Sat.Jun 04, 2011 - Fri.Jun 10, 2011

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7 Dangerous Things Every Adult Should Do

The Bamboo Project Blog

On yesterday's post about creative anxiety and risk-taking, Holly McDonald left me an excellent link to an article on risk-taking at the Open Education blog, which, in turn, led me to Gever Tulley's TEDTalk on 5 Dangerous Things You Should Allow Your Child to Do. . We learn as children to stop taking risks, but I think that as we become adults, we can be even more risk-averse, mainly because we also feel like we have more to lose.

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Budget Cuts Impacting Federal Training Organizations

Bersin with Deloitte

While many private sector companies are recovering from the recession, the public sector is in a downslide. The 2011 federal budget finalized in mid-April calls for over $30 billion in cuts, with expectations for even deeper cuts in 2012. To cope with these spending reductions, training organizations within federal agencies are implementing targeted reforms - reforms designed to achieve cost savings and to better target training investments to make the best use of limited dollars.

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Kaizengagement: Are You Making Little Bets to Enhance Employee Engagement?

David Zinger

Are you making little bets to enhance employee engagement? I encourage you to watch this raw 45 minute presentation by Peter Sims on Little Bets. This was one of his first presentations on the topic and models making a little bet in presenting ideas. After watching the video I encourage you to apply the concepts to employee engagement by making a little bet on your approach to engagement.

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How to Get the Boss to Listen to You

45 Things

I'd like to say that because I've been in the communications business for a long time, I'm an expert communicator. But then, that wouldn't explain the responses I've gotten to some of my e-mails that state, "What are you talking about?" or the short-and-to-the-point: "HUH?" I know that you can't take communicating for granted. It's something that you have to work hard at every day, and to forget that lesson can not only lead to misunderstandings, but also hurt your career.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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The Power of Writing It Down

The Bamboo Project Blog

Long-time readers of my blog know that I'm an inveterate user and admirer of technology. I'm consistently drawn to its possibilities and have benefited tremendously from all that technology offers to us. But, during my recent social media sabbatical, I was reminded again of some of the more old-fashioned strategies for learning that served me well in the past.

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Employee Engagement: I’ll take a double serving…

David Zinger

Employee Engagement and Service: I’ll take a double serving… IBM is celebrating a century of social engagement. Rosabeth Moss Kanter in a Harvard Business blog recently wrote about IBM’s celebration through service. Nearly 300,000 IBMers and family members have pledged at least 8 hours of service in 120 countries through over 3,500 projects that draw on IBM tools and capabilities.

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A Career In An International Property Consultancy

TheHRBlog

A real estate consultant has the complex and responsibility-driven role of dealing with high-value property assets. Hence, a potent combination of technical know-how, market insight and ethical values are the cornerstones of a perfect real estate professional. In a market like India, this role compounds dramatically, since there is a huge amount of growth happening […].

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On Risk-Taking and Anxiety

The Bamboo Project Blog

Through Twitter this morning came this excellent post from Lori McNee, 10 Tips for Finding Your Own Artistic Voice. One of the issues she discusses is risk-taking and the anxiety that it can provoke: . Repeating successful work has a way of reducing our experience of anxiety and can bring financial rewards as well. But it may also prevent us from moving forward and from discovering what we hope to say.

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Budget Cuts Impacting Federal Training Organizations

Bersin with Deloitte

While many private sector companies are recovering from the recession, the public sector is in a downslide. The 2011 federal budget finalized in mid-April calls for over $30 billion in cuts, with expectations for even deeper cuts in 2012. To cope with these spending reductions, training organizations within federal agencies are implementing targeted reforms - reforms designed to achieve cost savings and to better target training investments to make the best use of limited dollars.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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Employee Engagement and the 3 P’s

David Zinger

Mind your P’s for an engaged climate. Curtis Walker Jr. wrote a white paper for The Forum on Perceived Climate for Engagement and the Role of Social Influences in Fostering Individual Engagement and Performance Behaviors. He found a positive and significant relationship between an individual employee’s perception of an organization’s climate and that individual’s level of engagement.

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Should You Work With a Spouse?

45 Things

I've never watched "Sister Wives" before, but caught an episode last night where all the wives quit their jobs and moved from Utah to Las Vegas, Nev. with their husband. As I understand it, they want to launch a family business together, although they have no idea what that will be. And, based on what I saw last night with all the wives moving into different houses -- and liking it -- launching a business together will be an interesting development.

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#ECTalent: Setting a Talent Agenda

Strategic HCM

'I’m at the Economist’s Talent Management Summit today. the first set of sessions have all focused on setting a talent agenda for maximum business impact. As part of this, Hugh Mitchell, CHRO at Shell, talked about this company’s business and explained why many of their employees have specific vs commodity skills – they only exist in people within this sector.

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Budget Cuts Impacting Federal Training Organizations

Bersin with Deloitte

While many private sector companies are recovering from the recession, the public sector is in a downslide. The 2011 federal budget finalized in mid-April calls for over $30 billion in cuts, with expectations for even deeper cuts in 2012. To cope with these spending reductions, training organizations within federal agencies are implementing targeted reforms - reforms designed to achieve cost savings and to better target training investments to make the best use of limited dollars.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Work in Reverse

David Zinger

Employee Engagement: What was the best career advice you ever received? The best advice I received was to work in reverse: Don, a retired gentleman who lived in the same apartment as me in Winnipeg 35 years ago told me that retirement was wasted on someone his age because of health issues and being fixed in his ways. At the time he was about 85 years old.

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Project Social: Water Off a Duck's Back

Working Girl

'When I proposed we write about gender differences for our next blog post my project social partner Dave was less than thrilled: ‘I’m a white guy in HR. I can’t write about gender!’ He didn''t actually say that but I bet he thought it. So I’m flying solo this week but be sure to check out Dave’s latest post on talent management and stay tuned for Lyn''s guest post here at working girl.

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#SBF11: HR as Humane Relationships

Strategic HCM

'I gave a short presentation on ‘The New HR’ to the Social Business (Enterprise 2.0) Forum in Milan today. I wanted to make two main points to emphasise the importance of E2.0 folk involving their HR colleagues in Social Business projects: That thinking about the cultural change required to support Enterprise 2.0 technology implementation (which is a good thing to do), is not the same as planning for the outcomes of cultural / social change – which may then involve technology, or HR, or somethin

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Budget Cuts Impacting Federal Training Organizations

Bersin with Deloitte

While many private sector companies are recovering from the recession, the public sector is in a downslide. The 2011 federal budget finalized in mid-April calls for over $30 billion in cuts, with expectations for even deeper cuts in 2012. To cope with these spending reductions, training organizations within federal agencies are implementing targeted reforms - reforms designed to achieve cost savings and to better target training investments to make the best use of limited dollars.

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Are There Gaps in Your HR Policies?

Putting the right HR policies in place can help your organization grow smoothly and help your company culture thrive. Use this essential HR checklist to cover the basics and make sure there aren’t any gaps in your HR functions.

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Should You Apply Online or In Person?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, Would it be beneficial to go personally and hand in my resume to nearby companies rather than submit it online? Should You Apply Online or In Person?

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Fair Pay and Keeping It Together

Working Girl

'My latest posts at Compensation Cafe and Women of HR: If Compensation Could Talk Would it Say, ''Go Away''? 10 Tips for Keeping It Together.

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Innovating the L&D Business Partner role

Strategic HCM

'I ran a webinar for Citrix on Monday focusing on the role of the L&D Business Partner (and how this can be enabled through Online Training, including GoToWebinar which I was using). I covered two main things: The need to focus on what L&D is providing – on the outcomes of L&D activities – and how this links to both human, and increasingly, social capital.

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Budget Cuts Impacting Federal Training Organizations

Bersin with Deloitte

While many private sector companies are recovering from the recession, the public sector is in a downslide. The 2011 federal budget finalized in mid-April calls for over $30 billion in cuts, with expectations for even deeper cuts in 2012. To cope with these spending reductions, training organizations within federal agencies are implementing targeted reforms - reforms designed to achieve cost savings and to better target training investments to make the best use of limited dollars.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Bayer Sexual Discrimination: Stop the Mommy Wars

Evil HR Lady

Why can women not call a truce on the mommy wars? We all make choices, and we need to learn to accept the consequences of those choices.

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Carnival of HR at Women of HR

Working Girl

'Check out the new Carnival of HR and post a comment to win the new Women of HR swimsuit calendar. (just kidding about the calendar).

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Blogathons and Shillathons

Strategic HCM

'I’ve had a few comments on my recent post about a blogathon (blogging about a company for compensation) taking place at a couple of other places on the web. Strategic HCM isn’t participating in this (but not really for any ethical reasons) and I had thought the activity would be worth discussing with you. I’d now also like to respond to the generally critical comments and questions I’ve had about this to explain why I think the development is a positive one.

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Do Milestones Matter?

NoExcusesHR

'Don''t be this guy. "Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming to the 1,000th annual awards banquet for surviving another year here at You-Are-Expendable, Inc. I just want to say how proud I am of each and every one of you for the.uh.stuff that you do in your jobs. You are really something. Now I''m going to call each of you up by name to receive your certificate of longevity here at Expendable.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Get Hired (Not Fired) With Your Blog

Evil HR Lady

Want a way to reach out to potential hiring managers that demonstrates how awesome you are? How about blogging?

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3 Ways Powerful Leaders Can Practice the Art of Saying No

Inpower Coaching

Saying “No” is hard because we don’t just say the word, we burden it with other – unsaid – emotional baggage on both the sayer’s and receiver’s part. When most people say and hear “No”, they tend to pack all kinds of other things into those two little letters that go something like this: Your idea sucks/My idea sucks. You’re wasting my time/I’m a terrible employee.

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#ECTalent - Recognising Individuals: GE vs. Aviva

Strategic HCM

'OK, this was only a competition in my own mind, but after the previous panel session I was still feeling just a little… well, bored is the wrong word, but you know what even the best conferences (of which this is one) are like. Let’s just say I was a bit last energised than I had been in the morning, so I thought it’d be fun to imagine these two separate sessions running as one – and seeing which company / approach came out on top.