You are no longer in control. I’m sitting in a conference, listening to journalists talk about the impact of social media on their profession. At the moment, what I’m hearing sounds strikingly like what I’ve heard from marketers and even HR and talent development professionals: They all want to know how best to navigate a [...]
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Last week, I ripped HR a new one. Yesterday, Laurie Ruettimann reminded me that if you’re going to criticize, you should have a solution ready to go. She’s right, and I do have a solution. It goes like this: Find out how your company makes money. Once a week for the next four weeks, take [...]
Last night, respected HR pros, cutting edge blogospherists, and friends Steve Boese, Susan Burns and Jennifer McClure… et. al… discussed what needs to happen to make HR work—for realz—moving forward. The conversation happened on Steve’s awesome show HR Happy Hour (listen to Episode 53 here). Issues they dove into included such things as: What does [...]
Can you trust HR? Or not?
HR cannot build development/training programs because they focus on the wrong things. Here’s where HR should start if they want to clean up their act.
“Does he know logistics?” So asks a prospective client about me. Now, I happen to have some experience working with the logistics industry. And what I’ve learned working with them (and others) is: in times of change, asking this question is like asking, “Can he handle what we used to be?” The question should be, [...]
Workforce Management recently ran a post about the need for greater blogger transparency and the FTC’s proposed rules for ensuring it. Before we even get to my response, this is important: the FTC is currently receiving public comments on the issue of the changing face of journalism. This is happening NOW, through November 6, 2009. [...]
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