David Zinger

MARCH 13, 2011

Google Oxygen inspires 8 data driven management practices in a quest to build a better boss. The NY Times printed a long article on Google’s OXYGEN project to look at the top data driven principles of management within Google. Managers play a key role in employee engagement and these practices can go along way to also instilling engagement in any organization. Next Step. Employee Engagement

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45 Things

MARCH 15, 2011

For Lent this year, I've given up potato chips, french fries and swearing. decided to go for all three since my effort last year (to give up criticizing others) failed on a regular -- almost hourly -- basis. Not three hours after I made my vow of abstaining from salty food and salty language, I dropped a box of spaghetti in the pantry that exploded like a thousand pick-up sticks. But the swearing?

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Human Resource Info4All

MARCH 14, 2011

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QAspire

MARCH 13, 2011

When leaders undertake process improvement/change initiative, they walk on a tight rope. On one hand, they have to improve the processes to deliver positive business outcomes. On the other, they have to ensure that improvement/change initiative does not slow down the current work and bring the overall efficiencies down. Both are crucial and striking the right balance between improvement and business efficiency, between standardization and evolution is a big leadership challenge. When it comes to processes and changing habits of people, there are no direct cut-overs.

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 15, 2011

I hope you’ll be joining me for my Social HR / HR 2.0 webinar at 3.00 GMT today. That’s 10.00am CDT if you’re in Houston like me.) If you can’t, or even if you can, join me, you may also be interested in these next two webinars I’ll be delivering: The social business – what it is and how HR, Enterprise 2.0 again later… Technorati Tags: social , HR , business , webinar , innovation , 2.0

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QAspire

MARCH 16, 2011

In organizations, I have seen people who are “designated” as leaders. have seen many such designated leaders, who raised their game to meet the expectations that come along with leadership. They make an effort to learn about leadership, read books, blogs and consciously put those lessons in action. On the other hand, I have also seen designated leaders who create a shield of air around themselves. This is where most of the leadership problems stem from, simply because a leadership position flames their ego and just makes them more authoritative. Leadership

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Working Girl

MARCH 18, 2011

We’ve all heard the buzz about retention. There’s a war for talent on. Your best talent is at risk. Replacing employees is expensive. Yada, yada, yada. Don’t get me wrong, retention’s important. But while my project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chatting about retention last week, the words ‘rhymes with detention’ just popped into my head. To detain someone means you hold them back.

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Monster HR

MARCH 16, 2011

Employees have been criticizing their bosses since the beginning of time. Until the birth of social media, these conversations generally played out in lunchrooms or restrooms, around the water cooler, over a few cocktails at the local pub after working hours, and in the smoker’s circle outside the office building. Should employees be allowed to bash. the boss on Facebook? HR blogger.

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Evil HR Lady

MARCH 16, 2011

Fired one time for not being a team player? Maybe it's an anomaly. Fired 3 times for the same reason? Either you have really bad luck, or you really stink. Am I a Bad Employee or Do All My Past Bosses Stink

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 15, 2011

Well I found delivering that webinar fun. I was a shame that I was challenged by the technology meaning that once again it wasn’t as social (interactive) as I would have liked. Well OK, it wasn’t social at all this time. Basically I had to junk the polling and Q&A etc all together, and just hope that people will email be their questions, which I can respond to here. Events HR 2.0

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Working Girl

MARCH 17, 2011

Don''t miss this fine selection of crappy HR practices over at HR whY. This month''s Carnival of HR will help you say no to best practices and embrace WORST practices MWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!!! carnivals human resources

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Josh Bersin

MARCH 14, 2011

This week SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Jambok, a small platform company with an innovative and powerful solution for social learning and knowledge sharing. Jambok was the brainchild. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. HR Systems Learning 2.0 Learning On-Demand LMS, LCMS

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Evil HR Lady

MARCH 15, 2011

Dear Evil HR Lady, My coworker is running a March Madness pool. People are paying $5 to place bets. Gambling is illegal in our state and I'm afraid he'll get busted. Should I tell the boss or HR? March Madness in the Office

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 16, 2011

At the end of my HR 2.0 webinar , I mentioned that a good example of the sort of focus on community I’d been discussing is Connecting HR. As with the various examples I described, there’s a technology focus to this community, particularly in our new social site at connectinghr.org , replacing our previous site and the Yammer group we’d been using. Communities Connecting HR Events

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Working Girl

MARCH 16, 2011

I study nuclear science I love my classes I gotta crazy teacher Who wears dark glasses. I''m doin'' alright Gettin'' good grades The future''s so bright I gotta wear shades! Timbuk 3 My German husband remembers vividly when Chernobl blew up. As far away as Munich, he had to stay indoors for about a month until the nice men with the Geiger counters said it was ''safe'' to go outdoors again. Nuclear energy may be perfectly safe as long as all safety protocols are strictly followed and no natural disaster occurs. See the problem? oh, wait, there is! Buy energy saving appliances. Vote sustainably.

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David Zinger

MARCH 17, 2011

FREE Webinar March 22 at 13:00 Eastern. Employee Engagement: The Power of Connection. Michael Stallard and David Zinger join together to discuss the pivotal role of connection in employee engagement. David hosts Micheal in this engaging dialogue on the vitality of connection for engagement. Micheal is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out and David is the founder of the Employee Engagement Network. The session has limited enrollment but will be taped for future viewing. To register for the webinar, click here , or on the connection ball. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~. Employee Engagement

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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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Evil HR Lady

MARCH 18, 2011

So, it turns out that people who were really happy as children tend to not pay attention while crossing the street and die young, or something else just as miserable. (I made up that part about cars because I'm cranky and I'm feeding into my bad attitude in the hope of living longer. If you die young, you never get to be one of those crabby old ladies that do whatever they want because they are old and I so want to do that.) Key to Success? Stop Being So Cheerful

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 15, 2011

Then my next webinar will focus on innovation in HR, building on my recent comments about the ‘Big Rethink’ in HR. You can Book here. Technorati Tags: HR , innovation Consulting - Research - Speaking - Training - Writing Strategy - Talent - Engagement - Change and OD Contact me to create more value for your business jon [dot] ingham [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Events HR role Innovation

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True Faith HR

MARCH 15, 2011

Yesterday, the great Tim Sackett had a wonderful post on HR''s role is primarily a sales position. So, put on your sales hat and tell me how you would recruit in the following scenario: You''re the HR director for a school district in Wisconsin. 834 million in cuts to education have been enacted by the state government. Emeritus programs have been reduced or eliminated Rights regarding assignment, transfer, and reassignment have been suspended. The people you are trying to hire have been demonized by the state government and the press, as lazy and parasitic. What''s your value proposition?

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David Zinger

MARCH 12, 2011

Mired in traffic. impatience grows standing still. gritted teeth grid lock. Employee Engagement

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Evil HR Lady

MARCH 14, 2011

You want--no deserve--a raise. Is it possible that if you get up the courage to ask for one, your boss will fire you? Can they even do that? Can You Be Fired For Asking For a Raise

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 17, 2011

I promised that I’d award a ticket for the Economist’s Talent Management Summit to one of the people responding to my recent survey on HR’s challenges and I’m delighted to announce that the winner of this ticket is Christine Kelly from Brady Corporation. managed to catch up with Christine last week and asked her about the responses to her survey. agree!

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Josh Bersin

MARCH 13, 2011

An article in the New York Times today describes Google’s Project Oxygen, a statistics driven research project to study what makes good managers. Google’s People Analytics team. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Leadership Development google leadership management

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David Zinger

MARCH 13, 2011

Employee Engagement: Don’t myth out on employee recognition. will be co-presenting a webinar with Derek Irvine and Zane Safrit on: Myth Busters: Employee Appreciation. During this 45-minute webinar we will discuss: The 10 most common myths of employee appreciation and the “mythbusters” of what truly engages employees. Click here for the registration information. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~.

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Evil HR Lady

MARCH 16, 2011

Fired one time for not being a team player? Maybe it's an anomaly. Fired 3 times for the same reason? Either you have really bad luck, or you really stink. Am I a Bad Employee or Do All My Past Bosses Stink

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 15, 2011

My next webinar, building on the theme of today’s will look at the social business, and will be on Tuesday 3rd May. The social business is often defined as one that uses social media or Enterprise 2.0 technology. However, it''s much more useful to define it by outcome rather than activity. And this webinar will be social! You can book here. Enterprise 2.0 Events HR 2.0

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NoExcusesHR

MARCH 14, 2011

So you finally filled that leadership vacancy and the new person''s start date has arrived. They dutifully attended your fabulous new employee orientation and met with their supervisor to get a sense of the "hot issues" that need to be reacted to over the first few months on the job. Then what? Usually not a whole lot, that''s what. Are they allowed to get up to speed similar to your other staff?

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