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  • Free LinkedHR Employee Engagement Webinar

    I hear tell that there’s a free webinar coming up on April 15th! I’ll be listening in. Will you? It’s called A Perfect Match: 10 M’s of Employee Engagement and will be hosted by LinkedHR. I’ve already reserved my seat and hope to blog about the content, but it wouldn’t hurt to experience it for…

  • Problem: Job Seekers Use Social Media, HR Does Not (Video)

    AKA Who’s Driving This Freaking Thing? (Subscribers may need to click through for the video. The transcript is below if you’re the reading type!) I see articles every single day teaching job seekers how to use social media to get a job. On the other hand, I also see a lot of legal types doing…

  • Understanding Social Media Use

    I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Haberman yesterday, and one of the big takeaways (other than a few really sweet quotes for later posts) was that HR people really need to be persuaded to see the advantages of social media. So many of us see the benefits, but so few of us are…

  • Breaking bottlenecks

    When I was a senior in college, I took a little college class by the name of project management (taught by the guy who owned a weekend kettle corn stand that I heard about in every single class). One of the requirements of the class was reading a book called The Goal. I saw the…

  • Leadership-Asking Tough Questions

    I think one responsibility leaders have is asking tough questions. Getting your people to think about what their roles are and how they can best fill them is a challenge all managers face. Recently my own manager asked a series of difficult questions in a department meeting. In responding to the questions, I felt like…

  • Thanks for everything, amigos

    So… I haven’t been writing much lately. Yes, I realize that. But it’s not because I’m lazy or don’t have a lot to say. Recently I started looking for a new job. Here in Huntsville, we have a lot of government contractors, and I really would prefer not to work for one. They have so…

  • Why SHRM is not the Antichrist of HR

    Today I don’t have to ramble at you (aren’t you thrilled?). My pal’s going to do it for me. My buddy Allen Robinson has given me permission to republish the post he’s written about his SHRM experiences. He says they’re not as bad as everyone makes them out to be. I’m not going to agree…

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