Check out the short video below to find out more about the lessons I’ve learned after my first year as an HR pro. The transcript is below the video if you’re the reading type and want to skip my Southern accent of awesomeness. :-)
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Remember back when I talked about the SHRM chapter mentor program? It’s made up of a group of very smart people. Christine Beldner is one of those people, and she made a comment recently that I just had to write about. Continue reading
What do you do when someone asks you to be on a radio show that you haven’t prepared for? You do it, of course! I was surprised recently when I received an email from both Paul Paris and Heather Huhman asking if I wanted to help out with an episode of the Ex Recruiter Show on blacklisting.
Heather is an entrepreneur. She hires her own employees, and she had a bad experience with one candidate who she ended up blacklisting. The whole experience was reported in an interview about blacklisting in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading
Check out the fantastic Slideshare presentation I found the other day. It deals with culture, a high performance work environment, and the company that revolutionized movie rentals. (Subscribers may need to click through to view.)
The ideas in the presentation are refreshing and inspiring. They reinforce my core beliefs about HR. The “keeper test” on slide 29 is killer, and the reason for for such an emphasis on a high performance workforce (slide 35) is brilliant.
So, which part do you like? Would you enjoy working somewhere like Netflix?
(Click here to see the original presentation on Slideshare.)
We really need to be careful. With all the laws Congress is passing these days, people have completely glossed over one of the most serious legislative uproars to ever cross the Senate floor. Starting next month, a person’s “pirate status” will become a protected class under EEOC regulations.
There are all kinds of reactions to this change. Stephen Geraghty-Harrison, a staunch supporter of all things pirate, replied, “Arrrr, it’s about time.”
However, Chris Ferdinandi, more of a traditionalist when it comes to pirate culture, said, “We don’t need someone to give us a special day,” he reached over to polish his cutlass, “If we wanted one, we’d just take it.”
My buddy Benjamin McCall inspired me with his HRevolution Twitter list, so I went to another popular social network and pulled together more information to help our people connect with each other.
I had the opportunity to speak with Trish McFarlane yesterday, and one of the things we were both excited about was the list of attendees. We have people who we’ve never even met, but they believe in HRevolution enough to come. I want to make it worth their time. After the first event, we had one person out of the entire fifty-plus attendees who was less than completely satisfied. Her issue was that she wasn’t connected with anyone before the event really occurred. Continue reading
Today’s post is kicking off with a fun little video you might have seen making the rounds online last fall. (Subscribers may have to click through to view.)
Within a few days of its release, this video had thousands of views on YouTube. Even now when I hear that song by Chris Brown I still think of the video. This extremely long introduction is helping me make a comparison between fads and those management/leadership training initiatives we’ve all been a part of.
Okay, we\’ve all been through the latest management fads, right? If not, here\’s how it usually goes.
Does that sound familiar? I hope not, but I’m pretty sure it’s ubiquitous. So what can we do about these things? I don’t have an answer for how to solve the problem long-term, but I do have an idea for the short run. Keep this in mind when you’re being pitched to with another silver bullet: there’s no such thing as a cure-all.
Yes, you can work on issues one at a time, but you just can’t fix everything all at once. Not that you shouldn’t make the attempt to advance the organization and develop your employees, but keep that fact in mind.
So, do you have something you’d like to share? Maybe a training session gone bad? I’d love to hear your war stories!