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 […]
In The Know v2.01 Six Key Business-y Links To Help You Think Beyond HR Peopleclick Authoria Merger Jason Corsello on yesterday’s meger. The cats and dogs strategy perfected by Workstream is one way of thinking about industry consolidation. It looks like both parties to this deal needed financial relief. Do You Learn Social? Do You […]
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, […]
In The Know v1.08 (A weekly list of links to five important ideas)
Tech Impact and End Of Year Lists
Incentives Don’t Motivate
Dan Pink’s TED Video on the surprising science of motivation. Variable incentives do the opposite of what you’d expect if you’re trying to get ‘out of the box’ results. What really motivates contemporary workers are […]
In The Know v1.07 (A weekly list of links to five important ideas)
Tech Impact and End Of Year Lists
Mobile Internet Repor
From Morgan Stanley. Read the whole thing, look at the overview or digest the 700 slide presentation. Mobile is going to transform and keep on transforming your organization, the nature of work, and the fundamental […]
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