Workology

• newWhat is a Teal Organization?
  A few months ago, at the 2018 ATD Austin Applied Learning Summit, a panelist, Dr. Ryan Schoenbeck, asked the audience whether anyone had heard of Frederic Laloux’s research on Teal organizations. I...Workology is the art and science of work, HR a…
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• newEp 165 – Best of the Workology Podcast, Pt 3
  It’s our third installment of the best of Workology Podcast series sponsored by my friends at Clear Company. I’m looking back at interviews with Scrum master Reese Schmidt, Dr. Cynthia Ackrill, Dr....Workology is the art and science of work, HR…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 4:47pm -
• Using Design Thinking in Your Quest for Impactful Innovation
  Love our blog image? This art is by the talented Jane Flier of the Creative Art Society. Please show them some love and support independent artists.  If anything I bet you are a lot like me where...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 3:48pm -
• Change Management Lessons From Spilled Coffee on the Train
  It can happen to any of us and this morning it happened to me. I spilled coffee on a crowded train. The folks on the train reacted somewhat similar to the way they might if a colleague or teammate...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 3:17pm -
• LEARN by Workology Updates: Certificates, Platform and Courses
  Last year, we launched LEARN by Workology, an online, on-demand learning platform for HR and recruiting. It’s been a great year full of learning, development, and growth. We’ve spent the...Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recrui…
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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…
  - 27 Mar 17, 12:58pm -
• 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

• How Do Great Leaders Move Forward? Dan Schawbel Says Get “Back To Human”
  It takes me a while to get through business books. There is so much competing for my attention: Ozark on Netflix, pics of my friends’ kids on Instagram, my daily skinny, non-fat, vanilla latte, hot from Starbucks.  However, every now and then a bo…
  - 79 days ago, 31 Oct 18, 5:51pm -
• Can Technology End Unconscious Recruiting Bias?
  Can HR technology and chatbots remove unconscious bias in recruiting? I’m telling you there’s a chance. Let’s start with this one fact: Most of us really, really like ourselves. A lot. We usually believe the way we do things is pretty spot on.…
  - 87 days ago, 23 Oct 18, 7:00pm -
• Big Acquisition News from LinkedIn! #TalentConnect Week at #DBHR
  Hey Gang — it’s day one of LinkedIn #TalentConnect Week and we are starting off with a BANG.  Watch this short clip to hear about some BIG LinkedIn acquisition news…
  - 8 Oct 18, 6:28pm -
• On DBHR> It’s LinkedIn #TalentConnect Week!
  Hello Friends!  I’m happy to announce the beginning of LinkedIn Talent Connect Week at DBHR.  Next Week (October 8-11, 2018) LinkedIn is having their annual Talent Connect conference in Anaheim, CA.  I’m thrill to announce I will both cover an…
  - 5 Oct 18, 4:59pm -
• #HRTechConf 2018: Text Recruiting Is HERE
  Yesterday the 2018 #HRTechnology conference kicked off in wonderful, fabulous Las Vegas. HR pros, this is a conference that should be on your annual must-go-to list, so add it to your 2019 budget now. Most companies use some sort of employee “syste…
  - 11 Sep 18, 6:35pm -
• When A Colleague Gets Their Just Rewards, Graciousness Wins
  We’ve all dealt with a colleague or boss who treated us poorly. It hasn’t been the norm in my world, so when it has happened occasionally, I’d channel the five stages of grief in 48 hours: Denial: Did that just happen Anger: Eff that guy! Barga…
  - 20 Jul 18, 5:06pm -

Sagacity | HR

• Lead by Example: Rosa Parks Set the Bar
  Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said, Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. The most important action a leader can take is to set an example.  A successful business cannot sust…
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• Financial Sector Sees No Job Growth in September
  There were no job gains in the Financial Activities sector in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Jobs Report released on Friday.  Financial Activities, which includes the banking, securities, insurance and real estate sub-s…
  - 5 Oct 15, 1:12pm -
• Is It Time to Put the Performance Review on a PIP?
  In an article from the April 2015 issue of HR Magazine, author Dori Meinert discusses the qualitative approaches to employee performance appraisals being chosen by many companies.  The elimination of performance ratings and stack ranking of employee…
  - 18 Sep 15, 1:39am -
• Healthcare Leaders: Is Your BHAG as Humbling as El Capitan?
  David Covington, CEO & President of Recovery Innovations, Inc., has written a great article comparing the Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG) of overcoming smallpox, polio and HIV to the goal of eliminating death by suicide. Originally posted on davidwc…
  - 13 Sep 15, 3:11am -
• Labor Day Report: Financial Sector Adds 19,000 Jobs in August
  Total Financial Activities sector employment rose by 19,000 in August and has risen by 170,000 (2.1%) over the past twelve months.  This compares to an average monthly gain of 15,000 jobs year-to-date.  In August, job gains occurred in Credit Inter…
  - 7 Sep 15, 7:21pm -
• Take 5 to Save Lives During Suicide Prevention Week
  In support of Suicide Prevention Week, The National Council for Suicide Prevention’s Take 5 campaign encourages everyone to take 5 minutes out of their day and complete five action items: Learn the warning signs, Join the movement, Spread the word,…
  - 4 Sep 15, 2:32pm -

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. …
  - 22 Aug 18, 4:20pm -
• 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…
  - 22 Mar 18, 7:49pm -
• 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…
  - 20 Mar 18, 7:51pm -
• 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…
  - 29 Dec 17, 8:54pm -

Arcadia HR Solutions

• newThe Australian and Acacia HR Philosophy of Managing Worker’s Time
  One of the things I love about my business is the opportunity to learn about really cool international companies. We find out about these companies when they decide to expand into the US and call us to help them get setup from an employee perspective…
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 2:00pm -
• 12 Months of Leadership Development for Small Businesses – Our DIY Leadership Development Subscription
  Whenever I speak at HR events or survey our small business HR community, two themes emerge from the questions I ask. The first is how to be seen as a true business partner. That’s code for, “how do I get that seat at the table”. I cover that in…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 2:00pm -
• Technology First, Then People: Growing a Small Business HR Team
  It’s likely that what I’m going to say today goes against conventional wisdom. It may even be a bit controversial. In my nearly 9 years of working solely with startups and small businesses, it is the best way I have found to build a small busines…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 2:00pm -
• 2019 HR Audit Checklist: Updated and Improved
  We have released an HR Audit Checklist in several of the past 5 years. It has become our most popular download and the way that most people join our community. The 2018 version had over 1500 downloads. Not bad for a small business blog. Last year we…
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jan 19, 2:00pm -
• The Acacia HR Three Things for 2019
  I don’t know when it started really. Maybe it’s something I’ve done my whole life without knowing it. Maybe it’s part of my INTJ, Type A personality. I honestly have no clue why I do it, but I do it. I break everything down into three things.…
  - 15 days ago, 3 Jan 19, 2:00pm -

Robin Schooling Blog

• 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 lastThe post Work and Life and…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:51pm -
• The Worst Places to Work Award
  Chances are pretty good that the city in which you live has some sort of “Best Places to Work” Award.  Mine does. Perhaps your company ponied up the $$ and applied for one of these awards; if you work in HRThe post The Worst Places to Work Awa…
  - 16 days ago, 2 Jan 19, 1:10pm -
• Employee Relations: Why Such a Bad Rap?
  Once upon a time, on the heels of the Industrial Revolution, we heralded the birth of the Personnel HR profession.  Industrial Relations begat Labor Relations with its accompanying cliché: a smoke-filled room laden with labor bosses and cigar-cho…
  - 36 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 2:35pm -
• Zombie Human Resources; #DTHR Comes Back from the Dead
  Podcasting is hot. It’s so hot that every person I know seems to have a podcast. Sometimes it seems as if it’s gotten to the point where one of my dogs (I put my money on Mr. Crumples) is soonThe post Zombie Human Resources; #DTHR Comes Back fro…
  - 80 days ago, 30 Oct 18, 12:14pm -
• I Refuse to Maintain the Status Quo
  I dare say that most humans are creatures of habit and routine. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; in our hurly-burly lives it’s nice to rely on muscle-memory so we can drive the same daily route to the office orThe post I Refuse to Maintain th…
  - 95 days ago, 15 Oct 18, 1:01pm -

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…
  - 28 Jan 18, 9:30am -
• 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…
  - 8 Jan 18, 8:15am -
• 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…
  - 7 Dec 17, 10:48pm -
• 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?…
  - 25 Sep 17, 11:26pm -
• 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…
  - 28 Aug 17, 10:44pm -

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…
  - 15 Feb 15, 12:00am -
• 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

• My key recruiting tip for 2019
  Chill over Christmas, for sure, you deserve it.And I wish you a safe and fun holiday period.But hit 2019 with a plan.This one!
  - 32 days ago, 17 Dec 18, 7:06pm -
• Billing Manager Masterclass. ‘Super-Early-Bird’ closing soon.
  Super Early Bird deal closes in two days! Secrets of the Successful Billing Manager This is the big one. An all-new masterclass for Billing Managers, the hardest job in recruitment. That is, any recruiter who has to juggle personal targets with manag…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 6:37pm -
• Do you have a ‘lets-piss-candidates-off’ strategy?
  The massive criticism of agency recruiters over the treatment of candidates? Often justified. Plenty of poorly trained recruiters around, and plenty more who don’t care enough to make an effort. But understand this. Agency recruiters do not come in…
  - 46 days ago, 3 Dec 18, 7:40pm -
• New! Greg Savage Masterclass. ‘The Billing Manager’.
  Billing. Managing. Leading. Secrets of the Successful Billing Manager This is the big one. An all-new masterclass for Billing Managers, the hardest job in recruitment. That is, any recruiter who has to juggle personal targets and managing consultants…
  - 59 days ago, 20 Nov 18, 8:00pm -
• Nothing is tougher than leading in a downturn.
  My previous two blogs were on the theme of ensuring your company is recession-proof. The first, ‘A recession is coming. And you will not survive’, told tales of recessions past, and how we rode them out when many others did not. Last week in ‘R…
  - 60 days ago, 19 Nov 18, 8:01pm -
• Sixty Savage Seconds – Always be recruiting. Even if you are not hiring.
  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 ‘Always be recruiting. Even if you are…
  - 63 days ago, 16 Nov 18, 7:40pm -

HR Ringleader

• 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 ...
  - 12 days ago, 6 Jan 19, 3:59pm -
• 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…
  - 59 days ago, 20 Nov 18, 2:00pm -
• Considerations When Implementing A New HR Technology Strategy
  The City of Memphis is going through a HR transformation journey and it is being supported by the technology they are putting in place. Ms. Smith shared some of the challenges, their approaches to those challenges, and some of the early results. Rea…
  - 72 days ago, 7 Nov 18, 11:26am -
• Keeping Your Career On Track: Get Rid of the Moles
  In every workplace, there are people who behave like moles.  They are often quiet about it, but they scurry around derailing your hard work at every turn.   Read More ...
  - 72 days ago, 7 Nov 18, 10:53am -
• Ten Conference Commandments for #HRTechConf
  Remember, there are many reasons professionals attend conferences.  The reason with the most benefit is networking.  By trying new ways to boost your networking skills and opportunities you will come home knowing you had a successful event! Rea…
  - 10 Sep 18, 2:54pm -

People Equation

• Are You Having Career Conversations?
  Are you having career conversations? My friend Julie Winkle Giulioni is launching an expanded and revised version of her bestselling book, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want. It’s a perfect r…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 11:30am -
• Leading the 50+ Employee
  The workforce is getting grayer, and it appears that business practices have yet to catch up to the trend. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that workers 55 years and older are the fastest growing segment of the working population. Pair tha…
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jan 19, 11:30am -
• Discovering Pez
  What An Interactive Candy Teaches Us About Leadership and Coaching Christmas time always provides many fun memories and this year was no exception. Santa left Pez dispensers in my kids’ stockings—for the first time. My daughter was very excited t…
  - 18 days ago, 31 Dec 18, 11:30am -
• The Benefits of Training for Project Managers
    Jen’s note: This post is sponsored by Strategy Execution, a training company dedicated to the career advancement of project management professionals. One of the aspects that I admire about the project management profession is the rigorous attent…
  - 29 days ago, 20 Dec 18, 11:30am -
• New to Your Company? 5 Things that Will Help Sell Your Ideas
  Imagine this scenario: About two months ago, you landed a new gig as a leader at a respected company. You’ve done all the right things to set yourself up for success by priming the pump with these activities before Day One on the job. For the first…
  - 32 days ago, 17 Dec 18, 11:30am -
• Tasty Recipes for Your Holiday Cookie Exchange
  Today’s post is a departure from the typical writing about leadership and workplace dynamics you typically find here on The People Equation. Instead, I’m writing about one of my favorite holiday traditions: our annual neighborhood cookie exchange…
  - 35 days ago, 14 Dec 18, 11:30am -

The Tim Sackett Project

• new10 Things That Scare Me
  I listen to NPR in the mornings on my way to work. It helps me keep up on how my ultra-liberal friends are thinking, plus it’s my only access to news outside the U.S. on a regular basis. It’s important we make ourselves aware of all sides of the…
  - 4 hours ago, 18 Jan 19, 1:55pm -
• newThe Human CRM
  We didn’t always have sales automation and recruiting automation. There was this time when you just had to keep a ‘date book‘ or a calendar of some sort, or just simply to remember to call Mary over at Acme Inc. to see how everything was. Old s…
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 2:16pm -
• newGuerilla Recruiting Marketing
  All I know about marketing I’ve learned from friends. Brilliant people like William Tincup, Michael Carden, Laurie Ruettimann, Jamie Gilpin, Bret Starr, Leela Srinivasan, etc.   I remember sitting in front of William Tincup and Bret Starr when the…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 1:55pm -
• Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: @Content_App – Job Branding
  This week on the Weekly Dose I review the job branding and messaging technology Content. Content is a mobile-based SMS text-based technology (app) AI social media assistant that scales across your recruitment teams to help your business get the mo…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 1:55pm -
• Questions I’m asking myself in 2019!
  I’m constantly being asked about what are the “trends of 2019”. Honestly, year to year trends are usually fairly unnoticeable to most people working a real job in HR and TA. Google for Jobs was a giant trend in 2018 and yet most TA leaders stil…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:55pm -
• What’s the most luxurious benefit you can offer an employee in 2019?
  I read a bunch of article about what’s the next greatest benefit to offer employees. I read one the other day that tried to make it seem like now offering food at work is normal, like everyone is giving away breakfast and lunches, like you give awa…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 1:55pm -

Bullseye Recruiting

• “GHOSTING” HAS TO STOP NOW!- NO ONE WINS
  I had never heard the term “ghosting” until this year.  I mean it isn’t a brand new term. It is a topic and word that has been discussed in the workplace for several years now.  I just never thought I WOULD EXPERIENCE IT.   After all, I…
  - 21 Aug 18, 2:53pm -
• Are You CHASING or BEING CHASED by Employers?
  In 2007 I lost my job.  I didn’t hit quota.  I was put on a P.I.P. (Performance Improvement Plan) and I didn’t make the numbers I was supposed to make.  I worked hard.  I put in the hours.  I just didn’t meet their expectations.  Looking…
  - 1 Feb 18, 2:53pm -
• The CANDIDATES Are Just Not That Into You!
  I remember dating.  Sometimes it was fun, and other times I think I remember feeling like I would rather be locked in my room than to be on that date.  Usually I knew pretty quickly if there was chemistry or a match.  I can’t imagine doing it ag…
  - 15 Jan 18, 9:01pm -
• Before You Say “YES”, Ask These 5 Questions
  As a recruiter, I encounter candidates in different stages of their job search. I talk to people who haven’t looked for a job in years, and I also talk to people who change jobs regularly. It could be personal preference/choice, or it could or it c…
  - 18 Sep 17, 3:32am -
• SALES SPOTLIGHT- Jason Bagshaw- What it takes to be #1
  This week I have the great pleasure of interviewing Jason Bagshaw of Deltek.  Jason is one of my very good friends and quite honestly one of the hardest working and most successful salespeople I know.  His answers are spot on and it is obvious to m…
  - 20 Jun 17, 1:00pm -
• 30 Minutes is NOT Long Enough to Interview with the Hiring Manager
  Let’s talk about the interview process for a minute. A recruiter scours the internet for the right candidates. They call the competition. They look through all of the applications. They work very hard to make sure they are identifying the right tal…
  - 12 Jun 17, 3:00pm -

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...
  - 3 Dec 15, 11:02pm -
• 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...
  - 17 Nov 15, 5:00pm -
• 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...
  - 4 Nov 15, 7:46pm -
• 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...
  - 27 Oct 15, 7:42pm -
• 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

• 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…
  - 87 days ago, 23 Oct 18, 11:00am -
• 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…
  - 94 days ago, 16 Oct 18, 11:00am -
• 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 -
• Women in HR Tech – A Q&A With Kathryn Minshew, The Muse
  One of the highlights of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition for me over the past couple of years has been the Women in HR Technology event.  A half day event occurring on the first day of the conference, it brings together some of the most…
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• Women in HR Tech – A Q&A With Kristy Wallace, Ellevate Network
  One of the highlights of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition for me over the past couple of years has been the Women in HR Technology event.  A half day event occurring on the first day of the conference, it brings together some of the most…
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• HR Practitioners’ Relationship With HR Technology – “It’s Complicated” #HRTechConf
  For those who work in or regularly interact within the HR technology space, it may be tempting to assume that all HR practitioners are well-versed in and understand both the value and limits of workplace technology.  That in the year 2018, when we a…
  - 24 Jul 18, 11:00am -

HR Examiner

• newHR Tech Weekly: Episode #203: Stacey Harris and John Sumser
  This Week, Stacey And John Provide An Informal Workforce Management Tutorial, Talentsoft Completes $50m Growth Round, CareerArc Snags $30m, Linear B Raises $1.6m Seed Round, Quinyx Secures $25m To Revolutionize The Workforce Management Industry, Micr…
  - 5 hours ago, 18 Jan 19, 12:30pm -
• newSkinny Dipping Statistics
  Statistics and driverless cars won’t do you a damn bit of good if you don’t know where you’re going first.
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• newHRExaminer Radio – Executive Conversations: Episode #309: Christopher Butler
  John Sumser speaks with Chris Butler, an HR data and analytics expert and the founder and CEO of One Model. Chris started his career working with HR data many years ago at Infohrm, the first HR analytics software company before their acquisition by S…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 6:18pm -
• It’s Not About the Functionality (Ever)
  "Can you tell the difference between new recruiting technology and pornography? If you listen to the ‘old school’ bunch, there’s not that much. Like porn, new recruiting technology promises the delivery of your fantasy. Often, it’s mostly in…
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• I Don’t Know
  "When should you use “I don’t know?” A lot at the beginning. As you gain wisdom and experience, you will use it more." - Heather Bussing
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• HRExaminer v10.02
  Jason Lauritsen explains how expectations dictate our reaction to almost every experience in our lives and that includes the kind of Expectations That Are The Root Of Your Employee Engagement Problem. Heather Bussing discusses a…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 5:00pm -

Minnesota Headhunter

• What The Code42 Layoff And Restructure Means For The Minnesota Tech Community
  I’ve been a bit surprised at the surprised response from some in the Minneapolis and St Paul tech community about the announced Code42 layoff and restructure. Some are worrying… wondering if it’s a “sign”. I get that Code42 is one...
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• 2019 Minnesota Jobs Prediction
  I tend to stay away from making predictions… I don’t have a crystal ball that tells the future. If I did I likely would not be writing this post right now. When I was a kid I did have a...
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 7:24pm -
• Synapse Podcast With Steve LeBeau, Louis King, Casey Allen And I Talking About Economic Development, Job Creation And Minnesota Startups
  It all started with Casey Allen sending me an email: “do you want to be on a podcast with me?” And a link to Steve LeBeau’s podcast “Synapse: Think Tank Of The Air” While I had not previously met Steve...
  - 9 days ago, 9 Jan 19, 2:32pm -
• Minneapolis And St Paul Tech Jobs
  The following have been added to the Minnesota IT Jobs page… Friends who are hiring: Senior Java Developer - Data Systems - Full Time Job - HomeSpotter React Engineer - Full Time Job - Pollywog Cloud Engineer – Python -...
  - 10 days ago, 8 Jan 19, 10:17pm -
• Minneapolis And St Paul Recruiter Jobs
  The following have been added to the Minnesota Recruiter Jobs page by Minneapolis and St Paul employers and click Minnesota Recruiters In Demand – Fall 2018 for the latest trends in Minnesota Recruiter hiring: Digital Recruiting Specialist - Full T…
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jan 19, 5:31pm -
• MSP On Deck Podcast #27: Patrick Meenan From Arthur Ventures Joins Us, Top Tech Stories of 2018 And 2019 Predictions
  Our last episode of 2018 is with a guest and one of my favorite people in the Minnesota tech scene… Patrick Meenan (@pmeenan1), Partner with Arthur Ventures (@arthurventures). We jump right in with who Patrick is and get history of...
  - 14 days ago, 4 Jan 19, 9:14pm -

Fistful of Talent

• newI Was Ghosting Jobs Back When Ghosting Wasn’t Cool
  Who says there’s no such thing as “fake” news? This goes through my head whenever I read about how the “ghosting” trend (people skipping job interviews, failing to show up when they get hired, or bailing from a new job with no warning) is…
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• newOf Resolutions and Resumes…Share my Shame
  I have done something I tell others not to do, and I feel some HR shame about it.  I’ve avoided updating my resume. I mean really, why should I? I’ve got a great gig, and I am a solid performer.  Why bother? I’ve had it on my New Year’s r…
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• newTech Isn’t Your Savior – It’s Your Accelerator
  This past September, I wrote an article about recruiting “tech stack”: tools and technology that combine to help enable the recruiting function. The words “help enable” are two of the most important words in that statement, because technology…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 3:20pm -
• I’m Getting Too Old For This $***
  My pre-interview checklist. Hugo Boss suit. Check (although it fits a lot tighter than I remember it fitting a decade ago). Conservative tie. Check. Polished shoes. Check. Ironed and starched shirt. Check. Fresh shave, cleared hair out of nose and ea…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 1:59pm -
• We Want More Diverse Hires!
  I’m in this really great position in my career where I get to speak to a lot of business leaders. There hasn’t been one leader in the past few years that hasn’t wanted to talk about one of two things (which usually go together): We need more hi…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 2:18pm -
• Diversity–Are We There Yet?
  An auditor arrived for an ambush audit. He asked to speak with the individual who oversees HR–the receptionist called me. Minutes later I entered the conference room where I had her seat him. I extended my hand and said, “Hi I’m William Wiggins…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 3:15pm -

Josh Bersin Blog

• The Economy and Wages In 2019: What HR Can Do To Help
  In all my years as an analyst and consultant in the world of HR, there’s one thing I’ve learned: the economy impacts workforce strategies more than almost anything else. And this year, in 2019, the...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Ad…
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• Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market? Microsoft.
  Over the last few months, I’ve been spending time with Microsoft, and the company is doing some interesting things in the HR Tech space. In this article I’d like to give you some...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in…
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• Corporate Learning in 2019: Three Things To Do
  There’s a lot going on in the corporate learning market this year. Micro-learning, learning in the flow of work, virtual reality, and much more. And to add fuel to the fire, HR and business...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Ser…
  - 35 days ago, 15 Dec 18, 12:29am -
• The Alternative Workforce: It Isn’t So Alternative Any More
  Over the last few years we’ve talked extensively about the alternative workforce; contract, contingent, gig, and crowd-sourced workers. Well, we now know that this workforce is bigger than you...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 1:24pm -
• Learning In The Flow Of Work: Arriving Now
  Several months ago I started writing about Learning in The Flow Of Work, an idea based on many trends in the workforce today. (video details below.) Well, I want to give you an update: a lot of...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory S…
  - 49 days ago, 30 Nov 18, 2:39pm -
• We Wasted Ten Years Talking About Performance Ratings. The Seven Things We’ve Learned.
  I can’t tell you how many meetings I’ve had talking with companies about changing their performance management process. Going back to 2015 articles were written by people like Marcus Buckingham and...Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Ad…
  - 64 days ago, 15 Nov 18, 11:54pm -

Your HR Buddy

• How I Used Social Media to Land a Job Within a Month
  Job hunting won’t be a dreaded series of anxious and stressful experiences if you have a proper strategy in place. In this post, I would like to share how I used social media to land a job within a month. You see, the norm is that someone quits the…
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• 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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• Nisha Raghavan @TheHRbuddy is in the Job Market finally! #HireHRbuddy
  Yes, You read it right! I am currently available in the job market and looking to getting back to a Full-time Corporate HR/Talent Acquisition role in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, TX. Finally after a long wait of 4 years I am now eligible to work in th…
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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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Knowledge Infusion Blog

• One Of Many Things HR and Business Can Learn From The Khan Academy
  I am fairly confident the majority of parents fell into one of two camps this past Sunday. The first camp would represent parents who had purchased school supplies and school clothes weeks ago and were able to relax Sunday evening … Continue readin…
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• Before saying your software sucks look around…feelings
  I have the best job in the world.  Each day I get to meet with organizations that have a vision, a purpose and a goal in mind – leverage technology in new and exciting ways to change the way business … Continue reading →The post Before saying…
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• Do you suffer from Nomophobia? Your workforce does and you should leverage it
  Working with CHRO’s and HR and IT leaders around the world is constantly interesting.  As technology changes and business drivers change, so does the expectation of leaders that vendors are following these changes in lockstep.  While the assumpti…
  - 6 Jun 13, 1:02pm -
• Sunday Sermon – How To Raise A Tech-Savvy Kid
  Sunday’s are a great day to reflect on how we are doing in all aspects of life.  Our families, our kids, ourselves and prepare for another killer week ahead as we work towards a purpose in our careers. After finishing … Continue reading →The p…
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• The “NEW” Org Chart
  Early this morning, I was directed to a great video from a blog of a colleague in the industry that I appreciate every time he speaks up, James Mayes.  Here is a link to the blog that got me thinking … Continue reading →The post The “NEW” Or…
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• Change Management – Managers Are The Key
  Every HR/Workforce technology project for the last 20 years has had a change management aspect to it.  Most of these efforts could be described with bullets like below: Training Job Aides Webinars Posters Readiness Assessments And while these are im…
  - 23 Apr 13, 11:54am -

HR Gazette

• newBestselling Authors Offer Fresh Solutions to Employee Engagement Crisis
  One of the biggest problems in the business world is declining employee engagement – and Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter present a provocative alternative solution in their newest book, The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (For Millennials, B…
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• newHeart Attacks in the Office: What to do
  Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the unanticipated loss of heart function, and is usually caused by an electrical disturbance that disrupts your heart’s pumping action, thereby stopping blood-flow to the rest of your body. When your heart stops pumpi…
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• Five Signs of a Fake Company Culture (And How to Fix It)
  Fixing a Broken Company Culture For the first time in history, Millennials make up the largest portion of the US labor force. Unlike their parents and grandparents, what they are looking for in a workplace is not job security or simply a nice, fat pa…
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• HRchat Podcast Interview: Recruitment Tech and Pitching to Dragons w/ Caitlyn Ngu, HireUp
  
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• What HR Needs to Know About Custom Software Development
  Custom software application development is important for businesses and is designed according to the businesses’ requirements. Custom software is also known by a secondary name, Bespoke Software and is meant to work for specific and defined feature…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:55pm -
• Fighting Opioid Addiction in the Workplace
  How HR Professionals Can Help Combat Addictions A new survey by The Hartford found 65 percent of HR professionals recognize the opioid crisis is affecting their business, but the majority have not been trained on how to deal with addiction in the wor…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 1:55pm -

HR Minion

• HR’s Favorite Things
  2016 is already halfway over and it has been a little rough personally. But professionally, things have been going good. It’s ironic, because last year it was the exact opposite. HR can be a tough profession and when things are going bad, they go r…
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• Observations from #ALSHRM16
  The 2016 AL SHRM State Conference is over and I felt I came away with a lot of good information. I also had a great time getting to meet and socialize with other HR professionals from across Alabama. And isn’t that the reason we go to conferences?…
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• Attending a Conference like a Pro
  We are entering the conference season and there are a lot of opportunities out there for you to geek out with thousands of your fellow HR pros. Whether you attend for the continuing education credits, to stay up to date on legal changes, or even just…
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• Mansplain it to me
  This past weekend I had an uncomfortable experience with a guy who over the span of 3 hours felt the need to pick on me, mansplain to me, and just generally be a creeper. It got to the point where I had to ignore him and as soon as I could, get out o…
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• Whenever HR comes around
  I know the look. They all know me. I see the hesitation, suspicion, and blatant curiosity. It’s been there my whole career. The quick moment of worry whenever HR comes around. Rarely are people excited to see us because all to often 1 or more emplo…
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• Hiring Differently
  This week has been all kinds of hectic and I’m taking a long weekend starting tomorrow so I’m sure you can just imagine how motivated I was to do a blog post today. I’m guessing you’re also tired. We all are. This has kind of been a rough yea…
  - 5 May 16, 11:00am -

HR Tact

• Carnival of HR: Post-Election Reflection
  Happy post-election, HR friends and welcome the end of a tumultuous year! What better way to finish things up than some Carnival of HR, bringing you the best of the HR blogging community.  And while there was not a theme for submission I can't hel…
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• #truNOLA: The Recruitment UNconference
  Do you hate name tags? Dislike concurrent sessions that don't give any real actionable items? Want to talk about recruitment and talent but loathe PowerPoint presentations? Then come to the #Tru Recruitment UNConference in New Orleans, Louisiana on…
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• You are a unicorn… and so is everyone else.
  Listen up, people.You are unique. And different. And there’s only one of you. Your DNA. Your neurons. The people you meet. The interactions you have — big and small. They are all yours. Your entirety of you is irreplaceable.You’re a unicorn…
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• I Learned It From Watching You
  My work ethic comes from my father.Maybe that's not the best opening of a blog post. And maybe I should have lead with some father-daughter story that makes you ooey-gooey nostalgic, but put simply, my dad is a huge influence in how I do things at th…
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• SQL Saturday Pensacola Saturday, June 4
  If you are in the Pensacola area, come to SQL Saturday 491 on Saturday, June 4, 2016. Free event. Lots to learn. I'll be speaking about:Giving Feedback: How to Effectively Communicate to your EmployeesAs a manager or team leader giving effective fee…
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• WorkHuman
  What is WorkHuman? wall of donutsSecond year running, WorkHuman is an HR conference presented by Globoforce (an employee recognition software company). Breaking out of the norm, WorkHuman gathers "human capital" professionals in one place and say…
  - 12 May 16, 2:00pm -

Everyday People

• Weathering the Storm !!
  This past weekend we were caught off guard. Our winter in West Chester (just north of Cincinnati) has been unseasonably mild. There have been a few cold days sprinkled in through December and January with far more rain than frost or snow. People were…
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• Guard !! Turn !! Parry !!
  When I was young, I loved getting up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons !! They were fantastic. I would get a bowl of cereal and sit in front of the glowing screen for hours. I especially enjoyed Looney Toons with the hilarious characters o…
  - 12 days ago, 6 Jan 19, 11:40pm -
• The Coming Year . . .
  I remember gathering at a friend’s house in 1999 for New Year’s Eve. The party was very casual and the crowd was made up of several couples with many little kids running around. The excitement was high because as the ball was going to drop and be…
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• The Best Presents . . .
  There are two more days until Christmas. There are so many emotions that come to the surface during the holidays. For me it’s an amazing time to reflect on faith as well as being grateful. My best “present” each year is my daughter Melanie beca…
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• Convenience or Community ??
  This past weekend I ventured out once again to finish my Christmas shopping. The weather was absolutely atrocious because of an endless, soaking rain. I would not be deterred because this was my one completely free day. I didn’t mind the rain, the…
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• The Best Gift to Give !!
  We’re in the midst of the holiday season. You can’t escape the endless string of Christmas music or the many, many television channels completely dedicated to Christmas movies. Every retail location is decorated to the hilt as well. You can’t e…
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Workplace Diva

• newOur 24/7 work culture might be changing when heart attacks happen
  It used to be that Monday morning was prime time for heart attacks. A new study, however, finds that our 24/7 online culture might be changing when heart attacks happen!The Monday morning heart attack theory always made a lot of sense to me. After tw…
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 3:00pm -
• newIntroverts need a break from today's extroverted open office environments
  Hey, introverts: is the modern open office environment driving you a bit mad because there's nowhere to hide anymore? If you feel like you're starring in another episode of I'm An Introvert, Get Me Out Of Here every day at work, then this post is for…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 6:41pm -
• Is your workplace ready for an Infants-At-Work policy?
  Forget about Bring Your Dog To Work Day, because some employers are letting employees bring their infants to work. All. Day. Long. Is your workplace ready to adopt an Infants-At-Work policy?The Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa is one workplace allowing em…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 5:00pm -
• Tech workers feel guilty when AI leads to coworker job loss
  Here's a philosophical, humanities-tinged question in our STEM-obsessed culture: what happens when you accidentally automate your coworkers out of a job? There are employees among us who are dealing with what I'll call, for lack of a better phrase, A…
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• Will Income Sharing Agreements become the ultimate work perk?
  Do you have student loans? I know, you don't want to talk about it. But chin up, because Silicon Valley might just have a solution to the student loan debt crisis!Let's face it: college can be very expensive. I've finally paid off my student loans --…
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• Workplace trends 2019: The office phone booth
  I'm dusting off my blog after a long winter's nap and looking out my office window to see government employees aimlessly walking the dog because they can't go to work, and, well, Happy New Year 2019, everybody!via GIPHYWhere did I leave off in 2018?…
  - 10 days ago, 8 Jan 19, 6:37pm -

Corn on the Job

• Perhaps It’s Time You Quit Your Job?
  If you ask your parents what it was like at work when they were your age, I’m sure that they will tell you the same thing – you were expected to get a job and stick at it for life. That’s right; even when the going got tough or if you didn’t…
  - 21 days ago, 28 Dec 18, 5:50pm -
• How to Write a Killer Resume for Mechanical Engineering
  In many ways, writing a resume for a mechanical engineering job is no different than writing a resume for any other type of job. You want to highlight specific achievements that show your suitability for the position, pay attention to the details whe…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 7:48pm -
• Want to Become a Top Leader? Here are Some Ways an MBA Degree Can Help
  If your career plan is focused on you becoming a great leader at some point, either ASAP or sometime down the track, it’s important to start working on developing your managerial skills and traits sooner rather than later.  There are many abilitie…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 7:36pm -
• 5 Ways Essaybots helps you to write Academic essays
  Essaybot is an expert essay writing tool who helps you in writing an excellent essay when given the topic and the suggestions. It also helps to find and complete your sentences for your essay using Artificial intelligence. In case, you are worried a…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 2:00pm -
• Recruiters and Job Fairs
  Recruiters are critical for any company. They are part of the human resources team. One of the biggest tactics in the human resources department is recruiting and maintaining an efficient staff. The human resources department will either hire an inte…
  - 42 days ago, 7 Dec 18, 8:50pm -
• How Essaybot Helps You Write Academic Essay
  Have you ever had a block while essay writing? Do you have a unique term paper to help you stand out? Or you a procrastinator like me, and you are left with just one night to write an essay. I might have just what you need. Introducing the Essaybot E…
  - 43 days ago, 6 Dec 18, 4:48pm -

Texas Strategic HR

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• Highway to the Sea, Sorrento, Italy
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• Baked Parmesan Polenta Fries
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• CookingLove
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• Red Beets With Avocado, Grapefruit & Pistachios Serves...
  Red Beets With Avocado, Grapefruit & Pistachios Serves 2ingredients:4-6 Red Beets1 Avocado, Cubed1 Grapefruithandful Of Pistachios, Toastedsalad Greens Of Your Choice, A Few Handfuls Per…
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The One Crystal

• My blog has moved…
  I logged in today after what seems like has been agesand saw I have 66 new followers – cool! Unfortunately, I don’t post on a wordpress-hosted site anymore, so I don’t think any of my blog followers are seeing my content. If you’d like to rea…
  - 18 Mar 13, 3:30pm -
• Part 5: “I Will Fall” – Doubt and Rejection
  Just Joining in?  Check out:  Part 1   Part 2  Part 3 & Part 4 for the whole series This month, I got dumped.  Confession?  I’m not good at it. I know, some of you are reading that thinking, “Who is?”  Fair, but I have enough self-awar…
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• The Country Music Series, Pt 4: “No One Will Ever Love You”
  
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• The Sound of Silence
    Silence is a very funny thing.  There’s a proverb that teaches silence is also a speech… and I agree with that.  What that speech communicates depends on the context of the situation, of course.  One of my favorite words of wisdom by Emerso…
  - 25 Nov 12, 6:55pm -
• Part 3: Undermined by Strategy and the Tactical
  Check out:  Part 1 &  Part 2 There are a lot of things that can undermine our professional success, if we let it.  You can get off on the wrong foot with rocky on-boarding, you may have to deal with questionable behavior by team members, market…
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• #INFOGRAPHIC The “Relationship Rest Test”
  Some people count sheep when they are tired and can’t sleep.  I?  Made an infographic about relationships and sleep.  Makes sense, right??  Anyway, interesting stats… check it out. Filed under: Being Crystal, Random, Relationships Tagged: ins…
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The HR Blog

• How to draw up your career growth plan
  The career growth plan creates a spirit of accountability by documenting your responsibility in making the future happen. You can take these steps to develop your career growth planContinue reading How to draw up your career growth plan at Human Re…
  - 12 Jul 18, 1:43am -
• How To Become A Top Performer In Your Company?
  To become a top performer, the first step is to stretch yourself, go beyond your limits, for limits are set by the human mind and can be reset by you. By setting higher standards, you would place a challenge for yourself and strive hard to achieve it…
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• How To Receive Feedback Constructively To Grow In Your Career
  Mostly we mistake this ability as a sign of weakness, nothing can be further from the truth. Ability to receive feedback constructively is a sign of courage and mighty.Continue reading How To Receive Feedback Constructively To Grow In Your Career at…
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• How To Do A Good Performance Review
  Continue reading How To Do A Good Performance Review at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
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• How to Turbo Charge Your Career
  Continue reading How to Turbo Charge Your Career at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
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• How To Become Better at Global Thinking
  Continue reading How To Become Better at Global Thinking at Human Resources Blog | Top HR Blog.
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Just Joan

• Who Should Get Your #SHRM Board of Directors Vote?
  I usually don’t care too much about the #SHRM Board of Directors vote. I should care – but I’m pretty sure I am not the only uninvolved SHRM member out there. This year is different, though, and I care enough to want to blog about that differen…
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• The Best and Worst of #SHRM15
  I wrote my first conference recap post – then called “Rants and Raves” – in March of 2010. This has become my favorite blogging experience of every conference I attend, because it really causes me to think about what is happening around me…
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• Social Media Concepts at #SHRM15
  Last year (#SHRM14) I wrote a blog about how far SHRM had come with its position on social media presentations since my original involvement in SHRM-related conferencing in 2010. So I wasn’t exactly surprised this year when the sessions included on…
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• Coach K at #SHRM15
  A few days before SHRM11, I wrote a blog post about the selection of Michael J. Fox as one of the keynote speakers. I was unhappy about what I perceived as the irrelevance of an actor speaking about HR at a time when jobs were scare and the professio…
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• 4 Tips for #SHRM15 No One Is Mentioning
  My apologies to regular readers who haven’t seen me blog in a year. The last quarter of 2014 and the first of 2015 was full of personal problems that killed my desire to blog about workplace issues. Or about anything.  But SHRM15 is here, and it…
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• Best and Worst of SHRM14
    There is no argument.  The best part of any conference is the connections you make and renew. If you ask me to name JUST ONE THING that made this conference great, it would be the hugs and handshakes from the people. But that is the responsibilit…
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The HR Capitalist

• newHelping Unemployed/Underemployed People Is Part of Your Job...
  If you're like me in the world of HR and recruiting, you get asked for career help as a normal rite of passage. For me, it's tough because there's only so much you can do to help people find opportunities...
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• newCall Up The Co-Worker or Boss You Used to Hate and Tell Them You Understand...
  We've all had alpha personality co-workers or bosses we couldn't connect with. They were overbearing. They had to do it their way. They were too far in the weeds and hyper-critical of your work. You didn't like them. Hate's a...
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• newNothing Says "Sell Your Stocks" More Than Corporate Events That Feature This...
  You know you're living in a peak economic cycle when you go to a corporate event, and the entertainment rivals old Rome in the Coliseum. Lions. Tigers. Potential loss of life. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Email subscribers, click through to...
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• One Way To Turn an Unexpected Resignation into a PR Win...
  If there's one cool thing about my career, it's that I'm surrounded by masters. People doing great things. Leaders.. wait for it.. leading. Innovation everywhere. And when required, the best people I'm surrounded by aren't afraid to play a little...
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 3:26pm -
• The HR Capitalist Is Back In Business...
  I'm back. After taking 3 months off to finish a book that will be out in mid-2019 (The 9 Faces of HR), I'm returning to a normal schedule at the HR Capitalist. Some of you noticed I was gone. Some...
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 3:17pm -
• What I'm Thankful for in 2018!
  Thanksgiving. Can't let it come and go without telling you what I'm thankful for. First and foremost, I'm thankful for an incredible family, my faith, the blessing of meaningful work, etc. Next up? I'm thankful for the incredible melting pot...
  - 58 days ago, 21 Nov 18, 1:26pm -

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…
  - 4 Oct 18, 1:00pm -
• 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…
  - 23 Aug 18, 1:00pm -
• 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…
  - 28 Sep 18, 1:57pm -
• 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…
  - 8 Jul 18, 5:53pm -
• 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 (…
  - 21 Jun 18, 2:39pm -
• 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…
  - 28 Mar 18, 1:00pm -
• 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…
  - 23 Mar 18, 7:34pm -
• 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…
  - 20 Mar 18, 1:48pm -

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…
  - 93 days ago, 17 Oct 18, 7:17am -
• 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…
  - 99 days ago, 11 Oct 18, 10:51am -
• 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’…
  - 2 Oct 17, 12:01pm -
• 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…
  - 23 Sep 17, 12:53pm -
• #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…
  - 15 Jul 17, 9:45am -
• 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…
  - 14 Jul 17, 11:20am -

Evil HR Lady

• newCitigroup Pays Women 71 Percent of What Men Earn, and I’m Totally Okay with that
  
  - 4 hours ago, 18 Jan 19, 1:21pm -
• newHilton’s $21 Million Reason to Honor a Dishwasher’s Religious Schedule Request
  Marie Jean Pierre worked as a dishwasher at Conrad Miami Hotel. She requested Sundays off and from 2009 to 2015, the company had no problem accommodating her request, which was for religious reasons. However, sometime in 2015 her manager began demand…
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 12:15pm -
• newPreparing Entry Level Employees for Their First Peformance Review
  Performance review tips would seem to be something to give a new manager, but they can also be of benefit to an entry-level employee. If one of your colleagues hasn’t had a formal review before, you’ll want to help set their expectations. Otherwi…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 4:26pm -
• Your 6th Grader Doesn’t Need to Know Her Future Career
  Two stories. First, a couple of years ago, I went to my daughter’s high school to give a presentation on careers. I put up a slide that listed about 20 of my friends, their college majors, and their careers today. As all these friends were in th…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 11:24am -
• It’s Time to Stop Acquiring Talent
  Talent is something that’s inborn, and when you acquire something, you just grab it off the shelf. Well, job candidates aren’t cartons of milk. It’s Time To Stop Hiring Talent! | Suzanne Lucas | DisruptHR Talks from DisruptHR on Vimeo.The post…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 11:09am -
• 7 Reasons to Stay at Airbnb or HomeAway (or Anything Other than a Hotel)
  While I wouldn’t call myself a road warrior, I do travel a bit more than the average person. In 2018 I slept in 9 different countries, sometimes in hotels and sometimes in vacation rentals–usually through Airbnb. While I do love the housekeeping…
  - 6 days ago, 12 Jan 19, 11:45am -

Lean HR

• Shifting Gears
  As we’ve discussed around these parts in the past, I’ve not been writing here as much as I would like.  There’s lot of reasons (none of them terribly good), but I’ve felt like I should be doing more.  With that in mind, I’m excited to sha…
  - 12 Jan 15, 4:13pm -
• #GivingTuesday – A Special Day for #NoKidHungry
    As we come out of the Thanksgiving holiday, it is easy to lose ourselves in the commercial gorging known as Christmas.  It’s the reason Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday (or at the very least, my favorite in the second half of the year).  Ch…
  - 2 Dec 14, 2:21pm -
• It Will Not Stand
  “However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference – but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more…
  - 1 Dec 14, 2:31pm -
• Servant Leadership: Dice
  After my recent post on the great things being done by people in our space, I decided this is too important of a topic to not continue.  And my promise to you is I won’t ever pimp out a company that I do any business with unless I tell you.  I’…
  - 18 Nov 14, 2:10pm -
• In Praise of Single Parents
    In the process of unwinding from my last trip, I indulged in a short marathon of my TV pleasures, including The Walking Dead, The Flash and (germane to this post) Arrow.  Specifically, I had a moment in watching The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoa…
  - 15 Nov 14, 2:15pm -
• Dubai – City of Glass and Growth
  I was fortunate enough to get a chance to visit Dubai this week.  If you’ve never been, it’s worth the flight over.  A beautiful city, built on twin pillars of opulence and arrogance.  Man made islands built from the endless supply of desert s…
  - 12 Nov 14, 2:00pm -

Total Picture Radio

• College Recruiting Bootcamp on AI at Google Campus, Mountain View
  Thanks to sponsor AllyO, TotalPicture will Livestream College Recruiting AI Bootcamp at Google
  - 46 days ago, 3 Dec 18, 10:35am -
• 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
  - 49 days ago, 30 Nov 18, 1:15pm -
• Dan Schawbel - Back to Human
  Dan Schawbel's mission in life "is to support my generation from student to CEO."
  - 66 days ago, 13 Nov 18, 4:30pm -
• 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
  - 67 days ago, 12 Nov 18, 6:56pm -
• 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
  - 73 days ago, 6 Nov 18, 1:56pm -
• Three Critical Questions Asked in HR - Jason Chapman, SAP
  I met my guest today, Jason Chapman, at the SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect Conference in Las Vegas. I was blown away by what I saw - and learned
  - 92 days ago, 18 Oct 18, 1:30pm -

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…
  - 4 Sep 18, 10:26pm -
• 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…
  - 7 Aug 18, 9:14pm -
• 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…
  - 27 Jul 17, 12:22pm -
• 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 -

Inc Blot

• Home
  Talent Management Organizations that succeed do so by winning the war for talent. Our comprehensive talent management solutions help you establish permanent systems for selecting, retaining, motivating, and leading your most valuable assets. IncBlot…
  - 20 Sep 16, 5:52pm -

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
  - 29 Sep 16, 10:25am -
• 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
  - 2 Mar 16, 3:00pm -
• 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 1 – Black Blogs STILL Matter
  Many ask me why I am still doing this. What's the point? What's the goal?
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 11:00am -
• 7 Words & Phrases to Eliminate in 2019
  Verbal fillers come in different shapes and sizes. It is more than just “um”, “uh” and “like”.  It can also be phrases or words we use so often their meaning and message get twisted and diminished.  Effective communication, both written…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 11:00am -
• Top 6 HR Trends for 2019
  The new year is upon us and it’s time for trend predictions. Here’s my top 6 HR trends for 2019 in no particular order: 1) company culture As I’ve said before, HR should not own or drive company culture. We should be the gatekeepers and ambassa…
  - 10 days ago, 8 Jan 19, 11:00am -
• The Best of Buzz 2018
  2018 was another good year for the BuzzARooney brand. I continued my commitment to being bold and honest about what’s really going on in the areas of management, leadership and human resources in every avenue where I have influence. I pushed myself…
  - 14 days ago, 4 Jan 19, 11:00am -
• 5 Notable Things about Home Alone
  Home Alone is the story of the McAllister family from Chicago who planned to spend Christmas in Paris, France with family living abroad. The night before they were supposed to leave, the 8-year-old son, Kevin, has an epic meltdown after getting tease…
  - 30 days ago, 19 Dec 18, 11:00am -
• Appropriation, Correctness, Grief, and Gremlins
  Gremlins is the story of the Peltzer family of Kinston Falls, USA.  Dad, Randy, is an inventor and on his way home from a convention, he stops in Chinatown where some kid takes him to an underground store to pitch products to the kid’s grandfather…
  - 36 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 11:00am -

UnderCover Recruiter

• newThe Recruiting Process is a Series of Questions
  
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 5:08pm -
• newThe Top 5 Workplace Wellbeing Trends for 2019
  There is no better time to think about wellness and wellbeing – especially in the workplace. With so much focus on eating well, taking care of our mental health and trying to fit more physical exercise into our lives, here are the top 5 trends empl…
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 5:05pm -
• The Damaging Effect of Unconscious Bias on the Leadership of Tomorrow
  Did you know only 51% of the FTSE 100 companies have directors from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and only 8% of the total director population in the UK? By contrast, UK society comprises 14, non-white ethnic groups. With decades of ca…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 5:04pm -
• How to Engage Employees Through Your Company Vision
  Picture this. It is 10:24 A.M., Monday. You are going through your inbox typing away replies and setting your priorities for the day. Click.Click.Click Then, one of your employees drops by. An expression of unease displayed on their face. Your initia…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 5:04pm -
• The Journey of HomeAway’s Employer Brand
  When you think of the travel industry you’re probably thinking of airlines, hotels, resorts and tourist hot spots. But have you ever wondered how a tech company fits in among all of them? We spoke to Kayla Chance who is the Employer Brand Digital M…
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 19, 5:07pm -
• How to Boost Productivity Working From Home
  It’s expected that 50% of the UK workforce will work remotely by 2020, with almost 1.5 million employees currently ditching the office for their dining table. New research reveals that London has the highest number of remote employees, with 408,000…
  - 6 days ago, 12 Jan 19, 5:06pm -

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…
  - 27 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
• 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…
  - 13 Apr 16, 1:26pm -
• 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…
  - 6 Apr 16, 1:43pm -
• 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…
  - 11 Feb 16, 11:18pm -
• 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…
  - 28 Jan 16, 11:32pm -

HR Bacon Hut

• TNSHRM! Social Media We Have Arrived!
  NSHRM! Social Media We Have Arrived!
  - 10 Sep 13, 6:36pm -
• 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!
  - 17 Jun 13, 10:39pm -
• 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
  - 16 Jan 13, 5:32pm -
• 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.
  - 24 Jun 12, 5:35pm -

Performance I Create

• SHRM, This Is Not “Business as Usual”
  As a Human Resources Professional I work in a complex system of employee requirements, business requirements and state and federal laws. Like many HR professionals I’m tasked with hiring the best talent we can afford, supporting an organization whe…
  - 13 Aug 18, 12:45pm -
• This is America: Emmett Till Lies, Smartphones & Cops
  “Talk about entangled and coming at you fast, every day is a race against circumstances in my uniform of choice, geography and travel.  The normal morning coffee and commute are usually without incident and serve as a time of meditation and radio…
  - 18 Jul 18, 1:00pm -
• Money Isn’t Everything But It’s Hard To Walk Away From It
    As a young adult I was told that you never bring up salary during an interview and that you let them bring it up first. I was also told that you shouldn’t let money determine your happiness. We have all heard that money doesn’t buy you happine…
  - 16 Jul 18, 1:15pm -
• Representing the Underrepresented
    Diversity | Diverse These words have lost their gravitas. Watered down and plastered on flyers, corporate websites, and as buzzwords on job descriptions, resumes and cover letters. The original meaning of diversity held hope that people who lacked…
  - 11 Jul 18, 1:31pm -
• Entitlement – It’s Your Fault
  “Hey, that’s not fair!” God, I cringe when I hear that, and I have heard it quite often. Someone got to eat at his desk when someone else was prohibited from doing so. A group was complaining about the annual pay increases getting reduced becau…
  - 8 Jul 18, 9:51pm -
• A Miserable 4th of July
  When I was a kid, the 4thof July was the focal point of the summer. My uncle would take us to buy fireworks, although they were illegal within the city limits. It didn’t stop us or any of our neighbors. We would barbeque any and everything on the g…
  - 4 Jul 18, 1:00pm -

HackerRank Blog

• newCampus Recruitment KPI Cheat Sheet
  Marrying organization requirements with university program goals can be a challenge. To benchmark business needs without losing sight of program goals, it’s helpful to incorporate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that speak to both sides of the ta…
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 3:30pm -
• Why Student JavaScript Developers Are Hard to Find
  In the 20+ years since its inception, JavaScript has become one of the most popular languages in the world. In fact, it’s the #1 language employers demand worldwide—but even so, it’s a relatively rare skill amongst university students. The ques…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 9:34pm -
• 3 Early Tech Talent Trends to Keep on Your Radar
  Looking for a more in-depth exploration of early tech talent trends? Grab a seat for our upcoming web seminar, How to Uplevel Your Early Talent Hiring Strategy on January 30th. Technical student recruiting is a notoriously competitive field—after a…
  - 8 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 12:21am -
• Improved IDE on HackerRank Platform Enhances Candidate Experience
  Developer experience is a priority for us. We are constantly improving our platform to make it easier for developers to showcase their skills and for companies to assess their skills. One way is to improve IDE so that developers and hiring managers c…
  - 14 days ago, 4 Jan 19, 4:00pm -
• Top 5 Takeaways from the Student Developer Report
  We surveyed over 10,000 student developers across the world to get a pulse on today’s early talent. In our study, we aimed to paint a full picture of hiring today’s student developer: what skills they have, how they learn, and what they care abou…
  - 15 days ago, 3 Jan 19, 4:05pm -
• What’s the #1 Benefit Developer Candidates Look For?
  In a hyper-competitive tech hiring market, developers can afford to be selective with their job prospects. But what are the big factors that compel them to choose one company over another? Developers, by nature, are curious–maybe its the opportunit…
  - 29 days ago, 20 Dec 18, 10:53pm -

Ohio Employment Law Blog

• 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…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 8:45pm -
• Introducing a Brand New Way to Deliver Your Content
  File attachments are now available for single mailing campaigns and funnels! Skip the extra steps of uploading files to your site then linking them in your emails, by instantly delivering opt-in incentives, course materials, ebooks, slides and more.…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 5:59pm -
• Resend Email Campaigns Faster than Ever Before
  Of all the new features and capabilities released with the new interface, the ability to quickly resend a mailing lands in the top 3. Leading to higher open rates and greater engagement, this capability adds an entirely new layer to your email market…
  - 22 days ago, 27 Dec 18, 4:57pm -
• Using Email Automation for Better Events
  Events are a great way to grow your audience while increasing brand awareness. From the smallest webinar for a part-time blogger to an annual conference for a big business, events take time and energy to set up and execute. Each person involved in th…
  - 32 days ago, 17 Dec 18, 7:53pm -
• Three Ways to Re-engage Inactive Email Subscribers
  Regardless of if you’ve got a list of email subscribers in the hundreds or thousands, there are always some users who are inactive. While you can always gain new followers through better forms, email automation, and great content, how do you hold o…
  - 44 days ago, 5 Dec 18, 6:28pm -
• Making Money on Vacation with Email Marketing Automation
  Whether it’s the holidays with the family or spending some well-deserved time on a sunny beach somewhere, just because you’re away doesn’t mean your business has to grind to a halt. One of those key parts is communication: making sure your new…
  - 45 days ago, 4 Dec 18, 3:00pm -

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…
  - 14 May 14, 5:16am -
• 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…
  - 13 May 14, 3:08am -
• 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…
  - 12 May 14, 5:25am -
• 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…
  - 23 Feb 14, 12:24am -
• 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…
  - 21 Feb 14, 1:15am -
• #trulondon 9 – Feb 26’th – All new line up
  
  - 6 Feb 14, 7:44am -

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…
  - 25 Mar 16, 12:04pm -
• 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…
  - 21 Mar 16, 9:03pm -
• 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

• newPeople-Centric Business Methods That Work
  It’s no secret that people are essential to the operation of a successful business. You hire people, and you sell to people. But it’s so easy to forget this when developing new ideas for your business plan. Yes, you have to think about product de…
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• Securing Your Business Against Cyber Attacks
  Cyber attacks are one of the biggest concerns for businesses today and no one is immune from them. Some of the largest ones have been reported in the media, but they happen to much smaller businesses all the time. All you can do is try to protect you…
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• Where You’re Losing Productivity Each Day And What To Do About It
  Most people lose productivity hours in their lives one way or another – but if you know you’re losing a ton of productivity and you want to do something about it, you’re in the right place. Many people admit to wasting up to 5 hours (sometimes…
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• 5 Inspiring Lessons For All Startup Entrepreneurs
  So you started a business. It’s labeled a startup because it’s still in its early stages of being a business. You’re passionate about what you’re doing or what you’re selling, and you intend to ride out every negative and positive wave you…
  - 10 days ago, 8 Jan 19, 5:27pm -
• How to be creative? The Main Problem Is to Start
  Have you ever experienced a creative block? Have you ever felt stuck looking for an original solution for work problem? Do you wish to be more creative? If so, you’re not alone. These are common issues that we all deal with on a daily basis. Fortun…
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Make HR Happen

• 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…
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No Excuses HR

• newCrush the Industry
  I'm feeling particularly fired up to start the year. Now before you roll your eyes and write this off as another "New Year, New You" post, hang in there. Since when was it a bad thing to get fired up?FocusA state or condition permitting clear percept…
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• Artificial Intelligence and Me
  "The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans…
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• Big 3
  Today's post is short and to the point.Transitioning to a new year means we sometimes think about making changes in our personal or professional lives.Let's cut to the chase...1. Pick three things to work on this year (not resolutions.)2. Write them…
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• You Made My Day
  I had something pretty cool happen recently. Someone told me that I "just made their day." Here's the coolest part......it was a stranger...it involved public recognition...and it leveraged his company's rewards program for the public to useWow! Righ…
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• Your Tops for 2018
  For those of us who are devoted to Spotify we have just received our Top Songs list for 2018. It's not a big surprise to me that many of the songs near the top of the list are from bands I've seen this year. It's been a fantastic music year...as I…
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• Crash and Burn Leadership
  Wait, what?We're leaders. We don't have time for anything ever, let alone ourselves, right? We care for others!We care for our teams!We care for our CEOs!We care for the employees!We...crash and burn. That's what we do.We crash. and. burn.Give Giv…
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The Chief People Officer

• 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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• Core Values Should Extend to Candidate Experience
  An organization’s core values should extend to their candidate experience. From the moment a job candidate enters their data in an applicant tracking system, the organization’s core values should reach out and touch them. For most companies, appl…
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HR Remix

• 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…
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• 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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• Not Another Time Management Post
  Over time, I’ve come to realize that the “time management” problem is actually much more complex than we let on. Its very simple to blame the individual but as leaders in organizations we need to recognize that “time management” is more tha…
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• High Altitude Leadership
  At very high altitudes mountain climbers can suffer terrible side effects from the lack of oxygen in the air. This lack of oxygen causes hypoxia which leads to headaches, flawed judgement, confusion and eventually hallucinations. I think something si…
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Talent Culture

• new#WorkTrends: Why Social Media Has Failed Recruiting
  Imagine a world without hashtags, friend requests and cat videos. Pretty difficult, right? That’s how much social media has transformed our lives. However, there’s something social media hasn’t transformed: recruiting. Even though companies hav…
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• Why Colleges Aren’t Preparing Students for Work – and What Employers Should Do About It
  Danny Iny dropped out of school at 15 to start a business. He also got an MBA at a top business school in Canada. Guess which decision he considers the mistake? “My own experience was that quitting school was a great choice. I had a ton of opportun…
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• How HR Can Stand Behind the #MeToo Movement
  Harassment in the workplace has always been a concern for HR professionals, but as the #MeToo movement gained momentum over the past year it has been top-of-mind for all in the industry. HR professionals are striving to create safe workplaces, and no…
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• #WorkTrends: Who Should You Hire?
  Who should you hire? It might be the most important question you ask at work. Forget meeting your quarterly goals or expanding into new markets; if you don’t find the right people for your team, you’re going to be out of the ballgame pretty quick…
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• Opioid Addiction Threatens the Future of Your Business. Here’s What to Do About It
  The opioid crisis in the U.S. continues to gain attention, but it’s not going away. For recruiters and employers, acknowledging how the crisis is affecting, or will soon affect, their workplaces will be crucial. According to a survey by The Hartfor…
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• A Look Ahead at 2019: What #WorkTrends Listeners Want to Hear
  One of the best parts of my job running TalentCulture is interviewing fascinating people who are reimagining work on the #WorkTrends podcast. Kevin W. Grossman and I have been running some form of an HR-focused podcast for many years now, and we’re…
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Recruiting Animal

• Treat Smart People To Lunch
  Hubspot's policy: "Take someone smart out for a meal. Learn something. Expense it. No approval needed. No limits. No rules. Use good judgment.“ At age 24, Shah had a small network so he asked a senior sales rep for guidance. “His advice: ‘Picku…
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• Swearing Is Good For You
  On The Recruiting Animal Show, guest, Chris Schwacofer, came under fire for his salty tongue. So, here's an article about that: "For as long as I can remember, I’ve been unable to convincingly curse.... If I’m chatting with a colleague and they s…
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• Job Search Optimism
  The other day, Rob Dromgoole, an excellent recruiter, posted a quotation from Colin Powell on Facebook. It read: "Optimism is a force multiplier". That was one of of Powell's rules for leadership. He also said this: "I am talking about a gung-ho atti…
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Amplify Talent

• (re)Introducing A m p l i f y
  A m p l i f y is a new subsidiary of Amplify Talent, working in the space between Employer and Consumer Brand to help companies re-imagine the intersection of culture, talent, and brand.We partner with CMO’s and CHRO’s to bridge the gap between…
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• TEMPLATE: Hiring Manager Onboarding Checklist
  Onboarding is a crucial component to successful recruiting. All of the hard work and goodwill built up over the recruiting courtship can be undone with a bad onboarding process. The challenge many recruiters face is that they feel they don't "own" on…
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• The Return of Random Tweets of Kindness #RTOK 3/8/16
  Random Tweets of Kindness will be returning Tuesday March 9, 2016. This year we’ll be broadening the campaign across social media; so you can use#RTOK on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, blogs, or wherever you want to say thanks or share gratitude.
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• Amplify Talent 2015 Year In Review        
  As 2015 comes to a close, I want to thank all of you for being part of the Amplify Talent community. This month marks the two-year anniversary of Amplify Talent. I’ve learned a tremendous amount since launching in 2013, and am deeply grateful for t…
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• LISTEN: SoundCloud’s Head of People Partnerships, Noor van Boven, on #BestPartJob Podcast
  Noor van Boven shares experience and insights from her career in Recruiting and Human Resources. In this episode, Noor shares how her Father influenced her career, taking time off to travel, why she prefers "people operations" to "human resources", t…
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• LISTEN: “Everyone Should Be Tradigital” @MetMuseum Chief Digital Officer, Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) [Podcast]
  Sree Sreenivasan shares experience and insights from his career spanning Journalism, Academia, and the Arts. In this episode, Sree walks me through where his passion for technology comes from, his 30 year love affair with the Met, the museum of dead…
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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…
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• 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

• Is it OK to have a company Christmas tree? HR speaks out
  No trees were cut, bound, lashed, or had melted candle wax dripped on themCompany Christmas treeWith so much sensitivity in the workplace and so much insensitivity in the political arena, I thought I would update a classic post. Every year, I am…
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• Remote worker, why some companies allow it and why others don’t want to
  Effective remote workers in their elementHow the remote worker can demonstrate successDo you want to be a remote worker? With evolving workforces and the new technologies entering the job market, one common perk in a comp package is the ability t…
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• A different attitude towards workplace diversity
  Let there be cake!Disclaimer: *The following story is a true workplace diversity story. I wrote the below post which was uploaded on our company website and am reposting it here with permission. The names have been omitted to protect from poaching.…
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• What is your desired salary?
  Will your answer to the Desired Salary question make it rain?We know the Desired Salary question is coming“What is your desired salary question?” Ever worried if your number was too high or too low when interviewing for your dream job? Ever w…
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• Company compensation philosophy and how it effects your desired salary
  A compensation philosophy isn’t just about the BenjaminsThe interview question of questionsI don’t think a week goes by where I am asked how to answer the standard interview question “What is your desired salary?”  Truthfully, I don’t…
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• Why most employees are expendable vs. promotable? A VP speaks out.
  Are you promotable?Are you Promotable or Expendable at your job?Ninety percent of employees feel they are promotable. In reality, from a manager’s standpoint, 90 percent of employees fall into category number 2 and 3 listed below.Promotable:…
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HR Gal Friday

• Sorry About the Hummus, Minnesota
  HR Gal FridayOk. First thing’s first…I’m the devil for skipping out on blogging for a couple months. It’s been a crazy summer and we’ll get into that more later. For now, though, I am very sorry. Back to the Blog - I’ve been thinking a lo…
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• Confessions of a Current (and Former) Social Media Whore
  HR Gal FridayThere. I said it. A lot of you already know it. I know some of you have talked about it, so let’s bring it out in the open. My attitude towards social media changes more than my underwear during any given week. Sometimes I feel like ev…
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• Why Trusting Your Gut Can Go Badly – A Sheriff’s Tale
  HR Gal FridayOnce upon a time, there was a lowly HR assistant, newly tasked with hiring several manual laborers for a factory. The factory was located in a poor neighborhood with not many good jobs available. Most of the people in this neighborhood w…
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• The Day HR Got Real – My Worst Day on the Job
  HR Gal FridayI love Louisiana and, in particular, Baton Rouge. I love LSU even though our governor, Bobby Jindal, seems dead set on stripping all its funding and turning it into a Diesel Driving Academy with a football team. I gripe about mosquitoes…
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• The Most Important Component of Your HR Career
  
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• Embracing the Discomfort – The Plan
  HR Gal FridayThe 5th anniversary of my 29th birthday is in a little over 3 weeks and I’ve been thinking about things that I’ve learned about myself over the years.  I’m nosy.  I have an extraordinary memory, which passes for intelligence abou…
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RU HRelevant

• Destination Nashville #HRTN17
  The 2017 Tennessee SHRM Conference will most definitely be the destination for up-to-date and relevant HR industry news, best practices and networking. But in the mean time and in between time, HR folks like to have a good time…and there’s … Co…
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• Talent Will Only Get Us So Far
  From sports to work, we see so many individuals with an incredible amount of talent that still somehow manage to jack it all up and fall flat on their faces. Whether it be the charismatic new employee that can charm management, … Continue reading…
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• Performance He Created
  Two and a half years ago, a group of HR practitioners and bloggers took a chance on me, this rookie blogger that was trying to find his place in the game. After only being in the HR social media space … Continue reading →
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• Forget HR! I’m Going To Work For Starbucks
  Is the grass always greener on the other side? Not necessarily. But I can tell you when it comes to employee incentives, benefits and having executive advocates, the coffee may be stronger and sweeter on the other side…at Starbucks. Today … Conti…
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• Workplace Astigmatism
  For the last 10 years, I’ve boasted that my vision has not changed. I laugh at optometrists when I walk into their examination rooms because I know that the result is going to be the same…”Well Mr. Harris, everything is … Continue reading →
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Christopher in HR

• 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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• Greatness
  Are you grateful? Yesterday I had a full day – between playing golf and then marshaling I was on the course for 14 hours and the peak temp was 99 (37 C for my global friends.) It was a long day. I knew I had to stop at the grocery store on the way…
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Joe Gerstandt Blog

• 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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• Mostly self-promotional…
  Hey! Felt like I should probably see if this thing still works! A few things that might be of interest to you… I am working on a series of videos, focused primarily on Inclusion. What is it, why does it matter, how does it happen, why does it not h…
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• Dear HR: Please Take a Look at Your Conference
  Over the past year or so, I have had a number of conversations with female colleagues that work in and around the HR space regarding sexual harassment. It should not have surprised me, but it did, that so many of them had personally experienced haras…
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• 10 years in.
  Ten years ago today, I was employed by a regional healthcare system, leading their efforts focused on increasing workforce diversity, having an inclusive organizational culture, and delivering culturally competent care. I did not know it at the time,…
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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…
  - 27 Jun 17, 11:00am -

Steve Boese HR Technology

• newCHART OF THE DAY: Four out of five say that company culture needs to change
  Quick take for a waiting for the snow to come Wednesday. I wanted to share one data point from the Katzenbach Center Global Culture Survey 2018, a broad look at organizational culture and leadership.Here is the survey's lead chart and the one that s…
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• More information is not always better information, or leads to better decisions
  Quick update for a busy, cold Monday in the Northeast. Over the weekend while enjoying my typical evening of NBA League Pass and catching up on some reading, I ran into this excellent piece on the Behavioural Investment blog titled 'Can More Informat…
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• Stack Ranking is somehow still a thing in Corporate America
  This week over on CNBC.com a pretty major piece dropped on the workplace culture at Facebook, for years one of America's Top/Best/Greatest places to work, but after a really tough 2018 on a number of fronts, has seen both its market value and its emp…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 353 - Transforming the Employee Experience with HR Technology
  HR Happy Hour 353 - Transforming the Employee Experience with HR TechnologyHosts:Steve Boese, Trish McFarlaneGuests: Patrick Smith, Elias Medina, Arizona Federal Credit UnionListen HEREThis week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were j…
  - 9 days ago, 9 Jan 19, 1:34pm -
• World Bank Report: How work and workers are changing
  I know you have better things to do so you, unlike me, probably did not devote a sizable chunk of your down time this past weekend reading the recently released World Bank's 150 or so page report titled 'The Changing Nature of Work', a look at the fu…
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• PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 352 - Improving Diversity Recruiting in Technology
  HR Happy Hour 352 - Improving Diversity Recruiting in TechnologyHost: Steve BoeseGuest: Kylie Gomez, AtlassianListen HEREThis week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve is joined by Kylie Gomez, Senior Product Recruiter at Atlassian, a leading techn…
  - 15 days ago, 3 Jan 19, 2:00pm -

Women of HR

• 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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• Women in HR Tech – A Q&A With Kathryn Minshew, The Muse
  One of the highlights of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition for me over the past couple of years has been the Women in HR Technology event.  A half day event occurring on the first day of the conference, it brings together some of the most…
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• Women in HR Tech – A Q&A With Kristy Wallace, Ellevate Network
  One of the highlights of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition for me over the past couple of years has been the Women in HR Technology event.  A half day event occurring on the first day of the conference, it brings together some of the most…
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• HR Practitioners’ Relationship With HR Technology – “It’s Complicated” #HRTechConf
  For those who work in or regularly interact within the HR technology space, it may be tempting to assume that all HR practitioners are well-versed in and understand both the value and limits of workplace technology.  That in the year 2018, when we a…
  - 24 Jul 18, 11:00am -

Creative Chaos HR

• new**On Being Helpful **..New on my #Patreon, I talk about...
  **On Being Helpful **..New on my #Patreon, I talk about opportunities–what’s been given to me, and how I strive to provide them to others. Included with my words are images that capture the sentiment, “The more things change, the more they s…
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• Good morning...“It is ridiculous to set a detective...
  Good morning...“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.” ~ Agatha Christie..Image description: A black and white photo of a street in lower Manhattan with a billboard advertisin…
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 12:30pm -
• **New Year, New Prints**..I had new prints made recently....
  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Victorio Milian (@creativechaosphotography) on Jan 10, 2019 at 4:40am PST**New Year, New Prints**..I had new prints made recently. It’s been a while since I made some at this size.…
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• Good morning...“New York remains what it has always...
  Good morning...“New York remains what it has always been: a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautifu…
  - 10 days ago, 8 Jan 19, 12:32pm -
• **Work Hands**..Last year was a busy one for me as a...
  **Work Hands**..Last year was a busy one for me as a photographer. In my last #Patreon post of 2018 I talk about what these hands of mine did, and will continue to do. This is *exclusive content* for my Bronx/Queens/Brooklyn level patrons...Tha…
  - 17 days ago, 1 Jan 19, 1:12pm -
• **New Gear!**..Part of the process by which I improved as a...
  **New Gear!**..Part of the process by which I improved as a photographer was by taking my camera *everywhere*. Carrying it everywhere can be a headache, however. Between it, my work laptop, lunch, and other accessories, using my messenger bag was…
  - 18 days ago, 31 Dec 18, 3:59pm -

Benz Communications

• Introducing Segal Benz
  Benz Communications and The Segal Group join forces to form Segal Benz, a national leader in HR and benefits communications. 
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• Holistic Well-Being, Niche Health Programs, Personalization, and the Employee Experience: What’s Trending in Benefits Now
  The benefits world has experienced seismic shifts during the last few years. Some we predicted back in 2016—some we didn’t. As for what’s ahead, listen to what the experts have to say.   
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• What We Can Learn from Amazon to Drive Employee Benefits Engagement
  Companies like Amazon know how to drive consumer behavior and get people to make a purchase. We apply these same techniques to drive employee behaviors. You can, too.
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• 5 Reasons Repetition Is Essential for Employee Benefits Communication
  The only way employees can appreciate your benefits is if they know about them. That’s why repetition and communicating year-round is the surest way to up your benefits game.
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• The Trick to Getting Employees to Take Action? Keep Communications Simple and Easy
  Want your employees to take a specific action? Tell them up front, where they can’t miss it.
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• The Results Are In! Synopsys Receives P&I and DCIIA 2018 Excellence and Innovation Award
  Every year, P&I Excellence and Innovation Awards recognize employers for well-executed, creative projects that ensure participants have adequate retirement income. This year, it went to our client Synopsys.
  - 87 days ago, 23 Oct 18, 5:00pm -

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…
  - 7 Oct 15, 2:14pm -
• 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…
  - 1 Oct 15, 2:02pm -

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…
  - 23 Sep 14, 1:00pm -

Recruiter Chicks

• Last Minute Tips for #SHRM14
  Here are 14 tips as the countdown begins for #SHRM14.  Most will be useful for SHRM Annual Conference newbies and some will be great reminders for those of us who are SHRM Conference veterans.  Looking forward to seeing you in Orlando!   1.  Be p…
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• SHRM13: Keep Calm and Forge Ahead
  HR Conferences are a great way to learn, grow, get informed about the latest employment law related updates, network with fellow HR professionals and get a general idea of where HR is headed.  Chris Havrilla and I were honored to attend the SHRM Ann…
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• 5 Tips for SHRM Annual Conference First Timers
  SHRM’s Annual Conference is rapidly approaching.  I usually start thinking about packing for this amazing adventure about two weeks out.  Coincidentally, I just returned from a family vacation to Disneyworld and I have often referred to the…
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• The Interview – Button Up!
  Periodically, we all need to be reminded of the importance of buttoning up in an interview.  An interview is a business meeting where job seekers and hiring managers put their best foot forward to determine if there is a match.  It’s all about ma…
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• Master Recruiter Series: What Does Recruiting Have to Do with Retention?
  Please note:  This is a re-post of an article, “Hiring For Keeps – What Does Recruiting Have to Do With Retention?”, that I originally wrote for the Jobsite.com blog , where I am honored to be a regular contributor! Recruiting is a Business Fu…
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• Master Recruiter Series: Sourcing, SourceCon & SourceCon After Dark
  I am starting a new series of posts that I will write on from time to time, that will focus on skills and concepts that I think are the difference makers that define great recruiters.  Sourcing, how we discover and identify potential candidates, is…
  - 31 Jan 13, 12:00pm -

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 →
  - 25 May 17, 12:30pm -
• 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 →
  - 31 Aug 16, 12:00pm -
• 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 →
  - 26 Aug 16, 12:00pm -

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…
  - 19 Sep 17, 4:26pm -

HR to WHO

Change-Effect

• Deal or No Deal?
  When I started work, I don’t remember thinking I was due anything other than a pay cheque at the end of the month. I’d received my contract and terms and conditions and I accepted the deal  – the amount of holiday, the level of pension and the…
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• Seek first to understand
  Whilst mooching through social media this weekend I came across a fascinating thread. Someone within my network had posted a rather generic request for help on a pretty generic topic. It was one of those moments that we’ve all had where we ask, “…
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• The silent workforce
  As I write the last post before the Christmas break, I’m drawn to reflect on the future of work. A debate that seems to have warranted more airtime than probably it was due. I say that, not as a denier of progress, not as someone blind to the oppor…
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• Recruiting stupidity
  Sometimes we get an unexpected lens on the profession. Too often we look from our own position of knowledge and insight and not often enough do we put ourselves in the shoes of a user, whether as an employee or candidate. We talk about “candidate e…
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• Read less, talk more
  Everyone I know has written a book. My social media feeds and email inbox are all full of friends, colleagues and contacts exalting their new publications. Whether it is recruitment and resourcing, learning or the latest stream – HR Disruption/Tran…
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• A blueprint for HR
  I’ve been in the world of people management long enough to know that our profession is not without criticism. Many of the challenges we face are of our own making as we flit between almost schizophrenic versions of our own identity, causing confusi…
  - 67 days ago, 12 Nov 18, 8:00am -

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 –…
  - 22 Jun 18, 5:51pm -
• 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…
  - 8 Jun 18, 6:51pm -
• 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…
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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…
  - 58 days ago, 21 Nov 18, 11:00pm -
• 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…
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• 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 →
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• 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…
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• 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…
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Stratify

• Problem: “Resumes Suck”. Solution: …
  The cost of labour is roughly 70%+ of all operating budgets of organizations today. Not only is this number significant but so is the increasingly complex nature…
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• Learn How to Leverage Big Data in HR!
  Ahhh yeeeees… the world of “Big Data” in HR. It caught on in 2013 like a massive avalanche in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. Do we…
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• Mashup: Super Bowl, NFL, TV, Social Media, Analysts…
  Super Bowl XLVIII came and went this past weekend. The Seattle Seahawks won their first-ever Vince Lombardi trophy with a shellacking of the Denver Broncos, 43-8. Yes…
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• Adoption of Social Media in HR & Recruitment
  It was the winter of 2011, immediately after co-running Impact99 Toronto. At the time Impact99 was a 1-day conference dedicated to social media and human resources —…
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• 1st Ever Canadian Employer Branding Summit
  It is well documented that employer branding is a key strategic driver of business productivity and profitability.  With the proliferation of social media, the connection between employer…
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• Breaking New HR Blogging Ground at #HRPA2014
  For the first-time in the history of the Annual HRPA Conference and Tradeshow they are supporting a central blog team.  “Blog Squads” as they are usually called…
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Break the Frame

• Ditch Resolutions for 10 Alternative Promises to Live Your Best Life
  Resolutions are mostly about willpower. “I resolve to do whatever it takes to change this super important part of my life if it’s the last thing I do!”   I have a strict “no-resolution” stance. Frankly, I’m exhausted by the “do-or-fai…
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• The Only Thing You Need to Know About The Year Ahead
  It’s hot here. Unbearably hot. Outside, early afternoon, it’s already 110 F and rising (43.3 C) and inside, where my AC is struggling to keep up, it’s 88 F (31 C). It feels awful.   The summer is in high gear in Australia, and it’s even too…
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• Have You Learned This Key Lesson About Your Customers?
  This week I’m in Sydney Australia on a short holiday with my children. We’re going to great restaurants, shopping, seeing shows, museums and enjoying the summer. (Yes, Down Under it’s summertime with all the heat, rain and humidity that you can…
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• Your To-Do List Won’t Suffer When You Do This Too
  We fill our time. It’s that simple. You have two hours open; you don’t magically leave them open to think, explore or play. Instead, you cram in another to-do, or meeting, or shopping, or whatever. When it’s over, you’re on to the next thing…
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• 21 Quotes to Find Inner Peace and Ditch Stress this Holiday Season
  My number is 16,800. That’s how many kilometers separate me from my family. This holiday season, FaceTime will fool me into thinking I’m present as they gather to eat, celebrate and reminisce. At some point, we’ll disconnect our call, they’ll…
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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…
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The Aristocracy of HR

• 10 Perspectives to Digest for 2019
  010050000030We 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,…
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• #Unleash18 Humans + Bureaucracy: Control No More
  010050200020   “Bureaucracy is a global thing. “ ~ Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School I had the opportunity to sit in on a Q&A session Day 1 with Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School at Unleash 2018 in Vegas. Long before…
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• The Challenge of Empathy
  13200600000110  Before I get to my story, a quote from a 2017 Forbes article titled: “How Empathetic Are You, Really?”. On empathy, the author Liz Guthridge says: “Being empathetic is similar to cooking. You may know the recipe for how to prep…
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• The Existential Problem of Coonery
  530050000020 Let’s start by defining what a “coon” is. A “coon” is a black person who values what white people think of them more than they care to honor their culture and the suffrage of the racial group they identify with. A “coon” se…
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• The State of the Union on Wokeness
  220040000000 This week’s theme for #BlackBlogsMatter is “The Tao of Woke”. As a result, I decided to speak about the state of “wokeness” and what it should mean for you as we continue to navigate difficult themes around race relations and s…
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Talent Vanguard

• 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…
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• Changing the Pattern
  Do you ever feel like you’re having the same conversation over and over again? Maybe it’s with your boss, a colleague, your spouse, a parent, with yourself? I know I do, and it feels like being stuck in a well. We might use slightly different wor…
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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 […]
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• 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. […]
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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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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HR Bartender

• newFind and Train Your Replacement Through Succession Planning – Friday Distraction
  Succession planning is a critical practice in today's workplace. It's about talent management and preparing for future organizational needs.The post Find and Train Your Replacement Through Succession Planning – Friday Distraction appeared first on…
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• newEmployee Perks: Should Companies Offer Free Food [POLL]
  Employee perks come into focus as the war for talent heats up. Free food is being offered by some employers. Tell us your thoughts on this perk.The post Employee Perks: Should Companies Offer Free Food [POLL] appeared first on hr bartender.
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• 6 Ways to Improve Your Business Acumen
  Business acumen is a critical competency. We need to understand all aspects of our business. Here are 6 ways to improve your business acumen.The post 6 Ways to Improve Your Business Acumen appeared first on hr bartender.
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 9:57am -
• Is Your Organization Humble
  For insight into how a CEO thinks, read Work Inspired by Kronos CEO Aron Ain. He shares his vision of a humble company and the role of HR.The post Is Your Organization Humble appeared first on hr bartender.
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• Staffing and Scheduling are Two Different Things – Friday Distraction
  Staffing is finding the right people to do the work. Scheduling is making sure the right people show up on time. Technology can help.The post Staffing and Scheduling are Two Different Things – Friday Distraction appeared first on hr bartender.
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 9:57am -
• Peer to Peer Learning: Why It Should Be Part of Your Training Strategy
  Peer to peer learning is effective and affordable training. Trainer Kathy Shurte shares her expertise on the value of peer to peer training.The post Peer to Peer Learning: Why It Should Be Part of Your Training Strategy appeared first on hr bartende…
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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 Worst Haircut of My Life
  I bet you cut your own hair when you were a kid. Many of us did. Maybe your mom fixed it by setting the clippers on #1 and giving you a buzz cut.… Continue reading →
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• new7 Powers of Vulnerability
  Patrick Lencioni said, “I don’t think a leader can be too vulnerable.” It still freaks me out. But the ability to connect, influence, and inspire requires vulnerability. If others play it safe, lack… Continue reading →
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• newOne Question and One Commitment that Enhance Well-Being
  One question and one commitment have the power to enhance well-being in others. But first, take a look the five elements of well-being from a Gallup study that represents 98% of the world’s… Continue reading →
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• 3 Powerful Ways to Develop a Development Disposition
  New Book giveaway!! 10 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Julie Winkle Giulioni to become eligible to win one of TEN complimentary electronic copies of the best seller,… Continue reading →
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• 96% Believe They are Good Listeners and That’s Baloney
  Chances are you’re a lousy listener – even though you think you’re good at it. The problem is, 96% believe they are good listeners according to Accenture.  But a Scientific American article states, “… studies… Continue reading →
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:34pm -
• Shazam and Other Ridiculous Solutions
  The simple habit that changes my life is putting my fingers on the keyboard and starting to type. I’m never sure of the result. I am sure of the first step. Even a… Continue reading →
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 12:00pm -

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?
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• 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.
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Ask a Manager

• newopen thread – January 18-19, 2019
  It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance t…
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• newmy coworker is a blood drive bully, non-monetary perks, and more
  It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker is a blood drive bully I’m the newest and youngest employee at a small office that’s the perfect place to start a career in my industry. I love the work, and I like my coworkers.…
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• newI’m caught in the middle of an investigation at work
  A reader writes: This is not the first time that this has happened to me and I can’t help but feel icky about it and I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing. I have been in a new job that I love for about two months. Recently two coworkers (n…
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• newI don’t have any work to do at my new job
  A reader writes: I am a recent graduate who has just started my first job. When I started on my first day, the company gave me a bunch of self-study materials and a self-training schedule for a month that I must adhere to (which I happily obliged). B…
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• newhow do I stop my desk from looking like a tornado hit it?
  It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I have never been someone who is good at keeping tidy. I have what many refer to as “an organized mess.” I know exactly where everything I need is, but my desk is by no means or…
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• newI can’t trust the snacks from my coworker, large employee won’t use heavy duty chair, and more
  It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My boss wants me to fire a heavier employee if she won’t use a heavy duty chair One of my employees is a rather heavy person and has broken four chairs in the past year. My office is pretty fl…
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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

• newFuture Friday: Nine Critical Skills for the Future of HR, once more
  In doing some reading about the workforce of the future I was reminded of this post I wrote in 2014. I think it is still very relevant.  In 2011 Thomas Frey wrote an article about Eight Critical Skills for the Future. He applied these to the world i…
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• newThree for Thursday- Paying attention to the FLSA
  The US Department of Labor is one of those agencies that have been fully funded during the shutdown. Their activity continues, thus it is important to not let your adherence to the FLSA lapse. My friend, Jon Hyman, publishes a weekly curation of arti…
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• newE-Verify being shutdown does not relieve employers of verifying the employment status of new workers
  The partial government shutdown is having one effect on employers that may lead some employers to think they have a free ride in the employment process. Nothing could be further from the truth. The shutdown has not affected every agency. According to…
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• Employee Handbooks Revisited: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
  I read an article today where the author was talking about the Top Five Small Business Trends to Monitor in 2019. The fifth trend was Consistent And Transparent Employee Communication. The “I have found creating an up-to-date employee handbook th…
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• How technology may alter your timekeeping
  If you have been around in the working world, especially in a manufacturing or restaurant position, you are familiar with a timecard and punch a time clock. You show up to work, insert your time card, and it gets punched with a time stamp. Those time…
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• Revisited:Under the FLSA a late paycheck is as bad as no paycheck
  With the current government shutdown, many employees have been furloughed. Others have been described as “essential” and are required to work for no pay, with the promise of getting all monies owed them when a new budget is authorized. It has hap…
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The Employer Handbook

• new“Hold our drink, feds.” New Jersey strikes deal for $15 minimum wage
  By Darwinek – self-made using Image:Flag of New Jersey.svg and Image:USA New Jersey location map.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link On Wednesday, I blogged about how Democrats in the U.S. Senate were introducing a new bill to raise the federal minimum wage fr…
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• newHow can HR convince the C-Suite to purchase anti-harassment training in 2019?
  Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/share-price-stock-exchange-business-1013626/) It’s easier than you think. But, you need to speak the right language. And that language is money. In 2016, The EEOC Select Task Force on the Study of H…
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• newNew $15 minimum wage bill will be introduced in the Senate today.
  Copyright Free – Stock Free images. Public Domain image dedication. CC0 1.0 Universal Licence – http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ For nearly ten years, from September 1, 1997 through July 23, 2007, the federal minimum wage was $…
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• When can you fire the employee who just complained about discrimination or took FMLA leave?
  
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• Need a refresher on providing break time for nursing moms at work?
  Beukbeuk [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsI’ve got you covered. According to a recent New York Times article, it is “common among American employers” for companies not to “provide hourly workers with break time and a private place to pu…
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• She was raped by her supervisor, the company suspended her and put the harasser back to work. How mad did this make a federal jury?
  Ken Lund from Reno, NV, USA [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsNope. Madder. Here’s more from the EEOC’s press release announcing the $850,000 jury verdict. A federal jury rendered a verdict on Dec. 19, 2018 awarding $850,000 in compensatory an…
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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…
  - 10 days ago, 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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…
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• 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,…
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• 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…
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HR Hound

• Moving Beyond The Brand – What Are You Buying?…
  When you buy something from a company, you expect to be treated like you are the most important person to the people on the other end of the cash register. You signed up to be treated like gold and for a company, there is a lot of work that goes beyo…
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• The embarrassing but successful launch of a new product
  One day, I will be embarrassed about the first bag of coffee we roasted and shipped. Creating something new is exciting and also a vulnerability test. There is a lot of work behind a new product that does not get to see the light of day. I am happy w…
  - 11 Jul 17, 1:22pm -
• Roasting Coffee at the source – Guatemalan Speciality Cafe Owner – Zach Daggett
  Did you know, coffee grows well in about 29-35 countries? In this podcast episode, I interview Guatemalan specialty coffee shop owner, Zach Daggett. After college, Zach did several trips to Guatemala and realized that coffee was something he had to e…
  - 20 Jun 17, 1:16pm -
• SPECIAL DEAL For The First 100 – #Sumato100 – Coffee Talk
  The first 100 people who are willing to take a chance on a start-up and give them their hard earned money are people worth paying attention to. At Sumato Coffee Co., we launched last week and earned 73 customers. Yeah. I call them our #Sumato100. We…
  - 9 Jun 17, 1:23pm -
• What I am doing now – Sumato Coffee Co.
  Right now I am doing the hard work of starting a business. I am leaving HireVue in the coming weeks. I am focused on doing it right. I am leaving HireVue better than when I found it and I am ending things professionally and with my personality on the…
  - 22 May 17, 12:45pm -
• How Do You Talk To Yourself At 5AM…
  Psst - Gentle Reminder...How you talk to yourself is a sign at how you view life. Do you call yourself a dumbass? You are not a dumbass. Would you call the people (family, friends, co-workers) around you a dumbass? If you do, you know that is not ri…
  - 20 Apr 17, 12:46pm -

Upstart HR

• We’re Only Human 47: Using Mission-Focused Learning to Improve Learner Engagement
  Recent research from CLO Media shows that the number one performance metric reported by Chief Learning Officers for learning initiatives is employee engagement. But is this the right metric? Does engagement truly encapsulate how people learn, the imp…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:34pm -
• New Year, New Book, and a New You!
  Wow. This is the first day back at work for many after the winter holidays are coming to a close, and I hope those holidays were rejuvenating for you and those you care about. The family and I enjoyed some much-needed time off, and weather here in Al…
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jan 19, 1:42pm -
• We’re Only Human 46: New Methods for Educating the Future Leaders of HR
  Today, everyone is fascinated with talking about the “future of work.” But who is the future of work? That’s right–students. The kids (we’re old enough to call them kids, right?) that are coming up behind us are going to truly BE the future…
  - 31 days ago, 18 Dec 18, 4:11pm -
• Using Employee Feedback to Guide Decision Making
  Almost every conversation our team has with business leaders touches on today’s pace of change. That pace often prompts employers to make quick decisions, but the problem is those are not always made with the right data on hand. For example, you’…
  - 32 days ago, 17 Dec 18, 2:59pm -
• Can We Dock an Employee for Using Company Paid Leave? [Reader Question]
  We get all kinds of interesting questions about HR, talent, and the workplace, and today is no exception. Have your own question? Shoot it in to us and we’ll keep it anonymous! Can an employee be docked on a yearly/scored performance evaluation for…
  - 39 days ago, 10 Dec 18, 1:30pm -
• We’re Only Human 45: How to Pursue a Culture of Learning Innovation
  Ask almost any business leader, and they’ll tell you that they want their organization to have a culture of learning. However, in today’s discussion, Mark Onisk points out that firms often fail at that “squishy” dream because it’s not well-…
  - 49 days ago, 30 Nov 18, 7:28pm -

In Full Bloom

• 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…
  - 26 days ago, 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 -
• Life Explained: A 3-Legged Stool
  I’ve never understood people who take full credit for their accomplishments, as though getting top grades, running the fastest mile, being the most productive developer on the team, exceeding sales targets or alphabetizing by author and within genr…
  - 1 Jun 18, 1:31am -

HR Success Guide

• How to Improve Staff Engagement in the Legal Industry
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  - 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
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  - 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 -

David Jackson HR

• A Bigger Prize worth Fighting For #UHR2018
  I’m fortunate enough to be spending the next few day at the UK Universities’ HR (UHR) conference in Bristol. The theme this year is “Universities: competitive advantage or collective advancement?”. I don’t see those two concepts as mutually…
  - 21 May 18, 8:15pm -
• Rethinking Redeployment
  Unprecedented challenges require unprecedented approaches to workforce management. As British Telecom moves away from its traditional approach to redeploying staff, accepting higher redundancy payments instead, we need to think about how we handle re…
  - 13 May 18, 11:03am -
• Testosterone in the Workplace
  If we are going to talk about a human future of work, we have to think about what it is that makes us human and not robots. We are seeing interesting discussions beginning around neuro-diversity, and around the menopause at work, but the powerful rol…
  - 7 Feb 18, 1:04pm -
• Equal Pay for ‘Equal Work’ will not help Women
  Recent reporting on equal pay has taken as given the concept of equal work. In the future work place, this idea simply doesn’t make sense. Instead, the focus will be on value and that will be a far more helpful mechanism to address gender discrimin…
  - 2 Feb 18, 1:04pm -
• Ethics and Mortgages
  It’s easy to rattle off clichés and quotes about having principles and acting ethically. It’s hard to seriously challenge practices and decisions at work that you are uncomfortable with. When I have supported people through these kinds of dilemm…
  - 2 Feb 18, 8:44am -
• Bound in Blockchains
  We have all clicked “I Accept” on terms and conditions that we’ve never read. Somehow, it doesn’t feel the same as writing our signature on a piece of paper; we would never physically sign a contract without reading it. So what happens when o…
  - 29 Nov 17, 9:13am -

Thinking About Learning

• 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…
  - 3 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…
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 9:50am -
• Facilitating a product/project review
  This week I facilitated a product review and thought it might be helpful to share the process I went through and my learnings and experience. A product review is where you take the time to systematically review what’s happening with a product, use…
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 8:42am -
• What I’ve learned about facilitation
  The art and skill of facilitation for me has been one of the core skills I’ve developed in my time as an L&Der. When I look back over the years, there have been several moments when I’ve known that facilitation as an enabler is a highly powerful…
  - 64 days ago, 15 Nov 18, 7:26am -
• Higher expectations of L&D vendors
  In a LinkedIn post yesterday, Sheridan Webb wrote an article about her perceptions of how “L&D” have unhelpful attitudes towards “trainers”. It’s a good thinking piece. I value good writing about what we do as a profession and oftentimes we…
  - 86 days ago, 24 Oct 18, 6:46am -
• What is selflessness?
  My 11yo son asked me this last night. It was late so I had to give him the short answer – doing things for others without thinking about how it might affect you, and not expecting gratitude or thanks for doing it. It’s a concept I think about oft…
  - 94 days ago, 16 Oct 18, 6:59am -

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…
  - 87 days ago, 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…
  - 10 Aug 18, 7:40am -
• 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

• 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…
  - 95 days ago, 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 -
• Not Another Time Management Post
  Over time, I’ve come to realize that the “time management” problem is actually much more complex than we let on. Its very simple to blame the individual but as leaders in organizations we need to recognize that “time management” is more tha…
  - 20 Jun 18, 10:30am -
• High Altitude Leadership
  At very high altitudes mountain climbers can suffer terrible side effects from the lack of oxygen in the air. This lack of oxygen causes hypoxia which leads to headaches, flawed judgement, confusion and eventually hallucinations. I think something si…
  - 19 Apr 18, 11:29am -

101 Half Connected Things

• Your Guru lied
  One of the most pernicious, sanctimonious and unhelpful lies told on conference stages and in books is that you have to look after your people and customers to be a success. You’ve been told it many times – that if you don’t do these things the…
  - 32 days ago, 17 Dec 18, 7:44am -
• On the future of work – a brief note
  The brightest thinkers paint different views of our near to mid future. They describe alternate realities where automation and AI (often used interchangeably) come to rob us of our jobs or free us of our shackles. It’s possible that both camps migh…
  - 36 days ago, 13 Dec 18, 8:06am -
• A (rejected) Evidence Based Review
  My review of Evidence-Based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions which you can buy here was rejected by Amazon yesterday for not following their guidelines. I think it does, I imagine they objected to the cow in a t…
  - 53 days ago, 26 Nov 18, 7:25am -
• How do you value improving others?
  I was talking a while back with the very wise Stefan Stern about the notion of talent and where we place value. One of the things I think we genuinely undervalue is the ability to build or realise capacity/capability in others. The ability to support…
  - 77 days ago, 2 Nov 18, 7:41am -
• We didn’t care enough
  Yesterday someone asked me why a problem hadn’t been solved before and I replied that we obviously just hadn’t cared enough. It felt like that needed a longer explanation, so I told them what I’m about to tell you… Things that organisations r…
  - 19 Sep 18, 6:51am -
• Whole lot of history
  There is a way the conversation often goes when you are new to a role. And a way it can go How it often goes “Why don’t we do my brilliant idea. I’m the breath of fresh air new boss?” “Tried it, didn’t work” How it can go “I was looki…
  - 29 Aug 18, 6:41am -

Switch and Shift

• How Leaders Can Help Boost Employee Productivity [Infographic]
  Nothing puts a damper on the workday like a drop in productivity. A shift in one level of an organization can create a domino effect that potentially leads to a decrease in company morale, and even poor customer service. How can leaders boost employe…
  - 7 Sep 17, 2:19pm -
• Mentoring and Training: Managing the Generational Shift in Today’s Workforce
  We’re now making workforce history as Millennials have become the dominant demographic in the US, outnumbering Baby Boomers 80 million to 76 million. There is a resulting generational shift in the workforce currently underway, and gathering steam.…
  - 6 Sep 17, 10:00am -
• The Power of Personal Vision to Drive Organizational Change
  Does your personal vision statement inspire others to greatness? Is it hardwired into the DNA of your people? If not, take time today to further refine your vision, and collaborate with your team on an action plan to bring your company's vision to li…
  - 31 Aug 17, 10:00am -
• Be One of the Best Places to Work, Even If You Didn’t Make a List
  We’re over halfway through the 2017 work year, and many lists of the best places to work are rolling out. Inc. Magazine (in partnership with Quantum Workplace) surveyed 169,000 people and compiled a list of 50 Best Places to Work. Fortune (…
  - 29 Aug 17, 10:00am -
• The Missing Link in Culture Success: An Interview with Dr. Robert A. Cooke
  According to Dr. Robert Cooke, CEO of Human Synergistics and Associate Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Illinois at Chicago, “The organization as a whole, including all departments, teams, and individuals within it—and really…
  - 18 Aug 17, 8:55pm -
• 13 Ways Your Company Can Foster a Sense of Belonging
  Pat Wadors, Senior VP of Global Talent for LinkedIn, believes that three factors - Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIBS) - are the key drivers of employee engagement. A sense of belonging, in particular - the feeling that you can bring your authe…
  - 2 Aug 17, 11:49am -

Leadership Freak

• newThe Worst Haircut of My Life
  I bet you cut your own hair when you were a kid. Many of us did. Maybe your mom fixed it by setting the clippers on #1 and giving you a buzz cut.… Continue reading →
  - 6 hours ago, 18 Jan 19, 12:00pm -
• new7 Powers of Vulnerability
  Patrick Lencioni said, “I don’t think a leader can be too vulnerable.” It still freaks me out. But the ability to connect, influence, and inspire requires vulnerability. If others play it safe, lack… Continue reading →
  - 1 day ago, 17 Jan 19, 12:40pm -
• newOne Question and One Commitment that Enhance Well-Being
  One question and one commitment have the power to enhance well-being in others. But first, take a look the five elements of well-being from a Gallup study that represents 98% of the world’s… Continue reading →
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 12:00pm -
• 3 Powerful Ways to Develop a Development Disposition
  New Book giveaway!! 10 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Julie Winkle Giulioni to become eligible to win one of TEN complimentary electronic copies of the best seller,… Continue reading →
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 12:00pm -
• 96% Believe They are Good Listeners and That’s Baloney
  Chances are you’re a lousy listener – even though you think you’re good at it. The problem is, 96% believe they are good listeners according to Accenture.  But a Scientific American article states, “… studies… Continue reading →
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 1:34pm -
• Shazam and Other Ridiculous Solutions
  The simple habit that changes my life is putting my fingers on the keyboard and starting to type. I’m never sure of the result. I am sure of the first step. Even a… Continue reading →
  - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 19, 12:00pm -

Three Star Leadership

• newTransition to Leadership: Well Begun is Half Done
  30-60 percent of all managers don’t do an acceptable job. I didn’t make that up. I read the research by Joyce Hogan, Robert Hogan, and Robert Kaiser. They reviewed a dozen scientific studies of the percentage of...
  - 23 hours ago, 17 Jan 19, 7:00pm -
• newFrom the Independent Business Blogs: 1/16/19
  Independent business blogs are blogs that aren’t supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don’t need any...
  - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 7:00pm -
• newLeaders and Strategies in Real Life: Apple Warning Edition
  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...
  - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 7:00pm -
• Book Review: It doesn’t have to be crazy at work
  What images leap into your mind when I say, “high-tech startup?” For many people, it’s Silicon Valley, lots of stress, free laundry service and meals (because you’re spending 18 hours a day at work), and Dave...
  - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 7:00pm -
• Boss’s Tip of the Week: Lots of Conversations
  If you’re worried about having good conversations with your team members, here’s the most important thing you should know. The best way to have good conversations with anyone is to have lots of conversations...
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 19, 7:00pm -

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

• newAre you a consumer?
  Raise your hand if you’ve been to a presentation about how innovative Air bnb is to lodging, or amazon is to retail, or uber is to transportation services. All these companies took things we already used and made them exceptionally easy to use. The…
  - 15 hours ago, 18 Jan 19, 2:40am -
• newDo you like your coworkers?
  When I ran a staffing office the hardest job to fill was one for my team in the office. There was extra stress for me to make the right decision because we spent so much time together. Our environment was high stress and if I brought the wrong person…
  - 2 days ago, 17 Jan 19, 3:51am -
• newYou might be surprised
  At a previous job, a high school internship program was something no one wanted to oversee. One of the issues we had with it was that it came from the top down and we were like “um, we have enough stuff to do, but thanks anyway.” Another reason w…
  - 3 days ago, 16 Jan 19, 12:41am -
• Flipping off customers
  I got behind the wheel with road rage from day 1. Like an embarrassing amount of road rage. From the time I was 16 until I was in my 20s I did not dial it down one single bit. No matter how much my parents or any other responsible adult in my life to…
  - 4 days ago, 15 Jan 19, 2:35am -
• When I was trailer trash
  I’m deviating from the plan for the blog today to share a story with you all that I can’t get out of my head for some reason. Maybe that reason is because I need to write it down? Ehh, who knows. When I was growing up we lived in Kansas. My mom h…
  - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 19, 9:45pm -
• Is anyone really on time?
  I am fortunate enough to have a job where my boss doesn’t watch what time I roll into the office every day. She is very much of the mindset that you get your job done and that’s what is most important. I think she also knows that when I come in l…
  - 6 days ago, 13 Jan 19, 4:25am -

Don't Forget to Remember

• Waking Up in 2019
  It's that time of year when New Year's Resolution, Career Goals, Plans to get Healthy and Forecasting of Big Ideas come together! We inventory the year past and read a bunch of lists. We put the past away and look forward.Are there goals still to be…
  - 8 days ago, 10 Jan 19, 2:11pm -
• Top 5 - 2018
  What a year in music!Sure.... confusion exists at the cross roads of popular and independent music. The music festivals we've cherished now more closely reveal the Super Bowl. Tons of Octogenarians have reunited to pay for their 5th divorce (but, who…
  - 28 days ago, 21 Dec 18, 8:58pm -
• Leveling Up
  Where are we going?What is our process for getting there?Are technological advancements having an adverse effect on a social level?Is accessibility to all things via the Internet putting blinders on our ability to identify the glory that exists outsi…
  - 29 days ago, 20 Dec 18, 8:39pm -
• How Gamification Won
  I remember hearing Rajat Paharia on a panel discussion some years ago denouncing the term Gamification. He was at the time dubbed the Father of the strategic technical discipline. Logically, the commodification of the behavioral practice wore him out…
  - 60 days ago, 19 Nov 18, 10:13pm -
• A Chance At Gratitude
  I woke up early in an East Coast town and (against my better judgment) checked my social media feed. I was met with positivity (?) Two positive posts in a row.... 2! With the mid-term election a day behind us, people may have exhausted their hatred f…
  - 70 days ago, 9 Nov 18, 5:58pm -
• Behave Yourself
  It was an honor to be included in Dr. Bob Nelson's new book "1001 Ways to Engage Employees". I shared a case study with Dr Bob which showcased how we used the SCARF methodology to enhance a major technology company's performance management strategy.M…
  - 77 days ago, 2 Nov 18, 8:41pm -

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…
  - 28 Jul 17, 6:38pm -
• 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…
  - 24 Jul 17, 7:29pm -
• 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…
  - 20 Jul 17, 5:43pm -
• 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…
  - 17 Jul 17, 8:03pm -
• 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…
  - 10 Jul 17, 7:22pm -

What Goes Around

• newWriting
  I used to write, a lot. Back in 2012/2013 I was blogging 3 or 4 times a week on here, and writing frequent guest posts in various other places too. My written output has steadily declined since then. I’ve only written 10 posts in the last six month…
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• Stories of Hope and Courage
  My friend Andy Copps recently invited me to take part in a storytelling event in London, called Stories of Hope and Courage. I was asked to provide some live art to accompany the stories as they unfolded, and there was some live music in the mix too.…
  - 38 days ago, 11 Dec 18, 7:16am -
• Minden Calling : European Adventures
  A few weeks ago I wrote about the free art project extending into Europe. Since then, I’ve accepted a kind invitation to show some of my art at an exhibition in Minden, Germany. Minden is one of the towns twinned with our borough, and next March th…
  - 43 days ago, 6 Dec 18, 10:37am -

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
  - 31 Jan 17, 3:33pm -
• 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.
  - 7 Sep 16, 3:40pm -
• 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. 
  - 28 Apr 16, 3:08pm -
• 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…
  
  - 4 Dec 17, 2:05pm -
• 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…
  - 10 Nov 17, 3:39pm -
• 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.…
  - 3 Nov 17, 2:06pm -
• 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…
  - 26 Oct 17, 1:32pm -
• 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…
  - 25 Oct 17, 11:55am -

HR Warrior

• 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…
  - 27 Aug 18, 2:03am -
• 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…
  - 28 Jun 18, 10:58pm -
• 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…
  - 15 Jun 18, 9:12pm -
• 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…
  - 10 Apr 18, 2:03am -
• 121517 WMAY Local First Spotlight Rogers HR Consulting
  
  - 10 Mar 18, 10:01pm -

Rollercoaster HR

• newInspiration 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…
  - 2 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 →
  - 11 days ago, 7 Jan 19, 2:20pm -
• Write
  While I am not one to propose New Years’ Resolutions, I have for the last few years used the One Word approach each January to have a focus for the year. This has worked well for me and for 2019 … Continue reading →
  - 17 days ago, 1 Jan 19, 12:42pm -
• So…Can I Bring My Bong to Work Now?
  
  - 43 days ago, 6 Dec 18, 8:33pm -
• 29 pieces
  Twenty-nine. That is the number of pieces of mail I received from vendors in the lead up to the opening of #SHRM18 in Chicago tomorrow. As someone who has been blessed to attend multiple of these annual extravaganzas of everything … Continue readin…
  - 16 Jun 18, 9:50pm -
• Screaming at my technology
  This week I have been fighting a regular battle with my HRIS. For those not in the know, HRIS stands for Human Resource Information System. If an uninterested observer were watching this battle unfold, I believe they would unequivocally state … Con…
  - 19 Feb 18, 11:05pm -

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…
  - 20 Mar 17, 6:29pm -
• 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…
  - 20 Jun 16, 3:35pm -
• 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…
  - 20 Jun 16, 12:20am -
• 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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