Change Management
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Does Talent Management Create Culture?
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Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com that HR shape a company’s culture by finding and developing talent. I’m having a hard time buying into that. My answer to the question…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 6
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Standardized tasks are the foundation for continuous process improvement and employee empowerment. There’s a quote in here that I love, actually written by Henry Ford in 1926. “Today’s standardization……
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The Toyota Way: Principle 5
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Build a culture of stopping to fix problems, to get quality right the first time. I think the key message here is not that we should operate like a…
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Enabling versus Empowering
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In HRIT we spend so much time implementing and rolling out systems that we implicitly know that change management is an important part of any implementation. Vendors usually provide…
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HR Success in 100 Days
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Mercer has a nice little write-up about your first 100 days as the CHRO of an organization. Here are five things Mercer says your should be thinking about. 1….
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Longer Term HRO Viability as Change Management
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I’ve always been fascinated by HRO and it’s been a constant topic here on systematicHR since the beginning. While it certainly would seem to make sense that sharing resources…
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Change Management Quotes
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The change management blog had a great list of change quotes. I built my own list, basically to address the CM theme I’ve been drilling for the last two…
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Three Unpalatable Truths
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Rob posted his three unpalatable truths a couple weeks ago and applied them to the creation of strategy. As I thought about my definition of HR strategy as “the…
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Real Lesson from Despair.com: Conformity
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ((Despair.com)) There really is a lesson in here. It’s about change management and how you…
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Defining Culture
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In a recent edition of AON’s “AON Consulting Forum” they had an article entitled “Leading Change: Creating an Energized Organization.” ((October 2006. Retrieved from www.aon.com on December 18, 2006.))…
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Understanding Change Drivers in Change Management
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The actual drivers for change don’t often make headlines. We talk about FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) and we talk about hour tactics of communications and training programs, but to…
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Employee Morale and Uncertainty
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The other day I was visiting a client site and was struck by how recent financial difficulties experienced by the client had impacted the workforce. As part of my…
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Employee Self Service – Lessons From Web Design
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Information Architects put out a list of their top 50 websites and what factors made them successful. I particularly like IA’s tagline of “Interface Design is Brand Design.” As…
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Required Skills for HR Transformation
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I had a bit of a humorous moment as I was reading this article from Mercer.com. While besides the point of this post, the Mercer page starts out saying:…
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A Primer on HR Transformation
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I ran across what may be the nicest summary of HR transformation I’ve seen in quite some time. Deloitte describes the history and future of (global) HR transformation as…
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Motivation versus Transformation
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I often hear managers asking how they can best motivate their employees to do better work, be more productive or have better attitudes. What most managers (and maybe people…
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Organize for Constant Change
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One thing is certain for developed countries – and probably for the entire world – we face long years of profound changes. It will no longer be possible to…
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HRO – Success and Partnership
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The success rate of HRO contracts is bad to dismal. That isn’t to say that companies are not saving money, or that vendors are providing bad service levels. But…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 6
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4. Managing ongoing change HR.com thinks we need to get a seat at the proverbial table (see part 1 of the series). I think we already have it, but…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 2
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So obviously being dissatisfied with the HR.com list of leading concerns, I had to make up my own list. The following is the systematicHR version of what I think…