Sat.Jun 23, 2012 - Fri.Jun 29, 2012

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The Power of Pinterest

Josh Bersin

Am I a girl? I love Pinterest. Whenever a new website enters the market I try to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out Twitter, and I still don’t like Facebook (I dont like sharing. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Why you should adopt an employee favorites list

Achievers

What’s your favorite aspect of employment at your organization? Is it the corporate culture, perks and benefits, or just the overall mission statement that fuels your fire to succeed? Furthermore, what gets your coworkers excited about coming to work each day? Most employees have different opinions about why their workplace is great; yet, they are unaware of how their opinion compares to others at the organization.

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Not Supposed To Happen

NoExcusesHR

'It''s been a tough week. I know e veryone goes through tough weeks too, and I''m certainly not special. In fact, I think I''m quite ordinary. But this week was very different in my routine, ordinary world. One week ago today a sixteen year old boy died in a tragic car accident. But his death hit far closer to home than the ones we see on the evening news and so quickly dismiss.

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6 Ways to Become a More Independent Thinker at Work

45 Things

One of the reasons I went into journalism was because I didn't want to rely on someone else to tell me the facts of a situation. I wanted to find them out for myself. Yet things have changed since I entered the media industry. It seems that some "facts" are churned out faster than can be verified, with errors being tweeted or rushed onto television as "breaking news" without all the information.

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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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The Power of Pinterest

Josh Bersin

'Am I a girl? I love Pinterest. Whenever a new website enters the market I try to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out Twitter, and I still don’t like Facebook (I dont like sharing. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. Learning 2.

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1984, Instant Replay and HR

NoExcusesHR

'In his classic book 1984 George Orwell imagined a world that monitored every facet of society. Nothing went unnoticed.and everything was fixed appropriately. I loved the book, but shudder at the thought of a real Big Brother staring down at my every move. Who would ever advocate for someone reviewing every one of my mistakes and making corrections?

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Engage A Live Hive Today (Wednesday June 27- from 9 to 10 CDT)

David Zinger

Think Different Inside the Hive. Engage the connection between social media and a living social beehive. Today between 9 and 10 CDT, I will be putting a computer live inside a beehive. The hive is located near Starbuck Manitoba and belongs to an extraordinary beekeeper, Phil Veldhuis. The computer screen will be turned on to a Twitter page set for #orgbee.

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How To Crack HR Interview – Using STAR Model

TheHRBlog

Using the STAR method is one of the most effective ways of getting your message across to potential employers whether in your resume or at interview. Applied correctly the STAR method can significantly improve your job search. It works! The STAR acronym stands for: Situation Task Action Result Following the STAR technique enables you to […].

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The anatomy of an engaged employee

Achievers

Have you ever tried learning French from a Spanish teacher? It’s impossible, simply because people can’t teach you what they don’t know. Timothy Clark uses this analogy in his article, “ The 5 Ways That Highly Engaged Employees are Different” to illustrate that in order to build employee engagement, you need to analyze and understand the characteristics of highly engaged employees.

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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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#SHRM12 Bloggers!

NoExcusesHR

'The big week is finally here.so please check out all of the great bloggers who are in Atlanta covering this year''s SHRM Conference. Good luck and have a great week! photo credit.

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5 Things to Do When You Loathe Your New Job

45 Things

Go on. It’s time to admit it. You hate your new job. Hate. It. Your loathing for the new job you tried so hard to get and sweat bullets for in an interview is now the thing that makes you want to never get out of bed. You dread going to work every day, and feel a slight sense of panic when you step through the office door. Still, you accepted the job.

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CIPD: Harnessing Social Media for Organisational Effectiveness.

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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How the 3 “E”s will transform your organization

Achievers

“ Towers Watson has been studying employee engagement, and the organizational elements that drive it, for more than a decade. Through their client work and global workforce studies they found engagement is just the beginning to get the optimal performance from your employees. Towers Watson suggests three essential factors to employee engagement; Engage your employees and help them be attached to the company’s well-being; Enable them, provide employees with a supportive and productive work enviro

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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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A Knowledge Management Strategy for Non-Profits Working in Developing Countries

Conversation Matters

I recently conducted a study of eleven non-profits to find out how knowledge management (KM) was being implemented in developing countries. In this article I have 1) outlined the findings from that study, and 2) developed a knowledge management strategy based on the findings. Many of the Aid Organizations interviewed provided some form of healthcare aid (reducing mother and child mortality, AIDS/HIV) however several provided aid in a different area such as micro financing, agriculture, or enviro

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Why Tom Izzo and Mark Hollis Get It

True Faith HR

'Right around this time, the Top 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America are announced. I''m beginning to think that playing basketball for Michigan State University should belong to this list. It was announced that the Spartans will open up the 2012-2013 Men''s NCAA College Basketball Season for the second straight year on Nov. 9 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany against UConn— an event to be played in front of troops and televised by ESPN.

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Internal recruitment: right or wrong? ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human.

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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You got a problem? 3 essential strategies

Achievers

When it comes to employee engagement, David Zinger tells us that we should embrace problems: they are opportunities to get engaged in finding a solution and moving on to new problems with new solutions. Problems will always be there but we can approach them with a constructive, positive, and team-oriented attitude. But Zinger briefly mentions that not every problem is an opportunity.

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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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I’M ONLY A COG IN THE MACHINE; MY THOUGHTS DON’T MATTER

Reviewsnap

'“You Are Not a Cog in the Machine” Monday morning. You show up for work right on time. The deadlines and projects from last week apparently reproduced on their own over the weekend. It’s early, and the cortex of your brain hasn’t achieved maximum velocity quite yet. Ever feel like you’re just a cog in the mighty machine, fueled by endless venti café Americanos?

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My Short and Sweet #SHRM12 Review

True Faith HR

'This was the 12th straight SHRM Annual Conference I''ve attended. At this point, I''ve come to expect the enormous exhibit hall with the massive lines of HR ladies waiting for an item that cost $.49 to produce (I spent a total of 20 minutes in the expo hall), the big name talent as keynotes (with repeats of Gladwell and Collins) and big name Tuesday night entertainment (a significant step up with Jerry Seinfeld).

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Research Says: Executive Committees Are Better Indicators Of Gender Diversity

Inpower Coaching

Study: Where the Worlds Top Companies Stand: 20-First’s Global Gender Balance Scorecard 2011 (Wittenberg-Cox, 20-First 2011). Finding: Executive committees are a much better indicator of true gender balance in corporate culture than board reports, and women’s representation on them tends to lag board participation. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with InPower Women.

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Managing Your Career When You Have More than One

The Bamboo Project Blog

One of the hardest questions for me to answer is "what do you do for a living?" Unlike most people I know, I don't have one, simple bite-sized nugget to describe what I do. Depending on who you are, I might tell you that I do one or more of the following: . Help people work through career transitions and develop their career/professional development plans. .

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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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The Next Secrets of the Internet

Thrive Global

Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret?—?they just don’t know it yet. “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great insight as to where you should be directing your attention.” Secrets people can’t or don’t want to divulge are a common thread behind Thiel’s most lucrative investments such as Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as several other breakout companies of the past decade.

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Komen, Virginia, "Disruptive Innovation," and #shrm12

True Faith HR

'Several months ago, like many, I was transfixed by the decision at the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure to no longer provide funding to Planned Parenthood for health screenings, given it was “under investigation.” The repercussions of that decision echo today as Komen continues to see a decline in participation and donations have diminished. How could leadership fail so strongly under the umbrella of ideology?

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Leadership and Building Emotional Infrastructure

QAspire

Last two posts ( here and here ) focused on managing the emotional aspects of workplace to build a culture of engagement. While I was writing about it, I came across a very interesting paper titled “ The Emotionally Bonded Organization: Why Emotional Infrastructure Matters And How Leaders Can Build It ” by Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and Subroto Bagchi , co-founder of MindTree.