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HR Transformer Blog
Article highlighting the top HR Transformers on Twitter, includes Twitter Groups to follow. Related posts:Are you a HR Twitter Virgin? Article about Twitter, why we think it’s useful and a...HR Survey Highlights Skills Gap in HR Article on ADP/HRO HR Transformation Survey 2008...HR Outsourcing – the Challenge of Picking Winners...
Article about Twitter, why we think it’s useful and a guide for getting started. Also includes an invitation to the 1st London HR “Tweet-Up” Related posts:HR Transformers on Twitter Article highlighting the top HR Transformers on Twitter, includes Twitter...HR Social Networks – UK Trends An article about how HR rate...
HR Outsourcing – the Challenge of Picking Winners
An article which highlights one of the challenges of Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) in 2010, written by experienced HR Outsourcing advisor and founder of Glass Bead Consulting, Andrew Spence. Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 2) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...Future Trends in HR...
HR Benchmarks – A Government Health Warning
Acccording to the UK Government benchmarking report, in the UK the mean ratio of employees to HR staff is 1 to 50. The report raises a number of questions about the future of HR in the UK Public Sector. Related posts:How to Lead Change by Example – 5 Tips for...
HR Social Networks – UK Trends
An article about how HR rate as Social Networkers, including a report from CHA "Conversation at your fingertips - How HR profressionals score as social networkers" Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 1) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part...
How to Lead Change by Example – 5 Tips for HR Professionals
An article by Andrew Spence about how to lead change by example, with practical advice for HR professionals. Originally published by Strategic HR Review. Related posts:Future Trends in HR Operating Models (Part 2) Creating the HR Operating Model for the next generation. Presentation...HR Benchmarks – A Government Health Warning Acccording...
Profitability Through Human Capital
Start from Results and Work Backwards
What contributes to your profits? Looks like a simple question, but get your management team in a room and see how they answer the question. I read a great article this morning on this topic. The authors Bassi and McMurrer discuss the importance of understanding what drives...
Over the last month or so, I have had a very interesting B2B buying experience. Our company decided to upgrade our laptops in January. As a relatively happy Dell customer we decided to order 2 new Dells. (or let me just say try to order). Here...
HR, Get Your Bass Guitar and Leather Pants!
Why, because we are going to be ROCK STARS! I feel a shift in the usual HR conversations going on in the media and Social Medialand. We have all heard the endless rants about HR not being value added, whining about a seat at the strategic table,...
Lessons from the Line Undercover Style
This morning many bloggers, writers and critics are weighing in on the new television show, Undercover Boss. After two episodes, I have found I like the premise but the logistics make it difficult for me to believe that the employees didn't know something was up. If cameras are following a...
What is the #1 HR Metric to Report to Your CEO?
I ran across a very interesting blog from Halogen Software regarding Hot Button HR issues for 2010. I liked the 10 questions they posed to the HR subject matter experts in the HR Raging Debates Forum. What I found the most interesting is that Halogen conducted a poll with HR...
Can You Train Your Employees to Solve Problems?
Over the last week I have had some very interesting interactions in the B2B environment involving our company. It is a New Year and part of our company's strategy is to be BOLD. (See Barbara A. Hughes, Intellectual Capital Consulting's Co-Founder, first blog on the subject). ...
The Talent Buzz
A Social Media Romance: From Twitter to Love in Real Life!
Written by Kristin Dziadul. Mike D is now following you on Twitter. Mike D has accepted your friend request. Comment posted by Mike D Text Message from Mike D The above is a prelude to a love story. Yes, love can occur by meeting in class, meeting through a friend or at a party, but...
Alice in Twitterland: How To Tweet like a Rock Star
In Lewis Carroll’s famous novel, Alice was a precocious child with her own idiosyncrasies. In my imagination, Alice did not fall into a rabbit’s hole into Wonderland. She was thrown into the 21st century instead. Within a year, she became the most famous Twitterer ever. How did Alice fit in...
4 Tips for Efficient Job Hunting Online
By Irina Shamaeva. As a recruiter and a former candidate placed by recruiters, I often notice gaps in understanding the job search process between recruiters and job seekers. Here are a few helpful tips I’d like to share with job seekers. Where to Post Your Resume: Statistics show that 75% of candidates post...
It’s that time of year… Announcing the 3rd annual Talent Buzz blog post / article contest. If you write, or have ever thought of writing, this is for you! I am excited to announce the $1,500 blog post contest on The Talent Buzz. This time around, the stakes are higher as...
The Future of Work via Elance?
High unemployment will likely continue in the coming years, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. While that is not the news anyone would hope for, it was widely expected. One approach the unemployed and underemployed are taking is leveraging online forums and tools to compete for work. Elance, one...
HR Examiner is continuing to measure influence. This morning, they announced the top 25 most influential online recruiters, as a follow-up to their quest to identify the most influential people in the world of Human Resources. To calculate influence HR Examiner partners with Traackr, a Boston based online reputation discovery...
Cheezhead Recruiting News and Opinion
By Joel Cheesman - Before Twitter and Facebook, blogging was the quickest and cheapest way to create Brand You. So, when launching HRSEO in 2005, it was a no-brainer to blog in order to do those things, as well as create a positive image and maybe drive a sale or...
By Vanessa Dennis - Jobvite, provider of next-generation recruitment solutions, has completed Series B financing totaling $8.25 million. The round was led by ATA Ventures, a new investor. According to a press release, CMEA Capital, who led Jobvite’s Series A financing, also participated in this round. Jobvite secured $7.2 million...
taleo’s new vue on interviewing
Taleo has teamed up with HireVue to offer the industry's first pre-integrated video interviewing solution for use with Taleo Enterprise....
not your father’s recruiting conference
By John Sumser - On September 23 and 24, I'm going to be in Toronto for the second annual Recruitfest. It's the RecruitingBlogs.com conference event. It's unlike any other get together in the HR - Recruiting - Talent Development industry. A regular review of the Recruitfest Facebook page will give...
monster gov. solutions to help hire 270K workers
Monster Government Solutions has teamed up with the Partnership for Public Service to help federal agencies recruit qualified candidates....
ResuWe is a new free site that allows users to quickly reformat, restructure and optimize their resume simply by uploading a current version of the document....
HRM Today Featured Posts
Agile Leaders Generate Greater Corporate Performance
In an environment of rapid technological advances, economic turmoil and changing consumer behaviors, most companies recognize that to be successful, they have to be adaptable. And yet, fewer than half of companies say they are good at making changes, according to a new research report on leadership agility by the...
Change Hurts. Resistance Hurts More.
The one common theme that we face in modern business is the necessity for change. It’s painful. It’s emotional. It sucks. The reality of a situation we no longer can control often leads us to do foolish things in a desperate attempt to clutch to the status quo. We revolt,...
Start from Results and Work Backwards
What contributes to your profits? Looks like a simple question, but get your management team in a room and see how they answer the question. I read a great article this morning on this topic. The authors Bassi and McMurrer discuss the importance of understanding what drives...
2010 Attrition – Where will it go?
“Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows…” the carnival barker would shout, throwing a whiffle ball into a net above a colorful spinning disk. It was a favorite carnival game when I was a kid; trying to guess/anticipate where the ball would land. But where the carnival...
Survey: Developing Successful Global Leaders
The American Management Association (AMA), in conjunction with the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), is conducting a study to examine leadership initiatives that organizations have taken to coordinate actions across global locations. We’re looking for your input on the topic. In return, you’ll receive the preliminary results report once available....
Virtually Awesome: How Smart Companies Use Video Games to Recruit, Retain Employees
As a former Super Nintendo addict enthusiast, I was both excited and surprised to come across this recent Go magazine article about the growing number of companies using interactive software and video games as employee training and development tools. Excited, of course, because it seems like a cool, fun way to engage employees (and brought back...
Cincy Recruiter's World
Can an Internal Coach or HR Pro Be Trusted With Your Secrets?
At The Conference Board's Executive Coaching Conference that I recently attended, we spent some time in one of the sessions discussing concerns with HR pros being designated or trained as internal coaches in organizations due to trust and credibility issues.......
2 Secrets of Successful "Social Recruiting" Explained
Every day, somewhere out there in our universe, many Recruiters are losing their way in regards to using social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for recruiting purposes. I see the complaints (often ironically aired via Twitter) that <insert......
Executive Coaching: What Are Global Coaching Leaders Discussing?
Recently, at the invitation of The Conference Board *, I had the opportunity to attend their 2010 Executive Coaching Conference in New York City. As an Executive Coach, I was thrilled to be able to attend this event and learn......
The Best Lists? The Ones You Make! (Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters)
Today, John Sumser and the good folks over at HR Examiner have unveiled their latest list of Online Influencers - the Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters - and apparently somebody left the back door open, because yours truly somehow......
Passion - It's Not a Dirty Word in HR
Today's guest post is from my good friend and mentor Steve Browne, who is Executive Director of Human Resources at LaRosa's, Inc. - a regional Pizzeria restaurant chain employing over 1,400 Team Members. Being passionate about HR is a subject......
Personal Branding and Women Leaders
Today, I had the privilege of speaking about Personal Branding to the 50+ participants in the 2009/2010 class of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's Leadership Development Program for Women - - WE Lead. It was an honor to be able......
Steve Boese's HR Technology
We are always planning - people, teams, organizations all spending lots of time looking ahead, trying to figure out what the future holds for themselves, their projects, and their enterprises. I recently read an excellent list of the four different approaches that people and organizations take when it comes to assessing...
Last night on the HR Happy Hour show we took on the always interesting, sometimes controversial, and seemingly universal subject of Compensation, or put more simply - money. Now I know that compensation is not just about cash, that the total value that an employee receives from their employer is a...
Telling Stories with Technology
Or perhaps rather letting people share their story when interacting with technology. I recently read this post, 'Mad Libs Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%', on the LukeW Ideation and Design blog. The main point of the post, which is short and an easy read, is that by altering a typical 'Request for...
The Commodification of the Self
I did not invent the phrase in the title of this post, it comes from a piece by Shalom Auslander called 'Meet the Happy New Me, Same as the Crappy Old Me', in the March 2010 issue of GQ magazine, (only available online to subscribers).Flickr - David Clow The article alternates...
The other day on the Brains on Fire blog in a piece titled, 'Leave your ego at your feet', I read this: “We should lose the term “rock star” from our vocabulary.”... if you create rock stars, you create an ego driven company (look at us, look at us), instead of...
The American Revolution lasted for 8 years with Colonial soldiers enduring atrocious conditions and hardships. The French Revolution lasted 10 solid years and helped popularize the guillotine. Luckily for you, the HRevolution 2010 will not be (nearly) as long and as dangerous. The only things in peril are tired ideas, same-old same-old...
hr bartender
Many people view gossip as a bad thing. And as such, they make every attempt to ban anything remotely resembling gossip in the workplace. I agree that back-stabbing and undermining behavior are totally inappropriate and unacceptable and should be stopped. We can probably all agree on that. But, thinking you can...
Next week is St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday rich in history and tradition. If you think this celebration is all about green bagels and beer, I’d suggest checking out the Wikipedia page for more info. Mr. B and I typically like to find some sports bar or pub to celebrate. But...
I always enjoy debates about the chain of command concept. I’ve found most people are completely fine with chain of command as long as things are good (for them). The minute situations turn sour, then employees question why chain of command exists. Obviously, there are two directions in the chain of...
Performance Metrics: Beyond the Numbers
Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured, gets managed.” It’s very true. Tracking the numbers is essential to running your business. But it’s also important to not just calculate numbers. You need to have a good understanding of what they mean. I’ve always enjoyed math and accounting, so I’ve never really...
Crappy Swag and Other Happenings
Couple of exciting things happened recently that I wanted to share: First, I was honored by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) with their media award. This is really cool. When I think of media, I think of television/radio/newspaper. To be recognized as a blogger in the media category,...
7 Types of Power in the Workplace
There’s a quote by Margaret Thatcher that says, “Power is like being a lady…if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Personally, I find the study of power fascinating. Dictionary.com defines power as “a person or thing that possesses or exercises authority or influence”. So in essence when...
LeapComp - Sales Performance Management Blog
At the 2008 Olympics, Michael Phelps took home 8 gold medals. Like all Olympic athletes, Phelps trained year-round for four years to compete in this one extraordinary sporting event. As a result, Phelps was rewarded with $200,000 in prize money ($25,000 per gold medal), millions of dollars in paid endorsements...
I spent last weekend – the Valentine’s Day weekend – in Philadelphia with my girlfriend. I’ve been working on a project in Philly for almost two months, but I hadn’t had the chance to explore much of the city and visit the tourist attractions. One of the weekend’s...
Quota Performance Distribution
Last week I wrote that the percentage of reps making quota in 2009 dropped to 51.8% from 58.8% in 2008, according to a large survey. One of my readers made the comment that it would be interesting to find out how many companies expect/want their sales people to make...
Last Wednesday we held our monthly Influence Insiders radio show where we discussed several books. You can listen to the show here: I reviewed two books: Talk Less, Say More and Covert Persuasion. In today’s post, I will provide additional details about Talk Less, Say More by Connie Dieken, which I...
Super Bowl, Oscars and Olympics
I was a bit puzzled regarding the reasons why my blog has seen a significant increase in traffic over the past few days. Upon reviewing the keywords used by my readers to find LeapComp, I realized that there were 3 old posts in particular that were getting a lot...
This summer I was sitting on a dive boat off the coast of Cozumel chatting with the dive master and about to dive Palancar caves when two distinct thoughts occurred to me. First, I trust this dive master. He is an expert in his craft, and I know...
The Simplest Thing That Works
Three Star Leadership Blog: What Women Want (at Work)
Three Star Leadership Blog: What Women Want (at Work). A great post by my friend Wally Bock. I knew he was smart and insightful - I didn't know he was also an ardent feminist, in the best possible sense of......
Scarred by office politics, how do we move on? | Office-Politics. If you're not familiar with Office-Politics, Franke James' wonderful website, I'd recommend it highly. People write in (and have been writing in for almost 8 years) with their office......
I'm posting this picture as the best possible rationale for not having posted to my blog for the past 10 days. This is the resort in Jamaica where Patrick and I spent my birthday week. It was, by a huge......
I have a Google alert on the phrase "being strategic," partly to see what's happening with my book, but partly because I find so fascinating all the disparate (and sometimes contradictory) ways people use those words. Here's one I got......
Today Patrick and I are making beer and bread. Both processes involve an approach that works well in lots of situations, I find. First, you plan and prepare carefully, making sure you have the right materials, and combining them in......
Mary Jo Asmus. There are a lot of fun, smart, interesting people online, and Mary Jo Asmus is one of them. When I started The Simplest Thing three years ago, I had one goal: I wanted to publicize my first......
Compensation Force
Does/Should "Management Discretion" Have a Future in Rewards?
My experience would suggest that the discretionary "bonus" award is alive and well today, but I wonder about its life expectancy over the longer term. Given the shift in pay mix that seems to be underfoot, with the possibility of......
Show Me the Money! Talking Comp at The HR Happy Hour
Come along with me and my Compensation Cafe cohorts Becky Regan and Margaret O'Hanlon as we join this week's HR Happy Hour show, Thursday 8 pm EST on blogtalkradio. We promise a lively discussion on all things compensation! Details in......
Line of Sight: Framing It Right, Taking it Beyond Rewards
We compensation specialists love to throw around the phrase "line of sight", particularly with respect to variable pay design. Line of sight is an expression that I am told has its origins in the military. In this context, it means......
Communication, Influence Insiders & Tough Pay Conversations
Communication can make or break work relationships ... and, ultimately, reward programs. I had a first hand opportunity to get better educated about communication tendencies and techniques when Jon Wortmann - advisor, speaker and author of Mastering Communication at Work:......
Three Connections Make Rewards Meaningful
Too often debates about financial incentives seem to hang on a false choice: either we help people see and embrace the purpose and meaning of their work or we provide them with cash rewards for getting things done. As if......
Innovation, Rewards & the Challenge of Ordering Chaos
In a recent post about innovation, Bob Sutton shares a terrific quote from John Edson, President of product design firm Lunar: From Chaos Comes Creativity, From Order Comes Profit For me, this phrase brings a stunning clarity to the tension......
Complinet UK and European Securities Banking and Commodities
The Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform: In Praise of Unlevel Playing Fields
Here you can read the executive summary and recommendations of the report broken down by chapter however this should not be a substitute for the full report where the recommendations are discussed at length....
EU proposals rattle UK private equity
UK private equity companies reacted angrily last night after a European parliamentary committee proposed widening the scope of a controversial directive for alternative fund managers....
Damning with faint praise? FSA welcomes 'complementary' Walker Review
The Financial Services Authority yesterday was quick to welcome the final report on Sir David Walker's review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial institutions....
Impact analysis: Final recommendations of the Walker Review on corporate governance
HM Treasury has published the final recommendations of the Walker Review of corporate governance in the UK banking industry....
The bank charges case: a supreme surprise?
The dispute between UK high street banks and some of their customers regarding unarranged overdraft charges has attracted considerable media attention....
Impact analysis: HMT consultation on mortgage regulation
HM Treasury has published a consultation (PDF) on mortgage regulation, which sets out proposals to extend the scope of the Financial Services Authority's remit to include buy-to-let and second charge mortgages as well as measures to protect borrowers when lenders sell on mortgage books to third parties....
Gruntled Employees
Eight ways to guarantee yourself a noncompete lawsuit
A year ago, I wrote a post for employers looking to protect themselves (and their secrets and customer relationships) with noncompetes. (See "Eight ways to lose a noncompete case.") It only seems fair that I should offer something for the......
I have to admit it: For the past 16 years, I've been a bit of an "employer snob." Professionally, I've described myself with the cumbersome and inelegant mouthful "management-side employment lawyer." (Seriously: you want to see someone fall asleep standing......
Why employment lawyers screamed more than those Denny's chickens
If you couldn't find the remote after the Saints pantsed the Colts (regretting their "We're baaa-ack!" call in the pregame yet?) in this evening's Super Bowl, you were stuck watching CBS's new show "Undercover Boss." I have to admit: I......
Gruntled at Solo Practice University
One of my big goals for 2010 was to adjust my role as a commentator (mainly over at The Client Revolution) on the state of the practice of law and become more of a change agent dedicated to helping fix......
Why FOX can hire Conan as soon as he leaves NBC
People are still talking about the late-night wars at NBC. One interesting thing I keep hearing is that Conan O'Brien is ... well ... kinda screwed. His statement yesterday rejecting NBC's plan to move him and "The Tonight Show" was......
(For the definition of "to pown," check out Urban Dictionary here.) (Noob.) I've got to be honest with you. I've never been a big Conan O'Brien fan. At least, not until today. This afternoon, the New York Times reported that......
HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)
Being unsocial in social media
Having been focused on other things for a few days, I’ve spent a lot of today catching up on social media and in particular, the UK HR tweet-up we’ve planned on 29th March. I posted previously that Gareth Jones and I were being quite strict on...
Workforce planning: the appliance of science?
I’m quoted in an article called ‘The Appliance of Science’ in this month’s Human Resources magazine (UK version). The article argues that whilst workforce planning has been around for years, it is now making a comeback as a scientific discipline. Referring to other inputs...
Together with Gareth Jones (@garelaos), I’m organising a tweet-up for UK HR people in London on the evening of 29th March. You’ll find details at http://connectinghr.eventbrite.com. If you’ve not come across the term, a tweet-up is simply a meet-up of people using or interested in...
Developing new talent management strategies for 2010
I’ve been reading a couple of research reports on UK business and HR in 2010. One is IRS Employment Review’s HR roles and responsibilities: the 2010 IRS survey (available at XpertHR – subscription required). This survey of 253 HR practitioners in October 2009 identified two important...
On 28th April, I’ll be speaking at informatology’s 2010 "Good Practice for Great Performance" conference, which is designed to give business and talent leaders inspiration and insight to help their organisations be as successful as they can be. The conference sounds like a lot of fun,...
New Trends in personnel management, Bratislava, Slovakia
On 17th March, I’m in Bratislava, Slovakia for Trenkwalder’s New Trends in personnel management conference, where I’ll be presenting on HCM. The forthcoming 16th Year Annual Conference NEW TRENDS Personnel Management will be held on 17 March 2010 (Wednesday) in the congress hall...
HR Ringleader
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable....
Is Your Company Brainwashing You?
Qe can't ALL hire the absolute "best and the brightest"....
Self-Awareness Powers Great Leadership
Getting to the root of the leadership problem....
Keep your message simple....
Jobsite UK- Business Culture Supporting Community Culture
Company culture supporting local community....
Linked 2 Leadership
Managing Mondays: More Done in Less Time
How are you possibly going to get everything done today? The answer is simpler than you might think: It’s Focus. We have all been there: that place of dread; that place of being overwhelmed; that place where life seems a bit too challenging. It may be a mounting pile of work, a project needing completion,...
Articles of Faith: Move That Stone!
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– HEALING AN ORGANIZATION: MOVE THAT BUS (…er…STONE….) Have you ever watched that American TV reality-show series on Sunday evenings on ABC called Extreme Makeover Home Edition? This is...
Strategic Leadership Execution
Letter From the Editor 2009 is gone. For many, it was a real bummer. Many lost their jobs, their homes, and their sense of financial or job security. I heard yesterday someone say that their retirement funding account, called a 401k, looked more like a “101k.” Perspective The L2L Group on LinkedIn has...
Is Leadership a Popularity Contest?
Greetings Leaders! There has been a lot in the news lately about President Obama and his declining popularity ratings. In California, according to the LA Times, Governor Schwarzenegger has the approval rating of only 27% of the people. If you turn to Congress, it is faring no better with the Washington...
Leadership Lessons from Cinderella
Last weekend, my husband and I went to see the local high school production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. As I watched, I couldn’t help but notice some connections between the fairy tale and some important leadership behaviors. Let’s start with Cinderella’s stepmother. She clearly favors her biological daughters over her stepdaughter. This happens in...
Leadership Trust: Your Secret Judgement
How can you be telling me this now? I was counting on you! If you had only told me this when you first knew! I can’t believe you waited this long! It’s never fun learning a secret that’s been kept from you. It makes you feel left out of the group...