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  • Teamwork Lessons from Dragon Boat Racing

    So this weekend I participated in something I’ve never done before. Dragon boat racing. Yeah, I had never heard of it before, either. The gist of it is this: Each team has 16-20 paddlers in the boat at once, plus a drummer You’re racing a straight course against other teams First boat to cross the…

  • The World of HR Blogging: Carnival of HR

    I’ve posted several HR Carnivals here before. I try to make each one special, because I know how important the world of HR blogging has been to me as a hands-on HR pro, and I don’t want anyone else to miss out on that opportunity. I’m currently subscribed to 25-30 HR blogs in Feedly.It’s a…

  • Trust Matters, Now More Than Ever

    Last week my friend China Gorman wrote about the lack of trust in the workplace. Here’s the stat: According to the American Psychological Association’s 2014 Work and Well-Being Survey released last Wednesday, only half of U.S employees believe their employer is open and upfront with them, indicating that despite the mending U.S economy and the…

  • Workplace Flexibility: What’s Changing (and What’s Not) #shrmtalent #workflex

    Earlier today the latest workplace flexibility research from the Families and Work Institute and SHRM came out, and there were some very interesting data points in the study. A few quick hits from the 2014 National Study of Employers (link to the full study below): The presence of women/minorities impacts offerings: Organizations with more women and…

  • Strategic HR: Measuring Quality of Attrition #SHRMTalent

    It’s day two of the 2014 SHRM Talent Management conference, and I attended a great session on Quality of Attrition: Management’s Favorite Human Capital Metric. The bottom line is that we know that every person that leaves the business is not the same. Why they left, how valuable they were, and what the organization could have…

  • 66% of Employers Prefer This Type of Resume #SHRMTalent

    Earlier I posted on career growth and development and some ideas and insights from the SHRM Talent Management Conference, and as I was looking through some of the results from a SHRM survey released this week I realized that there is an interesting disconnect. While we want to look at employees as more valuable than…

  • Employee Retention Tied to Career Development (#SHRMTalent)

    I’m at the SHRM Talent Management Conference in Nashville this week. This morning I attended a session on improving employee retention by Linda Ginac at TalentGuard. Here are some thoughts on that topic… Turnover is real With average employee turnover by generation standing at 2 years (Millenials), 5 years (Gen X), and 7 years (Boomers),…