45 Things

JUNE 16, 2011

There's the guy who clips his fingernails at his desk. The woman who talks in a "kitty whitty" voice when she asks for a favor. Or the manager who takes his shoes off in a meeting and props his feet on the table. All people I have worked alongside. All people I wished would be transferred to a faraway rain forest. So, I have to learn to work with them. Shearouse says. Keep it in perspective.

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Strategic HCM

JUNE 15, 2011

There’s been quite a bit in the HR press recently on HR technology and especially social media, perhaps in the run-up to the UK’s HR Software Show today (I’m not going to this as I’m holding on for the USA’ much larger HR Technology conference in October, and the new European one in November). We need to understand how to use it and educate managers not to be scared by it.

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 13, 2011

HR departments are often maligned as glorified paper pushers, but a good human resource manager is an invaluable resource, advising you on your people, management techniques, hiring and developing programs that will help you succeed. What--you say your HR manager isn't doing that? Then it may be the time to show him, or her, the door. Here are 9 red flags that your HR manager is doing a terrible job. Ignore them at your own risk. First up: He Never Says, "We Need to Ask the Lawyers

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Working Girl

JUNE 16, 2011

Guest post by Susan Avello If you are responsible for taking care of an elderly relative or friend, it will likely impact your health and your employer’s bottom line. Employees in the U.S. billion annually, according to the MetLife Study of Working Caregivers and Employer Health Care Cost. Who Can Help ? Susan Avello is Vice President and Partner of Aging Info USA and is based in Chicago, IL.

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Strategic HCM

JUNE 16, 2011

I’ve already noted that I’ve not been attending the CIPD’s co-located recruiting or HR software conferences this year. In fact, I’m out in Barcelona delivering my own smaller recruitment focused event. So I’ve been trying to keep an eye on the UK show – but it’s not been than easy to do given the very low amount of social media usage there (more on this shortly!). Bizarrer and bizzarer!

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Working Girl

JUNE 13, 2011

Our new project social team member Lyn suggested today’s post topic: Attrition. Our little team is growing. Now we just need someone who looks like Sabrina.) Dave and Lyn plan to talk about the downside of attrition, i.e., how it can negatively impact the rest of the team - you can read all about it over at HR Official and The Bacon Hut , respectively. Voluntary attrition, that is.

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 13, 2011

HR departments are often maligned as glorified paper pushers, but a good human resource manager is an invaluable resource, advising you on your people, management techniques, hiring and developing programs that will help you succeed. What--you say your HR manager isn't doing that? Then it may be the time to show him, or her, the door. Here are 9 red flags that your HR manager is doing a terrible job. Ignore them at your own risk. First up: He Never Says, "We Need to Ask the Lawyers

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Josh Bersin

JUNE 17, 2011

We have been conducting a series of workshops around the country on best-practices in corporate social learning, and the results have been really overwhelming. As I’ve discussed with many of. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Content Development Enterprise Learning Learning 2.0 Learning On-Demand informal learning we-learning

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Strategic HCM

JUNE 13, 2011

Plateau Systems are organising the following webinar with my HR blogging counterparts Kris Dunn , Mark Stelzner and Steve Boese : Are you the authority on talent? An authority is defined as the undisputed expert in a particular field. It’s an fascinating statement. But the point that really interests me is the suggestion that HR isn’t currently seen as the authority on talent or people management.

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David Zinger

JUNE 14, 2011

Fill Your Bench. While watching the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs I was reminded how important it is to have a strong  deep bench as players get injured, experiencegame misconducts, or fail to play up to expectations. How far can your organization go into your own playoffs? Who do you need to add to your team to increase your bench strength so that you can go deep? Employee Engagement

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 17, 2011

What is your most ridiculous title? Or, what title have you had that absolutely did not reflect your actual work? I've written a whole article on Does Your Title Matter , but I really, really, really want to know what lousy titles you've had. In fact, I'll bribe you with chocolate. have 3, 100 Gram Swiss Chocolate bars. will send them to the three best submissions. will send them anywhere the Swiss postal service allows me to send them, although I make no guarantees that they won't be melted. Melted Swiss chocolate still tastes good. Contest ends on Friday, June 24.

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TheHRBlog

JUNE 13, 2011

Troublemakers at the office come in various shades, and they have different styles and approaches to making their presence felt. To be fair, most of them may not even know how disruptive they can be – then again, some do. However, the sincere and focused always has a bad time with them. Maybe you cannot […]. Career Tips Co-workers Colleagues Dynamics Employee Welfare Problem Solving Self-Improvement Stress Workplace Business Difficult Co-workers Employment gossip Health Jappreet Sethi job Office Person Sycophancy Work

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True Faith HR

JUNE 13, 2011

Today, I have a guest post at XpertHR where I take a light-hearted, truly Coperican take on the question "If I could change one thing about HR." Check it out here. HR pop culture

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David Zinger

JUNE 11, 2011

Working like a dog. fetch a ball heaved far away. then repeat again. Employee Engagement

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 17, 2011

Recently my organization merged with a much larger one located 1,000 miles away. Although both are well established not-for-profit companies, our cultures and histories are quite unique. This was not a hostile take-over, nor was it a situation that would result in one side "winning" and the other "losing." As with any merger, there are times of great progress and times of struggle. Did they work?

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 17, 2011

What is your most ridiculous title? Or, what title have you had that absolutely did not reflect your actual work? I've written a whole article on Does Your Title Matter , but I really, really, really want to know what lousy titles you've had. In fact, I'll bribe you with chocolate. have 3, 100 Gram Swiss Chocolate bars. will send them to the three best submissions. will send them anywhere the Swiss postal service allows me to send them, although I make no guarantees that they won't be melted. Melted Swiss chocolate still tastes good. Contest ends on Friday, June 24.

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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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True Faith HR

JUNE 13, 2011

Tonight I watched the GOP Presidential Debate from New Hampshire on CNN. In an effort to get to know the candidates, a series of "fun" questions, known as This or That, were asked as CNN went to commercial. For example: Herman Cain, Former CEO of Godfather''s Pizza, was asked "Deep Dish or Thin Crust" (Deep Dish was his answer. Newt Gingrich was asked, Dancing with the Stars or American Idol (Idol was his definitive answer) Mitt Romney was asked Mild or Spicy Chicken Wings. So, in that vein.what would be your HR This or That? Organizing company picnics or giving performance reviews?

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Human Resource Info4All

JUNE 15, 2011

BASELINE SURVEY FOR CSR. Name of Station/ Site __. Name of the village/city _ District _State DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE: i. Population: (in thousands). Age profile: Between 0-15yrs % Between >15-30yrs % Above 30 yrs %. Sex composition: Male % Female %. Literacy Rate: %. v. Population below Poverty Line: %. Percentage of SC/ST in BPL population: %. Caste composition: Scheduled Caste % Scheduled Tribes %. Directions for filling the survey questionnaire: i. The following questionnaire consists of 8 clusters for which responses should be marked below the responses header ii. EDUCATION. Primary.

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 16, 2011

I''ve been thinking about trust lately. It seems to come up in meetings, on surveys, in " the literature ", and as a generally accepted concept that is essential for organizational success. So with all this focus on trust, I assumed I could simply find the Trust for Dummies book and begin executing on it''s various chapters. Book, What Book? searched a bit, but couldn''t find the book. No Excuses.

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 15, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, I am a sales manager and my area happens to be booming lately, requiring extensive travel; planes, trains, and automobiles. I am exempt of course. make my own schedules and go when needed and stay as long as is necessary to get the job done. I am away from home often and normally at least 2 to 3 nights at a time. I all of a sudden have not much of a life at home. My boss will not let me take any time off unless I use vacation. He won’t let me leave an hour early if I need to go somewhere. If I get in at 9:00 p.m. Shouldn’t it go both ways? What are the rules on all this?

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True Faith HR

JUNE 16, 2011

In 8 days, I will be flying out to Las Vegas for the 2011 SHRM Annual Conference. One of the rites of passage associated with registering and attending the conference is the bevy of mail you receive from vendors hoping to lure you to their booth to discuss the latest in HR technology, drug testing, relocation, etc. However, the pitch has changed. You can read more details about it here.

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Nobscot

JUNE 12, 2011

The following Tweet showed up on my twitter search for the term "Nobscot" this morning:Happily for me, my Nobscot is an HR technology company and we don''t serve food in which to spit. But what about the owners of this Nobscot restaurant? If they see this tweet, should they fire @aspensullivan? Where do things cross the line from venting online to putting customers at risk?A few days earlier,

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 16, 2011

"You must do the thing you think you can not do." - Eleanor Roosevelt Consider the weeks ahead. your task list.your overstuffed Inbox, the people you need to reach out to, the projects that need attention.the people around you. Now think about what you only dream about doing.that stretch goal that feels like so much more than a stretch. It can be done.but I guarantee it won''t if you never start.

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Evil HR Lady

JUNE 15, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, I am a sales manager and my area happens to be booming lately, requiring extensive travel; planes, trains, and automobiles. I am exempt of course. make my own schedules and go when needed and stay as long as is necessary to get the job done. I am away from home often and normally at least 2 to 3 nights at a time. I all of a sudden have not much of a life at home. My boss will not let me take any time off unless I use vacation. He won’t let me leave an hour early if I need to go somewhere. If I get in at 9:00 p.m. Shouldn’t it go both ways? What are the rules on all this?

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True Faith HR

JUNE 14, 2011

I serve on the Benefits Advisory Committee for our school. We meet weekly to discuss many of the aspects of our benefits plan, and I would say that 80-85% of our time is spent on health care and its related issues: switching providers, amending the dental plan, looking for cost savings. Our benefit administrator spends significant amounts of time dealing as well with employee interaction with that plan. It got me to thinking, why are employers in the health care business? Further, why are employers opposed to a single payer or Medicare-for-all system? Thoughts? health care HR

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 13, 2011

Talent. Cool word. Talent Management. Even cooler phrase. Sounds like a major corporate initiative, doesn''t it? Ever hear anyone talking about Talent Management as a strategy ? As if you could program your skilled employees to behave in some sort of bizarre Cirque du Soleil performance when they walk into their offices each day. guess I don''t fully understand it. But what the heck is it?

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NoExcusesHR

JUNE 15, 2011

I love where the world of work, and in particular, HR is today. The whining about a seat at the table seems to be fading a bit now that ( finally ) the HR community has begun to realize you earn seats, they aren''t issued at new employee orientation. Social Media has completely changed how we work, and for those of us that have embraced this powerful resource, our perspectives on work and our world have changed forever. And that''s where I think I am getting myself into trouble. Getting It As I realized the power of going social, and the initial burn of enthusiasm waned, something odd happened.

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