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Mother Teresa Didn’t Work in HR

Aug 18, 2010 | Comments

I entered HR via recruiting, dissatisfied with the quality of candidates put before me to interview and having to pick my poison hoping it worked out because I would be held largely accountable for turnover. I had no aspirations of being Mother Theresa. If you do, please go into human services - or a convent, but not HR.…

Marketing & Employee Engagement Joined at the Hip

May 25, 2010 | Comments

How can I convince all the companies in the world about the importance of treating employees as customers? You can help by being an advocate for social justice in the workplace. Not talking about rights for any particular under-served demographic here - just plain old treat your employees, current and future, like customers. Yeah... …

Is This Job a Match?

May 23, 2010 | Comments

Ask yourself how many people you know who failed at a job, either left voluntarily or were terminated, because of their degree, experience or background? In all likelihood, most of them failed because of inadequate interpersonal skills, an inability to communicate, or because they just didn't fit in with the culture. In other words, like any relationship gone awry, it wasn't a good match.…

Prezi on Attracting & Retaining Talent

Apr 28, 2010 | Comments

I promised the HR troops and people managers that attended my presentation yesterday at THE Conference that I would post the Prezi so they didn't have to take notes. …

LinkMe Up Scotty

Apr 15, 2010 | Comments

If you are an active LinkedIn account holder you probably have stories to tell about the freaky, funny and spammy messages and propositions that arrive to your inbox.. I usually hit the delete key but this morning I'm feeling particularly charitable and good natured - full of love for my fellow networkers...…

How Can HR Help Drive Up Employee Engagement?

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How can HR add value and move from a cost center to a profit maker? Question of the century - isn't it? What if driving performance through increasing engagement were the answer? Well... uh, it is the answer isn't it? …

Why Are You in Human Resources?

Feb 19, 2010 | Comments

Are you an enabler, histrionic, co-dependent, drama loving, human advocate, wanna save the masses kind of person? If so, you might think human resources would be a perfect fit for you professionally. In the end you'll only end up frazzled, frustrated, tired and defeated... The mission is to ensure the profitability of the company through the management of its human capital - not try to fix people...…

Milwaukee JobCamp Heats Up

Feb 15, 2010 | Comments

If I were in Milwaukee I would be involved in JobCamp, a local event for job seekers that makes traditional job fairs archaic and puts them to shame. It's all about job seeker education and skill building, sponsored by business and industry and staffed by volunteers who make it happen. Todd Nilson and his crew are my heroes for helping to make a real difference in their community by giving job seekers a way to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I can only hope to rehab the way we do things here in NEPA.…

Do Amazing Things

Jan 12, 2010 | Comments

I contributed to an ebook, "Do Amazing Things", a collection of short, actionable ideas--things you can do this year to become a better HR professional. Sponsored by Renegade HR and created in partnership with 12 of HR’s leading thinkers you’ll find ideas on collaboration and innovation, recruiting, networking, performance management and more.…

Monthly HR Forum Report January ’10

Jan 09, 2010 | Comments

There has been tons of recent discussion on the role of HR but I haven't seen much in the way of actionable items practioners are committed to tackling. I facilitated the monthly community HR Forum yesterday and the topic was HR's value proposition. I'll have to say I saw a lot of deer in headlights looks. They didn't know what I was talking about. They were completely unaware of this revolution going on. I'm the only one of the bunch using social media professionally so it kind of left me feeling Kafkaesque....…