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Families That Play Together...
18 hours ago
Our company teams moved into several new buildings and consolidated work spaces over the past year.
So the highlight of the summer was an open house event that ...Read Full Post
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Your Top Five Faves
1 day ago
Online stats are wonderful because they're a lot like a mini needs assessment in my email every day. You may be interested to know which blog posts received the most readers so far this year. That's got to make them worth reading, right?...Read Full Post
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Celebrate Labor Day With a Day Off
2 days ago
Let's celebrate Labor Day week and dedicate it to all people who work. Please share what you do for a living.
I spend time on long holiday weekends thinking about my next goals. For this fall, I am writing a book, providing management and employee development training at my company, and dealing with my arthritis. How about you? Consider sharing your most important current goals, too....Read Full Post
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Unions Have Lost (Found?) Their Way
2 days ago
With all due respect to hard working labor union members in the United States, this Labor Day marks a landmark event. A shift in labor union membership, that ought to concern every business owner who is expected to compete for sales in the marketplace, has occurred in 2010. In fact, the shift in labor union membership ought to concern every taxpayer in the United States....Read Full Post
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Use Mentoring to Develop Employees
3 days ago
Effective relationships and learning are the mainstays of organizational success today. Organizations that find meaningful ways for their employees to connect are more likely to realize greater productivity, enhanced career growth, freely flowing innovation and overall improvement in employee performance. Mentoring serves both purposes....Read Full Post
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Coming and Going
11 hours ago
by Steve
Most HR or Recruiting functions calculate and report on standard metrics such as turnover rate, voluntary separations, turnover rate broken out by company function or location, source of applicants, source of hires, and other common measures of organizational effectiveness in the recruiting and retention process.
Many organizations also try to do a reasonably thorough job of tracking the reasons why employees leave the organization, often through the use of exit interviews. Better opportunity e ...
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Negative Space
1 day ago
by Steve
A recent guest on the HR Happy Hour show sent me a note after the show expressing concern that they had perhaps dominated the conversation and was worried that I may have been somehow offended or disappointed.
I was neither offended nor disappointed.Tourist photo , NYC, 1950's
The show is all about providing a forum or platform for interesting and smart people to share their opinions, insights, and expertise. I don't need to say much of anything to have a good show. In fact, I think at times, ...
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Barbecue and New Beginnings
5 days ago
by Steve
Today kicks off that annual end of summer celebration in the United States known as Labor Day weekend.
As I write this, it's late and I can't be bothered to look up the specifics about the origin of the Labor Day holiday, but I am fairly sure it was born from a long history of employers exploiting the workforce with long hours, unreasonable pressures, low pay, poor working conditions, and unrealistic expectations.
Thankfully, those days are long behind us.
They are, aren't they?
These days La ...
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HR Technology Talk from the Godfather
6 days ago
by Steve
Tonight on the HR Happy Hour Show we welcome the Godfather of HR Technology, the HR Technology Conference Co-Chair Bill Kutik to the show for the 'HR Technology Conference Preview'.
You can listen live starting at 8PM EDT from the show page, using the player embedded below, or by calling in to 646-378-1086.
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HR Florida - A Bold Attempt is Half of Success
8 days ago
by Steve
The leaders and organizers of the HR Florida State Conference have welcomed and embraced the social media community in a proactive and meaningful manner.
The second annual blogger/social media panel (which was a trip, even if I got the shaft 'Family Feud'Mike V style), the presence and continued coverage of the team from Voice of HR, and the support and accomodation of two live HR Happy Hour shows from the conference location, are just some of the social media elements running through the confer ...
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Your (HR) Personal Trainer
1 day ago
by Lisa Rosendahl
I have a regular little HR love fest going on here with Fresh Eyes and MN SHRM 2011, My Kind of HR, HREs Don't Run HR Departments and now today's post.
What the heck, this is an HR blog anyway.
I am taking a page from my daily life and making a connection to HR in 1-2-3 . . .
I hired a personal trainer. Her name is Kami and, for the next six months, her job is to get my butt in shape so I can feel healthy and strong again - strong enough to train for a half-marathon next spring, without injur ...
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HREs Don't Run HR Departments
6 days ago
by Lisa Rosendahl
They don't - they can't. There's just too much shiz going on.
HR as a profession is in need of a radical transformation. No one can address the Future of HR quite like Mark Stelzner can so take a moment and flip through his presentation below. . .
The Future of HR
View more presentations from Mark Stelzner.
What do you think? What path are you on (slide 10) - are you stuck at do nothing, breaking things apart, or radically transforming?
Radical transformation is hard work. The sta ...
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My Side Project - Women of HR
7 days ago
by Lisa Rosendahl
I've got this project on the side - Women of HR.com
What's Women of HR you ask? The brainchild of some <very cool> women, it's a multiple contributor blog dedicated to the development of women in HR and business.
We're 90 days into Women of HR and want to know what you think. That's right, tell us what's on your mind.
If you haven't been to Women of HR yet, check it out and tell us what you think:
Click here to take survey
One click, 10 questions - that's it.
So easy. So v ...
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My Workout Fail
8 days ago
by Lisa Rosendahl
It's so funny to me how things happen and I've stopped trying to figure out how and why but here's the latest.
I recently acquired a personal trainer. I went out for a run on Sunday and it was hard. My legs were tired, the heat was rising and my new orthotics are waking up long sleeping muscles. I ran 3 miles and my time was much slower than my glory days last spring . . . yada, yada, yada.
Anyway, I get home, open Google Reader and see Jason Sieden's latest, Workout Fail . . . ? Jason started ...
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My Kind Of HR
> 10 days ago
by Lisa Rosendahl
Trench HR, especially employee relations, is a complex, hand slapping, no-you-can't-do-that kind of a profession.
It's all about the rules and as HR pros, we need to make sure supervisors maintain a healthy respect for the system, do what we tell them to do, don't give employees an inch because they will take a mile and above all, be afraid . . . be very afraid.
Right?
Wrong.
That's not my kind of HR.
Taking what we know as HR pros (with our junior lawyer cards tucked safely away) to educ ...
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Are You Rewarding Ego, Selfishness +amp; Greed?
1 day ago
by Ann Bares
Most of us in the business of designing and managing reward programs are familiar with the terms unintended consequences. Many of us have learned this particular lesson the hard way. In our rush to design plans that drive and reward...
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Sales Comp Demands a Deep Sales Dive, Not a Best P ...
6 days ago
by Ann Bares
I've been contacted by a number of colleagues in the past few weeks, all looking for information on "best practices" in sales compensation. And when I say best practices, what I mean is "the answer to exactly what we should...
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Where Market Based Pay +amp; Employee Choice Inter ...
> 10 days ago
by Ann Bares
Can a market based pay approach, employee choice and the concept of customized rewards ever find common ground? The answer, apparently, is yes! I've been working my way through Workforce of One, the book on talent management customization by Susan...
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Market Reality
> 10 days ago
by Ann Bares
I ran across an instructive quote in the weekend's Wall Street Journal. It's meant for a broader discussion of the market, but I think it also has particular application to the world of compensation, pay level setting and wage regulation....
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Where's MY Pay Czar? Why We Need a Total Rewards ...
> 10 days ago
by Ann Bares
With Congress (mostly) in recess and the rest of us getting a chance to catch a breath before our elected representatives return to make any additional, er, progress, I'd like to take this moment to make the case for a...
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Can You Measure Employee Attitude?
1 day ago
A few weeks ago I co-presented a webinar for HR.com entitled, Performance Appraisals Your Managers Will Love. I made a statement that went something like this:
Remove the word ATTITUDE from your performance appraisal. Well, I got a lot of feedback from those 8 words. Most of the feedback was around, We need employees who have a good attitude towards their jobs and customers. I don't disagree. However, you have to define attitude so that everyone understands it. Also, ...
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Ramblings from the Road
7 days ago
Well, I am sitting at the Orlando Airport after attending the HR Florida conference for the second year in a row. My head is stuffed full of ideas, energy and renewed passion for the HR profession. I will be writing on these learnings/lessons over the next few weeks.
It was great to meet all of my fellow bloggers and Tweeps! I big shout out to Laurie Ruettimann, Franny Oxford, China Gorman, Mike VanDervort, Kathy O'Reilly, Trish McFarlane, William Tincup, Sean Conrad, Steve Boese, Mark S ...
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Turn Your HR Audit into a STRATEGIC Audit
> 10 days ago
Throw away your typical HR audit checklists that ask if you have your posters up and your I-9 forms in order. Ok, now that I have your attention...
Yes, those things are still important, but all those issues fall under the big heading of HR Basics and let's face it. We have been doing the basics for years....we should know how to make sure time-sheets and applications are in order.
So besides the basics, I am thinking we need to add some strategic components to our HR audits. Here are ...
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Constructing an HR +quot;All-Star Team+quot;
> 10 days ago
As the economy recovers and companies are examining all areas of the business under an efficiency lens, HR is no exception. There are many blogs, articles and keynotes on the topic of what will HR 2.0 look like. You hear answers from it should be blown up to it should not even exist and all iterations in between.
I read a really good article by Dave Zielinksi in August 2010 HR Magazine entitled, Building a Better HR Team. Zielinksi discusses Google's three-thirds HR staffing mode ...
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7 Ways HR Can Lead Strategy Execution
> 10 days ago
There is a reason why two-thirds of all strategy fails...IT'S EXECUTION.
After the strategic planning session is over and the t-shirts and coffee mugs are passed out, the strategy just gets stuck. In our experience it gets stuck somewhere between Director level and the line level employee. Here are the reasons we find when we do some digging:
1) The strategic plan is so complicated and no one understands it
2) Employees do not know what to do different in their jobs
3) Managers are n ...
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The Trends in HR Marketing Survey is Here! Almost. ...
11 hours ago
What’s worked in 2010 and where will HR vendors put their time and money in 2011?HRmarketer's annual HR Supplier Survey will reveal all that and more. This Trends in HR Marketing Survey is the longest running and largest survey of its kind in the human resource marketplace.Will HR vendors spend more time in social media or less? Is direct mail still effective? Where do your peers go to stay current on the HR landscape? Is it where you go?Take approximately 15 minutes to share what’s working, ...
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Kenexa Buys Salary.com. More Integration in HR Mar ...
6 days ago
Kenexa's acquisition of Salary.com is the latest big M&A story in the HR technology spaces (well, technically, that honor goes to Taleo who later the same day announced they were buying Learn.com for $125 million).Kenexa paid $80 million for Salary.com, or $4.07 per share - a 43% premium over the previous days closing price.I believe this is a good strategic buy for Kenexa who in their media release stated the following compelling reasons for the acquisition:Compensation management is hi ...
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Grab Your Crayons and be Creative! Now!!!
> 10 days ago
We have a lot of creative people at HRmarketer. Just this month HRmarketer writer and media relations specialist Heath Havlick, who moonlights as a screenplay writer, learned that she won the Spirit of Moondance Award for her feature screenplay at the 11th Annual Moondance International Film Festival in Boulder CO - known as the American Cannes .Congratulations Heath and sorry if I embarrassed you by calling you out in the company blog :-) But I can't resist being the spirited cheerleader for ...
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Are You Relevant?
> 10 days ago
In a blog post I wrote last year titled We're Not a Bookstore. We're a Venue That Happens to Sell Books I discussed one of the the most important questions a CEO can ask him/herself (Peter Drucker's seed question):What business am I in?Excerpts from that post include:Had railroad executives in the early 1900s realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies domina ...
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My seven-year span at HRmarketer. Giving a stray a ...
> 10 days ago
No, it's not the seven-year itch. Or the 7th-inning stretch.But in well-cared-for dog years? It's been an amazing career complete with a lifetime of learning I couldn't have gotten anywhere else.Seven years ago in May of 2003, I had been working as a marketing consultant on behalf of a friend of mine who at the time was an HR strategist and consultant.I had reached out to Mark Willaman, founder and CEO of HRmarketer.com, inquiring about his marketing software.After a brief e-mail exchange, of wh ...
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A Million Dollar Month
6 days ago
by polly pearson
The heat was heavy in the air by 7:00 am on Tuesday, the last day of August. I found myself telling a visiting friend that she really should take in the air, and the views by the lake, in the remaining early morning hours. Up she jumped and declared she was going to go for a swim (threatening a skinny dip even!), leaving her 5 week old baby in my care. When she returned she declared her early morning (swimsuit-clad) swim as "better than coffee!" and highly recommended that I take my ow ...
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Warm Reception
> 10 days ago
by polly pearson
What is it like, venturing out on one's own? So Far So Good! Chock it up to the power of blogging, and building networks outside of where you go to work each day. I've been delighted with the reception for my new venture. While I've yet to pro-actively pick up a phone, or update my LinkedIn profile, my email box has been rich with offers to collaborate, speaking opportunities, and inquiries on my availability to help other very cool companies and consultant firms. Last week's day spent at TEDx B ...
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CAREER: Preparing for +quot;What's Next.+quot;
> 10 days ago
by polly pearson
Readers of this blog know that I recently left my place of work -- after 20 years! How did that happen? Why did that happen? Is this a good thing? The root of this change happened in 2006, four years ago, nearly to the day. I had just returned to work from a 6 month maternity leave. The company was still recovering from the recession of 2002/2003 and things inside were a bit weird. New lines of business, new executives brought on board, and, for me, a new job. The company had asked me to take on ...
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My Good-Bye To EMC
> 10 days ago
by polly pearson
For my co-workers that I did not get around to sharing a personal farewell to, and anyone else interested ... following, below, is what I sent around EMC as my good-bye note about a week ago. I actually wrote the essence of this story as well here on my blog in 2007, as one of my first posts. It is a good story, though, as it shares an unexpected route to one person's career path mojo: (Stay tuned for posts with stories and tips you might want to steal on "planning for your future" and ...
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A Dream Come True
> 10 days ago
by polly pearson
About a month ago, my colleague, fellow EMC blogger, and frequent collaborator, Steve Todd, swung by my office. "Free for lunch?" He said. As we finished our salads, and talked about his next book, and my projects, I made a deep sigh and said, "Steve I have something to tell you. It is going to sound really weird." "Oh, Oh," he said, "What?" "I had a dream last night I was going to leave EMC. It was going to happen in my 20th year. Steve, that's comin ...
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Do you have to train employees to read posters?
> 10 days ago
In almost any kind of workplace, there are at least few official posters. There might be an industry-specific safety poster. Odds are there's a minimum wage poster. And most businesses will have a number of small posters or one combination labor law poster covering relevant federal laws, regulations and guidelines. State labor law posters and even local labor law information posters may be posted in some areas, too. That means that the average employee is presented with at least 2, and as man ...
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Is it sexual harassment to teach about sexual hara ...
> 10 days ago
Awhile back I read about a woman who refused to attend the mandatory diversity training sessions at her company because the content violated her religious beliefs (she did not believe all people were equal -- specifically gay people.) The case went to court, and last I heard was being appealed. But seeing a note to myself about that training issue made me think. What if the very nature of sexual harassment training, with all its talk of unwanted advances and inappropriate touching was deemed a ...
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OOPS! Missed something in training and now the ba ...
> 10 days ago
Okay, maybe not the whole bank, but at least the ATM! That's what happened to a fellow HR pro in a previous job. Just one missed element in his training, and boom! The ATM is in flames! When you're training your new employees, have you covered all the bases? Sure, you know all the little do's and do not's, but are all of those in your training program? Take a step back, and review every element of a task. Is there something you do, (or the person who is skilled in that job does) that is missin ...
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The blurry facts about sexual harassment training
> 10 days ago
I guess it all depends where you look. One study says sexual harassment in the workplace is down. Another one says it's up. And then there are the stats on who exactly is being harassed. Used to be assumed that it was all women. Then gay, lesbian and transgendered employees moved up on the list. Now straight men are filing an increasing number of sexual harassment complaints, usually aimed at their female bosses. As if all of this wasn't confusing enough, there are questions about what to do to ...
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Management needs training too!
> 10 days ago
There is no nice way to put this...Lots of managers are terrible at being managers. Some are manipulative, some are glory-hogs taking credit for staff accomplishments, some hide behind rules instead of taking the lead, some are know-it-all's, and some are control freaks who micromanage employees to death. If you're in the HR department, you know I'm telling the truth. You see it, hear about, and all too often, try to clean up the messes bad management leaves behind. So what is HR doing about it ...
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Site moved
> 10 days ago
by Erika Andersen
My site was moved to http://erikaandersen.com/. Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers. Thank you.
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Q+A About Being Strategic
> 10 days ago
by Erika Andersen
If you've got time this afternoon and are interested, I'm going to be doing a radio/online interview this afternoon for Money Matters Radio (WBNW 1120, WESO 970 and WPLM 1390). It's at 3pm ET, and you can listen on the...
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Opening to the Possibilities
> 10 days ago
by Erika Andersen
Have you ever had the kind of day where everything exceeds your expectations? Today was like that for me. So many great connections, new ideas, insights, opportunities; it was overwhelming. My instinctive reaction, in situations like this, is to start...
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Writing Reader-worthy Blogs
> 10 days ago
by Erika Andersen
I had a great conversation with our social media guru, Tim Grahl, yesterday. It was a kind of tutorial on blog-writing. Like most bloggers, I suspect, I would like my blog to be read and enjoyed by lots of people....
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Your Ad Here
> 10 days ago
by Erika Andersen
I'm trying something new(ish) today - I've only done this once before: uploaded a video to my blog. Josette Marano at Detroit Public Television has created a 3-minute promo clip for the Being Strategic show, and I'd love to get...
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WE'VE MOVED (and changed our name to HRvendorNews. ...
> 10 days ago
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iCIMS Announces Record Breaking 1st Quarter With M ...
> 10 days ago
HAZLET, N.J. (April 10, 2009) – iCIMS, the third-largest provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) , announced today record breaking first quarter numbers with more than 50 new customer signings, adding such organizations as Hamp;R Block (NYSE: HRB), QinetiQ North America, Universal Protection Services, Spectrum Healthcare Resources, Feed the Children and NATCO (NYSE:NTG) to the company's rapidly growing client base.This first quarter of 2009 proved to be a trying time for many talent acquisi ...
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EVALUATING RPO PROVIDERS: COST COMPARISON DOESNT T ...
> 10 days ago
LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2009 – Futurestep, a Korn/Ferry Company (NYSE: KFY) specializing in strategic talent solutions, today announced the release of a new whitepaper, Changing the Conversation: Rethinking Procurement and Performance for Real RPO Value. Developed by Futurestep Chief Executive Officer Robert McNabb, the whitepaper was created in answer to a growing number of requests from corporate planners for practical input on guiding an RPO vendor selection process.The publication draws from ...
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Albany Chief Martin Glick Joins Staffing Experts t ...
> 10 days ago
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. April 8, 2009 – Global staffing companies are striving to remain competitive amidst a slowed world economy and changing regulations in the U.S. and abroad.A poor economy is causing the nearly $300 billion global worldwide staffing market to shrink in 2009, following several years of growth. Emerging markets still offer opportunities, yet their varying regulations require focused growth strategies.Such issues affecting worldwide staffing were discussed at last month's Staf ...
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Hogan Announces Solution to Identify High Potentia ...
> 10 days ago
Tulsa, OK, April 8, 2009 – announces an intuitive, report-based solution for selecting high-potential leaders from an ever-expanding talent pool. Based on research from a global sample of more than a thousand executive MBA program graduates, the allows companies to identify top candidates in relation to specific business competencies. This sample group represents one of the highest-level talent pools ever used to create a profile of high-potential leadership. The best companies in the world ...
