True Faith HR
JANUARY 26, 2012
'In college, a friend and I, used to strive to include 4 words in every paper we wrote. Those words? Boon Moist Torrential Cavalcade The reason why these words in particular were chosen has faded away into the mists of time, but we had the belief (perhaps mistaken) that if we could incorporate each of these words appropriately, the natural result had to be a grade of "A.
Insperity
JANUARY 24, 2012
If you’re like most employers, you spend an inordinate amount of time on payroll, recruiting and other human resource (HR) tasks at the expense of what truly matters—growing your business. If HR duties are keeping you from being more competitive, a co-employment relationship with a professional employer organization (PEO) might be the best solution.
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Achievers
JANUARY 27, 2012
Social media is at the forefront of communication, whether you like it or not. A 2011 study from Ipsos Reid found that over 17 million people nationwide are regular users of social media. So, how does this affect your employee engagement strategy? Well, it means that a large majority (if not ALL) of your employees are using social media on a regular basis.
Josh Bersin
JANUARY 27, 2012
SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4 billion Euros and profits rose by 23% to $1.6 billion. And now that the company has announced its plans to acquire SuccessFactors for. Read more» The post Getting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.
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
JANUARY 26, 2012
I remember the first recommendation an editor wrote for me. It was glowing. It was wonderful. It told editors they would be idiots not to hire me. I still have copies of that recommendation. I found one the other day and preened around the rest of the day, even though the cats seemed singularly unimpressed. What would I have done without that glowing report?
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Achievers
JANUARY 26, 2012
A , We’re working with our managers to get them to recognize their teams more, but management don’t seem to see the value. They feel like everything is fine as is. How can I explain to others exactly what the term “engagement” means? Yours truly, Miss Engagement. Miss Engagement, Differentiating satisfaction from engagement is the most important part of understanding “ employee engagement ”.
Josh Bersin
JANUARY 21, 2012
Talent management makes money. If you are trying to build a business case for a corporate talent management program, here is some astounding data: Of the 700+ organizations we studied in 2010 and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
David Zinger
JANUARY 23, 2012
Employee disengagement: Leaving when you haven’t left. Employee Disengagement : I have created a short slide presentation and story based on an employee who left before his actual leaving and was deceiving himself about the ability to engage in retirement when he had not engaged at work. This presentation will be broadcast during the Ken Blanchard Quite and Stayed Livecast this week.
True Faith HR
JANUARY 23, 2012
'A young Tim Sackett in action This is the story of how I met Tim Sackett. January 1977. East Lansing, Michigan. It was another cold January morning of rec basketball. The usual punks from Dewitt were bringing their tough brand of defense to the parquet floor of Pinecrest Elementary School. Amidst the tower of 6 th grade boys, I caught a flash of red hair, saw a small wiry kid a good foot and a half shorter than the rest of his teammates, and started laughing.
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Achievers
JANUARY 25, 2012
Guest post written by: Sarah White. Each year millions of people set New Year’s resolutions for themselves. These resolutions are traditionally based on what is valued in someone’s society and community at that time. For sociologists, they can take a look at economic and social trends to make predictions for expectations that will be most popular each new year.
Josh Bersin
JANUARY 27, 2012
SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s revenues grew by 12% to over. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.
Conversation Matters
JANUARY 27, 2012
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) Knowledge Lab faced the challenge of how to move accurate intelligence up the chain of command. Too frequently the intelligence analysis, painstakingly generated by front line analysts, was delayed and often severely modified by a chain of superiors before it reached policy makers who could act upon it. Zeke Wolfberg, the Director of the Knowledge Lab and I, as the knowledge management consultant to the Knowledge Lab, recently published an article about ho
QAspire
JANUARY 22, 2012
“…leadership may be defined as: the ability to enhance the environment so that everyone is empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problem(s).” – Gerald M. Weinberg. People do their best work when they are “intrinsically motivated” and one of the most important intrinsic motivator for people is autonomy in work. People need a space to perform and they need a say in how their work should be performed.
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Achievers
JANUARY 24, 2012
“Effective management is critical to driving motivation. Historically, successful management was defined as the ability to obtain compliance from employees. Today the science of motivation overrules this notion by illustrating a significant gap between compliance and engagement. The key to successfully building employee engagement is by instilling autonomy in employees.” The post Infuse your team with a sense of mission appeared first on [engage]- The Employee Success and Engagem
45 Things
JANUARY 24, 2012
Let's say that despite all the good advice out there (including, ahem, my own) you decide to go out with some people after work and hit happy hour. And once again, despite the good advice (did I mention my own?) you get a little past tipsy and say or do something that in the bright light of your cubicle the next morning seems, well.stupid. Maybe you danced a little too intimately with a co-worker that before the fourth peppermint Schnapps you wouldn't even consider giving a hug.
Strategic HCM
JANUARY 21, 2012
'If you get IHRIM’s Workforce Solutions Review, do take a look at this article in the new December 2011 / January 2012 edition. This is the exec summary: “The increasing use of strategic workforce planning is a welcome development in the HR profession. However, to enable effective people management, organizations need to undertake six different forms of planning, focusing respectively on human capital; talent; human resources; workforce; succession and HR processes.
True Faith HR
JANUARY 25, 2012
'Chi, N.-W., Chung, Y.-Y., & Tsai, W.-C. 2011. How do happy leaders enhance team success? The mediating roles of transformational leadership, group affective tone, and team processes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 41(6), 1421-1451 A large body of research exists on "employee happiness" and the impact leaders have in influencing it. Who hasn''t been affected by a leader in a bad mood?
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Achievers
JANUARY 23, 2012
Guest post written by: Lance Haun. Those darned kids with their laptops and their iWhatevers and their telephones that play that mean bird game. When will they learn to grow up? For folks who harken to the day when you had to go to a dedicated computer terminal to get HR information (or, dig through stacks of files and archive boxes), 2012 looks to be another brutal year of technological advancement in the HR software space.
Quickbase
JANUARY 24, 2012
A corporate restructuring is often a stressful time. Many uncertainties exist for an undetermined period of time. Will you be demoted or laid off? Who is going to be your boss? Will the projects you are working on be cut? This can be nerve-wracking. How things work out is usually beyond your control but you […].
Strategic HCM
JANUARY 26, 2012
'HR has been trying to become a better business partner for some time in order to help deal with the challenges I listed in part 1 of this post. And we do seem to think we’ve made some progress: However Lawler’s team have also looked at what HR actually does, rather than just what it thinks it does, and this isn’t such good news – particularly, supporting the conclusions of the recent CHRO study , in the UK and rest of Europe (though actually the UK has the best results for HR acting as a full p
True Faith HR
JANUARY 27, 2012
'For the longest period of time, SHRM dominated the HR conference scene. From the bevy of state conferences to the behemoth that is SHRM Annual, SHRM was the 800 lb. gorilla setting the tone for what a HR conference should be. Of late, however, a number of new learning opportunities are popping up. From the TRU Unconferences to the ever popular HRevolution series, the competition for your educational dollars has never been stronger.
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Insperity
JANUARY 26, 2012
If you are involved in your company’s benefits plan, no matter what you offer or how the plan is administered or by whom, you may hold fiduciary responsibility in some fashion. Fiduciary refers to an individual or entity with responsibilities of trust, such as a trust company or a registered investment adviser. But in the case of employee benefit services plans, it can also mean the business’ owner or executives. “If you’re involved with your company’s employee benefit services
NoExcusesHR
JANUARY 27, 2012
'Have you ever found yourself working with someone who you didn’t get along with? I don’t mean someone who is a bit annoying; I mean someone that you knew in your heart would never be someone you could trust? That’s a difficult place to be. When that person is a high level leader it makes the relationship that much more complicated. Stay Strong The absolute first step in managing this relationship is to stay focused on you.
Strategic HCM
JANUARY 25, 2012
'So I’m back here again. The main highlight today is Ed Lawer on one of his rare trips to the UK. We start on the need to build changeable rather than simply great, but stable, organisations. This is the difference between new normal and old normal - change and accountability. We’ll never go back to the days of fixed job descriptions. Companies don’t generate competitive advantage out of the ability to execute but from the ability to change and adapt on an ongoing basis.
Reviewsnap
JANUARY 23, 2012
'Employees can be quite cunning when it comes to performance reviews. We''ve all seen the employee who slacks off during much of the year and then some weeks prior to their review being done, they really pick things up and work harder or become more effective. Recent activity bias (often called recency effect) is more common during performance reviews than we might imagine.
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.
QAspire
JANUARY 22, 2012
Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals. Some improvement is seen, some re-alignment is done and it seems to be working fine, till…the customer starts complaining again.
NoExcusesHR
JANUARY 25, 2012
'“I’m very loyal to my company. I’ve always been a team player and make decisions based on what’s best for the team. If we don’t work together, we’ll never make real progress.” Sure. We all totally believe that….and have said it…and probably meant it some of the time too. Loyal To Who? The concept of being loyal to an employer is an intriguing one, particularly for those employees that are highly motivated to advance.
Workday
JANUARY 24, 2012
'A colleague, Laura Schroeder, who has an eye for the interesting and important pointed me to this article some time ago that qualifies as both: "Finance Keener on HR strategy than HR.
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