Talent Management, Bureaucracy–and Cats?

HR professionals often compare their job to herding cats, but if you worked for Her Majesty’s postal service a few decades ago, you might have meant it quite literally.
 

Hammer, Meet Nail

“I only care about what works, and that changes nearly every time. First listen in an attempt to get to the root of the issue. ” Dr. Todd Dewett
 

The Double Bind – Status Quo and the Future

Topics: Futures, HR Technology, HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, by John Sumser
HR and Recruiting leaders are routinely subjected to the requirement to maintain the status quo while imagining some sort of future. The very existence of the function depends on succeeding at both. Sadly, it’s a double bind.
 

Where People and Tech Collide

Why should you care about product managers? Because these are the people designing how you work.
 

Purposeful HR

As human resources professionals we should not let ourselves be defined by what we do. What HR does is much less important than why we do it.
 

Data, Unleashed

The value of data is a function of the combination of specificity and relevance.
 

5 Links: Looking at HR Tech

Our five+ links is a look back on HR Tech. Some things have changed; others haven’t at all.
 

Shortages are Regional

Topics: HR Trends, HRExaminer, John Sumser, Regionalization, by John Sumser
The idea that an employee should show up ready to work with her own tools (Bring Your Own Device) is a symptom of a failure to invest in the workforce.
 

Candidate Experiences: It’s Plural

Like cramming for a math final after skipping the class all semester, the active job hunter is faced with a sea of conflicting number one priorities.
 

Develop an HR Business Plan

All HR departments are busy. Whether the busyness is focused on the correct objectives is another question.