45 Things

MAY 20, 2011

In my early days at USA Today, I was looking up some obscure information in the newspaper's library (this was before online) on election night when I had quite the shock. Let me back up for a second and explain that election nights are notoriously one of the craziest times to work at a newspaper. We were standing around gabbing about nothing in the library when I felt someone come up beside me.

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Strategic HCM

MAY 20, 2011

I’ll also be presenting at this event on Thursday 23rd June organised by SAP: No-one knows better than HR professionals that it''s people, not organisations, that make business happen. HR is shifting from an employee management cost centre to a highly strategic business function. The question is, how can you equip yourself to handle the challenges and opportunities this transformation entails?

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True Faith HR

MAY 19, 2011

A running theme over the past few months has been Zombie HR. Ben Eubanks has written " 10 Reasons to Hire Zombies." Doug Shaw made his own contribution with " Zombie HR." Jay Kuhns wrote last week that " Service Zombies are not World Class." Today, Dwane Lay staked his claim with " The CDC and the Zombie Apocolypse." So, why might HR be uniquely suited to handle a zombie attack?

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Josh Bersin

MAY 19, 2011

Today LinkedIn went public with a huge (somewhat controversial) valuation of 46 times 2011 earnings and and around 10-12X 2011 expected revenue. This makes the company worth around $4.3 billion. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Sourcing and Recruiting linkedin

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Working Girl

MAY 18, 2011

I wrote a post at the Compensation Café about a year ago called What Can We Learn From Marketing about the similarities between HR and marketing. This topic was recently picked up by HR Magazine in the UK as well with some interesting insights. In an article entitled Marketing Versus HR , the characteristics of successful HR and marketing leaders are explored in some detail. Although surprising at first glance, it actually makes sense: an HR professional must be politically correct at all times while marketing involves LOTS of business trend analysis. What can we learn from all this?

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David Zinger

MAY 18, 2011

Are you on the grid? Making change? Are you looking for a set of tools that can help you make change? Perhaps you want to improve specific elements of employee engagement. Can you differentiate what is needed to change behavior one time versus from now on? How well do you distinguish what is required to perform a new behavior versus decrease the intensity of an existing behavior? Grid and Wizard.

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Josh Bersin

MAY 18, 2011

This last few weeks has been a season of meetings with talent management software providers. As we work to complete our 2011 Talent Management Systems research (which should be published in June), I. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. HR Systems Talent Management

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 20, 2011

Are your employees not as engaged as you'd like them to be? Perhaps the rewards you're offering leave much to be desired. Here's what you're doing wrong and how to fix it. Your “Rewards” Aren’t Appreciated By Your Employees

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Strategic HCM

MAY 20, 2011

And I’ve also got another unconference focusing on social media, this one organised by Mavencast and being held on 14th June at the Imagination Gallery. This workshop provides an introduction to the technologies, applications and value of social media to internal communications and HR. Events HR role Social media

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David Zinger

MAY 17, 2011

How do we lead for employee engagement? My colleague, Jean-Francois Hivon from Shared Visions wrote the following distillation of 5 myths of leadership presented by Margaret Wheatley at the Saskatchewan Leadership Conference 2011. Dr. Margaret Wheatley gave an inspiring and energizing keynote to open the University of Saskatchewan Leadership Conference. They don’t. False. False.

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NoExcusesHR

MAY 17, 2011

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. - Lou Holtz Too harsh? Need to think about it? Dead on accurate? Some will tell you about the great tools they have developed to motivate people. The training, the exercises, the company l0go-branded paper weights and key chains are all designed to fire up the team. I don''t buy it. What are you waiting for? No Excuses.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 18, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, I just got laid off. I had a signed agreement that the company reimburses tuition for grades of C or higher, but I’m in the middle of a class. Are they still required to pay it? What about relocation costs? My agreement was that I would have to repay if I quit in less than 2 years, and it’s only been 18 months. Are they going to come after me for that? How much severance should I expect? I Got Laid Off. What Does the Company Owe Me

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Strategic HCM

MAY 19, 2011

Then on Wednesday 8th June, I’ll be presenting on HR 2.0 at the Social Business Forum in Milan – Europe’s main enterprise 2.0 / social business event: Over the past three years the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 has been recognized as the main event on collaboration and cooperative business approaches in Europe. Or you can follow the tweets at #sbf11. Events HR 2.0

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David Zinger

MAY 20, 2011

CEO is boss. in an age of no bosses. commands are thwarted. Employee Engagement

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NoExcusesHR

MAY 18, 2011

"I get nervous during interviews." "She''s a great employee, she just doesn''t do well in interviews." "He knows his stuff, he just gets worked up thinking about the interview." Wait a minute. I don''t buy any of this nonsense. Not for one second. Finally It''s All About You The last time I checked interviews are the only time you can actually talk about what you''ve accomplished. You are the center of the universe, at least for a little while. So when I hear excuses as to why people struggle talking about themselves, and expect my support to bring them on board I am simply dumbfounded.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 18, 2011

The internet is full of advice for making your resume better. People hire “experts” (who may or may not really be experts) to write and revise resumes. We fill them with key words so that we’ll get plucked out of obscurity by a computer. And what if all of this is a big waste of time? Is the Resume Dead

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

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Strategic HCM

MAY 18, 2011

I’ve got quite a few social media oriented events coming up next month, including this training session on HR and social media on 7th June: HR 2.0 (HR in the Social Media Age) Social media or web 2.0 technologies have already had a profound effect on many peoples’ lives and are starting to make more impact within our organisations too. However, this impact is not just down to new technology.

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SuccessFactors

MAY 17, 2011

We are thrilled to announce that together with SuccessFactors employees, we have raised a total of $200,000 through our SuccessFactors JapanHelp 1:1 Match program to assist with the relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts in Japan. Spearheading the fundraising effort, 318 SuccessFactors employees worldwide donated and organized 4 fundraising events for disaster relief. The quick response […

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NoExcusesHR

MAY 16, 2011

It''s funny how things evolve. Until recently I often used google to search for information, now I simply reach out to my own network on twitter or linkedin. Professionally I have a growing, and very important group of people who I can rely on to get feedback, kick ideas around, and candidly tell me if I''m completely off-base. It''s an unexpected and wonderful change in my life. I''ve also embraced facebook in my personal life. have reconnected with old friends from years ago as many others have done. However, it''s also become a great way for my family to connect and joke with each other.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 16, 2011

In the past few days I've had one person quote me without providing links back to the original article, and another take huge chunks of text (more than 50%) and print it on his blog. Both of these practices bug me. Now, I write with the hope that more people will be exposed to my evil ideas so that in the future it will be easy for me to take over the world. I'm opposed to anything messy, like coups, so mind control seems the better solution.) So, this morning I started to write an email to the guy who used over 50% of my post in his post, and then wondered if I've just gone off the deep end.

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Strategic HCM

MAY 17, 2011

You may have received a new email from Keith Robinson (founder of Personnel Today) called HR Buzz. This is an update on the best HR related content from the web and is provided in partnership with Connecting HR. If you’ve not received the first update, you can request a subscription here. Connecting HR

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ReviewSNAP

MAY 17, 2011

ReviewSNAP , a division of Applied Training Systems, has announced it is adding a complete ad-hoc reporting system as part of its statistics dashboard. This enhancement, set to rollout on June 15, 2011, will provide ReviewSNAP customers the ability to generate an unlimited number and types of reports and graphs to gain a very clear understanding of their performance related data at any level within their respective organizations. “We made a decision over a year ago to make our reporting capabilities the most robust and most user-friendly in the online performance management industry.

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 20, 2011

Are your employees not as engaged as you'd like them to be? Perhaps the rewards you're offering leave much to be desired. Here's what you're doing wrong and how to fix it. Your “Rewards” Aren’t Appreciated By Your Employees

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 18, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, I just got laid off. I had a signed agreement that the company reimburses tuition for grades of C or higher, but I’m in the middle of a class. Are they still required to pay it? What about relocation costs? My agreement was that I would have to repay if I quit in less than 2 years, and it’s only been 18 months. Are they going to come after me for that? How much severance should I expect? I Got Laid Off. What Does the Company Owe Me

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 18, 2011

The internet is full of advice for making your resume better. People hire “experts” (who may or may not really be experts) to write and revise resumes. We fill them with key words so that we’ll get plucked out of obscurity by a computer. And what if all of this is a big waste of time? Is the Resume Dead

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 16, 2011

My BNET Colleague, Penelope Trunk recently wrote a column titled Why Women Should Lie Even More Than They Do, in which she advised women to lie about everything from their height to their salary. She argues that lying just makes everything “fair.” It may have been a little too long since Ms. Trunk worked in a normal office job, where you need coworkers to trust you, where HR departments run background checks and where people actually interview you in person. To read more: Why Lying is a Career Killer

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Evil HR Lady

MAY 16, 2011

In the past few days I've had one person quote me without providing links back to the original article, and another take huge chunks of text (more than 50%) and print it on his blog. Both of these practices bug me. Now, I write with the hope that more people will be exposed to my evil ideas so that in the future it will be easy for me to take over the world. I'm opposed to anything messy, like coups, so mind control seems the better solution.) He did add the link, though. know how critical it is to blog success to have people link to you and to link to other people.

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