’s become part of my standard message. Since I’m fortunate enough to be a Human Resources professional (and I mean that very sincerely), I’ve had ample opportunities over the years to investigate allegations of leadership retaliation against their own employees. Coming to You Made Things Worse This is perhaps the worst thing we can hear in Human Resources. Any takers for this assignment ? Period.

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A Pee Wee Herman "Listening Culture"

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Sometimes managers just talk too much. Our mantra is listen more, talk less. Employees who believe they are being heard with resulting changes or tweaks to how things are run are generally the most satisfied in their jobs. They feel empowered and they feel they are a part of the process. It isn''t uncommon for employees to feel that they aren''t being heard. What are their frustrations?

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

There were a couple of differences between HR Technology Europe and an unconnected US based conference of the same name that I attended recently. One of these differences was that there was more focus on core HR management systems and less on talent / human capital management and particularly integration between these systems. It can be an integrated talent management suite. Events HCM technology

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

There was much more on social media at the CIPD conference yesterday. Eg Matthew Hanwell and Neil Morrison did a session on social media and Sarah Beauerle from KFC an interesting one on social recruiting at the same time. So Gareth Jones and I ended up taking this one too. Particularly since we hadn’t prepared anything I thought this worked well. Events Social media

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The most interesting thing at the conference yesterday (of course) was obviously the twitterversity session that Gareth Jones (@garelaos) and I (with help from Rob Jones, Neil Morrison, Natalia Thomson, Laurie Reutimann and others) ran. And I may add some updates from these additional sessions later on too. Events Social media

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Strategic HCM

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The best session at CIPD11 by far was on efficiency and performance and was delivered by John Greatrex, Group HR Director at Unipart, and Franceso Mereu, Director, HR, Corporate Planning and CSR at Toyota Motor Europe. For Greatrex there is a growing perspective that there needs to be more of the Human in HR. More generally, they attempt to measure the process, not the score.

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The Impact of a Well Conducted Performance Review

ReviewSNAP

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

We''ve all heard various stories about managers doing a poor job with performance reviews. Sure there is plenty of bias coming from the employee and that version may not be close to accurate. But what about the performance reviews that are well done by the manager? What is the impact on the employee when he or she feels the review was accurate, honest, and focused on his/her continued development? Here are five important things that generally occur: 1) Respect and appreciation ramps up. Employees tend to feel the manager has his or her best interest at heart. many cases much longer.

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