Working Girl
MARCH 9, 2011
'During a recent chat my project social partner Dave Ryan and I agreed that HR certification doesn’t automatically confer expertise in all the myriad facets of HR and a new post topic was born! Be sure to check out Dave’s latest post about the many hats HR must wear. HR is like housework: There are things you have to do every day, like dishes and picking up toys.
Reviewsnap
MARCH 15, 2011
'ReviewSNAP™, an acclaimed Web-based performance management system, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Oasis Outsourcing, one of the largest Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) in the United States. Oasis Outsourcing has chosen ReviewSNAP as its exclusive performance management system to offer to its clients. Oasis provides outsourced human resources, employee benefits, payroll administration and risk management services to its more than 3,000 clients nationwide.
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Josh Bersin
MARCH 19, 2011
Remember the dot.com bubble of 1995-2000? I do, and it’s back again. But this time it has a new face, it talks about SaaS, highly connected social applications, mobile apps, and talent. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
MARCH 13, 2011
Google Oxygen inspires 8 data driven management practices in a quest to build a better boss. The NY Times printed a long article on Google’s OXYGEN project to look at the top data driven principles of management within Google. Managers play a key role in employee engagement and these practices can go along way to also instilling engagement in any organization.
Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo
HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.
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45 Things
MARCH 15, 2011
For Lent this year, I've given up potato chips, french fries and swearing. I decided to go for all three since my effort last year (to give up criticizing others) failed on a regular -- almost hourly -- basis. Not three hours after I made my vow of abstaining from salty food and salty language, I dropped a box of spaghetti in the pantry that exploded like a thousand pick-up sticks.
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Working Girl
MARCH 31, 2011
'Guest Post by Jim Webber While I was at the local coffee shop this week, I noticed a young father typing away on his computer as his baby napped in his lap. The thing that caught my attention was that no one else paid any attention. He was just another guy doing some work while enjoying his latte. It made me happy. It was very different twenty years ago when my two daughters were toddlers and I was a newly single dad.
Strategic HCM
MARCH 21, 2011
'I’ve posted several times recently to suggest that what seem like decent engagement scores being reported by some organisations and a few vendors may hide a number of potentially very significant, and growing, employment problems. New based research from Plateau Systems seems to confirm this thinking:- So firstly, yes, this survey also suggests job satisfaction is fairly high.
Josh Bersin
MARCH 14, 2011
This week SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Jambok, a small platform company with an innovative and powerful solution for social learning and knowledge sharing. Jambok was the brainchild. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
MARCH 22, 2011
My engagement is my responsibility, don’t take that from me. Psychometrics in Canada recently completed a survey of 368 Canadian HR professionals. These professionals were asked : Who is primarily responsible for engagement? 50% said managers. 34.1% said senior leaders. 15.9 said employees. It boggles my mind that only 16% of HR managers see employees as having primary responsibility for engagement?
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45 Things
MARCH 4, 2011
I often say that one of the happiest times of my life was when I was a college senior. Why? Because that's the last time in my life that I truly felt like I had the world by the tail. There wasn't anything I didn't know. Then, of course, I graduated, got a job.and realized I knew nothing. So, when I did this story for Ganett/USA Today, it brought back a lot of memories of my last days in college, and the naive belief that the world was waiting for me with open arms.
Bersin with Deloitte
MARCH 15, 2011
'2010 was a turnaround year for many U.S training organizations. After double-digit spending cuts in each of the prior two years, training budgets began to stabilize - and even increase within many organizations. Overall, companies spent 2% more on training in 2010 than in 2009. With budgets loosening up, many L&D organizations initiated learning infrastructure projects in 2010.
Working Girl
MARCH 27, 2011
'This tongue-in-cheek video (below) depicts HR as a covert informer who invites confidences from employees then rats them out behind their backs. My project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chuckling about this recently but he admitted that there is a grain of truth. Perhaps more than a grain, as you can read about in his latest post. Of course, it''s unfair to expect HR folks to rise above sordid matters like needing a paycheck and represent the interests of employees because HR professional
DDI
MARCH 3, 2011
'As I am currently preparing for an upcoming Leadership Development Program, a little light bulb went off in my head: there is also a lot to learn from Dr. Seuss on leadership!
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Josh Bersin
MARCH 13, 2011
An article in the New York Times today describes Google’s Project Oxygen, a statistics driven research project to study what makes good managers. Google’s People Analytics team. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
MARCH 3, 2011
Employee Engagement: Vulnerability as a First Step. A view of employee engagement in hospitals. Employees want to understand the direction of the organization and, more importantly, how their roles assist the organization’s process. Hospital executives can help spread mission, vision and values simply by being more present in their hospital halls.
45 Things
MARCH 21, 2011
Everything I know about the behind-the-scenes deals in Hollywood comes from watching Entourage. In other words, I don't know much, but I recently had a chance to chat with a very successful Hollywood producer and find out the secret to his success. The big secret? Telling good stories. Here's the column I did for Gannett/USA Today. A successful Hollywood producer of movies such as The Color Purple , Batman , and Rain Man , says stories such as these are what employees and job seekers need to evo
True Faith HR
MARCH 7, 2011
'Next month, Laurie Ruettimann and I will be presenting "Pop Culture, Politics, and HR" and the 3rd rendition of HREvolution in Atlanta, April 29. With the multitude of options and topics, you may be wondering why we are having this discussion in a session, instead of over drinks in the hotel bar? The relevance is big picture HR. People should be stepping back in our session and asking why they are in this field.
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Working Girl
MARCH 15, 2011
'Once when I changed jobs my new manager asked me to set up 1:1 meetings with the rest of the team, to get to know them and let them get to know me. One of these conversations stands out in my mind, partly because it was with a French colleague who spoke so beautifully that everything she said sounded elegant and wise. But it was her description of our manager that really stuck with me: ‘He’s a very humane manager.
Evil HR Lady
MARCH 11, 2011
Dear Evil HR Lady, Now that employers aren’t reading resumes - instead just putting them through scanners to find keyword matches - do they still read cover letters? I’ve got no problem crafting specific cover letters for the various jobs I’m applying to. That said, my job search is time-consuming enough without spending time and energy on a cover letter no one is going to read.
Josh Bersin
MARCH 5, 2011
The ever-changing market for Learning Management Systems (LMS) continues to evolve. Last year, Taleo, the largest provider of recruiting software, spent $100 million acquiring mid-market LMS vendor. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
MARCH 17, 2011
FREE Webinar March 22 at 13:00 Eastern. Employee Engagement: The Power of Connection. Michael Stallard and David Zinger join together to discuss the pivotal role of connection in employee engagement. David hosts Micheal in this engaging dialogue on the vitality of connection for engagement. Micheal is the author of Fired Up or Burned Out and David is the founder of the Employee Engagement Network.
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As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?
45 Things
MARCH 25, 2011
What's the rudest behavior you've seen at work by someone with a smartphone in their hand? It may take you a minute to think of the No. 1 worst behavior (many people seem to carry a list in their pocket), but before you spout off, I want you to consider something else. What's your rudest workplace behavior? Are you snarking about someone else's behavior when your manners are less than stellar?
Strategic HCM
MARCH 4, 2011
'So what does the Big Rethink look like within HR? You may be interested in these notes on innovation in HCM from my Winter newsletter : Unfortunately innovation is not something that is seen as a priority by many businesses (see this article and this one in the FT for example). I think this is a shame. Yes, HR’s role in enabling innovation within the business is a highly important one, but innovating its own approach and processes is increasingly important too.
Working Girl
MARCH 18, 2011
'We’ve all heard the buzz about retention. There’s a war for talent on. Your best talent is at risk. Replacing employees is expensive. Yada, yada, yada. Don’t get me wrong, retention’s important. But while my project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chatting about retention last week, the words ‘rhymes with detention’ just popped into my head. If you think about it, there’s a fine line of distinction between the two words: To retain someone means you secure them for possible future use.
Evil HR Lady
MARCH 9, 2011
You would think that with unemployment being so high that hiring would be super easy. After all, you simply tell your employees that you’re hiring and post the job on your company’s websites. Within minutes LinkedIn is buzzing with all that networking and your company’s servers are being overwhelmed with hundreds of applicants. So, Why is the Hiring Process So Slow?
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Josh Bersin
MARCH 27, 2011
This week Saba Software released one of its strongest financial results in many years. Saba, which pioneered the market for enterprise learning management systems, has now turned the corner in its. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
MARCH 10, 2011
Get the Picture on Employee Engagement from A to Z: Almost 19,000 views. Here is a classic slide presentation I created on Employee Engagement 3 years ago. It was posted on SlideShare and had over 18663 views and 2373 downloads. The presentation take you through the Employee Engagement alphabet in 26 visual and cogent slides. Enjoy. Employee Engagement A To Z Slides View more presentations from David Zinger.
45 Things
MARCH 8, 2011
Here's my gift to you today: I'm not going to blog about Charlie Sheen. I'm not going to give you advice about how you shouldn't follow Sheen's career strategy. Honestly, if you're dim enough to even think about listening to Charlie Sheen, you need a heck of a lot more advice than I can ever give you. And some really good meds.
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