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Maintaining Your Culture as You Grow
As you should know by now, I’m a firm believer in the power of a strong corporate culture. One of the sessions I looked forward to the most before I arrived at SHRM was the “Maintaining Your Culture As You Grow” session. I picked up some great ideas and wanted to share them here. If…
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How to Improve Employee Retirement Planning #SHRM13
My favorite session at SHRM13? One that focused on 401ks. Yeah, sounds strange, right? But it really was an intriguing session. The speaker discussed some of the behavioral concepts regarding 401k planning, retirement, etc. I have some good notes to share soon, but this was the one big takeaway that I got from the session.…
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The Crowdsourced Performance Review
Check out the short video below to learn more about The Crowdsourced Performance Review (here on Amazon). I’m looking forward to digging in and sharing more about the topics in the book! Forty-five percent of human resources (HR) leaders don’t think annual performance reviews are an accurate appraisal for employees’ work. And 42 percent don’t think employees…
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Let’s Get Rid of HR #SHRM13
This morning a great discussion popped up among the social media team at SHRM, and I just had to share. This will probably be a little controversial, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing… Can we cut to the chase? Let’s get rid of HR. Managers should be doing “HR’s job.” Because in a surprising number…
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Just a Few of the Great Vendors at #SHRM13
I apologize in advance for looking like I’m worn out, the poor lighting, the shaky video, and pretty much everything else. It has been a challenge to connect to the wifi and 4g networks in the past few days! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE8SmRX1x6g Video Notes fun/funny shirts and other great recognition items-Baudville; conversation turns, as always to how…
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#SHRM13 Kicking Off
(Weird wifi issues in my hotel prevented me from posting this on Sunday. Sorry!) Yet again I’m amazed at the event that SHRM has put together, and (as I write this) it’s only Sunday! There’s so much to say, but I want to focus on one question that’s occurred to me several times in the…
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HRevolution 2013 in Las Vegas
If you’ve been wondering about HRevolution 2013, wonder no more! On Sunday, October 6th we’ll be visiting the amazing city of Las Vegas for another fantastic event. As always, we have an amazing sponsor to help keep costs down and to help bring you the HRev you know and love. This year Sum Total Systems…
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