Data & Metrics
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Annual HR Technology Survey
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There are some things that inform all of us in HR about what is going on with our industry and where things are headed. Of all these useful tools,…
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Real Time Activity Analysis
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Not only am I a geek, I’m a workout geek. The latest geeky gadget I’m lusting over is a Withings E-Scale. For just $165, I can get up in…
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Annual Plug for the HR Technology Survey
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Here’s the link – just go take it. www.cedarcrestone.com/survey/systematicHR.html For those of you who are actually going to read this, there are several surveys out there that the industry…
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Deception and Selling Your Data
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US President Obama is a Muslim, right? Raised in Kenya, he’s a Mau Mau sympathizer, and actually not even a US citizen (masterfully covered up I must add). Apparently…
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Better Measures for Engagement
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Is it Gallup that has the “Do you have a best friend at work” question? We’re so into doing employee surveys to measure employee engagement. They provide us with…
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Commonizing Meaning
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I have some favorite phrases that I’ve been picking up for years. “Eh, voila!” universal for “eh, voila!” “Ah, asodeska” Japanese for “I understand” (sp?) “Bo ko dien” is…
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Decision effectiveness
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A few years ago, i had a custom set of wheels made for my bike. I had the rims specifically weighed and picked out of a set of about…
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Perspective and Benchmarking
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In my eyes, there are three components of being from California. First, you must always be on a diet. Second, you must always bee too fat. Third, you must…
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Back to Basics
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It seems to me that there has been a renewed focus on core HR. Now I need to tell the truth, I really thought core HR was dead. I…
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Serendipity versus Decision Support
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Would I be where I am today if I had all the facts every time? I’m actually confident that if it were up to me, I would be digging…
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Trend, Drill, Slice
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I love talking about and manipulating data. One of my favorite moments of the month is when I get together with one of the premier data people in HR…
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How to Read a Newspaper
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So, when I get on a plane, I often have a newspaper with me. Whether you are on a plane, train, or anywhere with close quarters with other people,…
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Core HR is not a Hub
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I came across this quite a few years ago as we started to tinker around with core HR systems needing to integrate with more systems than just payroll and…
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Recruiting Effectiveness Measurement
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Last post I wrote about recruiting efficiency measures. From the effectiveness side, we’re all used to things like first year turnover rates and performance rates. Once again, we’ve been…
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HRs Correlation to Business
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When we talk about the impact of HR activities on our business’s operational production, we don’t usually think that there is a direct correlation. In fact, some of our…
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Recruiting Efficiency Measurement
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If you look through Saratoga, there are all sorts of metrics around measuring our HR operations. For recruiting, these include all the standard metrics like cost/hire, cost/requisition, time to…
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Misinterpreting Apple and Microsoft
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As a global community, we all hate Bill Gates. Actually we all hate Microsoft. While we might depend on things like Microsoft Outlook and the MS Office suite of…
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The Art of Story
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Whether you are at a conference watching a videographer recording the event, or witnessing a $100M film getting made, the process of recording to final editing is always the…
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Dynamical Systems
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Forget for a moment that I’m talking about a mathematical theory. At the core of this post is how we apply some quantitative reasoning to our ability to look…