Transparent Office

JULY 7, 2008

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” Somerset Maugham. Today as I reflect on the coming week, this quote popped onto my radar, and I thought of my team. Counting my intern and I, we have a team of 9. And we have gone through some big challenges together the past 6 months: 2 people quit to take jobs at other firms. 1 person got promoted to fill a brand new, very unique role in the firm.

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Josh Bersin

JULY 2, 2008

Whew. Earlier this year we embarked on a major research effort to understand the growing role of social networking in enterprise learning and talent management. The results are amazing. Let me give you a brief preview of some of our initial findings: Organizations are working mightily to figure out how to leverage social networking (blogs, Read more» The post Social Networking in Talent Management: Where are we?

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Knowledge Musings

JULY 28, 2008

Lucas McDonnell has a list of 15 tips for successful knowledge sharing. Reading through them, I couldn't help think of the Carnegie tips from How to Win Friends and Influence People. In both cases, the general principle is to listen more than you talk and let people have interesting ideas - no matter who really owns them. Here is Lucas' list (check the source for his comments): Share failures as well as successes.

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Evil HR Lady

JULY 2, 2008

This is completely off topic, and I apologize for it. On Monday, one of my friends was killed in a car crash. Her parents, who were with her, are in critical condition and the doctors don't expect her mother to survive. My friend was 46. An 18 year old girl ran a stop sign and t-boned them. She walked away with minor injuries. She was also text messaging while driving.

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Reviewsnap

JULY 28, 2008

'A common problem in many organizations. Employee turnover is very costly to any organization. Keep in mind that employee turnover is generally the result of more than one factor. Follow these steps in assessing and dealing with this problem: 1. Ask the employees how they feel about working for the organization. This can be accomplished in several ways, but anonymity is often important because employees often fear retaliation from superiors or peers.

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Transparent Office

JULY 24, 2008

I admit it, I am addicted to good blogs. Â . by David Zinger. We do not use an extensive blog-roll on Slacker Manager. I published the list of blogs I follow on my site: www.davidzinger.com. There was such a positive response with people finding new blogs or rediscovering old blogs that I decided there was good value to offer this list to you. Happy Reading!

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Workday

JULY 28, 2008

'Now, some of you out there may say that enterprise software solves complex problems and therefore it must be hard to use in order to accomplish its mission. But as Robert X. Cringely noted in a recent post, big enterprise software companies regularly made their software harder to use than it needs to be.

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Knowledge Musings

JULY 24, 2008

Patrick Lambe had Larry Prusak and Dave Snowden on a couch and talking about the ever-popular topic of " Is KM Dead ?" It's just over 42 minutes. I think Dave Snowden did most of the talking. Here are some sound bytes from the discussion. 0:48 Prusak, "There will always be an interest in learning and knowledge in business." The specifics of how KM is done will come and go. 2:05 Prusak, 3 Generations of knowledge.

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Evil HR Lady

JULY 15, 2008

I am a graduate looking for jobs. I frequently attend interviews and I am asked “ Why do you want to join this job?” I actually couldn’t reply anything. In the same way I got a interview call from another company in India. They have a opening for software engineer job. They have asked me to update my details and have to write “Reason why I am interested in this job” in 300 words.

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Reviewsnap

JULY 23, 2008

'Evaluating employee performance is an important part of providing clear feedback, improving morale and productivity,increasing accountability, and enhancing communication between the manager and the employee. Using a web-based solution to automate the process is a growing trend among organizations of all sizes and types. ReviewSNAP™ provides an automated, web-based solution for conductingyour employee evaluations and for documenting performance on anongoing basis.

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SuccessFactors

JULY 14, 2008

'Not long ago SuccessFactors Research and thought leader Amy Lyman hosted the webinar The Business Benefits of Being a Great Place to Work. People who love their jobs work harder and do better. It follows then that creating a “great place to work” should be a top priority for all businesses. Of course, this is […].

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Transparent Office

JULY 31, 2008

Get Psyched as a Manager. Â . by David Zinger. Sports is often used as a metaphor for leadership, management, and the workplace. What lessons have you learned from playing sports that helps you as a manager. My specific interest is the application of sports psychology to management performance. I taught Educational Psychology at the University of Manitoba for over 20 years and firmly believe many of the skills from sports psychology can transfer to the workplace.

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Workday

JULY 3, 2008

'A lot of the debate about “change” in ERP gets focused on the database. For a whole set of very obvious reasons, the relational database, has a crucial role in any business software system. Upon first encountering ERP, many of my smart friends would tell me that that the big source of system complexity is the thousands of database tables. Indeed, a colleague of mine from a very large bank told me they spent $50m a year to keep a global, single instance of a traditional ERP system running.

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Knowledge Musings

JULY 23, 2008

My friend Patti Anklam passes along this entertaining diffusion experiment from happy flu , so I am too. If all is working properly, you will see a Flash window that shows elements of a network. And my node should be connected to Patti's, which is on a branch in the "11 O'Clock" position. The slider on the right does a zoom in/out, and you can click-and-drag to navigate around the larger window.

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Evil HR Lady

JULY 14, 2008

I was issued a written warning for failure to use the proper channels to report a complaint, referencing a policy from the handbook. This stems from a private conversation I had with another manager regarding how my boss/hostile environment is making me sick. The other manager was concerned and reported to HR (or as some would say "threw me under the bus").

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Reviewsnap

JULY 10, 2008

'If your business is one where sales reps or others have latitude in negotiating price with customers, establish floors for gross profit and train them to negotiate effectively. The problem with leaving pricing decisions to sales people is the fact that they want the sale. Unfortunately, their exuberance for making the sale often leads to unacceptable gross profits.

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Transparent Office

JULY 31, 2008

Get Psyched as a Manager. Â . by David Zinger. Sports is often used as a metaphor for leadership, management, and the workplace. What lessons have you learned from playing sports that helps you as a manager. My specific interest is the application of sports psychology to management performance. I taught Educational Psychology at the University of Manitoba for over 20 years and firmly believe many of the skills from sports psychology can transfer to the workplace.

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Transparent Office

JULY 30, 2008

Leadership Now's Leading Blog is one of my favorite sources of leadership inspiration. Recently, they created some free leadership wallpapers with pictures and quotes from great leaders like: Winston Churchill. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. and several others. I think this is a really great idea. Take some great quotes, add them to a nice picture of the quote, and then offer them as a free download for your readers.

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Transparent Office

JULY 30, 2008

Leadership Now's Leading Blog is one of my favorite sources of leadership inspiration. Recently, they created some free leadership wallpapers with pictures and quotes from great leaders like: Winston Churchill. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. and several others. I think this is a really great idea. Take some great quotes, add them to a nice picture of the quote, and then offer them as a free download for your readers.

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Transparent Office

JULY 29, 2008

Do you slack? Can you slack? Have you thought about slacking to create focus, turn off work, and get fit? Slacking may not be what you think. In fact, slacking may reduce thinking. . Are you ready to think differently about being a slacker? You slack when you wobble atop a one-inch-wide strand of nylon webbing suspended between two poles, trees, etc.

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Transparent Office

JULY 29, 2008

Do you slack? Can you slack? Have you thought about slacking to create focus, turn off work, and get fit? Slacking may not be what you think. In fact, slacking may reduce thinking. . Are you ready to think differently about being a slacker? You slack when you wobble atop a one-inch-wide strand of nylon webbing suspended between two poles, trees, etc.

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Speaker: Patrick Sayers, President of Newcastle Research

Are you tired of struggling with outdated HR software? Are you interested in unlocking your organization’s productivity potential? It’s no secret that with tech-dependent remote work on the rise, it's more important than ever to successfully implement an HR platform that can provide actionable insights to help you hit all your key workforce KPIs. But with so much variation, how can you find the most optimal HR software platform for your team?

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Transparent Office

JULY 28, 2008

It shouldn't cost you a bunch of money to thank your team for a job well done. Some of the best awards I've received have cost the person giving it to me absolutely nothing, and I love those awards far more than any of the costly rewards I've gotten. As I've examined the rewards that have meant the most to me, I've come up with 4 things that all of the most meaningful awards had in common.

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Transparent Office

JULY 28, 2008

It shouldn't cost you a bunch of money to thank your team for a job well done. Some of the best awards I've received have cost the person giving it to me absolutely nothing, and I love those awards far more than any of the costly rewards I've gotten. As I've examined the rewards that have meant the most to me, I've come up with 4 things that all of the most meaningful awards had in common.

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Transparent Office

JULY 26, 2008

What are your 3 management wishes?  . Slacker Manager Readers Respond. Here is a selection of responses from Slacker Manager readers on 3 wishes they would like a Genie to grant. The 3 types of wishes were: . The wish I would grant for the people I manage is…      . The wish I would grant for the organization is… The wish I would grant for myself is… I alternated the display of wishes between red and black: happiness, regardless of their choice to work for me or my comp

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Transparent Office

JULY 26, 2008

What are your 3 management wishes?  . Slacker Manager Readers Respond. Here is a selection of responses from Slacker Manager readers on 3 wishes they would like a Genie to grant. The 3 types of wishes were: . The wish I would grant for the people I manage is…      . The wish I would grant for the organization is… The wish I would grant for myself is… I alternated the display of wishes between red and black: happiness, regardless of their choice to work for me or my comp

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