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  • Talent Mobility Webinar: How to Recruit and Retain Internal Talent

    I realized this weekend that I didn’t let you guys know about a free webinar I’ll be doing tomorrow with RecruitingBlogs. If you’re interested in joining me for the session you can sign up here.  Talent mobility. If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s the practice of using internal talent to fill roles as…

  • 93% of Workers Are Least Productive… At Work?

    I had put it off for as long as I could, and it was time to finally bite the bullet and get it done. I sent a message to my manager and told him that I was going to work from home the following day in order to knock a few things off my list.…

  • Video: What to Do When Your HR Strategy Fails

    When I speak about HR strategy, one of the things that inevitably comes up is that it’s hard to plan ahead. Things change. The business changes. The objectives shift. It makes it difficult to pin down the right HR strategy to support the organizational goals. And that’s okay. Death, taxes, and change are the things…

  • A letter to my soon-to-be-born child

    Going way personal today. Take it or leave it, but I always write what moves me. Thanks! Dear Peanut, We are so very excited to meet you. I’ve been going back and forth between nervousness and excitement over the past few weeks, because I know that you’re going to make your appearance within the next…

  • Elements of High CEO Approval Ratings: An Interview with Glassdoor’s Chief Economist

    If you check out a company’s profile on Glassdoor, one of the first things you see is the CEO approval rating. As an HR leader, this is a number that I was always concerned with as a signal for overall employee satisfaction. It’s common to hear stories about CEO approval in the news, and all…

  • Oops! How Failing an Interview Question Taught Her About HR Strategy

    I had been on the job search for a little while, and I was very thrilled when I received a request to come in and interview for a manufacturing operation that produced rubber molds and other rubber pieces. This was going to be my first big HR role, and I was really nervous. Fast forward…

  • SMB to Enterprise: The HR Technology Divide (#HRTechConf)

    Recently I was interviewed by a good friend from SHRM’s Public Affairs team, Mary Kaylor. She asked me a few questions about the HR Technology Conference, and you can read it all here. What I want to expound upon here is the final question in the interview. I had to be succinct in my response…