Working Girl

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

As an HR executive, my project social partner Dave Ryan ponders how to manage remote employees , which he wrote about over at HR Official. And as a remote employee, my challenge is to stay engaged. So as our next tandem blog topic we decided to tackle remote workers from these different perspectives. How do you keep a remote employee engaged? The simple answer is, you don’t. tried to keep it short.

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45 Things

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Have you ever met anyone famous? Were you tongue-tied? I'm not talking Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie famous, because the truth is most of us would be struck dumb if we found ourselves in an elevator with either one of them or their 15 kids, but someone sort of famous. He saw me and smiled. smiled back, but not wanting to look like a total goof, I just sort of looked away. The key is not to panic.

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve had, and have made, a couple of comments on my recent post about Westminster Council relating to the value of technology and the need to focus on behaviours – and I also commented on a very similar point at last week’s social business jam. So I thought it might be a good time to discuss my perspectives on the role technology can play in supporting HR to create value. HCM technology

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David Zinger

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A Bad Buzz in Employee Engagement. You say that employee engagement is just a buzz word. think you are wrong. Employee disengagement hurts. Employee disengagement: lowers results. cuts profits. reddens finances. sickens well-being. frays relationships. crumbles organizations. poisons community. starves performance. undervalues individuals. fragments teams. crashes careers. saps energy.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Rapport building isn’t just something you do when you first meet someone or as a part of a sales call or a negotiation. As leaders (and human beings) one of our goals must be to build better and deeper relationships, and one of the tangible ways we can do that is through an ongoing

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Oh good grief. I’m feeling a bit frustrated at conversations at TRU London about why HR and Recruiting aren’t strategic, and why they should be outsourced. Here’s why this is hogwash (sorry that it’s repeating stuff I’ve already posted on – obviously not everybody’s read it as yet!). You’ve got two value chains in business. One is the business value chain which is the one we know best. Enough said?

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Evil HR Lady

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

As reports of employers screening out unemployed job hunters have grown, the EEOC is studying whether these practices constitute illegal discrimination. Screening Out Unemployed Job Seekers? You May Be Breaking the Law

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I am the son of teachers. My dad was a professor of psychology for 35+ years at Michigan State University. My mom was a Grammy-award winning choir director who taught at all levels of education. Growing up, I never was deprived of much. As public sector employees, they earned a reasonable salary and received reasonable benefits. They were home when I went to school, and they were home when I returned. Plus, they had summers off (though dad often taught summer courses). Some may think that public sector teachers are getting rich off taxpayers. There is no corner office one can strive to achieve.

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David Zinger

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Leading Employee Engagement Resources. books. Here is a short slide presentation on 6 terrific e-books the employee engagement network produced. Over 200 members from the Employee Engagement Network were involved in their creation. They are informative, collaborative, colorful, and helpful. Employee engagement free e books. View more presentations from David Zinger. Really free. Start engaging.

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Today, I’m delivering a masterclass , or a un-masterclass, at the initial day of TRU London, before the proper unconference tomorrow. It’s an un-masterclass as we’re just being given 15 minutes to speak, and then a panel will ask questions and hopefully contribute their own perspectives during the remainder of the time. Actually, the topic has already come up in a couple of sessions here.

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Evil HR Lady

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

More and more companies–especially hospitals–are not just smoke free campuses, but want smoke free em ployees. The New York Times reports: [E]mployees who smoke cost, on average, $3,391 more a year each for health care and lost productivity, according to federal estimates. “We felt it was unfair for employees who maintained healthy lifestyles to have to subsidize those who do not,” Steven C. Bjelich , chief executive of St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., which stopped hiring smokers last month. Essentially that’s what happens.” Keep reading at Smokers Need Not Apply

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my efforts as professor, I have always been interested in the effect altering class policies and changing incentives has on student behavior. fiddle around with changing attendance policies, the grading scale, the number of exams, the point values of exams to see the impact on how students approach the class. One question I''ve asked recently is "what specific goal is your grade for the class?"

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

When we work as an individual contributor in early years of our careers, we are in-charge of our own outcomes. At some point, we get promoted to a leadership position, and we have to get things done through people. This is one of the most significant transitions in our careers, and the one that is

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I was obviously still a bit irritated moving on from these previous sessions to Kevin Wheeler’s on the future of work. Let me be very clear – I agree completely with most of what Kevin has to say. agree that work is becoming more flexible – being done by contingent workers, crowd sourcing, and new entrepreneurial organisations etc. Most companies in the UK are SMEs that’s true.

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Evil HR Lady

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, Do good managers really have the ability to fix bad employees? In my experience, the only person I have the power to change is myself. This happens to be the same person I least want to change. Can You Make a Bad Employee (or Boss) Better

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Working Girl

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I''ve been blogging at the Compensation Cafe for about a year and a half and loving it. The Cafe bloggers are a diverse team with different voices and areas of specialization so it''s always the first blog I check when I log on each day. Today I''ve been revisiting and cataloging my Cafe posts by topic. Well, I was thinking my mom might like a leather bound copy for Christmas this year. Here they are, the complete anthology of a Fairy Compensation Specialist : The Hidden Cost of Work - You know what your workforce costs. Do you know what the actual work costs? Do You Know What Meetings Cost?

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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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David Zinger

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Why Do the Abbotts Wait, While the Zimmermans Rush to Buy? I am in trouble. With a name like Zinger I am often quick as my name suggests. Carlson and Conrad (those top of the alphabet types) are publishing an intriguing article in the Journal of Consumer Research. Carlson (Georgetown University) and JacquelineM. Conard (Belmont University).The Why couldn’t I have been named Azinger?

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

If you liked my session, or my reporting of my session, at TRU , or the previous session at the HR Directors Business Summit , you may be interested in this webinar I’ll be delivering on 15th March: “HR 2.0 has been growing in both interest and implementation over the last year. In this webinar, Jon Ingham will examine the full scope of opportunities for social HR / HR 2.0 Events HR 2.0

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Evil HR Lady

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, I have a verbal offer for a job at a new company with a specific start date. want to give my current employer as much notice as possible. Would I be taking a big risk if I let my manager know informally now, and turn in a formal letter tomorrow? This would be about three weeks notice. When Should I Tell My Boss That I Quit

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Monster HR

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Nobody loves going to work all the time--but there's a difference between routine workplace hassles and a working environment that stresses you out to the point of illness, according to Linnda Durre, the author of "Surviving the Toxic Workplace.". Durre suggests that hostile working environments typically have one or more types of dysfunction--how many symptoms does yours have? Unfairness. page].

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David Zinger

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Today is the day to recognize the people you love. Save your task engagement for another day and take the time to fully express the love you have for the people who make your work, work! Employee Engagement

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

My other, off the top of my head, tweet at TRU London was this one based on Kevin Wheeler’s presentation. Yes, these disruptive business models based largely on crowd sourcing and contingent workforces that Kevin was discussing are an increasingly important source of competition for most established businesses. But they do have to compete effectively with these new very flexible businesses.

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Evil HR Lady

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, Do good managers really have the ability to fix bad employees? In my experience, the only person I have the power to change is myself. This happens to be the same person I least want to change. Can You Make a Bad Employee (or Boss) Better

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Josh Bersin

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the biggest investment areas in Human Resources and Talent Management is Leadership Development.  We like to think about it as one of the bedrock roles of the HR or L&D team, since in many. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Leadership Development achieveglobal cisco ddi harvard pdi skillsoft sony

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NoExcusesHR

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I love the fast pace of my life. Professionally I''ve never worked on more challenging projects, and personally I''ve never been more involved in activities with my family or the community. My competitive nature is in overdrive and I can''t seem to get enough. Until it feels like enough. Then what? For me, it''s about maximizing my time as efficiently as possible. It can also be overwhelming.

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I had a good session at the end of the TRU London Masterclasses yesterday (based on the fact most participants suggested at the end of the session that they agreed Social HR is a, if not the, major new challenge for HR. You can review some of the points I discussed in yesterday’s post. Today, I’m leading a linked track on HR and Teams during the main unconference. Also see my other posts on TRU.

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David Zinger

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

finding the still point. not in not out but right now. leaves wave in water. Employee Engagement

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