June, 2009

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You Cut Costs: Now Build a Long Term Roadmap

Josh Bersin

This week we met with the head of L&D from a large financial services institution. This company, like many others, has just completed a wrenching reorganization and redesign of its global learning organization to save money. In this particular case the company is also integrating the L&D teams from several acquired companies. (I know this. Read more» The post You Cut Costs: Now Build a Long Term Roadmap appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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The Big Question: How Do You Spend Your Time?

The Bamboo Project Blog

Last night I had a quick IM chat with Christine Martell , who asked me when I planned to re-join the online community--her way of pointing out that I've had my G-talk status on "invisible" for several weeks now, haven't done a Twitter update in 16 days and have clearly been remiss in posting here. So it was serendipitous to find that the Learning Circuits Big Question this month is "how do you spend your time?

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Read before you sign

Evil HR Lady

This is a long question, so I'm going to break it into parts and answer each part separately. Oh, and Class Factotum, this is for you, since you asked for more posts. I've been busy learning German. I conducted an entire transaction in German yesterday--granted it was just dry cleaning, and I mainly said, "Ja, ja!" but importantly, I knew what she said.

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Social networking or stand up?

Working Girl

'In the early days I assumed that social applications like Facebook and Twitter were all about networking because, well, that''s what everyone said. But then I got confused because there didn''t seem to be all that much networking going on. For example, after first reconnecting with school friends and catching up for all of five minutes, most of my Facebook relationships involved my ''friends'' letting me know what movie or flower they are at all hours of the day and night.

Course 40
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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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What Are ReviewSNAP Clients Saying?

Reviewsnap

'Take a look below at some of the recent feedback that ReviewSNAP has received about our performance management system. “After scrutinizing over at least six Web-based systems for performance appraisals, we are very happy that we selected the ReviewSNAP application to support our performance management process. The system''s design is simple and efficient and has taken the "fuss" out of the performance management process.

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Your HR and L&D Career in 2009: The Career Factbook

Josh Bersin

How has the Human Resources and Training and Development profession changed in the last few years? What are the real motivations and career paths for people in our profession? How do people move. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Enterprise Learning Talent Management career factbook hr career L&D career profession.

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Who's in the Market for Learning: Individuals or Organizations?

The Bamboo Project Blog

As part of the ongoing conversation on the future business models for learning with Tony Karrer, I mentioned in both my blog post and in a comment on Tony's blog that I think we're going to see a move away from companies and organizations to individuals as the consumers of learning products and services. Tony followed up by asking if I had anything to back up my thinking.

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Want to know my thoughts on Brad Pitt?

Evil HR Lady

Of course you do. Check out why this might help your career. Plus, make sure you read comment 2. It will inform you that I lack character and depth. But, you already knew that.

Course 40
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A Few Good Managers

Working Girl

'A friend of mine who is looking for a new manager at her company recently asked me for advice on finding a good one. Although the importance of good management is a recurring theme on this blog, it''s not an easy question to answer. First of all, what is a good manager? It''s fairly subjective but I think most of us can agree that we''d rather work for someone who is honest, competent and mentoring than someone who is a self-serving suck up who spends all their time angling for the next promoti

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Follow Up on Open Ended Questions

Reviewsnap

'This post is a follow up to the announcement that we were in the process of adding the ability to use open-ended questions in your performance appraisals. This post is to let you know that this function has been completed and is now implemented in the ReviewSNAP Performance Management System.

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QuickBase product release scheduled for Sunday, June 7th

Quickbase

We are rolling out another update to QuickBase. Here’s a quick look at some of the new features that will be coming out with the June product release. Formulas in form rules…huh? Dynamic form rules are used by application designers to make forms behave differently based on specific conditions. They set the condition and tell […].

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You Cut Costs: Now Build a Long Term Roadmap

Josh Bersin

This week we met with the head of L&D from a large financial services institution. This company, like many others, has just completed a wrenching reorganization and redesign of its global. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Corporate Culture Enterprise Learning HR Systems LMS, LCMS Organization & Governance.

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Do You Know How to Ask the Right Questions?

The Bamboo Project Blog

Looking at tools like Google Squared , Google Trends and Wolfram Alpha , it's becoming increasingly clear to me that one of the key challenges we have before us is learning how to ask questions. And not just any question, but the RIGHT questions. There's tremendous power in the possibilities of these tools, but if you don't know what to ask about or how to ask it, then what's the point?

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Want to know my thoughts on Brad Pitt?

Evil HR Lady

Of course you do. Check out why this might help your career. Plus, make sure you read comment 2. It will inform you that I lack character and depth. But, you already knew that.

Course 40
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The best review I ever had

Working Girl

'I''ve written several posts about how a good manager puts the ''manage'' into performance management. I think we can all agree that the manager plays an important role but what does that actually mean when push comes to shove? If there were a cut and dried formula for good management someone would bottle and sell it. There isn''t. While there are definitely some wise guiding princples, different styles and techniques work best for different people.

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Cosmetic Changes to ReviewSNAP

Reviewsnap

'Have you been to ReviewSNAP lately and wondered if you were at the right site? No need to worry.you were at the right place. Recently we made a few cosmetic changes to our site giving it more of a dynamic, fresh look. The site was simplified with more image links and buttons. We''ve added the new buttons below and you can feel free to sign up for a free trial , watch the demo or request a live demo.

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Is Stress Making You Want to Kiss Your Job Goodbye?

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, June 1, 2009 Is Stress Making You Want to Kiss Your Job Goodbye? For me, one of the great things about Twitter is that is allows me to learn more about what people experience at work every day. Its sort of like being an invisible Spiderman, without the goofy costume.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

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?

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Globalization: Now Core to Enterprise Learning

Josh Bersin

As we read and hear about the tumultuous news in Iran and North Korea, it occurs to me that so much of our daily life, news, and time is now spent on global issues. This trend impacts the corporate. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Tags: Content Development Organization & Governance ca china france globalization india vestas.

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Accessibility and Learning

The Bamboo Project Blog

As I've mentioned previously , I'm working with a couple of clients right now who work with individuals with disabilities on some social media projects and it continues to be a learning experience. For the past week I've been hard at work pulling together a wiki for a 2.5 day workshop we're doing in August on using social media in Centers for Independent Living.

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Read before you sign

Evil HR Lady

This is a long question, so I'm going to break it into parts and answer each part separately. Oh, and Class Factotum, this is for you, since you asked for more posts. I've been busy learning German. I conducted an entire transaction in German yesterday--granted it was just dry cleaning, and I mainly said, "Ja, ja!" but importantly, I knew what she said.

Course 40
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Back to the Basics

Working Girl

'I work in Munich. Not surprisingly, my colleagues are German. We''re a small group so we often have lunch together in our favorite local restaurant, which happens to be Italian. Every month or so they publish a new menu and we dutifully select one of the specials, eat it, have an espresso, pay and walk back to work. Today we had an Italian guest, a global IT consultant that came to discuss global payroll strategy.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Turning Satisfied Customers Into Loyal Customers

Reviewsnap

'While building a customer base, businesses sometimes move too quickly and focus on quantity rather than quality. Just as organizations experience turnover in their employee ranks, turnover occurs in the customer base as well. The extent to which both occur has a significant influence on your bottom line. There is a lot of emphasis these days on creating satisfied customers.

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What Grandaddy Taught me about Information Flow

Transparent Office

My grandfather never used computers, and he died when "wiki" was still just a word in Hawaiian. But in a single comment he taught me all about Enterprise 2.0. Grandaddy (known to the rest of the world as Phil Plesofsky) was a mild-mannered, old-school stock broker with a boutique brokerage firm in Chicago. He wore pin-stripe suits so conservative that once he accidentally bought the same suit twice.

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Need a Shove?

45 Things

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, June 29, 2009 Need a Shove? One of the common threads Ive found when interviewing people who have lost their jobs over the last year is the optimism most of them feel when theyre first laid off. That lasts for about four or five months.

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Comment Problems

The Bamboo Project Blog

Just an FYI to commenters here that although work is part of the reason I haven't been commenting back on blog posts, it's not the entire issue. Off and on for awhile now Typepad has not been allowing me to leave comments on my own posts. Either I can't get to the comment section at all or I get there, type a comment and then it just hangs there. Can you say "frustrating"?

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Missing my posts?

Evil HR Lady

I don't think I've ever posted an actual link to where I write at US News, so here it is ! The other bloggers over there are fantastic as well. Just a little light reading.

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The Business of Learning: What Does the Future Hold?

The Bamboo Project Blog

Tony Karrer is asking an important and provocative question for those of us in the business of learning: While training as a publisher of courses and courseware faces an increasingly challenging market, what other things can learning businesses successfully sell to internal or external customers? As always, Tony's post includes a good framing of issues along with a reading list.

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Upcoming Additions to ReviewSNAP

Reviewsnap

'Shortly after it was decided to add open ended questions to ReviewSNAP , we also decided to add the capability of creating rating scales anywhere from 1 point to 10 points. The ReviewSNAP system initially allowed you to create your own rating scales, but only on a 5 point scale. Soon you will be able to create your own rating scales with any number of rating points between 1 and 10 for your performance appraisals and 360 degree feedback surveys.