Workology

• newStanding Up to Bullies in the HR & Recruiting Industry
  Speaker Pay & Diversity; The #truestory I have said it before, and I will repeat it; I have been in this business a long time. I have been boots on the ground, in the trenches, a recruiter, and a...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and r…
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• newEp 3 – Using Design Thinking in Human Resources
  Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast....Workology is the art and science of work, HR an…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 5:17pm -
• newHow CBD Oil Impacts Employment Drug Screenings
  Can a candidate fail a drug screen if they have used CBD oil? The short answer is no, but the long one is more complicated. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a naturally occurring compound found in the resinous...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 2:17pm -
• Ep 2 – Google & Gig Workers
  Welcome to the Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Here...Workology is the art and science of work, HR a…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 1:35pm -
• Ep 177- How to Create a Global Apprenticeship Program
  Welcome to a new series on the Workology Podcast we are kicking off that focuses on the future of work. This series is in collaboration with the Partnership on Employment & Accessible...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment.…
  - 7 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 2:12pm -

HROS Case Studies

• How Dell Localizes Its Employer Brand Content to Drive Success
  The main focus of Dell’s early employment branding strategy was to be visible where candidates were spending most of their time – on social media. However, there was no real approach to our content strategy on social. We simply followed a post…
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• More Than Science: How Storytelling Transformed Thermo Fisher Scientific's Employer Brand
  In 2015, Thermo Fisher Scientific was looking to launch the company’s first employer brand. The Fortune 500 Company employs 55,000 professionals in diverse fields including the research, healthcare, industrial and applied markets. Thermo Fisher…
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• How GoDaddy Reinvented Themselves As Gender Champions
  GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward life-fulfilling independent ventures. We power the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With more than 14 million customers worldwide and mo…
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• How Appirio Transformed Their Interview Process to Drive a Better Candidate Experience
  Appirio is a global services company that helps customers create next-generation Workday and Customer Experience using the latest cloud technologies.  Our free-thinking consultants deliver unmatched customer value by creating actionable strategie…
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• How Dell's Recruiting Team Partners With Marketing To Drive Employer Brand Success
  Five years ago, recruitment marketing at Dell was a completely different landscape than we have today. There was no consistent global employment brand, no real social media strategy when it came to attracting talent, and very little recruiter enga…
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• How A 700% Increase in Glassdoor Engagement Enhanced Centric Consulting's Recruiting
  Centric Consulting is a business and technology consulting firm with nearly 800 people across the US and India.Our core purpose is to create unmatched experiences for our employees and clients. Thus, the cornerstone of our talent acquisition eff…
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Dawn H. Burke Blog

• Cultures of Appreciation Require Training The “Giver”
  At the Workhuman Conference, SVP, Derek Irvine shared an incredible stat. When asked “what is the one thing you would change in your organization’s culture,” data from their recognition software stated: Foster A Culture of Appreciation. Of cour…
  - 36 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 3:02pm -
• Best way to celebrate International Women’s Day, Quit Saying Your Sorry
  I am a woman. I’ve navigated a successful HR career. I’ve lead HR Boards. I’ve helped create award-winning workplaces. I’ve spoken internationally on HR/Leadership topics. And, I still have the habit of saying sorry when it’s not warranted.…
  - 47 days ago, 8 Mar 19, 4:35pm -
• Did You Forget Employee Appreciation Day?! How to Make Thanks A Ritual
  Every first Friday in March is the unofficially observed employee appreciation day. You forgot, didn’t you. I’ve got a secret to share. If you make “thanks” a part of your…I don’t know… everyday leadership practice, it is ok if you acci…
  - 51 days ago, 4 Mar 19, 3:30pm -
• Join Me For Webinar> Learning & Development “Selfies”:Self-Driven Career Development
  Are you a small HR team, bootstrapping your development programs? Are you a team with few training resources and no time? Are you having trouble connecting learning objectives to your overwhelmed employees? Then it’s time for you to let go of some…
  - 54 days ago, 1 Mar 19, 3:00pm -
• Dawn’s HR Best-Bet> Register For #Workhuman!
  Yep, it’s time again for one of my favorite HR Leadership conferences of the year > Workhuman by Globoforce! This year’s event is March 18-21 in one of my favorite cities…Nashville, TN. Seriously, this is an awesome place for a truly awesome ev…
  - 55 days ago, 28 Feb 19, 3:00pm -
• Oscar Time! Which Best Pic Looks Like Your Career Page?
  It’s OSCAR time.  Me and the gang at Three Ears Media (I’m looking at you Katrina) love a great movie! I mean, have you seen The Wife yet? omg. On that note, we also love a great career website. To honor Oscar season, I did a mashup of Best Pict…
  - 62 days ago, 21 Feb 19, 8:31pm -

Micheal Vandervort

• HR Florida, Celebrating 40 Years!
  HR Florida, Celebrating 40 Years! Did you know that HR Florida is celebrating their 40th-anniversary event in Orlando next week?  It’s not too late to register.  That’s amazing.   I’m a huge fan of HR Florida, the state chapter for SHRM. …
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• The #SHRM18 Podcast Extravaganza @DriveThruHR
  Meeting the #SHRM18 Bloggers via #DTHR Podcast (part two) Podcast sponsored by CUE Inc.  and ClearCompany On February 16th, I had an idea.  In fact, I posted on the wall of a Facebook group that SHRM created for the members of the social media team…
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• Questions and Answers in Difficult Times
  Questions and Answers in Difficult Times  I’ve been thinking about questions and answers a lot the last few days.  I’ll come back to that point in a bit. SHRM has C-suite level executives as keynote speakers at their National Conference and Exp…
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• Meeting the #SHRM18 Bloggers via #DTHR Podcast
    Meeting the #SHRM18 Bloggers via #DTHR Podcast On February 16th, I had an idea.  In fact, I posted this on the wall of a Facebook group that SHRM created for the members of the social media team that will be helping them promote the 2018 SHRM Nat…
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• Life lessons from more than 30 years in HR circa 2017
  The life lessons of my HR career The post Life lessons from more than 30 years in HR circa 2017 appeared first on Michael VanDervort.
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• You need to be at WorkHuman 2018
  Only Two Days Left to Save $300 on WorkHuman 2018 Have you heard of WorkHuman?  If you haven’t, you should check it out.   It’s an event. It’s a movement.  It’s among the best HR conferences I’ve ever attended. If you know about WorkHu…
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Arcadia HR Solutions

• newWhy I Love a Good Scavenger Hunt for Easy Team Building
  A few years back Laurie Ruettimann’s profile picture was a picture of her in a t-shirt that said, “team building is for suckers”. Now, whenever I get asked about team building activities I think about Laurie and her shirt. I don’t know why. I…
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• Thursday in the Trenches – Acacia HR Solutions Anniversary Edition
  We have been doing this Thursday in the Trenches for a few months now. It’s where we highlight a HR Department of One practitioner who is in the trenches doing the really tough work of being both tactical and strategic in HR every single day. It’…
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• The Acacia HR Blog Top 5 Posts of All Time
  Next week marks the 8th anniversary of this business. Eight years is when I officially started it, filled out all the legal paperwork, paid the fees to register it and called myself a consultant. I worked very part-time in the beginning so things hav…
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• Prevailing Wage Reports and Other HR Related Things SMB’s Should Know Before Taking on a Government Contract
  I was introduced to the world of prevailing wages in 2014. My corporate life had never been spent in a government contracting business. The first three years of my business life had driven no government contract clients my way. In 2014, that all chan…
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• Workhuman Cloud for Teams Social Recognition Platform Now Available for Small Businesses
  One of the things I noticed immediately upon diving into the startup and small business space was that technology available to small businesses around any other than payroll was either limited to a few unhelpful features or non-existent. Any HR tech…
  - 35 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 8:12pm -

Robin Schooling Blog

• Global Human Capital Trends Report – 2019
  Last week Deloitte released the 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report. It’s always a must read for me and I strongly encourage other HR leaders and those involved in the talent/people space to take a look. Last year, Deloitte described the rise o…
  - 9 days ago, 15 Apr 19, 2:35pm -
• Hiring Henchmen, Underlings, and Evil Minions
  The other week, without much else going on, Mr. S. and I settled down on the couch and watched a marathon of James Bond movies. (editorial note: I never liked Pierce Brosnan in the role and, IMO, Roger Moore was the absolute worst.) As always, when w…
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• Company Values: Not the Same as It Ever Was
  I have, over the course of time, participated in and/or facilitated numerous activities designed to create, define and encapsulate company “Mission, Vision & Values.”  Quite often, because some training facilitator settled on a way to approach t…
  - 50 days ago, 5 Mar 19, 1:15pm -
• There’s So Much Work Yet to be Done – #BlackBlogsMatter
  There was an alarming, sickening and, sadly, not surprising story that hit the news last week; a lawsuit has been filed against General Motors (GM) in which 8 workers outline allegations of racist behavior, threats and intimidation in the workplace.…
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• Work and Life and Everything In Between
  My mother, who has dementia, has been living with us now for a week.   A really really REALLYlong week. Getting her to Louisiana was neither an easy task not did it occur in a particularly seamless fashion. Over the last month I made two emergency…
  - 14 Jan 19, 1:51pm -

HR Tech Girl

• Visible | Accountable | Sustainable: Performance & Talent Management
  Has performance management really changed that much since World War I? I would have to say Yes, but not because of the new fads making headlines. The companies and leaders that have successfully led people towards a shared purpose will beg to differ…
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• Is BYOS the next frontier for #HRTech?
  The words BYOD are no longer new to anyone. In fact with most companies allowing, encouraging and providing support for various devices, it is now expected that most employees will bring one or more devices to work and use them for work. However, wha…
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• AI for Dummies
  What is it? Artificial Intelligence, as wiki describes it, is “any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.” It goes on to provide other definitions, but I like this derivation “a…
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• Pre-hire Assessments Redefined
  Wow, that turned out to be the wrong person for the job! Felt this way after recruiting someone you hired recently? I have and I know I am not alone. This happens more often than it should in the hiring process. Most companies make candidates go thro…
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• Series: Part 2: What does a diverse workforce look like?
  If you have recently visited hrtechgirl, you may have read my post on Is Diversity delivering ROI?. This piqued my interest in all things diversity and inclusion. So this post looks at some thoughts around “What does a diverse workforce look like?…
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• Fabulous, Functional and Affordable – the new age of HRIS
  Is your HRIS fabulous, functional and affordable? The HRIS market is exploding with options. In fact, a google search for HRIS might leave you with over 7 million results. Sounds overwhelming? I can understand why. But search for fabulous HRIS and yo…
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PeopleGoal Blog

• Training Materials: PeopleGoal
  A fully interactive training guide for PeopleGoal covering basic employee activities, manager activities and administration activities.
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• Employee engagement ideas 2015
  Engaged employees can form high performing teams and high performing teams lead organizations to outperform their goals in comparison to companies with low employee engagement.
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• Workplace Trends 2015: The year of collaboration
  The workplace trends in 2015 are changing towards a culture of collaboration. Employees are no longer want to be told what to do but they can use their ideas to solve problems. Millennial managers approach is to listen, understand and promote team wo…
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• Employee engagement: The secret recipe
  Organizations with high employee engagement are more likely to outperform those with low employee engagement because engaged employees are more committed and motivated to their work.
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• A case for continuous and connected employee performance management
  PeopleGoal connects goals, feedback and reviews in a unique way. At the beginning of the performance cycle employees set goals and explain how they plan to complete those goals. Employees set dates by when they have to complete their goals and link t…
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• The 10 Best Places To Work For in the past 5 years
  Creating a great workplace can increase your ROI as a company. According to Great Places to Work the Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For provide more than 2x the return to shareholders of companies not on the list. We take a look at the Top 10 fro…
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The Savage Truth

• Recruiters. You must ask this one question.
  The biggest cause of recruiting screw-ups is recruiters making assumptions. And we make them every day. So much angst and wailing over things gone wrong, and the unfairness of it all! All blamed on ‘bad luck’, flaky candidates and fickle clients.…
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• Sixty Savage Seconds – Recruitment is marketing
  Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘Recruitment is Marketing’. Let me k…
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• This is how to turn open orders into money
  A recruiter with 12 open orders does not spend one-twelfth of her time on each order. We understand that, right? The truth is that not all job orders are created equal — some are far more ‘fillable’ than others. Many are not even real, approval…
  - 30 days ago, 25 Mar 19, 6:25pm -
• 10 signs your ‘client’ does not take you seriously
  Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ’10 signs your ‘client’ does not t…
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• 12 crucial ‘Communication Commandments’ for real leaders
  It is obvious, but much of what defines a good leader is their communication style. What you say. How you say it. When you say it. And also, importantly, what you do not say. I have made all these mistakes myself, and sum up my learning for you in wh…
  - 44 days ago, 11 Mar 19, 7:23pm -
• Sixty Savage Seconds – 10 reasons you won’t be promoted and might get fired
  Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ’10 reasons you won’t be promoted an…
  - 57 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 7:20pm -

HR Ringleader

• Busting HR Technology Implementation Myths
  Have you ever been tasked with making a technology selection for your organization, then leading that implementation? For many HR leaders, this scenario plays out at some point in their career. I’ve long said that this is not something that HR prof…
  - 24 days ago, 31 Mar 19, 11:01pm -
• The Root of the Productivity Gap
  For as long as I can remember, organizations have been trying to find ways to increase the productivity of employees.  A number of tactics have been used including measurement and tracking, incentives, engagement plans, self-imposed targets and mor…
  - 35 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 1:00pm -
• How Optimizing Staff Scheduling Benefits Your Organization
  Inside fast-paced workplaces, many leaders are challenged with optimizing staff scheduling. While there are still companies managing staff scheduling manually, most are using automated staff scheduling solutions. While there are many reasons for the…
  - 51 days ago, 4 Mar 19, 12:00pm -
• Join Me! Let’s Break Our New Year Routine
  As I look back at my last ten years, I see many times when I was not gentle with myself. I was HARD on myself. I bullied myself... Read More ...
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• The HR Federation 2019 HCM Trends Report
  The HR Federation, a network of leading HR market analysts, bring our research together to identify the most impactful trends for 2019.  We believe organizational leaders like you need a holistic approach to the Human Capital Management market to en…
  - 20 Nov 18, 2:00pm -

People Equation

• newStand Up-Sit Down Meeting Energizer
  If you’ve ever hosted a day-long meeting or workshop, you know that even the best gatherings sometimes experience a dip in energy.  To reboot the vigor in the conference room, here’s a quick and easy  meeting energizer that helps revitalize peo…
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• How to Avoid Getting Sucked Into Needless Activity
  There’s no shortage of important work to do – both at home and in your job. So, the last thing you want tossed your way is unnecessary work. Nobody likes needless activity, right? But this is easier said than done. I’m sure you can easily recal…
  - 9 days ago, 15 Apr 19, 10:30am -
• 9 Questions to Help Your Team Create Vision
  Think back to the last project you led. How did you begin? Were you successful getting people on board, or was it more like herding cats challenging than you’d planned? No matter what you’re leading, getting people to line up behind a vision is t…
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• How To Gain Buy-In From Your Team
  When my daughter was in elementary school I chaperoned a group of second-graders on a field trip to the ArtPrize exhibition in downtown Grand Rapids. Picture this: ten 8-year-olds, excitedly dashing around parks and gardens, in and out of exhibition…
  - 16 days ago, 8 Apr 19, 10:30am -
• Adult Learning and Training Workshops – It’s Not an Oxymoron
  Adults like to learn. No, really, it’s true. If you’re skeptical of this statement, it’s most likely because you’ve shown up to facilitate a training session and felt like you’ve walked into some sort of hostile takeover situation. There is…
  - 21 days ago, 3 Apr 19, 10:35am -
• Use This Conversational Tool to Keep From Being Swamped at Work
  Do you ever feel like you should say “no” to a request at work, but the “correct” answer is “yes”? For example, let’s say you’re at a team meeting, brainstorming ideas for a new marketing campaign. And some of the ideas are great idea…
  - 22 days ago, 2 Apr 19, 10:30am -

The Tim Sackett Project

• newCareer Confessions of Gen Z: An Interview with Johnny Campbell of Social Talent
  A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with, and conduct a short interview with, the CEO and Co-Founder of SocialTalent, Johnny Campbell. SocialTalent is an online training platform where recruiters, sourcers, and recruitment marketers alike…
  - 2 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 4:00pm -
• newCareer Confessions from Gen Z: Welcome to the Workforce!
  Within the next month, several college students will be graduating and entering the workforce. This post is targeted towards you. First of all, if you’re about to graduate and haven’t found a job yet, don’t freak out. It’s hard to land a full…
  - 5 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 1:00pm -
• newAre You A Coach in HR?
  I read an article in The New Yorker, probably the best article I’ve read in a while, on the importance of “Coaching” by Atul Gawande.  Atul is a writer and a surgeon, smart and creative – I should hate him, but he’s so freaking brilliant!…
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• newWould Candidates Pay for Interview Feedback?
  I get my ideas in the shower. I have a busy life, so it seems like my downtime is that solid 5 to 10 minutes I get in the shower. I usually shower twice a day—once first thing in the morning, then before I go to bed. That’s 10 to 20 minutes daily…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 12:55pm -
• Is work fun?
  What do you think? Is work fun? It’s really the question that keeps getting asked when we talk about the future of work, and employee experience, and employee engagement, etc. Do you believe that your work is “fun”? Fun? That’s the first prob…
  - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 19, 12:55pm -
• If Your Company has a Chief Happiness Officer you Should Rethink Your Career Path!
  In the past three weeks, I’ve been pitched by some well-meaning PR person about a story on how Google, Salesforce, Zappos, Airbnb, etc., have “Chief Happiness Officers” and how important they are to corporate success. Or at least, how “Happin…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 12:55pm -

Bullseye Recruiting

• “GHOSTING” HAS TO STOP NOW!- NO ONE WINS
  
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• Are You CHASING or BEING CHASED by Employers?
  
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• The CANDIDATES Are Just Not That Into You!
  
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• Before You Say “YES”, Ask These 5 Questions
  
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• SALES SPOTLIGHT- Jason Bagshaw- What it takes to be #1
  
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• 30 Minutes is NOT Long Enough to Interview with the Hiring Manager
  
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HR Cloud

• Millennial Engagement at the Speed of a Facebook “Like”
  Lying dormant inside the managers of Millennials is a super power that HR needs to know about. It’s one that encourages leaps and bounds in productivity across a team. 
What...
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• Is it Time for Your Company to do a Cultural Assessment?
  Those of us who work in human resources talk about company culture a lot. A heck of a lot. But let’s face it, for all the talk, company culture is...
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• 5 Most Important HR Stats of 2015
  We’re now nearly through 2015, so let’s look at some of the most important statistics about HR reported in the media so far.   1. The #1 challenge is culture and engagement.  In...
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• HR Cloud Launches New Engagement Platform at HR Tech
  HR Cloud drew the attention of HR Tech attendees with the release of its new Engagement Platform. Hundreds of demos were conducted at the HR Cloud booth, and HR pros...
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• Great HR is Technology Driven HR – #HRTechConf
  I had a conversation with a colleague the other day about the upcoming HR Technology Conference and Exposition. “Do HR practitioners attend?” he asked. “I always thought that conference was...
  - 8 Oct 15, 6:55pm -

Women of HR

• Building Organizations Worthy of Our People #WorkHuman 2019
  I recently had the honor and privilege of attending the Workhuman conference for my fourth year in a row.  That’s four out of five years for me.  I missed the first year, but only because I didn’t know about the event until it was already happe…
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• How to Excel as a Young Woman Entering the Workforce Today
  Today, most Americans consider women just as capable of leadership as men. Despite this, there are still a number of barriers that women have to navigate when they strive to advance their career. The glass ceiling continues to be a very real issue, p…
  - 78 days ago, 5 Feb 19, 12:00pm -
• The “Great Culture” Fallacy
  Organizational Culture. No doubt, it’s a hot topic among HR professionals and business leaders alike.  In a time when the competition for great talent continues to heat up, most seem to agree that having a great company culture is certainly a comp…
  - 85 days ago, 29 Jan 19, 12:00pm -
• Is Perfectionism Required to Be Successful?
  In a business world often still very male dominated, being a woman can be a challenge. How do women manage the challenges and strive to be successful? Often, it’s by trying to be perfect. We’re taught by culture that perfectionism is supposed to…
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• 6 Tips for Getting Away Without Sacrificing Your Business
  You have climbed your way up the career ladder, shattered glass ceilings and have a long history of success on your resume. But you didn’t work this hard to stay perched at the top with no respite from your daily duties. You need to take advantage…
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• Business Outcomes & Human Centered Experiences – #HRTechConf 2018
  The 2018 HR Technology Conference is now in the books, having wrapped up about two weeks ago.  As I usually do, I’ve spent the time since then mulling over what I heard and saw there, reviewing my notes and tweets and thinking about the show as a…
  - 1 Oct 18, 2:34pm -

HR Examiner

• newHRExaminer Radio – Executive Conversations: Episode #323: Ben Eubanks, Principal Analyst, Lighthouse Research & Advisory
  John Sumser speaks with Ben Eubanks, the Principal Analyst at Lighthouse Research & Advisory and the author of Artificial Intelligence for HR: Use AI to Build a Successful Workforce.
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• newWhy are Some Leaders more Committed to Diversity than Others?
  Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic draws from a variety of psychological studies to highlight three factors that show why certain leaders are more effective and committed to diversity.
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• newHow to Fix Your Diversity Problem in One Easy Step
  "I will cut to the chase, so you don’t even need to slog through the whole post. You have a “diversity problem?” Fire your managers. Today." - Joe Gerstandt
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• HRExaminer v10.16
  Doug Shaw recently spotted a tweet from his friend Trish McFarlane. Trish wrote, “Just thinking out loud ~ increased #productivity is good, but does it kill time for #creativity? That got Doug thinking and pretty soon he was Finding His Way through…
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• HR Tech Weekly: Episode #215: Stacey Harris and John Sumser
  This Week, John has a quick update from the SAP Innovation Lab in San Francisco, ADP Launches Next-Generation Tax Engine, French HR Tech company HR Path received €100M to fuel rapid expansion into international markets, Learning Technologies Group…
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• Don’t Ignore The Obvious
  "Striving for excellence is difficult. Give you and your organization the edge by taking the time to reexamine the fundamental beliefs that surround you every day." - Dr. Todd Dewett
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Minnesota Headhunter

• newMinnesota Morning… Minnebar14, Evereve, Foundry And ADX Labs Are Hiring
  “It’s like you’ve been hiding in plain sight” A tech friend of mine said that to the me the other day. They felt like while they see me online a few times a week (Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn) they don’t...
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• newMinnesota Recruiter Jobs
  The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers. Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand – Fall 2018 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring. NEWS… check out our regions new talent.…
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• newMinnesota Recruiter Jobs
  The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers. Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand – Fall 2018 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring. NEWS… check out our regions new talent.…
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• Minnesota Recruiter Jobs
  The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers. Click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand – Fall 2018 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring. NEWS… check out our regions new talent.…
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• State Of Minnesota Considering Legislation Prohibiting Employers From Asking For Access To Private Social Media Accounts
  This month (March of 2019) legislation (H. F. No. 1196 & S.F. No. 1432) was introduced at the Minnesota Legislature making it illegal for employers to require access to their employees’ private accounts, to demand they be opened in front...
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• Spring 2019 Minnesota Startup Job Fair: Sales, Marketing and Customer Success Jobs
  My podcast partner, friend and brother Casey Allen (@casey__allen) has announced his next Minnesota Startup Job Fair. Some details from Casey: March 27th (yes tomorrow) 5- 7 pm WeWork Capella Tower 225 South 6th Street Minneapolis, MN 442 Who should.…
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Fistful of Talent

• newBefore you were hired, there was a labelscar.
  Do you ever drive by a mall or old business and see a labelscar? You probably didn’t realize there was an actual term for what you saw. A labelscar is when a sign is taken off from a building, and the dust and fade marks still show in the shape of…
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• newEmployees Won’t Notice If You Have Recognition, but They Will Leave If You Don’t.
  Let’s start with a riddle: The poor have it. The rich need it. If you eat it you will die. What is it? I’ll answer it at the end of the post. Trust me, it will connect. While you’re thinking of the answer let’s have a quick chat. I’ve been…
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• newIf You Just Rely on AI to Train Managers, Don’t Be Surprised at the Management You Get.
  I’m not easily surprised, but I am when I see something like this: According to The Wall Street Journal, companies are now turning to robots to train and coach young managers. *Insert your bad manager joke here* According to The Journal, the traini…
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• Throwing out the Bad Apples
  Everyone’s heard the phrase “a bad apple spoils the bunch,” but in my work experience, this hasn’t been true.  In my experience, it isn’t the bad apple that spoils the bunch; it’s the semi-bad apple. That apple that you think is just as…
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• Know Your Why–Gut Decisions and Your Career
  I feel like I should dedicate this post to PFP, a local gym my youngest daughter attends. My youngest has scoliosis, and in addition to being braced for a number of years by a phenomenal Orthotist, she’s been working out with a trainer to have an a…
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• The 996 Recruiting Schedule!
  If you didn’t see it, Jack Ma, the co-founder, and billionaire behind Alibaba, was out promoting his own work schedule that’s been dubbed “996”! Basically, Jack works 9 am to 9 pm, six days per week, and sees absolutely nothing wrong with it.…
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Josh Bersin Blog

• newFrom Talent Management To Talent Experience. Why The HR Tech Market Is In Disruption
  Have you noticed how many interesting new HR software companies we have?  There’s a reason. The craze for “integrated talent management systems” is ending, now replaced by a market for “talent...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Ad…
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• Employee Engagement 3.0 – From Feedback to Action
  The employee engagement and feedback tools market has been explosive. As I wrote about in Feedback is the Killer App, giving employees the ability to express their opinions has transformed the world...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advis…
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• Corporate Citizenship Redefined: Trust, Inclusion, and Responsibility
  We live in a strange time. 46% of citizens around the world believe the system is failing, fewer than 50% trust their government, and income inequality continues to grow. In California, where I live,...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advi…
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• The Employee Experience: It’s Trickier (and more important) Than You Thought
  I just finished a week of meetings discussing HR Technology and the Employee Experience and I want to give you some thoughts. This topic is enormously important, and it’s actually harder than...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory S…
  - 31 days ago, 24 Mar 19, 5:24pm -
• Learning Experience Platform (LXP) Market Grows Up: Now Too Big To Ignore
  The learning experience platform (LXP) market is growing up fast.  Only a few years ago startup companies like Pathgather, Degreed, and EdCast pioneered the idea of a platform to make corporate...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory…
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• Microsoft Teams, Slack, Facebook Workplace Are Taking Over: And We Better Take Notice
  Let’s face it, the paradigm of email is broken. Research shows that employees spend over 20% of their time on messages unrelated to their jobs, and in most companies, the email system has...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Servi…
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Your HR Buddy

• 4 Employer Branding Mistakes You Need to Avoid
  There is no doubt that building and maintaining a powerful employer brand will help you stand out, attract the best talent to your organization, become an employer of the choice and retain your employees. These 2017 Top Companies are competitive when…
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• AI Cannot Replace the Human Element in Recruiting
  If you are in Recruiting, one of the buzzwords you hear the most these days is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Recruiting. Robots..Chatbots…Machine learning…AI…are taking over the HR and Recruiting world and creating anxiety of robots stealing…
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• Blogging with a Purpose
  Two years ago, HR blogging, broadcasting DiveThruHR Podcasts and India HR LIVE talk shows had been my full-time job. No, It wasn’t a paying gig!  But I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from that experience, which helped me get ahead in my c…
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• HR is a Consulting Function not Shared Services
  During my interview with Josh Bersin, Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte; I asked him, ‘Do companies really need to rethink about having an HR department. Why do some companies say ‘No’ to having an HR department and what are some of th…
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• 4 tips to help candidates ease up during Interviews
  Interviews can be stressful for both interviewer (Recruiters/HR/Hiring Manager) and job candidate. It’s challenging for both to know if it is going to be a right fit or not. A great recruiter would do his best job of building a relationship with th…
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• Employee Satisfaction and Culture Instigators at Rackspace
  Yesterday Crystal Miller and I interviewed Kelly Long @Kelly_long, HR Chief of Staff at Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company and she talked about the unique work culture at Rackspace, tracking employee satisfaction and having ‘Culture Instigators’…
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HR Gazette

• newBenefits of Using Chatbots in HR
  Companies with their finger on the pulse are aware that chatbots and conversational AI are set to make a big splash over the next few years. According to a recent survey, 87% of CEOs are currently looking to expand their AI workforce. And with good r…
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• newEmployee Development: An Emotional Investment
  The people of an organization collectively form its most vital resource and should be made to feel valued, relevant, and needed. Employees that are nurtured and developed can prove to be the foundation of an organization. Yet, if I’ve heard it once…
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• newHRchat Podcast Interview: Analytics-Fueled Talent Management with Dr Shreya Sarkar
  Evidence-Based Talent Management Tips In this episode of the HRchat show, we hear from Dr. Shreya Sarkar-Barney, founder and CEO of Human Capital Growth (HCG), an evidence-based talent management firm. Combining science and analytics, HCG helps organ…
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• Seven Things to Know About Employee Monitoring
  It’s not an uncommon occurrence for employees to slack off at work. Whether it’s checking social media, watching videos on the internet, making personal phone calls, or any number of distractions, employees often have their attention diverted awa…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 12:46pm -
• HRchat Podcast Interview: The Evolution of Workplace Wellness with David Osborne and Rajiv Kumar, Virgin Pulse
  In the latest episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham is joined by senior leaders at Virgin Pulse to consider the evolution of the workforce wellness space. Our guests are Virgin Pulse CEO David Osborne and Rajiv Kumar, Chief Medical Officer and Pres…
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• AI in Recruitment – 5 Fascinating Uses
  AI is the latest trend in the recruitment industry. AI tools such as parsing software, ATS, chatbots help in reducing manual process & saves time.The post AI in Recruitment – 5 Fascinating Uses appeared first on The HR Gazette.
  - 9 days ago, 15 Apr 19, 1:41pm -

Everyday People

• newThe Tie-Dye That Binds !!
  If you don’t already know, I’m kind of a hippie. I have been for most of my life since college. I’ve tried to be an open minded person who looks at life from many, many angles. Don’t get me wrong. I have strong beliefs and values of my own, b…
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• Don’t Dwell !!
  I mentioned recently that my wife and I have joined a gym. It’s at a neighboring city’s community center. It’s something we’ve talked about for years, and I’m glad we finally signed up. We intentionally started before the end of the year so…
  - 10 days ago, 14 Apr 19, 9:50pm -
• Phone A Friend !!
  Do you remember the television game show hosted by Regis Philbin Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? When it first aired my wife and I had two very young kids and we were glued to the set for every episode !! I have always been a trivia buff so this fed i…
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• Write. Read. Share.
  I’m going into my eighth year of having an HR blog. It’s something I truly enjoy. It gives me a chance to share my thoughts, perspectives and ideas. I have always liked being creative, and having a platform like this gives me a chance to see what…
  - 31 days ago, 24 Mar 19, 10:52pm -
• Blank Canvas !!
  This past Friday my wife and I were invited by a friend to come to the soft opening of her new business. She had once been in a Corporate Wellness role, but recently was affected by a downsizing. This is never easy. To be between jobs is challenging…
  - 38 days ago, 17 Mar 19, 11:04pm -
• Take Your Shot !!
  A few weeks ago my wife and I got to experience something we had been anticipating for over two years. We went to see the musical Hamilton !! We had heard all the hype and hoped it would live up to it. We even did some show prep by listening to the s…
  - 45 days ago, 10 Mar 19, 11:17pm -

Workplace Diva

• newSurvey says we're now faking our vacations to look good
  Ah, summer. It's almost here, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. And that means only one thing: your coworkers could exaggerate the greatness of their vacation!A survey of more than 4,000 Americans from travel site Jet Cost reveals that more than t…
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• newMore than half of employees are handling their coworker conflicts online
  Another day, another flurry of unread work emails. These emails stare back at you in bold face, daring you to read them. Too bad a new survey reveals your coworkers aren't bold enough to have a face-to-face confrontation anymore!A new Randstad US stu…
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• newHow to deal with a coworker's snow plow parent
  You're having a work-related problem with a coworker. A deadline was missed, a few wires got crossed, a task fell through the cracks, a few words were exchanged. You're trying to get things back on track when your phone rings. The caller wants to kno…
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• Is Generation X desperate? No, but recent articles about Gen X sure are
  Are you a Gen Xer who feels invisible at work? A recent spate of news articles points to the utter isolation and quiet, lost desperation of today's 40-and-early-50-something working professionals. Hey, we're over here! Please send help!via GIPHYGener…
  - 20 days ago, 4 Apr 19, 6:31pm -
• When you lose a work friend to religion
  You very much enjoy a coworker's company at work. The two of you are like two peas in a workplace pod.Then one day this coworker begins drifting away. Your break time visits suddenly begin to dwindle, your text chats are drying up, and your daily cof…
  - 20 days ago, 4 Apr 19, 4:38pm -
• Is your coworker gaslighting you? Survey finds it's a common problem
  Have you ever been "gaslighted" at work? You're in good company: an online poll of more than 3,000 U.K. employees reveals that more than half think they've been gaslighted by a coworker! If you're not familiar with the term "gaslighting", it basicall…
  - 22 days ago, 2 Apr 19, 5:15pm -

Corn on the Job

• 8 Ways To Develop A High-Performing Team
  In a world that demands as much as this one does, it’s imperative to have high-performing teams, or as I like to call them – super teams. Now the question is how exactly do you get your team to reach that level of performance? Well, you could try…
  - 20 days ago, 4 Apr 19, 12:15pm -
• What to Expect From a Video Interview
  Photo Source: Shutterstock What Should you Expect From a Video Interview?   Video interviewing software is becoming more popular among recruiters, which means job seekers will start encountering it more often. This can be a scary prospect, especiall…
  - 23 days ago, 1 Apr 19, 5:16pm -
• 3 Reasons to use Essaybot to Write Your Research Paper
  Do you know when you’re sitting down and writing your research paper but the words aren’t coming out easily?  This is when you need Essaybot to help with your research paper. Stop struggling with your research papers and spend less time worrying…
  - 23 days ago, 1 Apr 19, 3:45pm -
• “Think BIG” by Dr. h.c. Harald Seiz – Why Self Belief is so Important to an Entrepreneur
  Having travelled the path from a modest life as a child in Germany to becoming the founder and CEO of companies with an overall turnover of 100 million euros, Dr. h. c. Harald Seiz is perfectly placed to talk about the important role that self-belief…
  - 36 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 3:24am -
• The Keys to Finding Meaningful Work
  Image source Most people search for careers that will provide them with financial security rather than looking for work that fulfills their passions and dreams. Find a career that is fulfilling seems to be left for those talented few that have an exc…
  - 36 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 2:36pm -
• Look Outside The Workplace To Enhance Your Career
  When it comes to looking for a job or chasing a promotion, your focus will be on crafting the most effective resume. Focusing on your job experience and your achievements can help convince your employer that you’re the best person for the job, but…
  - 36 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 2:13pm -

Texas Strategic HR

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The HR Blog

• How to Avoid Political Debates at Work
  Continue reading How to Avoid Political Debates at Work at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 18 days ago, 7 Apr 19, 3:16am -
• Managing Friendships at Workplace
  Continue reading Managing Friendships at Workplace at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 18 days ago, 7 Apr 19, 3:07am -
• Time Management 101
  Continue reading Time Management 101 at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 23 days ago, 2 Apr 19, 4:03am -
• How To Become A Better Manager
  Continue reading How To Become A Better Manager at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 33 days ago, 23 Mar 19, 3:55am -
• Tips for an Excellent Comeback after a Bad Performance Review
  Continue reading Tips for an Excellent Comeback after a Bad Performance Review at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 46 days ago, 10 Mar 19, 4:22am -
• Importance of Pursuing Cross Functional Roles to Prepare for Leadership Roles
  Continue reading Importance of Pursuing Cross Functional Roles to Prepare for Leadership Roles at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
  - 49 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 3:42am -

The HR Capitalist

• newPeople Don't Choose Netflix For Content - Or Your Company for Ping-Pong...
  One of the things I'm fascinated by in the business world is how the media/content business consistently changes. Newspapers - gone. Magazines - hard to find in print these days unless you're in an airport. Broadcast networks - Still around...
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 3:48pm -
• The Non-Working, Non-Credible Executive at Your Company...
  Let's talk about something that impacts every organization - The perception of whether your executives do anything, and in a related topic, whether they are viewed as credible. There's 4 buckets every executive at your company falls into: 1--Works ha…
  - 9 days ago, 15 Apr 19, 3:03pm -
• Minimum Viable Product in the World of HR...
  If there's one thing that HR could do better at, it's caring less about being perfect and shipping more HR product. You see it all the time in the world of HR. We have big plans. Those big plans include...
  - 70 days ago, 13 Feb 19, 4:42pm -
• The Cold-Blooded Art of Owning/Getting In Front of Huge Career Mistakes...
  Let's face it. If you're in the game and playing to win. you're going to have some failures. Sh*t that goes sideways. "Regrettable situations", as I like to refer to them. I like to think Teddy Roosevelt had it right...
  - 72 days ago, 11 Feb 19, 1:12pm -
• Suck Less: The Reality Behind Your Small Failures at Work...
  Let's talk about small failures at work. The kind that stack up and make you feel like you had a crappy week. Some of you think everyone is watching you when you fail small. The dirty little secret is no...
  - 78 days ago, 5 Feb 19, 12:37pm -
• Chill Out: It Really Doesn't Matter Where Your Kids Go to College...
  I've got a senior in High School, and you know what that means - time for admission envy, parental handwringing and everything that goes with along with that. Sarah's going to Vanderbilt/Harvard/Stanford. Man, I wish my kid would have worked...
  - 79 days ago, 4 Feb 19, 5:26pm -

Unbridled Talent

• Success, Leading To Win and Faith with Eric Peoples
  What you feed will live and what you starve will die – the same principle applies to leadership. If you want to be a great leader, you have to feed your fire to serve and inspire. Today, Jennifer and Eric to talk about success, leadership, and coac…
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• Finding Your Voice and Telling Your Story with Val Brown
  Whether you’re thrilled or terrified to talk about your story, it’s important to remember that everyone has something unique to share with the world – one that’s meaningful and inspiring. But how do you tell your story without compromising yo…
  - 27 Sep 18, 1:00pm -
• From Felon to Entrepreneur and Impact Maker with Adam Martin
  What if we were all given an unlimited amount of grace despite our shortcomings? Adam Martin is the Founder of F5 Project, an organization that provides job and housing opportunities to felons leaving the prison system so they can have a sense of pur…
  - 6 Sep 18, 1:00pm -
• Bringing Clarity and New Practices to Diversity and Inclusion with Joe Gerstandt
  Joe Gerstandt isn’t just a straight white dad with tons of tattoos. He’s also an expert on diversity and inclusion who has trained leaders at Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, the government, and more. He also speaks on how each of us can becom…
  - 30 Aug 18, 1:00pm -
• 6 Ways to Share Your Personal Brand with the World
  Communicating your personal brand doesn’t have to be complicated. Your next step is often right under your nose! This episode concludes Jennifer’s three part series on personal branding, and she shares 6 ways that you can do to begin sharing your…
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• Taking Your Personal Brand to the Next Level with Jennifer McClure
  In the words of Sally Hogshead, “Different is better than better.” In the second part of a 3-part series on personal branding, Jennifer shares some tools, strategies and exercises from her Personal Brand Worksheet that you can use to discover whe…
  - 16 Aug 18, 1:00pm -

True Faith HR

• Was There Ever A Golden Age of Conversation?
  The Killeen Chair of Theology and Philosophy Lecture Series kicked off its theme of "Technology and Community"with Dr. Carol Bruess discussing "Our Love-Affair With Technology: Some (Inconvenient) Truths."Given the topic, it was not surprising to hea…
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• True Faith #HR Replay: Why HR Should Care About The @NBASummerLeague #8ManRotation
  I'm heading to Las Vegas today and meeting up with the whole (?) 8 Man Rotation folk (Kris Dunn, Steve Boese, Tim Sackett, and, possibly Lance Haun) to take in a couple days of NBA Summer League action.  Worth revisiting this July 2013 post.  If…
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• How Expensive Will #SHRM19 Hotels Be?
  While the SHRM Annual Conference just ended, the SHRM Housing Office gave attendees a sneak peek into the prices for the 2019 Conference being held in Las Vegas, June 23-26.  You, too, can make your early reservation for next year's conference (…
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• True Faith #HR Rewind: The MBTI of Easter
  Originally posted March 27, 2016 While some believe there are 16 distinct personality types based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), I've long held there are 16 distinct personality types based on Easter candy preference...the ECTI.  The…
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• Speaker Evaluations and #SHRM18
  Last year on the SHRM blog, I bemoaned the sorry state of affairs of speaker evaluations by those HR professionals who are supposedly experienced in the art of giving feedback.  Too often, the comments given to speakers are rarely helpful, or, frank…
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• The Shape of #WorkHuman
  Copyright Fox SearchlightTwo weeks ago, "The Shape of Water" earned the Best Picture win at the Academy Awards.  Set in a high security government lab in the 1960s, this literal fish out of water tale tells the unique story of a mute woman who falls…
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HR Potential

• Can HR ever be ethical?
  Following on from last week’s post What is HRM? I asked the students for their opinions on whether HR can ever be ethical. If you are interested in the background to this lecture, please refer to last year’s blog post. Yes, HR can be Ethical Thi…
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• What is HRM? 2018
  It’s that time of year again when I ask students to submit their comments and ideas about the fundamental basis of HRM. It’s pretty hard to believe that my last posts on the blog were of the exact same questions last year – that’s PhD life fo…
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• Can HRM ever be ethical?
  This post is part of a mini series in which I am engaging the students from my module in answering fundamental questions about HRM. The module is critically focussed (rather than mainstream), based on the necessity that HRM reflect and critique it’…
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• What is HRM?
  For those of you who aren’t aware, I run a module for students in the final year of their undergraduate degree called Employee Resourcing and Development. In order to differentiate the module, as well as building on the student’s knowledge from…
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• #durhamminersgala 2017 favourite snaps
  The Durham Miner’s Gala is one of my favourite days of the year. I have been attending most of them for around 13 years. I love the brass band music, the colourful banners and the history of the event. This year I decided to take a camera and try t…
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• From Political Economy to the Job Centre
  Last week I attended the Critical Management Studies conference, hosted by Edge Hill University in the faded grandeur of the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. It was my second time visiting the city and also my second academic conference. Although my strea…
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Evil HR Lady

• newGoogle Walkout Leaders Now Claim Retaliation
  Last November, thousands of Google Employees participated in a walkout to protest everything from forced arbitration to transparency in sexual harassment investigations. Google listened and granted much of what the protesters asked for. So why are…
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• newHow to Use Employee Benefits to Avoid Getting Stood Up by Your Employees
  For years, hiring new employees involved a lot of “ghosting.” That is, recruiters and hiring managers would interview candidates — sometimes multiple times — and then never get back to them. No mention of “Thanks so much, but we’ve decide…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 10:01pm -
• newThis Simple Trick Can Help Eliminate Gender Bias in Performance Ratings
  Unconscious bias sneaks up on you. In medicine, it can be deadly, but in other fields, it can kill careers.  We’ve long known that university students favor male professors and rate them higher than female professors. While you can argue that ov…
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• Can I Require Employees to Speak English?
  I manage a group of employees at a company where English is our official business language. There are a few people that speak only English, while another group speaks English and Spanish. The bilingual group often communicates in Spanish, which makes…
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• Cutting Employee Pay
  I’m a partner in a small business (we have three partners and seven employees). A few years ago, we went through rough financial times and cut everyone’s pay, including the partners, by 20 percent. When things improved, we raised the pay back up.…
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• No Place for Breastfeeding? That Will be $3.8 Million, Please
  Federal law requires that you provide breastfeeding moms a room with a locking door–that is not a bathroom–to pump breast milk up until the baby’s first birthday. This is pretty easy in a big office building with lots of space, but not so easy…
  - 7 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 10:27am -

Total Picture Radio

• Circa 2118 What Humans Will Do When Machines Take Over
  If you've listened to this show you know we spend a lot of time discussing AI - artificial intelligence - especially how it relates to talent acquisition and HR.
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• College Recruiting Bootcamp on AI at Google Campus, Mountain View
  Thanks to sponsor AllyO, TotalPicture will Livestream College Recruiting AI Bootcamp at Google
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• This is Awesome - Work Awesome and Inbox Awesome
  in NYC on December 6th here's an event that will knock your socks off. Work Awesome and Inbox Awesome. Meet the organizer in this podcast, Felix Zeltner
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• Dan Schawbel - Back to Human
  Dan Schawbel's mission in life "is to support my generation from student to CEO."
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• Veterans Day Special Leadership Podcast Honoring Dr. Richard Pimentel
  "You don't need to change people's minds about disability. You need to change people's minds about themselves." Richard Pimentel
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• Kathryn Minshew - Innovation and Leadership Podcast
  "There are currently five open engineering jobs for every developer looking for work. So it doesn't matter how good your brand is you're still competing for that talent." Kathryn Minshew
  - 6 Nov 18, 1:56pm -

Fishdogs

• Sourcecon preview from speaker Craig Fisher
  Hey this is Craig Fisher and it’s almost fall!  I know it seems hot right now.  But you know where it’s gonna be hotter in September? Atlanta for SourceCon September 24 through 26.  I hope you’ll join me.  We’re gonna talk tech.  We’re…
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• Employer Branding That Really Works for Recruiting Gen Y Workers
  OK. I get it. You’re probably tired of hearing about Millennials (Gen Y) by now. I can’t say I blame you, if we’re being honest. But as much hiring hype as Gen Y has received in recruiting over the years, the fact is that no employer can affo…
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• The “New Traditional” Workforce
  A recent Allegis Group survey found that 7.7 percent of companies were fully satisfied that their recruiting functions met expectations for quality, speed, and cost control. If you feel you’re in the other 92 percent, congratulations! You know yo…
  - 30 Jan 18, 2:41pm -
• Plug and Pray – The Evolution of AI for Recruiting
  Long, long ago, back when job boards ruled the Earth, primitive recruiters and sourcers used to rely on an archaic tactic known as “post and pray.” By simply posting job descriptions on pretty much every career site in existence (and there were m…
  - 29 Dec 17, 1:35am -
• Ready for the robots: Survey says job candidates are mostly okay with AI Apps in the application process
  Artificial intelligence is taking over parts of the recruitment process. From answering initial candidate questions to scheduling interviews, and even assessing skills, this is a growing trend that is rapidly streamlining how we hire. We recently sur…
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• Building An Effective Employee Referral Program
  Your best source for job candidates? Employees. CA Technologies’ Craig Fisher outlines the do’s and don’ts for building an employee referral program. Why should getting employee referrals be part of your recruiting strategy? “They tend to h…
  - 17 Oct 16, 11:46am -

Cost of Work

• This Year Was Supposed to About Race, So What Happened?
  Whelp, I was going to dedicate this year to race relations on this blog. However something weird happened. ALL HELL BROKE LOSE. Black men kept getting shot and streamed live on Facebook and social media. They went viral. I got...Read more
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• Why Doesn’t Women’s History Month Piss (Some of) You Off Like Black History Month Does?
  “All year long I am writing about race relations in America because things are so poor – anger and hatred seem to dominate the news. We are less tolerant than any point over the last 30 years.” Seriously, just the...Read more
  - 22 Mar 16, 12:30pm -
• Tiffany, It’s Your Day (#TKDay)
  It was in 2012 that I first encountered Tiffany Kuehl online during the SHRM National Conference Explosion in Atlanta. I had already met Dave Ryan and spoken to Steve Browne and a few others but I remember Tiffany because she was...Read more
  - 15 Mar 16, 2:30pm -
• The Intersection of Racism and Poverty
  Well, this year I am writing about Race Relation in 2016. Things are so messed up and you would think they would be getting better in 2016, but they are not.   I have learned that America is divided into...Read more
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• Why Are White Men So Angry?
  Why are White Men So Angry? Let me start off by saying not ALL white men are angry, just SOME. Those are the guys who are really holding this country back and trying to take us into the stone age. I also...Read more
  - 2 Feb 16, 12:30pm -

The Buzz on HR

• #BlackBlogsMatter – Week 5 – Beware D&I Mascots
  
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• #BlackBlogsMatter – Week 4 – Black Pawns on White ChessBoards
  
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• #BlackBlogsMatter – Week 3 – I Ain’t Going Black & Forth with You
  
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• #BlackBlogsMatter – Week 2 – Make America Separate Again?
  
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• #BlackBlogsMatter – Week 1 – Black Blogs STILL Matter
  Many ask me why I am still doing this. What's the point? What's the goal?
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• 7 Words & Phrases to Eliminate in 2019
  
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UnderCover Recruiter

• newHow Can a Manager Support an Employee Experiencing a Mental Health Problem
  When it comes to having to support one of your staff with a mental health problem there are certain do’s and don’ts. What you might think is the right approach may cause more harm to your employee even if you mean well. It’s one of the most sen…
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• new5 Technology Tips Every Employer Should Use to Hunt Top Talent
  Competition for talent is fierce. Despite some global economic uncertainty, such as Brexit casting a shadow over the UK and Europe, employers haven’t slowed down with growth and hiring plans. Ambitious professionals are changing jobs and careers at…
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• newWhy People Fear Giving Their Manager Feedback
  Mary has a Director who comes in EVERY DAY between 9 and 10 when her team is supposed to be there at 8. While the boss, the Executive Director, talked with the person, the tardiness continues. Because this Director is allowed to come in late every da…
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• Balancing Hyper Growth and Company Culture
  The public eye has recently cast a spotlight on company culture, leaving several companies wondering: how do you strike a balance between building a healthy culture that keeps employees happy and making sure that the company can continue to strive fo…
  - 3 days ago, 21 Apr 19, 4:03pm -
• 12 Ways to Bounce Back From a Layoff
  As an employer, you are likely tasked with hiring people, but that also means you might have to oversee layoffs. No matter your job type, from manual labor to sitting at a desk, layoffs are inevitable. It may not happen while you’re at the company,…
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• 5 Ways to Restore Your Culture’s Shine
  How would an outsider—a client or customer, perhaps—describe your company’s culture? If you don’t have an immediate answer to this question, ask yourself why. All too often, our organizations don’t have clearly defined and discussed culture…
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Lifes Crazy Joke

• This will go in history down as my best idea… or my worst.
  This is a post about money. Talking about money is rude. But when have you ever known me to be polite? Zero times. Right now I’m paying a social media manager, a nanny, a few part-time graphic designers, some part-time photographers, my mom (she…
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• Five Podcasts To Get You Into Podcasts
  The other day I had to explain to my mom what the word “podcast” means (which is hilarious since years ago I co-hosted a fairly successful one). Podcasts are these little bits of talk radio (for lack of a better description) that come in every g…
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• Skinny people get sick, too.
  I thought I was having a heart attack. Or maybe a panic attack. But the more I sat there, wheezing, chest tight, arms numb – the more I realized I was probably going to die. This was it, I had finally worked myself to death. Putting in 80 hours a…
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• I’ve been wearing leggings as pants for Science.
  I’ve been adamant about leggings not being pants. Because they’re leggings. And not pants. You can read my most popular blog post ever about this highly controversial (and totally polarizing) topic by clicking here. I was the one who told all of…
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• You Park Like An Asshole & Other Neighborly Causes
  I could have spent today working on 1099s. I could have spent today getting a pitch done for tomorrow. But no. I spent today fighting for the cause. YOU. ARE. WELCOME. NEIGHBORS. I spent a significant amount of time making this diagram to show you gu…
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HR Bacon Hut

• TNSHRM! Social Media We Have Arrived!
  NSHRM! Social Media We Have Arrived!
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• Resuscitate HR with Bacon
  The must-Have #bacon snack recommendation for #SHRM13 from HR Bacon Hut would be chunks of bacon and pretzels in chocolate chip batter!
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• What? No Bacon? Just SHRM?
  Tonight: 6pm-7pm cst my SHRM Chapter Middle Tennessee SHRM will be hosting a social media workshop. We need a back channel. #MTSHRMeep
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• HRevolution 2012
  Why doe #HRevolution feel somehow different this year? #shrm #shrmlead #tchat #dthr
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• How to Be an HR Conference Lurker at #SHRM12
  #notatshrm12 ? Want to find out how to lurk & stalk #SHRM12 on Social Media? You should. Read on.
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Performance I Create

• Diversity Is Invited to The Party While Inclusion Is Being Asked to Dance.
  “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” There are dimensions of diversity based in life experiences. These include such things as where you went to school, the languages you have learned over time and the ski…
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• Diversity Only Gets Us So Far
  I am pleased to see that the incoming congressional freshman are as diverse than they’ve ever been. This freshman group is the youngest at an average age of 49, a full decade younger than the full Congress. A whopping 40% of the incoming freshman a…
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• Women Are Leading the Diversity Revolution!
  It has been 54 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson issued executive order 11246, requiring government contractors and subcontractors to implement affirmative action policies to expand job opportunities for minorities. The order was amended in 196…
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• Ladies! Are You Sheep or You Are Dragons?
  “Are You a Sheep? No, You’re a Dragon…So Go Be a Dragon!” That’s a powerful quote from one strong female to another in the blockbuster TV hit “Game of Thrones.”  In the process of re-watching the series  I’ve admired the evolution o…
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• Equal Pay Is Not a Favor or a Perk; It’s the Law!
  If you don’t pay all employees equal pay for equal work, you can violate: Title VII The Equal Pay Act State employment discrimination laws State equal pay laws Salary History laws Pay Equity is also a huge problem. Pew Research in 2016 determined:…
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• Ethical Leadership Starts With Us
  Ethics and leadership are closely aligned and in my opinion, difficult if not impossible to separate. You can’t have strong, positive leadership without ethics. And you can’t have a robust, ethical culture without strong leadership that endorse a…
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HackerRank Blog

• newA Practical Approach to Detecting and Correcting Bias in AI Systems [The New Stack]
  The following piece on bias in AI was originally published in The New Stack by Sofus Macskássy, VP of Data Science at HackerRank.  As companies look to bring artificial intelligence into the core of their business, calls for greater transparency …
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• 3 Rules for Creating a Candidate-First Hiring Process
  In the tech talent world, having a standout candidate experience is a prerequisite to attracting developers. It’s what helps us stay ahead in an increasingly competitive talent landscape. But recruiters can only control so much of it. Obviously, re…
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• Developers’ Take: Gen Z developers Are Looking to Make an Impact But Not Necessarily in Silicon Valley
  This is a new series where we will be interviewing developers to learn more about their views on job opportunities, their workplaces, and more. Gen Z (those born in 1997 onward) is about to enter the workforce starting this year so this week HackerRa…
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• Top 5 Takeaways from the Women in Tech Report
  2019 will be the first year where members of Gen Z (those born in 1997 onward) will enter the job market en masse. For our 2nd annual Women in Tech report, we surveyed more than 12,000 developers who identify as women and found eye-opening insights o…
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• Building a Technical Workforce with McKinsey & Company
  The management consulting industry is distinctive in that it can serve just about every business need imaginable. Consultants, as much as anything, are problem solvers and the areas they are brought into include every industry and functions as wide-r…
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• Front-loading the Hiring Process: How Seismic is Maximizing Recruiting Time
  Seismic is changing the way sales and marketing teams are sharing and distributing content. Their cloud-based software equips sales teams with personalized content proven to be the most effective for any buyer interaction, analytics around buyer enga…
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Ohio Employment Law Blog

• How to Take Your RSS to Email from Meh to Yeah!
  RSS to Email is a form of email automation that uses a feature almost every website has, though for some it’s a hidden feature: the RSS Feed. Utilizing the RSS Feed, you can send automatic emails to notify your subscribers of changes to your site,…
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• Getting Started with A/B Testing Your Emails
  A big part of email marketing – of all marketing – is finding out what works best for your brand and audience. For those just starting on our email platform or those who are looking to change up how they make their emails, it can be stressful to…
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• Should You Use Gifs in Your Emails?
  On websites, social media, and even messaging apps, animations are everywhere. Why not have them in your mailings as well? Marketing is all about capturing interest and gifs can be another tool in your arsenal. If a picture says a thousand words, wha…
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• 5 Ways to Target and Shape Your Mailings with Groups
  Sending targeted mailings to your subscribers is one of the most successful ways to boost open rates, click throughs, and social shares. You’re sending content created specifically for those subscribers, using their owwn language, and based off the…
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• 4 Useful Ways to Segment Your Subscriber List
  It’s important to not only have a subscriber list, but to understand it and make the most of it. What content brings in users? Why do certain users engage more than others? Who is under-engaged on this list, and how do you reach them? Cue segmentat…
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• How to Make Popup Email Subscription Forms That Work
  There’s a myriad amount of ways to gain new subscribers to your email lists, from subscribe-by-text to opt-ins during checkout. But one of the most powerful ways is to have an email subscription form on your website that brings itself to your users…
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The Recruiting Unblog

• Could Moocs be the next big thing in college recruiting?
  If you follow the learning and development community, then Moocs, or Massive On-line Open Courses won’t be a new concept. They have been gaining momentum, popularity and adoption since first appearing in 2008. .Wikipedia defines a Mooc…
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• The Talent Tipping Point
  I’ve never been a big fan of the talent community concept. I get the idea. It would be nice if jobs, careers and companies were interesting enough to support real communities. A real community in my opinion, enables everyone to…Read m…
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• Mental Health And Recruiting: A Little Honesty
  I’ve been thinking of re-launching my blog, and today I think I have something important enough to start writing again. Yesterday, at #truStockholm, I got in to a bit of a conversation with someone about mental health, and how to…Read more →R…
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• The #trulondon9 Schedule: Feb 26. Live from London
  This #trulondon is all change. We’ve tightened things up by making the tracks 40 minutes, we’ve gone back to the City Hotel, which many past participants have called our spiritual home deep in Brick Lane, and we’ve added “show and…
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• Big Data and Recruiting. A new @BillBoorman Whitepaper
  Related posts:Free Whitepaper: From Transaction To Relationship: The Agency Opportunity If you’ve seen me speaking recently at the Recruitment Agency...Big data in the recruiting process with Gild #HRTechEurope I’m live blogging from #HRTe…
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• #trulondon 9 – Feb 26’th – All new line up
  
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Musings From Sussex

• On the passing of my father
  As some know, my father passed way recently. He lived for many years with cancer, before a sudden deterioration. A few people know, and I’ve received some heartfelt messages of support. I’m thankful indeed for those – but it’s also made me re…
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• Is time flying? Is Twitter dying? Is this blog still alive?
  Got a huge backlog of things I want to write about, but simply haven’t made the time of late.  Everything starts with a first step, they say… Been a close watcher of the ups and downs at Twitter over the last year or so – with most of the com…
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• HR tips for a fast growth startup company
  While out at SXSW recently, I got the chance to catch up with ZipRecruiter.  As a fast growing tech startup, building a team AND supplying their core product to small/medium businesses around the world, I thought they might have some interesting th…
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• Five things from SXSW 2015
  With my fifth SXSW safely tucked away, I’m now familiar enough with the pattern to know the learning hits in three stages: the stuff that hits you in the face while in Austin, the stuff that seeps out of your subconscious as the margaritas evaporat…
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• Agile recruiting – and DiceTalentNet highlights
  Had a great day at TalentNet yesterday – wanted to share a few takeaways, my slide deck, and also some appreciation for those behind it.  Trying to get anything organised during SXSW is a battle – vying for venue space and more importantly, peo…
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• SXSW, DiceTalentNet and Data: good & evil
  Been a busy few months and fallen right out of the habit of blogging!  Time to spur it on, since SXSW beckons later this week, which means it’s about five years since I started this. I certainly remember writing up some reflections after my fir…
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Take It Personel-ly

• Cultural Competence: 7 Tips for Learning a New Language
  Do you want to learn a new language? Or have you stopped and started, and then stopped again only to realize that most of your progress had disappeared? Learning a new language can be difficult, especially if your mother tongue is totally different f…
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• 8 Effective Personal Finance Tips That Will Certainly Change Your Life
  Managing your personal finances can be difficult at times. Unexpected expenses and a higher cost of living can mean major headaches when bills are due. Read on to learn our top personal finance tips to help you take the stress out of your personal f…
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• 5 Types of Important Physical Documents and the Steps You Need to Take If They’re Misplaced or Damaged
  There are a number of documents that are so important to you that you really don’t want to contemplate the consequences and hassles you can face when trying to replace something that valuable. For example, losing your passport or social security do…
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• Top Three Tips to Build Your Public Speaking Confidence
  Speaking in front of a crowd is a nightmare for some. Even talking to a stranger or going to an interview sometimes gives them the butterflies because they don’t have that confidence to talk to other people. If you are one of them, well, you’re n…
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• Uli Jon Roth and the Love and Passion for what you do
  Last night I had the incredible experience of seeing Uli Jon Roth and his band perform in Ottawa. It is thanks to my husband that I was introduced to the Scorpions and the amazing musical talent of Uli Jon Roth. For those that do not know Uli, he was…
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• Who Is This Guy Snooze?
  There are no discoverable historical records about Doctor Snooze, but we do see evidence of his influence. His name is emblazoned on every alarm clock and smartphone in the world. Whoever he was, the damage done by his philosophy of instant gratifica…
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• Awareness of Time Usage and Personal Decision Making
  There are two truisms not usually put together that seem to make perfect sense when accidental usage brings them together. Peter Drucker’s quote, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed,” is one of th…
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• Lies About Multitasking In Resumes and Jobs
  Most people take pride in calling themselves multitaskers. Like other motherhood and apple pie topics, it has become a badge of honor to lay claim to the ability to do it even though there is not much proof that it works or even that it exists. Emplo…
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• The Burn-out Culture of Too Muchism
  “Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.” – Plato   Plato’s comments regarding multitasking were probably meant to be instructive to his followers. We can assume that the point of this lesson was to…
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• Personal Branding May Not Be What You Think It Is
  People are making a career out of that personal branding bandwagon that may have seen better days. There are multiple examples of selling the idea and products associated with personal branding. We have massaged and smithed this buzzword of years ago…
  - 20 Jun 18, 3:08pm -

No Excuses HR

• Faith, Values and HR
  Wait, what?I know what you are thinking. We can not talk about our faith in the workplace! That's crazy talk! We are going to get complaints, the employees will be in an uproar, and we might even get sued!Um, let's just slow down here for a minute…
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• Role Models
  I think about influential people a lot. Not the flash-in-the-pan 'Youtube sensations' mind you, I'm talking about actual role models. Real people who've done incredible things with their lives. Who Are These PeopleIt strikes me as somewhat counterin…
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• Visions In My Head
  We all see the world in one way...our way. We convince ourselves we're seeing it the right way too.Oh sure, we also claim to be open-minded, and willing to walk in other people's shoes too. Hahahaha...sure we do.Lens? What Lens?Here's my dilemma...d…
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• Side Step Leadership
  "I'm happy to do whatever you want me to do.""Oh, I'm ready to jump in at anytime, just tell me what you need.""I fully support this move, what would you like me to do?"  Talk is CheapWe've all heard these comments...often times from leaders in our…
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• I Don't Have Time for Social Media & Other Excuses
  I am blessed to work with great clients across the country...and for that matter I've been blessed to work with fantastic leaders for decades. One of the more interesting (and humorous) things I've heard while consulting, training and designing stra…
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• Physicians Need a Personal Brand Too
  A lot of time and energy is spent discussing the need for leaders, professionals, and just about everyone who is interested in advancing their careers to develop a robust personal brand.Make fun all you want...personal brands matter in the modern wor…
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The Chief People Officer

• Ageism and Best Places to Work
  “Hear the one about the unemployed middle-aged guy who tripped and fell into the new economy?” Dan Lyons, Author of Disrupted   It sucks being a middle-aged worker. Of all organizations in the U.S., award-winning best places to work should not d…
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• The Culture Revolution: Bracing for the Third Wave
  American businesses are experiencing a cultural tsunami. A tsunami is a series of overwhelming ocean waves caused by an underwater earthquake, volcanic eruption or landslide. The triggering event causes a displacement of water along with multiple wav…
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• Great Places to Work in the State of Oklahoma
  If you are searching for a great place to work in the State of Oklahoma, be sure to first look at organizations who have obtained an official great workplace designation. Although these awards do not guarantee the workplace is perfect, it shows, howe…
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• Great Places to Work in the City of Tulsa
  If you’re an employee located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and searching for a career at a great organization, you should only consider a Certified Great Place to Work. These companies have earned this designation after completing a rigorous vetting proce…
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• Sometimes Experts Really Suck at Being Experts
  J.K. Rowling, writer of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, faced rejection from so-called experts. Twelve publishers rejected Rowling’s first Harry Potter manuscript. Twelve “experts” rejected who was to become the world’s first billi…
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• Making a Best Workplace List is Not a Marketing Strategy
  Trying to make a best workplace list is not a marketing strategy. It is a people strategy. Making the “list” should be based on treating employees with trust and respect. If your great workplace initiative is being championed by the marketing dep…
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HR Remix

• Don’t Let Someone Else Tell Your Story
  New leaders have a short amount of time to tell their story. Leaders are brought in under a number of circumstances – sometimes its a simple transition from one job to the next and other times its because something needs to be “fixed.” Regardle…
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• Save Your Sanity This Year
  For many of us its goal setting time and that means some of us will get overly ambitious and set close-to-impossible goals for this new year (its possible I have experience in this area). Most of us don’t set these goals because we want to fail. Mo…
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• Why I Write & Speak Outside of Work
  A few weeks ago I spoke at Disrupt HR Detroit about how to make work suck less. It was 5 minutes, 20 slides and a little nerve wracking but I left exhilarated – I challenged myself, met new people and learned a lot. Did my company pay me to go...T…
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• How Do We Get the Important Work Done?
  In our last two posts we talked about how organizations play a big role in helping people focus on the important work; the work that moves organizations forward. However, you, as a leader or individual contributor also play a huge role in your abili…
  - 25 Jul 18, 11:00am -
• Carnival of HR – Your Break From The Summer Heat
  Yowza! It is blazing hot here in Ohio this summer! We are on week two without rain…and when you live near Lake Erie that is definitely something to celebrate! Some take a look at the heat wave and complain but I embrace the heat. I soak it up with…
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• How Do We Build Organizations That Support Important Work?
    This is the second in a three-part series about the time management problem, which I see as a problem finding time to do important work – work that moves the organization and its people forward. I’m not interested in the same recycled advice,…
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Talent Culture

• new#WorkTrends: Live from HR Transform, Part 1
  Kevin and I recently traveled to this year’s HR Transform conference in Las Vegas. Although HR Transform is one of the newest HR tech conferences in the country, it’s already a must-visit on any HR professional’s calendar. But we know that not…
  - 24 hours ago, 23 Apr 19, 5:51pm -
• newHow to Save Money and Offer Employees Better Coverage with Self-Insurance
  When faced with the annual challenge of ever-increasing health insurance premiums, many employers succumb to what they feel is their only option: raising already-high employee deductibles to offset costs. Employers can’t keep doing this, especially…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 1:40pm -
• #WorkTrends: Building a People-Focused Culture
  Donna Kimmel is executive vice president and chief people officer at Citrix, so I guess you could say she’s literally a people person! And that makes her the perfect guest for this week’s #WorkTrends topic: the importance of building a people-cen…
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• 3 Ways Employee Benefits Will Change in the Next 5 Years
  As the future of work continues to rapidly evolve and organizations across every industry battle for top talent, cookie-cutter benefits packages just aren’t going to be enough to attract the best and brightest workers. Smart organizations are turni…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 2:48pm -
• The Best Companies Are Just Starting To Tackle Gender Bias in Recruiting
  To be honest, I don’t talk about being a woman in business very much. I’m in a field that is filled with vibrant, brilliant, highly successful women who tend to go at a very fast clip, with little time or inclination for reflection. HR is filled…
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• #WorkTrends: Lessons on Leadership and Diversity from One of West Point’s First Female Grads
  Sara Potecha was one of West Point’s first female graduates. Now, she works as a speaker, consultant and writer. If that isn’t enough to make you feel lazy, know that Potecha also works as a leadership coach, often advising women on how to naviga…
  - 12 days ago, 12 Apr 19, 2:37pm -

Recruiting Animal

• How To Command a Niche
  Link: Charge What You Deserve. 3 Quick and easy ways to Command a Profitable Niche October 13th, 2008 · No Comments So, who IS that client of yours? Where are you going to “dig your niche”? You are going to dig right where your B-O-M-B is! Your…
  - 42 days ago, 13 Mar 19, 10:18am -

Strategy Focused HR

• WE HAVE MOVED
  Please check out our new website atwww.strategyfocusedhr.comWe will no longer post to this site.  Thank you very much for your support over the years.  Please join us at the above so that we can stay connected.
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• Only Time Will Tell If You REALLY Believe That Employees Come First
  There are only three agenda items at our executive meetings: People, sales, and profit.In what order I asked? “That is the order,” was the response.Everyone in the room looked on like an approving parent.I belong to a group in Dubai that we calle…
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• Are You Making Sure To Change Your Talent Along With Your Strategy?
  I have never had strategy and talent explained that way. I am a professor at a Business School here in Dubai and I teach strategy. We should put something together.At the end of one of my speeches, I was approached by this professor who gave me his b…
  - 23 Sep 15, 10:34am -
• The Tide Is Turning – The Old Ways Of Managing A Workforce Are Evolving
  These were recent headlines that came across my news feed: Would You Give Staff a Three-Day Weekend? Global Retailer Uniqlo is Giving it a GoFacebook Co-founder Calls Out Tech Industry for Lack of Work-Life BalanceHow Working Long Hours is Hitting Yo…
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• Better Engagement? It Trickles Down From Managers to Your Employees
  I do not care whether anyone here likes me or not.Please do not come to me with this, I should be the last person that you come to with questions, go figure it out.Now I just do my job and what is required. Nothing more.This one-sided conversation wa…
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• Maybe Amazon’s New World Of Work Isn’t Right For Someone Like Me
  “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk,” said former Amazon employee Bo Olson, who worked in book marketing. Or, they very wisely chose to leave.Explanations like “we’re not totally sure” or “I’ll get back to you”…
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Interview Geek

• One-and-Done: The NBA’s Strategy For Managing Millennials
  The NBA instituted a rule in 2006 that an athlete must be at least 19 years old and at least one year removed from graduating high school. And the term One-and-Done was born. It’s gained enough acceptance over the last decade that I wouldn’t be s…
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• Draft Your Team Like an NFL General Manager
  Guest Blogger: Marc Prine PhD With the NFL Draft on its way, there are few things that can make or break a team’s season and the career of a General Manager (GM) more than a bad draft decision. Similarly, there are a few things that can stall your…
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• Recruiting Millennials: How Oregon Got It Right
  [Posted on LinkedIn 12/31/14] Today is the eve of the first ever College Football Playoff. The inaugural four-team playoff includes Ohio State, Alabama, Florida State, and Oregon. I must be up front and let you, the readers, know that I have an unwav…
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• 3 Ways Millennials Are Influencing Healthcare
  [Breaking News] – The healthcare landscape is changing, and while those in DC continue to have polite, bipartisan discussions on how to “solve” this nagging problem, HR departments everywhere are trying to keep up. A new study released last wee…
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• #LikeAGirl: Hire Mo’ne Davis and My Sister
  Always created a campaign addressing what it means to run, throw, and fight #LikeAGirl. When did #LikeAGirl become an insult? As more young girls believe they’re strong and capable, the challenges and obstacles women in the workplace face today wil…
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• The Bachelorette #MenTellAll: The Ultimate Exit Interview
  Finally. A forum to tell people what is really going on at this company (sort of)! Exit interviews can provide companies with feedback on areas of improvement and offers closure to employees. The concept is a little kumbaya, assuming that all break-u…
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The HR Field Guide

• "The Who Behind Your Why"
  I'm excited to share that I have a new article up over at TalentCulture titled, "The Value of Value Propositions." For a sneak peek of my latest, read on:Industry, products and services, customer base – these are all things that differ in terms a…
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• "The Magic Eight Ball of Recruiting"
  In what is the first of two articles I have going up this week, my new piece on the idea of predicting the talent fit pre-hire, titled "The Future of Hiring is Quality of Hire," is now live at ERE. For a sneak peek, read on:The function responsible f…
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• "Season of Change"
  It's been a bit crazy this past year, as anyone that bothers to read posts around these parts probably surmised. Over the course of these last 15 months, I presented at the CUPA-HR National Conference (2016), got a new boss, saw my role grow and expa…
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• "Everything You've Ever Wanted. . ."
  
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• "Love Changes Everything. . ."
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• "Talent Is A Wonderful Thing. . ."
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HR Nasty

• How the exit interview fails the company
  Keep employees engaged so they don’t think about giving their two-week notice. Does your company conduct exit interviews?Last week I blogged about employees turning in their two-week notice. As an HR person, it has been my experience that more…
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• Two week notice. Why you don’t have to quit the job you hate.
  Turning in your two-week notice without a conversation is a short-sighted moveWhy quitting your job should be the last resortIf you are thinking about turning in your two-week notice for any of the following reasons, I encourage you to have an ho…
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• Is your company training program instilling the right attitude?
  Is your company training setting the right work ethic?A 9-5 work ethic and nothing more?I would suggest that a number of company training programs are not pushing new hires fast enough. I especially believe this is the case in a few areas:Train…
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• Can you coach a bad attitude?
  The bad attitude is tough to coachIs a bad attitude coachable?As managers, I am confident we can train employees to learn our products, our software and to a certain extent our culture. Coaching an employee attitude is a different animal. How we…
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• Overcoming age in the job interview
  Age doesn’t have to be a factor in the job interviewMature candidateToday’s post focuses on the mature candidate as part three of a 3 part series on age discrimination in the job interview. Lessons from this post can be used for all age demog…
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• Interview Ageism: Why I decline candidates over 50
  Would you decline 63-year-old Bill Gates? Job Interview AgeismLast week we discussed the topic of age discrimination in the job interview and a few of my personal theories on why job interview ageism exists.Before anyone gets into a huffCand…
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Christopher in HR

• We Want You! (sort of…)
  No thank you. Sam and I go back for years having met at a tech company and keeping up with each other since. He’s a good guy, talented as an HR Business Partner and his skills are above average. He has a strong brand. Last November a tech firm reac…
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• A Matter of Degrees
  She shivered. As my better half and I left a quaint little bistro in the early evening the temperature had changed since we entered. From a balmy 70 initially, (21 to my friends on the other side of the pond) it was now a nippy 62 (17) since the sun…
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• Good News
  It was a dark and stormy night… Actually that’s not true: it was a beautiful sunny morning but I’ve always wanted to start a post like that! The phone rang and although I didn’t recognize it I answered anyway as it was a local call and I hope…
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• Fall Out
  Everything in its season. There is no question the world’s a little colder place in the fall. While my friends south of the equator are fast heading towards spring, we in the northern climes are snuggled into fall looking towards the Equinox and wi…
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• Math 101
  Can you add and subtract? In the war for talent there are so many top ten lists and theories about engagement it’s hard to keep it all straight. Yet, let’s start with a simple question: can you add and subtract? Over the years I’ve worked with…
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• Hope
  Watch the children. Right outside my door is a running path that goes around a small pond, skirts the edge of two hospitals and eventually meanders past a pretty good-sized playground at the edge of a large market. The playground is usually full, oth…
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Joe Gerstandt Blog

• Inclusion in Action, cont’d
  As I said in my last post… Diversity means difference, and there is nothing more universally human than difference. Difference has consequences. Rolling a boulder up hill is very different from rolling the same boulder down hill because gravity has…
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• Inclusion in Action
  Diversity means difference. Literally. Diversity means difference, and human beings are positively riddled with difference. One of the very few things that is universally true of all human beings is that each of us is in some way different. Differenc…
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• Inclusion Demands Higher Standards
  Of the many misperceptions regarding inclusion, the most common might be the idea that inclusion requires you to lower your standards – inclusion somehow means “anything goes.” Not only is there a healthy does of bias baked into this idea, it i…
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• 6 Ways to Accelerate your Diversity & Inclusion Efforts
  I consistently see organizations with unnecessary barriers slowing their D&I efforts down or blocking them altogether. Want to move forward? Here are six opportunities to consider. I will unpack each of these further in following posts: Clarify your…
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• Leverage points for change. Where do you focus your efforts?
    I no longer remember where I first came across it, but I have kept some version of the above image in my journal for many years now. It is one of the lenses I apply to clarify my own thinking around what exactly I am doing and whether or not I am…
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• Radiance
  If ten lamps are in one place, each differs in form from another; yet you can’t distinguish whose radiance is whose when you focus on the light. In the field of spirit there is no division; no individuals exist. Sweet is the oneness of the Friend w…
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China Gorman Blog

• Are You Ready for AI?
  The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) is a pretty high falutin’ outfit. It’s the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company. Not focused so much on middle-market HR folks, it publishes a wealth of well-researched papers that focus on…
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• Compensation Transparency
  Ben Eubanks over at Lighthouse Research and Advisory has written a fascinating white paper on transparency. Transparency in Compensation:  Trends and Best Practices, underwritten by salary.com, is a thoughtful and interesting discussion of the impac…
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• The Value of Purpose
  
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• Are HR And Finance Finally Going To Be Friends?
  How on earth can it be August 1st? For that matter, how on earth can it be 2017? After taking off three weeks for vacation and business travel commitments, it’s time to be back considering new research and data of … Continue reading →
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• Happy 4th of July!
     
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• One Internet Trend To Watch
  As I’ve written in the past, Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report is a treasure trove of data that most HR professionals miss. That’s because the report isn’t about HR trends, it’s about internet trends. But almost any way you … Co…
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Steve Boese HR Technology

• newPODCAST: #HRHappyHour 373 - HR Technology Supporting the Organization's Mission
  HR Happy Hour 373 - HR Technology Supporting the Organization's MissionHosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlaneGuest: Emmanuel Vouvakis, CIO, Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired (IBVI)Sponsored by Panopto - For businesses and universities…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 372 - The Real Benefits of Technology Training
  HR Happy Hour 372- The Real Benefits of Technology Training Host: Trish McFarlaneGuests: Traci Zablocki, Professional Services Consultant at ADP and Eileen Ekey, Sr. HCM Consultant in Professional Services at ADPListen HEREThis week on the…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 371 - Modern Approaches to Candidate Experience
  HR Happy Hour 371 - Modern Approaches to Candidate Experience Host: Steve Boese Guest: Paul Wolfe, SVP of Human Resources, Indeed Sponsosed by Panopto - For businesses and universities, Panopto is everything YouTube isn’t. With enterprise-g…
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• PODCAST: HR Happy Hour 370 - Elevating the Employee Experience with HR Technology
  HR Happy Hour 370 - Elevating the Employee Experience with HR TechnologyHosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlaneGuests: Cecile Alper-Leroux, Johnathan Benhamou, Ultimate SoftwareRecorded Live at Ultimate Connections 2019Listen HEREToday on the HR…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 369 - Driving Improvements with Cloud Technology in Higher Ed
  HR Happy Hour 369 - Driving Improvements with Cloud Technology in Higher EdHosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlaneGuest: Jennifer Martindale, Office of Continuous Improvement, Boise State UniversityListen HERERecorded Live at Oracle Modern Business…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 368 - Conversational Technology: The Evolution of HR Tech
  HR Happy Hour 368 - Conversational Technology: The Evolution of HR TechHosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlaneGuest: Emly He, SVP, Oracle HCM Cloud, OracleListen HERERecorded LIVE at the Oracle Modern Business Experience event, March 2019.Today on t…
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Women of HR

• Building Organizations Worthy of Our People #WorkHuman 2019
  I recently had the honor and privilege of attending the Workhuman conference for my fourth year in a row.  That’s four out of five years for me.  I missed the first year, but only because I didn’t know about the event until it was already happe…
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• How to Excel as a Young Woman Entering the Workforce Today
  Today, most Americans consider women just as capable of leadership as men. Despite this, there are still a number of barriers that women have to navigate when they strive to advance their career. The glass ceiling continues to be a very real issue, p…
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• The “Great Culture” Fallacy
  Organizational Culture. No doubt, it’s a hot topic among HR professionals and business leaders alike.  In a time when the competition for great talent continues to heat up, most seem to agree that having a great company culture is certainly a comp…
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• Is Perfectionism Required to Be Successful?
  In a business world often still very male dominated, being a woman can be a challenge. How do women manage the challenges and strive to be successful? Often, it’s by trying to be perfect. We’re taught by culture that perfectionism is supposed to…
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• 6 Tips for Getting Away Without Sacrificing Your Business
  You have climbed your way up the career ladder, shattered glass ceilings and have a long history of success on your resume. But you didn’t work this hard to stay perched at the top with no respite from your daily duties. You need to take advantage…
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• Business Outcomes & Human Centered Experiences – #HRTechConf 2018
  The 2018 HR Technology Conference is now in the books, having wrapped up about two weeks ago.  As I usually do, I’ve spent the time since then mulling over what I heard and saw there, reviewing my notes and tweets and thinking about the show as a…
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Creative Chaos HR

• new“Only photograph what you love.” ~ Tim...
  “Only photograph what you love.” ~ Tim Walker..This is excellent advice in my opinion. It serves as a framework by which to define my focus areas as a photographer. This enables me to deliver better results...Currently, my loves are #street…
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• Good morning, good souls. Another day, another chance to get...
  Good morning, good souls. Another day, another chance to get things right...Image description: a black-and-white photo of Victorio Milian. He’s in profile, facing toward the right. The left-side of his face is in shadow. The photo is by Victorio…
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• It’s been two weeks and I’m still kicking myself...
  It’s been two weeks and I’m still kicking myself over missing the opportunity to take a picture *with* @violadavis. I’ll continue to console myself with this shot I took of her onstage as the closing keynote speaker at #WorkHuman. ..#TBT #Na…
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• **Progress, Not Perfection**..Not only do I attend #WorkHuman...
  **Progress, Not Perfection**..Not only do I attend #WorkHuman as a way to become a better HR practitioner, but to improve my photography skills as well. In my latest publicly available blog post, I discuss my progress in terms of taking photos of…
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• **New Post**..I recently went to my favorite #HR conference....
  **New Post**..I recently went to my favorite #HR conference. It’s called #WorkHuman and this year it was held in #Nashville, Tennessee. ..In my latest publicly available post, I share snippets and impressions of the event. Whether you’ve a…
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• This week I’m attending the #WorkHuman conference! As a...
  This week I’m attending the #WorkHuman conference! As a #HR professional, this is a key event for me...I’m looking forward to engaging sessions, exciting keynote speakers, and working with business professionals on how to be stronger ethical l…
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Benz Communications

• newHow to Get Big Results with a Limited Benefits Communication Budget
  The trick for doing more with less? Start by prioritizing where to focus resources to make the biggest impact. As you’ll see, big problems don't always require big solutions.
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• Lessons from Lenovo: Creating an Employee Experience and Focus on Holistic Well-Being
  Lenovo’s holistic emphasis on well-being has been uniquely successful in attracting, engaging, and supporting employees. Its employee-centric focus is cleverly coupled with integrating diverse topics across health and wealth and in framing pro…
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• 2 Ambitious Communications Campaigns with Award-Worthy Results
  Your people need to be reminded of the value of all their benefits all year long, in ways that are meaningful for them. That’s why continuous communication and engagement are so crucial to helping employees and their families make the most of…
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• Bringing a Benefits Website to Life
  A custom benefits website provides your employees and their family members with one place to go for all their benefits-information needs.
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• Ask Employees What They Want. That Way, You’ll Create Programs They Actually Use
  Think you know what your employees want? What they like? The only way to know for sure is to ask. You’ll be happy you did!
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• With Benefits Communications Budgets on the Rise, Here’s How to Spend Wisely
  Ask and you shall receive—finally! With larger communication budgets in hand, the big question for benefits leaders is where to spend that money for maximum impact. Here’s what to do when you hear “yes” to your request for more communica…
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Recruitifi Blog

• Unleashing talent as a competitive weapon
  Whether you’re still focusing on traditional “time-to-hire” or agonizing over what an unfilled position is costing your company, you know that when it comes to recruiting and hiring, time is of the essence. This already high pressur…
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• the challenges of recruiting in hypergrowth
  Perfecting your recruitment and hiring process is hard enough during so-called normal conditions, but as Wrede Petersmeyer and the rest of the team at Airbnb found out, it’s even more difficult during a period of hypergrowth. Since Wred…
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• Full-Time Workers Increasingly Willing to Work Part-Time
  Introduction A new RecruitiFi survey on the career paths of 1,000 U.S. full-time and part-time adult employees found that individuals currently working full-time are increasingly likely to seek part-time work due to the flexibility as…
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• The Intersection of Ad Tech and IT Recruiting
  Due to the omnipresence of smartphones and the web’s proven success as an advertising platform, there’s increased demand to place candidates with an intersection of IT and advertising skills in positions. The burgeoning ad tech indust…
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• IT Recruiting: Cloud Computing and Big Data Candidates are in Demand
  There are certain areas of IT recruiting where demand far exceeds supply, such as cloud computing and related areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and big data. Moving to cloud-based platforms saves companies money and offers very real…
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• Maybe You Should be Recruiting Job Hoppers
   Recruiting job hoppers may wind up costing employers a large sum of money due simply to their unreliability. The average cost to replace an employee is 21 percent of that employee’s yearly salary, so hiring a job hopper might wind up…
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HR Hardball

• Fool’s Gold – The “Passive” Candidate
  “Passive recruiting” has been a buzzword in the Talent Acquisition world for as long as I’ve been in the industry. Not only is it described as the gold standard of a “strategic” Recruiting team, but “passive recruiting” started appeari…
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• 3 Things Glassdoor Taught Me
  About a year ago, I started to manage our corporate Glassdoor account. Seemed like the perfect responsibility for me to assume; I lead our Talent Acquisition department, I love to write, and my 17 years as a married man has […]The post 3 Things Gl…
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• Herding Cats….and Recruiters
  Remember when you had a recruiting desk to manage? You had your requisitions, you had phone screens scheduled, interviews scheduled, you knew your hiring managers, and you developed a rhythm. Cashing checks and snapping necks. And then they went and…
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• Kicking The Ant Pile
  I think most of us would admit that being a control freak is a frustrating (and ultimately losing) proposition. At work, our ability to “control” things is usually more dependent upon the company cruising on auto-pilot, business as usual, allowin…
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• Perfect is The Enemy of The Good (Candidate)
  There’s still some mystery as to who, exactly, coined the phrase “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” but it’s a lesson that we try to impart in our recruiting practices every day. It’s pretty simple to find the […]The post Perfect is…
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• And the Hourly Shall Inherit the Earth…
  Volume recruiting. The bane of the recruiting experience. I don’t care how good you are as a recruiting professional, until you’ve put on the flame suit and sat in a volume recruiting chair, you’ll never be able to fully appreciate […]The po…
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Lisa Rosendahl Blog

• Character Building Experiences
  We all face experiences that test our temperament, our spirit, and our moral fiber. They provoke us to choose between what we feel we should do and what we would do, if not for the expectations of others. Or, they stop us in our tracks because they a…
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• Yes, I am Judging You
  If it looks like I have been judging you, it's because I have. If it wasn't me evaluating how you chose to respond on a group email and coming up with a snarky response I'll never deliver or predicting the negative impacts of your personal motivatio…
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• Motherhood and Cliche
  My daughter is 16, going on college. I remember being pregnant worrying about what I would do if the baby was sick on a day I couldn't be off work. The worry was for nothing. My answer was clear the moment I saw my daughter for the very first time -…
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• A Reluctant Exerciser: On the Road to Recovery
  I completed The Fast Factory Challenge today. My goals for the 6-weeks were pedestrian: recharge my exercise routine,  clean up my diet, and downsize my menopausal muffin top . Not for one moment did I entertain the idea of shifting my lifelong rela…
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• Changing the HR Story
  The new year presents a fresh start. If there is something you'd like to start doing, stop doing or change the way you are doing it, this is when many jump on the resolution train. Whether you are a resolution-maker or not, making something better is…
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• My Leadership Sweet Spot
  Leaders must be learners and last week I completed the Healthcare Leadership Development Program. It was great program focused on each of us as individual leaders, the healthcare environment we operate in and leadership in crisis. As a wrap-up, each…
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Something Different HR

• A Few Thoughts About Good HR
  …So it has been about 6 months since I last wrote in this space. I took a break because my process …Continue reading →
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• Infographic Thursday: Top 10 Workplace Incentives
  It’s been a while! Check out this top ten countdown of the best employee perks from the team at Company Folders. It …Continue reading →
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• A Few Thoughts on Expectations Around Pay
  …Okay, so this morning I was reading this great piece from CEB talking about how several employers – led by …Continue reading →
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• Examining the Impact of Ratingless Reviews and Year-Round Feedback on Employee Performance
  …Okay, so much has been written in the news about companies doing away with performance ratings. GE is probably the …Continue reading →
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• Which Talent Should Your Organization Be Investing Resources Into? Why? A Few Thoughts…
  …Okay, so over the weekend I read an outstanding blog post from CEB here. It talks about how to distinguish …Continue reading →
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• Exiting Your Organization Like a Pro
  …From Dunn (in an April 2016 post titled “MAMBA OUT: When Leaving Your Company, You Should Go Out Doing What …Continue reading →
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PEOCompare

• Are PEOs a Good Idea for Small Businesses?
  Small businesses are the lifeblood of America. They represent the grit, determination, and drive we associate with living the American Dream. But as every small business owner knows, no one achieves success without support from a tribe of…
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• Why PEOs Make Sense For Small Business Owners
  As a small business owner, you know it takes a lot of grunt work to keep your business running. The more of that work you can delegate, the more time you will have to invest in the growth of your business. Let’s look at some ways a PEO…
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• The 3 Most Important Questions to Ask Before You Choose a PEO
  
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• 8 Practical Ways a PEO Can Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder in 2018
     
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• Get Ready for 2018 ACA Open Enrollment Deadline With New SBC Form Requirements
  Looking ahead to your 2018 ACA open enrollment deadline? This year, businesses will need to incorporate updates to the Summary of Benefits and Coverage form they distribute to employees—and the changes are significant.  In this post,…
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• Ask These 8 Questions When You Compare PEO Companies
  If you’re a small business owner and you need help with HR, take comfort in the fact that thousands of others have faced that same dilemma. HR responsibilities take time, resources, and blood/sweat/tears that you may not be able to inve…
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HR to WHO

Change-Effect

• HR – it’s ok to have fun
  I have a pathological dislike of mushrooms. Which is ironic, because I’m a fun-guy. See what I did there? Rubbish jokes aside, I often wonder when it became the rule that HR professionals had to have a sense of humour transplant. Admittedly, some o…
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• The leader you’re looking for is you
  I would have done this, if. They should have seen that coming. They didn’t ask me, or. If it was down to me I would have. How many examples do you hear each day of self disempowerment, the passive acceptance of organisational impotence, the wilful…
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• 7 tips for my younger self
  I was talking last week to someone about the advice that I wished I’d had as a younger professional, the things that I’ve learnt over the years that if I’d had a mentor or advisor would have been really helpful counsel. Would I have acted on it…
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• Make work better. For everyone.
  I looked with disgust at a news story last week that showed photos of a very successful UK business man, effectively pawing a young female employee. I’ve written before about power and the interface with inappropriate behaviour and actions. We cann…
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• The power of language
  The power of language to engage is nothing new to us. It’s why corporations spend millions each year on their advertising and marketing, testing the ways in which certain words resonate or repel their target audiences. A shift of one word in a sent…
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• You are as you act
  Every day is full of a myriad of choices,  the majority of these are small and seemingly meaningless. Whether you hold open the door for someone that’s coming toward you, or put your hand in your pocket for the person sat on the pavement on your w…
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PeopleTactics

• Designing a Job-Specific Training Program
  When hired, employees bring a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience to your organization; however, often times there are a few gaps here and there – and of course there is always the learning curve of your business. Training an employee on wha…
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• The New Kid on the Block: How to Welcome Your New Hire
  Remember the first day of school when you were little? The excitement, the anxiety, the unknown – all the emotions! Starting a new job can elicit the same feelings as we felt on those tender days in grade school…regardless of how old we get. Bein…
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• Recruitment Benchmarking: Metrics to Consider
  In today’s world, tracking business metrics is essential for leaders to understand where their organizations shine and where they need to improve. Monitoring these metrics on a consistent basis – and turning the results into real-life change –…
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• Learning Ability: The Key to Hiring Talent for Tomorrow
  When it comes to talent, we tend to think of hiring someone who has a specific list of skills or experience to meet our business needs of TODAY. Hiring someone based on how well his resume matches the job description is a traditional approach and not…
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• HR & Business Metrics: What Are You Tracking?
  As the value of having real-time data at your fingertips becomes increasingly important, the use of people analytics has evolved from mere project-based initiatives to a more proactive integrated strategy that drives work forward. Instead of operatin…
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• How Up-To-Date is Your Employment Application?
  The employment application is a standard document for any recruiting process. Having applicants complete the employment application at the onset of the recruitment phase is important. Equally important is making sure it is up-to-date on the ever-chan…
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HR Culture Club

• Resume Quick Tips
  
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• Kick Ass Cover Letter that Gets an Interview
  Companies with awesome culture often hire for a cultural fit first and foremost, so throw out what you learned about snoozy cover letters to land an interview by writing a kick ass cover letter.  One thing most companies that care about culture has…
  - 12 Apr 18, 11:04am -

Accidental HR

• Why vulnerability is so important
  It irks me that I am sitting down to write this post so early on in January  because I feel like this should either be a look back on 2018 (summary: professionally productive, personally it sucked eggs) or my goals for 2019 (make it out alive). Howe…
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• Speaking Up Now When I Should Have Then
  This post has been sitting in draft mode for quite some time.  There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one was that I was having trouble deciding what I really was hoping to achieve by putting it out there.  Then, every time I thought…
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• Avoidance
  There is an aspect of every job that we don’t like, some task or responsibility that we always push off because it seems pointless or worse, causes us stress. In the case of those stress-inducing items, there is a really good chance that is somethi…
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• Thinking about the future in reverse
  It is no secret that I struggle for inspiration to write.  Or is motivation?  Maybe opportunity?  My head is full and I am overflowing with observations, but for some reason it doesn`t make it to my hands. Is it possible to have carpal tunnel that…
  - 13 Feb 18, 11:01am -
• My expectations for 2018 (and why last year can suck eggs)
  I recently said that 2017 could end any day now because I was done with it.  As if on January 1st everything would re-set and we would be starting fresh.  That would be nice, but the reality is far from that. Last year was one of the most difficult…
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• The simple act (and gift) of offering help
  I know, it’s been 4 months. Give me a break, if you can wait 11 years between Avatar movies, then surely 4 months isn’t that big of a deal.  Unless you have no intention of seeing Avatar 2…but why wouldn’t you?  You saw all of the Harry Pot…
  - 19 Dec 17, 11:58am -

Corporate HR Girl

• #Hiring Workflow Tips for Success
  Guest Post: By Omer Tadjer HR departments know that hiring the right person for the job is crucial for companies. In …Continue reading →
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• 4 Keys to Millennial Retention
  Think you’ve heard it all on the topic of “Millennials in the Workplace”? Think again. The Millennial group continues to …Continue reading →
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• How To Learn From A Bad Hire (And Your Worst Hire)
  It’s happened at every company: you hire someone who seems like a great candidate, only to discover that the person …Continue reading →
  - 1 Feb 16, 6:20pm -
• The Trouble with Absenteeism and How to Fix It- Join Me! #Webinar
  Five Hidden Reasons for Employee Absenteeism – and What You Can Do About Them (click to register) Tuesday, October 13 at …Continue reading →
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• The Recruiter’s Corner: #HRTech Screening Questions for #SWDevelopers
  #HRTech Vegas 2015 is quickly approaching and if you’ve ever wondered what these technical terms mean (Data Developer, ETLTools, Java …Continue reading →
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• What’s up with #PerformanceReviews? Yes, No, Maybe So?
  We typically have a love-hate relationship with performance management. From annual reviews to “micro-burst” bits of feedback, what’s really behind …Continue reading →
  - 15 Jul 15, 1:59pm -

Salima Nathoo

• Remix: 6 Lessons on Playing Smart and Failing Forward
  Dug this one up from the archives, dusted it off and gave it a fresh polish — you might even see your own reflection in it. 1 #NoHustleWasted. The shortcut to success takes years to create. There’s no copy & paste formula for it and along the way…
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• Lean Learning
  It first happened in 2010 and then everyday thereafter. Emerging from my Master’s Degree in Adult Learning & Global Change and leaning into social media, I couldn’t connect the dots between 40 pages of a training workbook and 140 characters on Tw…
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• Why Learning Should Be Open Source
  If knowledge is not open source, we are running a dangerous experiment with the collective intellect of humanity.   At times the sound of the rain seemed to be louder than the crescendo of voices inside the coffee shop during the lunch rush; an enli…
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• Is Your Organization Collaboratively Intelligent?
  They say too much of something is not always a good thing – when you’re not being smart about it. Collaboration is no exception. Is your organization collaboratively intelligent? A Collaboratively Intelligent Organization has a culture of sharing…
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• Leaders, Time to Get Your Shift Together
  In a time of scarcity, the greatest abundance is the plentiful of being more of who we already are. Today’s leaders own a lot. We are responsible for a continuum that has the bottom line on one end, and on the other, cultivating conditions for the…
  - 13 Aug 14, 4:28am -
• Get Your Head in the Cloud with Disruptive E-Learning Technology
  I’m excited to be collaborating with e-learning company Docebo, on a series of sponsored posts and guest posts on topics ranging from Business Process Humanization to Learning Design for Employer Branding, and this first post on a review of their l…
  - 20 Mar 14, 3:21pm -

Break the Frame

• newEver feel like you’re under attack? Here’s what to do.
  For months, it quietly happened, and then, suddenly, the assault ratcheted up to the point where I was unable to function. My website, the thing I created and allowed me to connect with people across the world gave me the finger. (You know what finge…
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• Why I Sent My Child to School to Fail Today
  Everyone’s talking about the Varsity Blues scandal. In a nutshell, it’s parents paying to cheat their kid’s way into college. I’m a parent, and I want to see my children have wildly happy and successful lives, but I still sent my child to sch…
  - 29 days ago, 26 Mar 19, 9:30am -
• Are You Ready to Stop Circling the Career Parking Lot?
  More cars were driving around in circles than spaces in the lot. We were I a long line that moved slower than a snail. Each one of us hoped that the next space to open would be ours.  I was in the line first! I was polite and let that person in fron…
  - 36 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 9:30am -
• The Most Successful Leaders Ask Open-Ended Questions – Do You?
  A few years ago, I went by another name for a couple of weeks, Juror Number One. It was a medical malpractice lawsuit, and I was fascinated by the jury selection process. The quality of their questions determined the mix of people who held the power.…
  - 43 days ago, 12 Mar 19, 9:30am -
• 15 Compelling Reasons You Shouldn’t Hire a Coach
  Imagine the dinner party conversation. Room full of strangers and everyone is making polite yet slightly boring conversation. Hot topics range from the weather to upcoming holidays to what you do for work. Often, when asked what I do, I’ll say I’…
  - 57 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 10:30am -

Whipper Snapper HR

• SarahMillerAU.com
  Whipper Snapper HR is a really special site to me, because it's through this site I got to nut out so many things I needed to wrap my head around as a new starter in the HR world.Funny though - I'm not such a whipper snapper any more!Things have chan…
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• Social Media & HR - my speaking notes for a presentation
  This is a short presentation I gave to a group of HR Professionals on why I use social media, the benefits, how to get over some stumbling blocks, and why I think everyone should just have a go! Social Media & HR - The DIY Professional Developme…
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• The Importance of *expletive* Intermissions
  It's the Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, and last night we went along to support a friend's show - you know one of those things where it's probably not your cup of tea, but you want to see your people succeed. Well within the first 5 minutes, it was so…
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• You're Better than Samsung
  I will never buy a product that needs to shit on the competition to advertise itself.That's probably why I find Samsung phones unattractive.And why I change the channel every time this Ford Territory MkII ad comes on:It just makes me cringe at all th…
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• Be The Asshole Who Says It
  Those special relationships at work aren't doing anyone favours.Think of that team mate that's really liked, but needs extra guidance with 'careful cotton gloves'- they're not getting the real picture. And that respected colleague who can't print a d…
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• Weed
  It’s spring, and although everything is green, I was surprised that when I actually looked at the garden, a huge amount of weeds have sprung up. It was a good reminder that in times of growth, we have to be really on guard about what’s establishi…
  - 14 Oct 14, 12:38pm -

The Aristocracy of HR

• Human Performance Deserves More Than a Review
  2110730000010Campaign/FTC disclosure: This is a sponsored blog post. I will or have received compensation for this post. I only work with companies I feel have great products, services, and offerings. In accordance with my blog disclosure statemen…
  - 58 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 10:06pm -
• The Game of Supremacy Chess
  010051000010 Have you ever won or enjoyed playing a game where the rules were not explained to you? Let’s try this another way, have you ever enjoyed a game where the people you were playing with started switching up the rules midgame leaving you a…
  - 76 days ago, 7 Feb 19, 5:52pm -
• The Audacity of No Rebuttal
  110121101121  I am no stranger to a good debate. In fact, I quite enjoy a healthy conversation comprised of fact, experience and well-placed opinion every once and again. The operative word here is healthy and by healthy I mean all parties in the de…
  - 80 days ago, 3 Feb 19, 1:00pm -
• #BlackBlogsMatter : Let’s Separate For Peace Sake
  040040000310As I continue on my journey of life, I find the one thing I consistently seek is peace. I enjoy peace in my relationships, peace of mind, peace in matters of the heart, and just general equilibrium as much as possible with most things in…
  - 90 days ago, 24 Jan 19, 12:00pm -
• 10 Perspectives to Digest for 2019
  110050000030We are entering the last year of the 2010s. One year from 2020, a year painted as the poster child of human advancement and something of a sci-fi fantasy. From all I can tell, we haven’t exactly accelerated into a Jetson reality of flyi…
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• #Unleash18 Solve For Happiness, Change The World with Mo Gawdat
  110010000031 “If we get AI right it is the last frontier for humanity. Everything beyond AI will invent and create on our behalf beyond that.” ~Mo Gawdat, Former Chief Business Officer of Google X How does this statement sit with you? Right now,…
  - 24 May 18, 6:24pm -

Talent Vanguard

• Understanding Toxic Cultures
  I had a whirlwind week, and a highlight was facilitating a fantastic panel discussion on toxic cultures at the Conference Board of Canada’s Corporate Culture Conference. This is a topic I’ve been asked to speak about a lot in the last year, and i…
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• Drowning in the Daily Grind
  Like a lot of people, I just read ‘How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation’, an article by Anne Helen Petersen. If you haven’t read it yet I urge you to do so. It’s excellent and touches on a web of issues facing today’s workforce. Wh…
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• 2018 Writing Reflections
  Welcome to 2019! I didn’t plan to write or publish this 2018 reflection on blogging, but I got up today and that’s what happened… I think this is a good annual practice for me to get into in order to think about the year in review and the year…
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• What the People I Learned From in 2018 Learned in 2018
  Well, it looks like we made it. 2018 is moving into our rearview mirror and I’ll bet I’m not the only one with mixed feelings about that. This year was turbulent, both generally and personally. I left a beloved team, made the leap into independen…
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• Concept Creep & the Buzzword Arms Race
  “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the words we use for important ideas about work ‘diffuse’ over time, and all the pr…
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• The Space Between
  “…complexity is about how things connect far more than what the things are.”  – Dave Snowden I crashed my brain in August. In the same way that my computer gets slower and slower as I accumulate more and more open tabs, I was finally left wi…
  - 26 Nov 18, 3:15am -

Career Connects

• What makes the perfect Linkedin profile?
  10 Tips to help you sculpt your Linkedin profile, from the fine folks at LinkHumans.     Looking to do more on Linkedin? Check these Networking Tips from a Recruiter.
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• Transitioning Military Women’s Career Event in Austin
  In partnership with National Charity League, Inc. the Texas National Guard will host a Military Women in Transition event to help women in all phases of the job search or […]
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• Networking Advice from a Recruiter
  It’s Friday, and a day of reflection for me. There are three bits of my 9 years of recruiting experience that I’d like to share with anyone simply networking and/or […]
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• Can you teach old dogs about new toys?
  Adopting a new pet can be easier than adopting new technology. Good technology can shave time off processes, and make compliance easier. The BEST technology can help you tell the […]
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• Does your resume help you stand out?
  More and more, the importance of an organic and dynamically updated social profile is dominating the job search landscape. How can you separate yourself from the hundreds of competing resumes […]
  - 5 Nov 13, 4:20pm -
• How to Recruit Candidates like Humans
    Does your recruiting strategy include a content marketing strategy? Most recruiters throw out a job link and the phrase “great opportunity” then expect the best candidates to come knocking. […]
  - 5 Oct 13, 3:17am -

Visueel Voorop in HR

• Visie op Lean HR – beïnvloeden en veranderen van cultuur
  Jekiel behandelt in het boek ‘Lean Human Resources’ het herontwerp van HR-processen voor een cultuur van continue verbetering. Het boek is onderverdeeld in zes delen en in het derde deel wordt het volgende beschreven: de aspecten van cultuurveran…
  - 23 Aug 18, 7:00pm -
• Visie op Lean HR – hervorming van HR
  Jekiel behandelt in het boek ‘Lean Human Resources’ het herontwerp van HR-processen voor een cultuur van continue verbetering. Het boek is onderverdeeld in zes delen en in het tweede deel wordt het volgende beschreven: een stappenplan voor de her…
  - 31 Jul 18, 6:00pm -
• Visie op Lean HR – voorkom verspilling talent en mislukken cultuurverandering
  Jekiel behandelt in het boek ‘Lean Human Resources’ het herontwerp van HR-processen voor een cultuur van continue verbetering. Het boek is onderverdeeld in zes delen en in het eerste deel wordt het volgende beschreven: de verspilling van talent e…
  - 21 Jul 18, 1:18pm -
• Vision of Lean (Six Sigma) HR
  Lay gives a short explanation of the Lean philosophy and its evolution in the book ‘Lean HR’. Then a collection of easy-to-use tools is treated to find and analyze improvement projects.  A structured approach is offered to reduce waste in your…
  - 25 Apr 18, 7:01pm -
• Visie op Lean (Six Sigma) HR
  Lay geeft in het boek ‘Lean HR‘ een korte uiteenzetting van de Lean filosofie en de evolutie ervan. Vervolgens wordt een verzameling van eenvoudig te gebruiken tools behandeld om verbeterprojecten te vinden en te analyseren. Hierbij wordt een ges…
  - 11 Apr 18, 7:42pm -
• Vision of Agile HR
  In the book ‘Agile HR’ Boskma, Buizer, van de Hoef, Peters and Zelen discuss the (un)missable rol of HR in agile organizations. The central question in the book is: How do you design an organization and the associated HR-function in such a way th…
  - 17 Mar 18, 8:07am -

HR Bartender

• newDoes Your Organization Support Employee Psychological Safety
  Test The above image was taken at last year’s WorkHuman Conference. It’s of the walkway from our hotel (over a busy street) to the convention center where the event was being held. It’s very convenient. But as you can see, the walkway is also v…
  - 2 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 3:42pm -
• newBuild Your Recruiting Pipeline: Use Pre-Employment Assessments to Highlight Talent
  Pre-employment assessments can help highlight the talent you need. Don't weed out candidates. Use assessments to bring talent into pipelines.The post Build Your Recruiting Pipeline: Use Pre-Employment Assessments to Highlight Talent appeared first o…
  - 1 day ago, 23 Apr 19, 8:57am -
• Employees: This Is What You Should Do If You Get a Suspension – Ask #HR Bartender
  A suspension can happen for many reasons and employees need to know what to do. Attorney Donna Ballman explains what to do after suspension.The post Employees: This Is What You Should Do If You Get a Suspension – Ask #HR Bartender appeared first o…
  - 3 days ago, 21 Apr 19, 8:57am -
• Bookmark This! Parental Leave Policies Edition
  Parental leave policies are part of successful recruiting campaigns. And they can help with retention. Here are resources for parental leave.The post Bookmark This! Parental Leave Policies Edition appeared first on hr bartender.
  - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 19, 8:57am -
• HR Careers for Legal Professionals – Ask #HR Bartender
  HR careers can align well for legal professionals. Attorney Carrie Cherveny has worked in both arena and shares her focus areas for students.The post HR Careers for Legal Professionals – Ask #HR Bartender appeared first on hr bartender.
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 8:57am -
• FREE Learning Opportunity: Kronos Spring #HR and #Payroll eSymposium
  Kronos offers a free eSymposium for HR and payroll professionals. This professional development deals with both strategy and compliance.The post FREE Learning Opportunity: Kronos Spring #HR and #Payroll eSymposium appeared first on hr bartender.
  - 10 days ago, 14 Apr 19, 8:57am -

Human Resource Management

• Corporate Nirvana – A Tale of Urban Enlightenment
  Book Author: Sonali D'silva (Talent Development Professional, Author and Avid Blogger)I have been one of those professionals who had no time for myself or for reflection and had lost touch with my...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi…
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• Take another Shot
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• Employee Leadership
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• Leadership Roadmap
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• Training and Development
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Leadership Freak

• newThe Future of Organizations According to the Wall Street Journal
  The future of organizations depends on skillful, empowered middle-managers. (WSJ – subscription required.) Successful managers*: Motivate employees to act. Engage employees with purpose. Drive outcomes assertively. Paddle upstream successfully. Cre…
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• newHugging in the Men’s Room
  Corporate life is dead because there’s no heart. I scrambled for something to do when he said, “My son committed suicide two years ago.” We were standing in the men’s room.   The… Continue reading →
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• newHow to Find the Courage to Lead
  There’s plenty of boldness in leadership. But, sadly, there’s too little courage. The greatest courage isn’t the courage to tell people what to do. It’s the courage to tell yourself what to do.… Continue reading →
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• Top Five Books For Your Must Read List
  Last Friday I published a long list of books that I referenced in a recent presentation. A reader asked if I might narrow the list. Here are my top five recommendations from that… Continue reading →
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• Bogus Self-Esteem and the Dangers of Shallow Praise
  Whatever you do, don’t criticize or correct. You might damage someone’s self-esteem. (Sarcasm intended.) Bolstering, maintaining, and protecting self-esteem is the sacred cow of modern society. It’s a grievous evil to do anything… Continue re…
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• The Reason Leaders Pursue Excellence Will Change Your Life
  It’s not about doing your best. It’s about doing your best for someone else. Since reading, “High Performance Habits, by Brendon Burchard, I’ve been paying attention to the reasons leaders do what they… Continue reading →
  - 7 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 11:00am -

Three Star Leadership

• 6/20/14: Stories and Strategies from Real Life
  Pointers to stories about Hermes, Caroline Simas, Winter Park Cycles, Saturn, and The Hartford.
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• Practicing Leadership
  Leadership is pretty much a live fire exercise, but mental rehearsal let's you practice before you play.
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• 6/18/14: From the Independent Business Blogs
  Pointers to posts by Jesse Lyn Stoner, Les Hayman, Lolly Daskal, Mary Jo Asmus, and Susan Mazza.
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• 6/17/14: By and About Leaders
  Pointers to posts by and about and about Justin Yifu Lin, Bernard Schwartz, and Anthony Wood.
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• Shapeshifting at Apple
  We used to perceive Apple as an extension of that prickly genius, Steve Jobs. Now it seems to be something else. But what?
  - 16 Jun 14, 8:43pm -
• 6/15/14: Leadership Reading to Start Your Week
  Pieces on leadership, strategy, industry analysis, innovations and technology, women and the workplace, and work and learning now and in the future.
  - 15 Jun 14, 9:00pm -

Ask a Manager

• newmy boss sends me work to do when I’m out sick
  A reader asks: I work for the finance department of a nonprofit. Whenever I call/email in sick, I receive multiple emails from my boss (on my work email) asking me to complete tasks as though I am in the office — things like making lunch reservatio…
  - 1 hour ago, 24 Apr 19, 4:29pm -
• newif you’re having trouble sorting the salary spreadsheet…
  If you’re having trouble sorting the spreadsheet of people’s salary data: Your link may have defaulted to a /htmlview view. Try removing “htmlview” from the URL in your browser, and that seems to be fixing it for people. If that doesn’t wor…
  - 2 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 4:16pm -
• newhow much money do you make?
  It’s hard to get real-world information about what jobs pay, especially tailored to a particular industry or geographic region. Online salary websites are often inaccurate, and people can get weird when you ask them directly. In 2014 and 2017, in a…
  - 3 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 2:59pm -
• newmy coworker/girlfriend might get fired soon, employee wants a second paid month off for her dissertation, and more
  It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. My employee wants a paid month off to finish her dissertation — a second time I have been in my managerial position for less than one year. One of my direct reports received four weeks of paid…
  - 14 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 4:03am -
• newpotential employer sent me weirdly patronizing “interview tips” before the interview
  A reader writes: I was asked to come in for a face-to-face interview with a potential employer. Along with the confirmation email, a two-page document was attached, titled “Preparing For Your Interview.” The top of the page read: “When preparin…
  - 24 hours ago, 23 Apr 19, 5:59pm -
• newmy boss found out I’m job-hunting
  A reader writes: I’m a few years into my current job and decided that I want to move into a different field that is tangentially related to my current field. After a long job search process and many interview rounds, it’s finally down to me and j…
  - 1 day ago, 23 Apr 19, 4:29pm -

LebHR

• “You are the Most Valuable Asset” – Is it true?
  What is the “most overused words” in the corporate lexicon?  If you answered “People are our most valuable asset”, you are correct. For decades, top executives and business managers have echoed the platitude “our employees are our most val…
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• Revenge Hiring and Revenge Firing
  What happens when someone is Hired to get even or Fired to get even? Recruitment is one of the most important factors when it comes to putting your organization into a position where it can compete, and be successful. Getting the right people into th…
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• 5 Great Motivational Books You Should Read
  Who needs motivation? humm, everyone?! It is in fact a key aspect of anyone’s work experience, and life in general. Without motivation, one would sit idle, do nothing, feel depressed. And even though we had previously written many articles regardin…
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• How to Deal with a Micromanager ?
  Now that you came to realize what the key signs of a micromanager are (if you missed our previous article about this topic feel free to check it here: Are you a Micromanager?), we now move to another aspect which is the key problem for people being m…
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• Are you a Micromanager?
  Are you a micromanager? sometimes termed a control freak? well sadly most micromanagers will answer by no ! as they do not feel that they are micromanaging. Actually many people will feel insulted if they are called micromanagers. The effects of thi…
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• How to Become World’s Best Boss: an Interview with Michael Scott
  Who’s better to sit in for an interview with than Dunder Mifflin Scranton’s own Michael Scott, “World’s Best Boss” ?! We arranged to have this great “fictional” interview with Michael (based upon actual quotes from The Office) to learn…
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HR Observations

• newOvercoming the Inertia of Vacation
  In physics one of Newton’s basic laws is that of inertia, that is a body at rest will remain at rest until acted upon by an external force. That is what happened to me when I went on vacation. I suspended my blog while I was on vacation and I have…
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• The USDOL is revising the definition of “Regular Rate of Pay”
  Back in January, I wrote a post entitled What is the “regular rate of pay according to the USDOL.” At that time I explained that many employers made FLSA overtime mistakes because they did not calculate overtime on the correct rate of pay. The US…
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• On Vacation
  I am taking a break from blogging for the next several weeks. I am on a much-needed vacation. Thank you for your understanding.
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• Motivated Employees and Where to Find Them
  Today’s blog is a guest post.  Sometimes companies take that “we are a customer-centric business” mantra so seriously that they either neglect their employees or they fail to grasp their role in their brand’s success. While it’s commendabl…
  - 42 days ago, 13 Mar 19, 11:45am -
• The USDOL releases new salary requirements to maintain exempt status
  On March 7, 2019, the United States Department of Labor released the long-awaited adjustment to the salary level that is the first hurdle to claiming an employee is exempt from being paid overtime. This movement toward a new salary level began in the…
  - 44 days ago, 11 Mar 19, 11:45am -
• A lesson in overtime pay
  Two employers learned a lesson in understanding the rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA requires that non-exempt employees receive overtime pay based on their “regular of pay”. Unfortunately, many employers don’t understand that ter…
  - 50 days ago, 5 Mar 19, 3:02pm -

The Employer Handbook

• newA heterosexual employee sued for sexual-orientation discrimination. Really?!?
  Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/photos/question-question-mark-survey-2736480/) Oh, did I mention that the plaintiff was the HR Manager? Bruh… And she made an incendiary Facebook post. Well, that I can believe. (I’m friends on Faceb…
  - 7 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 10:40am -
• newWhy was there an employment law trending on Twitter yesterday? Oh, I think I know.
  Image Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/pride-gay-nyc-new-york-city-flag-2444813/ The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the prohibition against sex discrimination in Title VII also covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender id…
  - 1 day ago, 23 Apr 19, 10:30am -
• newHow in the world did a DEAD person get suspended for racist behavior?!?
  Uncredited [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsNot only that but two different employers disciplined the same dead person on the same day. Last Friday, I was on the road in Cleveland doing some anti-harassment training for managers and supervisors.…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 10:30am -
• The readers have three follow-up ADA questions about job applications. Let’s answer them.
  Request Leave Coolie Writing Tool Pen Application (https://www.maxpixel.net/Request-Leave-Coolie-Writing-Tool-Pen-Application-1915347) On Wednesday, I blogged, “If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA pro…
  - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 19, 10:30am -
• Yes, you can be fired for cursing about clients in the office bathroom
  MarkBuckawicki [CC0], via Wikimedia CommonsIf I were the boss, I’d fire anyone for talking in a public office restroom. Period. Full stop. But, carrying on and cursing about clients of the company is certainly a terminable offense. Just ask the Nat…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• If your job applications look anything like this, well, damn, you’ve got some ADA problems.
  Request Leave Coolie Writing Tool Pen Application (https://www.maxpixel.net/Request-Leave-Coolie-Writing-Tool-Pen-Application-1915347) I remember once I had a colleague asked me to review an addendum to a job application for a client to make sure it…
  - 7 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 10:30am -

Talent & Social Business

• Thoughts for 2019
  It's been a week and a day since 2019 started. I have mostly been hibernating metaphorically. Mostly because the whole greeting everyone "Happy New year" feels not-quite-genuine Resolutions are also not my style.However, I have been reading and rumin…
  - 8 Jan 19, 10:02pm -
• Reflecting back on 2018
  I learned a lot about myself this year.. mostly about what I failed at.. and my weaknesses. Thankful to those who chose to forgive me. In 2018 I became a real orphan.. My mother passed away in June.. And I have been shunned by my extended family..I t…
  - 13 Jul 18, 5:24am -
• Listed as No. 2 #SocialMedia Influencer in India by @SHRMIndia at #SHRMTech18
  I couldn't make it to SHRMTech conference this year which started yesterday and will end today.However was pleased to know when my fellow BlogSquad members told me that I was number 2 in the list of Top 30 social media influencers in #HR.Abhijit Bhad…
  - 27 Apr 18, 4:59am -
• Future of Jobs, #FutureOfWork in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence, Gig-economy - The #India perspective
  “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” – goes a Danish quote. One routinely sees the fallacy of predictions even by experts. That’s because we overestimate the quantum of change in the short term, but under-estimat…
  - 4 Jan 18, 6:15am -
• Happy New Year wishes to all of you
  As 2017 draws to a close, here's wishing all of you and your loved ones a very Happy New Year.May 2018 bring you meaningful and purposeful work, continued love of your close ones, and lots of new learnings!If you want to talk to me about a story or a…
  - 27 Dec 17, 8:20am -
• Chatbots, AI, HR Tech - quoted in this article by @toymango in Economic Times
  My friend Tanmoy Goswami was working on an article on chatbots and AI and reached out to me about the earlier wave of HR technology (which we called ESN, Enterprise 2.0 etc)Tech-enabled engagement platforms have a patchy history. Before bots, there w…
  - 20 Dec 17, 8:00am -

Thoughts For a Better Workplace

• Sometimes all it takes is finding the right coach...
  Even if you are not a fan of singing competitions on TV (I personally haven't watched American Idol in years) the winner of The Voice last night, Josh Kaufman, was a pretty big success not only for the franchise, but for the artist himself.He had lon…
  - 21 May 14, 3:43pm -
• Do not let planning get in the way of execution
  For those of you who are still shaking their head at the images from Atlanta and lines of cars, people stranded, walking home and sitting on the road for over 12 hours...well I join you in that head shaking.In case you missed it, here is a brief slid…
  - 29 Jan 14, 9:25pm -
• It's okay to not be Zappos....they had to start somewhere also
  Not surprisingly a lot of talk has been going on in the last week or so about Zappos significant shift to flattening their management hierarchy .  In this Washington Post article it notes: "The unusual approach is called a “holacracy.” Develope…
  - 15 Jan 14, 8:41pm -
• Do you have a career plan?
  One of the hardest questions for me to ever answer was and is, "Where do you see yourself in 3-5 years?" This question creates mini panic attacks in my gut. What if I answer wrong? Should I be specific or general? Worst of all, what if I don't know…
  - 9 Aug 13, 3:46pm -
• Changing the learning curve
  I have read Penelope Trunk for some years now, back when she was with Brazen Careerist and now since she's been out on her own.I won't lie some musings I drift over and some I really read. However if you haven't read one of her most recent postings,…
  - 7 Apr 13, 11:32pm -
• Don't be that HR horror story
  If you follow different HR blogs out there, you've no doubt come across one of the better ones by Chris Fields.   In fact one of his more recent posts about taking your "HR hat off" made me recall my own interactions with friends or relatives and me…
  - 21 Mar 13, 2:09am -

Upstart HR

• newWe’re Only Human 54: Forecasting The Future Jobs of HR and Recruiting
  If you could look out into the future and predict how HR and talent acquisition jobs might change in the next few years, what would you expect? Robots? AI? Something else?  In today’s short monologue, Ben talks about some of the jobs he expects to…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 2:18pm -
• Office Workplace Health Risks: Computers, Screens, Sitting, and More
    In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experien…
  - 9 days ago, 15 Apr 19, 1:16pm -
• How to Invest in ALL Employees, Not Just #Millennials
  While there may be some minor generational differences in workplace preferences, the truth is ALL your people want to learn, grow, use their strengths and be recognized and appreciated for their efforts. I’ve written extensively about the myth that…
  - 23 days ago, 1 Apr 19, 12:38pm -
• We’re Only Human 53: How to Partner with Your Talent Analytics Team
  Organizations that have analytics talent, whether it’s a dedicated team or just a single data-loving person within the HR function, often struggle with how to leverage the expertise they bring to the table. In today’s discussion, Ben interviews t…
  - 37 days ago, 18 Mar 19, 1:05pm -
• Talent Mobility: How to Get Line Managers On Board
  In the last few years, it seems like I’ve become the expert on internal talent mobility (the process of moving people inside the organization via promotions, transfers, etc.). I’ve published multiple pieces on the topic, written several white pap…
  - 44 days ago, 11 Mar 19, 2:51pm -
• We’re Only Human 52: The Top 3 HR Tech Implementation Mistakes
  Okay, you’ve selected your HR tech solution. You’ve signed the paperwork. Now it’s time for implementation–are you ready?  Technology implementations, regardless of whether you’re using Oracle, SAP, Workday, or someone else, are challengin…
  - 49 days ago, 6 Mar 19, 2:39pm -

In Full Bloom

• newPassover Memories: Family, Food, And Immigration Policy
  Passover Seder At The Obama White House I’ve been feeling a little weepy this Passover, awash in memories of the epic Seders of my orthodox Jewish childhood. They were epic, not just in the number of people participating, nor in the abundance of wo…
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 6:36pm -
• A Bloom’s Christmas: Retail Inventory Management
  Blooms Camera Ad Circa 1950 There are times when I really hate being a grownup, when I’d like nothing better than to be the child I never was. When your Mom dies before your sixth birthday, you grow up fast. And when your Jewish family’s economic…
  - 24 Dec 18, 2:42am -
• The Cavalry Isn’t Coming: “We The People” Are Our Only Defense
  There was always the moment, in those old Westerns, when the settler families, perhaps led by John Wayne, realized that the Cavalry weren’t going to get there in time to save them from the outlaw gang which was intent on raping their women, stealin…
  - 11 Jul 18, 11:43pm -
• We Cannot Be Paralyzed By Our Fears!
  I cried myself to sleep last night, more discouraged about America than I could ever remember. We worked so hard to get to an enviable place in our pursuit of that more perfect union, to a level of human and civil rights, of social justice and the ru…
  - 28 Jun 18, 9:05pm -
• Conference Attendee Tips — Illustrated Journaling, Golden Age mysteries, Boat Shows and More
  Naomi & Cousin Ronni Circa 1950 Yes, I’m retired, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped learning — or attending conferences. Whether it’s the annual Florida Watercolor Society convention, and Urban Sketchers event, Emily’s List conferen…
  - 13 Jun 18, 2:18am -
• Suicide Leaves Indelible Scars: Remembering Joey Shapiro
  Remembering Joey Shapiro Anthony Bourdain’s suicide and all the related tributes, personal introspections, lamentations and analysis have really upset me, and not because I feel his loss personally. Not being a foodie, I didn’t even know who he w…
  - 9 Jun 18, 6:49pm -

HR Success Guide

• How to Improve Staff Engagement in the Legal Industry
  Author: Avelina Patay (NeoMam Studios)Click Here to visit similar Presentations.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  - 27 Aug 15, 11:30pm -
• How do you motivate Low Performers to do a Better Job?
  Author: Antony XavierThis is a question that keeps many managers up at night. And it's hard to answer. The answer is hard because different things motivate different employees. For example, one...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website…
  - 20 Aug 15, 11:30pm -
• The World's Biggest Office
  Author: Dave Cummins (Dublin Office Centre)Click Here to visit similar Presentations.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  - 13 Aug 15, 11:30pm -
• How to Attract the Right Candidate
  Author: Helen Sabell (College of Adult Learning)Today’s job market is highly competitive and inundated with a growing number of people seeking employment. As a result, employers may find themselves...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w…
  - 7 Aug 15, 11:30pm -
• SMEs Guide to Online Payroll Services
  Author: Colin Cuthbert (Ayers Management)Click Here to visit similar Presentations.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  - 7 Jul 15, 11:30pm -
• Employee Performance Reviews
  Author: Mark Feldman (Find my Shift)Click Here to visit similar Presentations.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  - 3 Jul 15, 11:30pm -

Thinking About Learning

• L&D is not about simplicity
  Many trainers start off with trying to distill models into soundbites for training. Into a model. Into easy to understand stuff. I think along the way we confused effective training with being comparable to teaching children. If you can explain it in…
  - 15 days ago, 9 Apr 19, 8:42pm -
• Training practice I wish we’d see less
  1. When you want to genuinely explore a topic and the trainer asks – what are the benefits of using this methodology? And – how does it benefit the person receiving? And – how does it benefit you? They’re all nonsense questions. They don’t…
  - 19 days ago, 5 Apr 19, 11:13am -
• Vulnerability in the workplace
  In the work I do, I get to work with a lot of different groups and leaders. It’s a privileged position where I have access to senior people in a way most people won’t. Inevitably you find that they’re just as human and foibled as the rest of us…
  - 28 days ago, 27 Mar 19, 7:31am -
• Is there a right way to express appreciation?
  It’s an odd question isn’t it? It’s something that has occurred to me several times and it happens frequently enough. People trying to express appreciation for something and feeling they have to add in a bit of “constructive criticism” for…
  - 92 days ago, 22 Jan 19, 7:38am -
• What’s the difference between using digital tech for learning and personal consumption?
  Leading on from yesterday’s blog post, Myles Runham asked the above question. My assertion was that …consuming digital for personal purposes is fundamentally different to consuming digital for learning purposes. It comes down to the way we use di…
  - 99 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 7:16am -
• Just how important are digital skills for L&D?
  The skill set needed by L&D is ever-growing. The traditional skills of being able to design performance enhancing courses/workshops/programmes is still very much needed, as is the need for high quality delivery and facilitation in-person. Anyone who…
  - 14 Jan 19, 9:50am -

T Recs

• 8 Ways to Improve Hiring and Retention
  Almost every piece of research covering the priorities of business leaders and senior HR professionals will conclude that recruiting and retaining the people they need is the top priority and main challenge. Research covering aspirations of employees…
  - 23 Oct 18, 10:52am -
• Under New Management
  This weekend sees the start of the new Premier League football season and I, for one, can’t wait. Regular readers will know that I’m an Arsenal fan, who’s been following them home and away since my early teens. But this weekend is a little more…
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• Thoughts From Jobseekers on How Work is Changing
  It seems that barely an hour passes on digital communication channels without predictions, opinions and discussions appearing about the future of work. Those last three words alone now appear on bios and as individual specialisms. The battle is often…
  - 9 Aug 18, 2:05pm -
• Technology, People, Recruitment and The Tipping Point
  The recruitment ecosystem is constantly shifting shapes and dynamics, and ameliorating in new and different ways. Technology is driving much of this. The simple days of agencies, internal and advertising platforms (be they print or digital) have chan…
  - 4 Jun 18, 4:12pm -
• Be Courageous, Be Human, #WorkHuman
  Do the internal systems and structures within your company work against people reporting harassment or bullying, or are there ‘safe spaces’ or non-judgmental support for those who need to tell their story? Can HR create these? And if not, then is…
  - 10 Apr 18, 8:16am -
• 3 Things about Digital Transformation
  October is traditionally HR technology month.  2 major conferences with accompanying expos, and chances to see what new functionalities the major companies have lined up, as well as some of the newer, start-up tech businesses. For all the bright shi…
  - 23 Oct 17, 6:51am -

Matt Charney's Snark Attack

• Virtual Insanity: Rethinking The Traditional Workplace.
  One of my senior leaders once told me a funny story about the time his kid was asked about what Dad did for work. “He talks on the phone in the basement all day,” the kid replied. This pretty much sums up a lot of people’s perceptions about vir…
  - 5 Jun 18, 2:49pm -
• Glassdoor: An M&A Which Will Live in Infamy.
  There are a lot of companies out there that actually walk the walk. Glassdoor, for a long time, was one of the good guys; they practiced the same sort of radical transparency they preached and were the rare company to actually champion the employee…
  - 10 May 18, 3:16pm -
• Feeling Lucky: Google Gets Into Sourcing.
  One of the foundational premises of talent sourcing lies in the fact that traditional search engines are notoriously bad at searching for individual people and profiles, particularly as they relate to jobs. If you’re looking for something, search…
  - 28 Mar 18, 3:01pm -
• Um Yea: Not Another 2018 HR Tech Trends Post.
  Here’s a good way to kick off a new year: for the first time in like, a decade, I’m actually not dreading writing one of those annual preview posts. See, if you’re in the recruitment content marketing business (a pretty shit nice, TBH), every y…
  - 16 Jan 18, 2:21pm -
• Git Up, Git Out: Why Prisons Are Killing Diversity in the Workplace.
  If employers truly cared about diversity, then a felony conviction would be a non-issue for recruiting, if not an asset.
  - 12 Dec 17, 2:33pm -
• The Road to Hella: Why Silicon Valley Doesn’t Really Matter Anymore.
  It’s no secret that I’ve long hated the San Francisco area. These reasons, of course, extend beyond the more obvious, superficial stuff. While I have a sincere and deep-seated animosity for Giants and Golden State Warrior fans, streets that perpe…
  - 19 Oct 17, 1:35pm -

HR Remix

• Don’t Let Someone Else Tell Your Story
  New leaders have a short amount of time to tell their story. Leaders are brought in under a number of circumstances – sometimes its a simple transition from one job to the next and other times its because something needs to be “fixed.” Regardle…
  - 51 days ago, 4 Mar 19, 12:01pm -
• Save Your Sanity This Year
  For many of us its goal setting time and that means some of us will get overly ambitious and set close-to-impossible goals for this new year (its possible I have experience in this area). Most of us don’t set these goals because we want to fail. Mo…
  - 78 days ago, 5 Feb 19, 11:30am -
• Why I Write & Speak Outside of Work
  A few weeks ago I spoke at Disrupt HR Detroit about how to make work suck less. It was 5 minutes, 20 slides and a little nerve wracking but I left exhilarated – I challenged myself, met new people and learned a lot. Did my company pay me to go ther…
  - 15 Oct 18, 11:45am -
• How Do We Get the Important Work Done?
  In our last two posts we talked about how organizations play a big role in helping people focus on the important work; the work that moves organizations forward. However, you, as a leader or individual contributor also play a huge role in your abili…
  - 25 Jul 18, 11:00am -
• Carnival of HR – Your Break From The Summer Heat
  Yowza! It is blazing hot here in Ohio this summer! We are on week two without rain…and when you live near Lake Erie that is definitely something to celebrate! Some take a look at the heat wave and complain but I embrace the heat. I soak it up with…
  - 18 Jul 18, 12:30pm -
• How Do We Build Organizations That Support Important Work?
    This is the second in a three-part series about the time management problem, which I see as a problem finding time to do important work – work that moves the organization and its people forward. I’m not interested in the same recycled advice,…
  - 10 Jul 18, 11:30am -

101 Half Connected Things

• newApplicants – and Paintings Without Prices
  Synopsis: A short piece on value. If you ever get a chance to walk around an exhibition at an auction house it is an odd experience. The exhibits have a guide price – and you are essentially being told what holds more value than other things. The u…
  - 1 day ago, 23 Apr 19, 6:59am -
• How different would it look if…
  Synopsis: short read on interpretation of performance and motivation. Deals with how to agree that someone is underperforming (there is no strengths based thinking in this blog, it’s about agreeing it is going wrong…) One of the hardest challenge…
  - 27 days ago, 28 Mar 19, 8:51am -
• The Milkshake Provocation
  Content: a short reflection on how being shouted at when younger still has a positive impact now. Even though I’d never recommend shouting When I was about 16 I was working in a fast food chain that has a largely arch based logo. I had been told to…
  - 30 days ago, 25 Mar 19, 8:16am -
• Welcome people well – then tell me
  Synopsis: a short request for a practical change in language. Easy to make happen. Change ‘onboarding’ to ‘welcome’ then let me know. In 2017 I wrote that there must be a better name for the process of welcoming someone to an organisation tha…
  - 44 days ago, 11 Mar 19, 7:53am -
• Unlimited Annual Leave
  Contents: a short blog on why we need to keep a focus on the substance of what matters to people I was on 5Live a couple of weeks ago talking about unlimited annual leave. When you give a radio interview broadly you get to answer the questions and th…
  - 51 days ago, 4 Mar 19, 7:50am -
• The Thought Terminating Clichés of Work
  Content: a reflection on thought terminating clichés in work – with an explanation from Wikipedia up front I had the delight of learning a new term recently. “A thought-terminating cliché is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wis…
  - 58 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 8:19am -

Leadership Freak

• newThe Future of Organizations According to the Wall Street Journal
  The future of organizations depends on skillful, empowered middle-managers. (WSJ – subscription required.) Successful managers*: Motivate employees to act. Engage employees with purpose. Drive outcomes assertively. Paddle upstream successfully. Cre…
  - 7 hours ago, 24 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• newHugging in the Men’s Room
  Corporate life is dead because there’s no heart. I scrambled for something to do when he said, “My son committed suicide two years ago.” We were standing in the men’s room.   The… Continue reading →
  - 1 day ago, 23 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• newHow to Find the Courage to Lead
  There’s plenty of boldness in leadership. But, sadly, there’s too little courage. The greatest courage isn’t the courage to tell people what to do. It’s the courage to tell yourself what to do.… Continue reading →
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• Top Five Books For Your Must Read List
  Last Friday I published a long list of books that I referenced in a recent presentation. A reader asked if I might narrow the list. Here are my top five recommendations from that… Continue reading →
  - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• Bogus Self-Esteem and the Dangers of Shallow Praise
  Whatever you do, don’t criticize or correct. You might damage someone’s self-esteem. (Sarcasm intended.) Bolstering, maintaining, and protecting self-esteem is the sacred cow of modern society. It’s a grievous evil to do anything… Continue re…
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 11:00am -
• The Reason Leaders Pursue Excellence Will Change Your Life
  It’s not about doing your best. It’s about doing your best for someone else. Since reading, “High Performance Habits, by Brendon Burchard, I’ve been paying attention to the reasons leaders do what they… Continue reading →
  - 7 days ago, 17 Apr 19, 11:00am -

Three Star Leadership

• newLeaders and Strategies in Real Life: 4/23/19
  Instead of studying leadership, why not spend some time studying leaders and strategies in the wild? You can learn a lot from leadership experts, but you always see the leader and what he or she does through the...
  - 24 hours ago, 23 Apr 19, 6:00pm -
• newWhat I’m Reading Now: Bedtime Stories for Managers
  I usually avoid collections of blog posts, but I’m reading Henry Mintzberg’s collection, Bedtime Stories for Managers. I usually wait till a book’s been out for several months before I review it. This book was...
  - 2 days ago, 22 Apr 19, 6:00pm -
• newBoss’s Tip of the Week: Autonomy demands accountability
  “Autonomy” has become the buzz word for “giving your team members as much control as possible over their work life.” That’s a good word and a good concept. Just remember that autonomy...
  - 3 days ago, 21 Apr 19, 6:00pm -
• Weekend Leadership Reading: 4/19/19
  Weekends are time when things slow down a little. Your weekend shouldn’t be two more regular work days. That’s a sure road to burnout. Take time to refresh yourself. Take time for something different. Take...
  - 5 days ago, 19 Apr 19, 6:00pm -
• 4 Things You can Give Your Team
  My mother said there were two conditions for a perfect gift. The perfect gift should be transformative. It should make a difference to the recipient. Mom also said a perfect gift was one that the recipient couldn’t or...
  - 6 days ago, 18 Apr 19, 6:00pm -

Employer's Lawyer Blog

• When Rhetoric Comes to Town
  By now, if you haven’t heard about Donald Trump’s statements on Muslims and his plan to prevent Muslims from entering the country, as well as the vehement support he is receiving from an astonishing number of people, you may be living under a roc…
  - 9 Dec 15, 7:44pm -
• Beware the FMLA Equitable Estoppel Claim
  Imagine that your company has 40 employees, one of whom is subject to hospitalization for a medical condition and requires surgery. He is out of work for several weeks and in his absence, the company realizes that it gets along fine without him. As a…
  - 10 Nov 15, 2:23pm -
• Don’t Bet on the Jury Verdict
  As some of those who follow me on Twitter know, I had jury duty in September. Like most people, it wasn’t something I was looking forward to (and I even tried to get out of it on the basis that no one would pick a lawyer for a jury). Well, it turn…
  - 5 Nov 15, 2:55pm -
• Department of Labor Releases New Proposed Overtime Rules
  On June 30, 2015, the Department of Labor announced new proposed overtime rules aimed at expanding the number of employees eligible for overtime pay and decreasing the number of employees that qualify for an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards A…
  - 1 Jul 15, 1:50pm -
• Supreme Court Weighs in on Religious Discrimination and Against Abercrombie
  Yesterday, the Supreme Court released its opinion in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc. The case involved the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission bringing a religious discrimination lawsuit against the national retailer, under Title VII. Sa…
  - 2 Jun 15, 1:15pm -
• HR Cinema: Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back
  HR Cinema is an ongoing feature here at The Employer’s Lawyer.  It combines my love of movies with my passion for human resources and employment law.  Please feel free to suggest movies in the comments and I will do my best to incorporate your su…
  - 4 May 15, 11:24pm -

Charlie Judy

• expectations beware
  It turns out we spend a lot of our lives running around trying to do what others expect of us. It is essentially how we're reared. Parents set expectations and we either meet them or don't. Our spouses have expectations, our children have expectatio…
  - 12 Aug 15, 4:14pm -
• customize this
  Your employees can walk into any Starbucks and get their very own special patent-able beverage...because that's the way they want it. They can tap Pandora to stream straight to their little eardrums any type of music at any time...because that's the…
  - 22 Jul 15, 11:39pm -
• right talent right place
  Nitro, a document productivity company, recently asked me to respond to the following question for an E-Book they were publishing. How can HR professionals maximize their company presence to attract top talent?This is what I told them..."Firs…
  - 16 Jul 15, 1:53pm -

HR Pockets

• Would your employees hire you?
  I enjoy a good conference, and I especially enjoy a good speaker who is reinforcing things I agree with in a room full of thousands of people. I realize that means I’m participating in a self-serving conference experience and not necessarily someth…
  - 36 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 4:20pm -
• After interview thank you note advice:
  Recently I called on some of my pals to help me navigate a question… What makes a thank you note from a candidate stand out after an interview. Check out what some of the best business professionals had to say below and let us know if you would add…
  - 71 days ago, 12 Feb 19, 4:21pm -
• Don’t do it tomorrow
  Why do it tomorrow when you can do it today? Time management has been my biggest challenge over the last couple of months. I thought after giving up some of my volunteer roles I would have all this free time, but that hasn’t exactly happened. I don…
  - 81 days ago, 3 Feb 19, 2:53am -
• Don’t underestimate boundaries
  Boundaries at work/with work are good for you. You can love your work and have boundaries. I’d argue that having boundaries can make it easier to love your work. Boundaries at work can look like saying no to projects you know you don’t have the b…
  - 82 days ago, 2 Feb 19, 2:34am -
• Who do you really support?
  The most important career lesson I ever learned was to understand the business. There seems to be a lot of back and forth about HR being business professionals/or not being business professionals. In my opinion the easiest way to win this discussion…
  - 83 days ago, 1 Feb 19, 2:36am -
• Dig out the root
  When I was in elementary school one of my chores was to pull weeds in the yard. I didn’t really like that chore much. Day after day I would pull up dandelions out of the yard only to find two or three times as many the next day. If you don’t get…
  - 84 days ago, 31 Jan 19, 12:58am -

Don't Forget to Remember

• The Final Four
  It's that time of year when High Schoolers move along to College and College Kids turn into pros and those who have earned their stripes move on to their second job while newly unemployed 55 year olds try to figure out how to re-create themselves.Man…
  - 12 days ago, 12 Apr 19, 7:09pm -
• Yet Realized Workforce Trends
  " Do You Realize that Happiness Makes You Cry " - Wayne CoyneI've been a member of the SHRM Blog Squad for the last 7 SHRM Annual Conferences. Many of the original members of our #HRTribe have moved on to different roles while others continue to brav…
  - 19 days ago, 5 Apr 19, 2:08pm -
• Happy Birthday Marley
  Hey Mar -I'll start by apologizing for this post now that this thing called social media is readily available to you (and your friends).I've been writing these letters to you every year in case one day you might need to remember how much your Dad lov…
  - 29 days ago, 26 Mar 19, 9:13pm -
• Recognizing Red Flags
  As the practice of  Employee Recognition takes a more-strategic organizational purpose, initiative expansion and platform consolidation are guiding course adjustment. Pats on the back are only one part of a larger Employee Value Proposition (EVP), s…
  - 48 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 8:03pm -
• Career Utopia on Your Terms
  I'm in a wonderful spot in my career where people (old and young) are looking to me for career advice. My consulting does not waiver from one generation to another, I just happen to be the man in the middle. I have learned a lot of lessons from my ti…
  - 50 days ago, 5 Mar 19, 8:48pm -
• Human Resources in the Social Enterprise
  The world  of Human Resources is not often affiliated with snap decisions. HR Professionals are well-thought-out and change tends to happen by committee. Any given workforce would look upon such strategic alchemy with appreciation, however, the HR B…
  - 54 days ago, 1 Mar 19, 4:47pm -

Employment Law Navigator

• Thanks, and so long…
  After 3 great years, the Employment Law Navigator is coming to an end. We’ve had fun, and we hope our posts have been helpful. Our sincere thanks to our contributors and to Zelle’s superb Marketing Director Dan Gruber, who picked our art, caug…
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• That is SO last week
  Last week, HR Dive reported on a Washington federal court’s June order requiring that a public employer pay $1.8 million to a terminated employee.  The worker was fired when she failed a drug test due to her lawful use of prescription drugs, test…
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• That Critical First Response to Harassment Complaints: Stage 2
  Last week, we wroteabout the importance of “first responders” who receive complaints of workplace harassment, and provided tips on how they should prepare for and react to complaints.  This week, we continue to focus on the early stages of the c…
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• That is SO last week
  Last week, the City of San Francisco joined other municipalities around the country that prohibit employers from asking applicants for wage history.  The  Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that will go into effect in mid-2018. Pittsburgh, Ph…
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• That Critical First Response to Harassment Complaints: A Checklist
  Employers don’t want workplace harassment to occur, but when it does they want to know. Harassment affects morale, distracts from productive work, and can do real damage to its victims.  It’s long settledthat ignorance is not a defense to claims…
  - 13 Jul 17, 8:40pm -
• That is SO last week
  Last week, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear a Title VII sexual orientation discrimination case. The Court let stand a March 2017 ruling by a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit that Title VII does not prohibit emplo…
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What Goes Around

• newWorking With Uncertainty In Our Organisations
  Developing artistic practices to respond to business challenges
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• Art Is Community : Community Is Art
  A creative collaboration
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• The Free Art Project : 3rd Anniversary
  Be curious. Start something. Keep going.
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The Social HR Connection

• 4 Tips to Stay Relevant Before Searching for Your Next Job
  Want to know the best way to be proactive in your job search? Check out my latest VentureFizz post here to learn more. Advertisements
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• 4 Tips for Becoming a Great Remote Employee
  Curious about taking a remote role? Already working virtually but want to improve your success? Check out my latest blog on VentureFizz for some tips! Click here to read more.
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• Finding Your ‘Culture Fit’ During the Job Search
  Learn more about company culture and how finding the right one for you matters.
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• 4 Recruiting Practices that Won’t Turn Off Candidates
  Whether you’re a new recruiter or seasoned, corporate or agency, these 4 practices are always a good reminder for creating a good candidate experience. Click here to check out my latest blog post on VentureFizz for more details.
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• VentureFizz Post: Talent Branding- How to Stand Out from the Crowd
  I’m back! If you’re breaking into employment branding or recruitment marketing, check out my latest post on VentureFizz. It offers some great tips to get you started and keep you organized. Click here to see the post. 
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• Why Taking a Break is a Good Thing
  It’s been a little while, I know. After years of consistently blogging, guest blogging, Tweeting, social networking, and so on, I took a step back to assess. In the beginning, I used blogging as a way to build a personal brand in the pursuit of lan…
  - 29 Jul 15, 3:53pm -

What is Paul Thinking?

• Updates over on the new site…
  
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• Jobvite and Fistful of Talent Hangout!
  Our first hangout is at 1pm ET on Tuesday, November 14th Google for Jobs/ROI of Recruitment Marketing Spend! What You Need to Know to Look Smart!! This past fall I participated in a great series of events for Jobvite called the Recruiter Nation Live…
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• Why All the Individual Suggestions for Engagement Are WRONG
  If you’re getting this update you haven’t switched your subscription to the new site. I just checked my feeds and deleted anyone on this feed who was also on the list for the new feed. So only those who haven’t switched are getting this update.…
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• Change Is Good!
  I need 3 minutes of your time. 3 minutes to make my life easier. And you know it is ALL about me. But really, this will make YOUR life easier (and so much better.) If you’re getting this update via email you are subscribed to the “old” site. I…
  - 1 Nov 17, 12:29pm -
• If You Manage People This Post Will Make You 100% More Effective
  As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider…
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• Being a Participant VS Participating
    As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consi…
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HR Warrior

• What's New in HR for Illinois Employers?
  By Donna Rogers Skowronski, M.Ed., SPHR, SHRM-SCP via www.RogersHR.comNow – already required in your workplaces New IL Poster required due to ISSERRA change as of 1/1/19.IL Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act requires employers to allow breaks as…
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• Employer Changes in Illinois: 300 Days Plus New POSTER
  The following are a couple employment related changes all business owners and human resources professionals in Illinois should be aware of.DOCUMENTATION RECOMMENDEDEmployees of any Illinois employer now have a much longer time frame to bring a compla…
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• Top HR Podcasts Chosen for HR Student Review
  Since 2011, I have incorporated a social learning aspect to my HRM and Strategic HRM course.  The graduate students get to chose while the undergraduates are assigned a specific podcast to listen to each week.  Over the years, I have incorporated b…
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• HR Assessment Risk Summary
  In summarizing the potential for risk in the human resources and personnel practices of organizations visited over the past few years, the highest risk of audits, investigations, grievances and the resulting potential for penalties, fines and legal c…
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• Talking HR with Brian Pierce from WMAY
  This morning I had a chance to talk with Brian Pierce from WMAY as a member of Local First Springfield. We talked about ice cream, management coaching, hiring and retaining employees and more.  Have a listen!Listen to "Rogers HR Consulting - 6/15/18…
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• Social Learning Platforms in the Classroom?
  Yes, social learning platforms are in my classrooms (face-to-face, blended, and online) and have been part of my teaching methodology since 2011 or so.  I personally got online around 2008 not too long after social media started getting popular amon…
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Rollercoaster HR

• Radical Mutuality
  The first time I read the term “radical mutuality” I became giddy. I was reading a piece my boss shared with our team, A Nation of Weavers, written by David Brooks of the New York Times when that term entered … Continue reading →
  - 48 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 1:01pm -
• Good teams
  For the 1st time in my nearly six years as the HR Director in our local school district, I have the opportunity to hire someone onto my own team. This is prompted by the retirement of one of my team … Continue reading →
  - 57 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 12:41pm -
• A love letter, of sorts, to @SHRM
  This is a post that has been lingering in both my mind and on my hard drive for while. While there is certainly some love spoken about, pain and emptiness are part of this story too. I believe the reason … Continue reading →
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• 10 Percent
  In my world, so far, 2019 hasn’t been a year worth savoring or celebrating. The combination of crappy winter weather (otherwise known as living in SW Michigan!), the sudden death of a valued colleague because of the winter weather, and … Continue…
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• Inspiration can be anywhere
  Inspiration can be defined as the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. It’s said that Salvador Dali found inspiration for his famous painting The Persistence of Memory by seeing melting…
  - 98 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 11:59am -
• The Path Ahead
  The last 3 weeks have been nice ones in the Galin household. While the holidays with its expected hustle and bustle added joy, it was especially nice having my oldest home again after he completed his 1st semester at college. … Continue reading →
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A Leading Perspective

• Networking, Inspiration, and Education; Preparing for #SHRM17
  It’s springtime and for many of us, this means rebirth, growth and perhaps even “new life.”  All around us, we see the signs. Before we know it, life will literally be buzzing around us. As HR professionals, we see this transformation in our w…
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• Back Off; It’s Mine! (A tale of missed opportunity)
  “I hope you don’t often feel the breeze of an opportunity passing you by.” Carol Strider (aka Heather’s mom) I was traveling a while ago and overheard someone say, “you did not lose the opportunity; someone simply wanted it more.” I conte…
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• Does this country need more HR professionals?
  
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• Purposeful HR
  I’m here at SHRM16 milling about with thousands of other Human Resource Professionals. I was on a walk last night, proudly wearing my SHRM16 Blogger tshirt, and stepped into a joint to get some water. An employee of the store, referring to my shir…
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• Get Certified; Stay Certified!
  Years and years ago, I decided I wanted to get certified. This was no small deal; I had been raised in state government and NONE of my peers or supervisors were certified nor did any of them, as far as I could tell, see the value in it. I began the s…
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• Mindfully Including Howard Ross
  Years ago, I was a member of my local SHRM Chapter and was helping our current president recruit for new Board Members. On one particular year, the Diversity Chair position was vacant and so I offered to help recruit for that position. I had been i…
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