Social Media has turned a range of things upside down. Like all publishing innovations, the baton passes first to the heaviest users. It’s only time that rearranges the players to adequately reflect real value. In the early days, like now, the opportunity for young unknown players to make their mark is significantly different than it […]
Mary Sue Rogers routinely appears on lists of the Top Consultants in the World (here’s another). The head of IBM’s Global HR and Learning Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)operations, Rogers oversees an organization of 7,000 HR professionals and consultants who execute the HR operations for 30 major global concerns. Her client list includes American Airlines, […]
Five Scenarios for the Future of Recruiting 1 It’s an interesting time to ponder the future of recruiting. You can imagine Chicken Little running around crying “The sky is falling. The sky is falling.” The profession is 30% to 50% smaller than it was 18 months ago. Many more HR Generalists are filling the recruiting […]
100112 In The Know v1.02: Five Useful Links What You Should Be Reading To Keep Your Career Up To Date LMS Contracts – What U Must Have, Need 2 Know This is a good place to start thinking about the contracts in your HR operation. Typically, HR professionals and leaders have little or no tra […]
Infohrm 1: Metrics Standards On my desk is one of the most amazing pieces of HR work I’ve ever run across. At 600 pages, the spiral bound book is a ream of paper devoted to the documentation of HR Metrics.”The Metrics Standard: Establishing Standards for Core Human Capital Measures” is a three year old labor […]
By John Sumser
When I was in high school (don’t ask, but we did have telephones), my girlfriend and I figured out a code for saying “I love you” on the phone. In those days, there was generally one phone line with many phones on it. Family life and telephone privacy were mutually exclusive. It was […]
By John Sumser
Leverage is one of the keys to having long lasting influence while holding don an HR management job. Leverage means finding areas where the return for an investment of time is disproportionate. These facets of the craft of HR are not easy to identify. If they were, everyone would have enormous influence (and […]
100104 Zeo I got a ZEO for Christmas. Billed as a ‘sleep coach’, the product is the tip of the iceberg in the next wave of consumer goods. Zeo measures and analyzes your sleep patterns with the general idea that one can take charge of one’s nocturnal productivity. You wear a headband that wirelessly interacts […]
People who work in HR have a difficult time influencing the profession or its direction. It’s just not possible, most of the time, to get a clear view of the big picture from one slot in the trenches. Because of this, most of the big ideas that move through the industry come from consultants, academics, […]
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