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In Praise of Comprehension and Meaning

QAspire

We live in an “instant” world. People want to do everything instantly, including understanding, comprehension and making sense of something. remember having attended a strategy meeting where head of the department (call him boss) was explaining a new strategy that none of us had heard about before. He completed explaining and requested the audience to ask questions if any. One of the fellow team members instantly uttered, “This sounds interesting!”. Boss gently smiled and cautioned, “When you say it sounds interesting, I am assuming that you have complete understanding of what I just said.”

Top Leadership Guru Marshall Goldsmith Offers His Secrets to Success

45 Things

I've been fortunate in my career to talk to a lot of really smart people. People who are not only really smart, but nice. Willing to share what they know, no matter how successful they become. They're the leadership gurus, the people who we need right now more than ever to help us navigate our careers. AB: How has your leadership coaching changed – if at all – in the last 34 years? MG: Oh, yes.

LinkedIn is Disrupting the Global Recruiting Market

Josh Bersin

Last week LinkedIn reported amazing financials (stock jumped almost 20% in one day). The company reported 105% YTY growth in quarterly revenues to $167.7 Million, putting the company on a 2012 plan. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Sourcing and Recruiting Talent Management hirevue Jobs2Web jobvite kenexa linkedin Oracle SAP taleo

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Melting Pots Are Propoganda

NoExcusesHR

One of the phrases I learned as a child was that America is the " Great Melting Pot." The message intended to describe how wonderful it was that so many unique individuals from around the world had emigrated here and were now magically transformed into one big happy (and generic) family. At that time I thought that was pretty cool. Not so much. Ever heard of Frosty the Snowman? Not so much. Really?

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Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance

Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

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#popHR Turning Point

True Faith HR

In the last part of the 1990s, and early part of the 2000s, like much of America, I was a regular viewer of "Everybody Loves Raymond." Peter Boyle always was good for a laugh or two every episode. But, is its humor translatable across cultures? This is the challenge of "Exporting Raymond," a 2010 comedy by the co-creator of "Everybody Loves Raymond," Phil Rosenthal.

Making Memories.at Work?

NoExcusesHR

You may have seen this short video before.watch it again anyway. Then ask yourself, "how many memories have I created as a leader in my organization? If I have.did they make a difference for someone?" How About You I''d love to hear what you''re doing to make a difference in your workplace. No Excuses. customer service Johnny the Bagger leaderhip learning

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SuccessFactors an SAP Company

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SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors combines the powerful assets of each company – including world-class cloud expertise, software applications and go-to-market capabilities – to create a global cloud leader with an end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing business processes. For more info: SuccessFactors an SAP Company

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Peoplefluent

Monday, February 13, 2012 :00am. Monkey See, Monkey Do By Larry Kurzner. Historically we have seen many firms in Human Capital bought, sold, and aggregated to form larger, more complex institutions. The working premise is usually to create cost efficiencies and scale. From a business perspective this can be quite logical, but from a client’s perspective this can be “less than optimal.” ” Recent examples form an eerie pattern whereby the clients lose out both near-term and long-term with no efficiencies gained. read more

Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]

Is your company ready to move beyond the annual performance review? Where do you start? What are the keys to success? In this guide, you’ll gain an understanding of: the forces driving change, three foundations of success and take a deep dive into the skills gap many managers have that will sink your efforts before they start and how to address them.

Value The Right Things

ReviewSNAP

When it comes to evaluating employee performance, it''s flat out critical to make sure that you''re measuring what''s really important. This seems so logical, but we''d bet good money we could walk into most organizations and find examples of performance reviews with competencies that are missing from the review and competencies that are a part of the review that have no real relevance to the job in question. simple job analysis for each position within the company would be a great start in identifying the duties and skills required to do the job effectively.

Pray I Never Become Your Competitor’s Recruiter

Peoplefluent

Monday, February 13, 2012 :00am. Pray I Never Become Your Competitor’s Recruiter By Jim Bowley. We’ve all followed LinkedIn (particularly in Bill Kutik’s HR Technology Conference group ) and Twitter closely over the last few days for analysis of Taleo’s pending assimilation into Oracle. As the market begins to speak about Taleo in the past tense, a Twitter post by Jacco Valkenburg, the CEO of Recruit2HQ in The Hague, Netherlands (@jaccov) stood out about what we have to look forward to in the future: read more

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Top Five Challenges – and Opportunities – in Driving Extraordinary Workforce Performance

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Friday, February 17, 2012 :00am. Top Five Challenges – and Opportunities – in Driving Extraordinary Workforce Performance By Jim Bowley. Earlier this week, Rania Stewart , senior product manager for performance management and succession planning, delivered a webcast on workforce performance management trends, priorities, challenges and opportunities: “ Extraordinary Workforce Performance Meets the New Normal.” ” read more