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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 3
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What to do now? Some organizations are great at redefining roles. Others are terrible. Honestly, it’s part of the change management process, but again, some are great at change and others not. The big question in this series: What do…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 2
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Coping with the loss of friends and associates (the guilty survivor) One of the worst things for both management and the retained organization is deciding and coping with the people who will be losing their jobs. As mentioned in the…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 1
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Who are you? With the recent glut of HRO and other outsourcing deals, it’s obvious that some employees are going to be invited to stick around, and others will be given the pink slip. With over 100 HRO deals out…
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Talk About Hewitt
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There’s been a lot of it lately. Our own Donald Glade wrote about it here, and Jason did here. First off, my response to Jason Corsello: ADP should not buy Hewitt. ADP does not have a proven track record integrating…
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The Future of Open Source Applications
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Open source technologies have been part of the software and technology landscape for quite some time. Except for the very notable exceptions of Linux and Java which have acheived mainstream success, other open source applications have not had the same…
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On Engagement and Learning
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The following is heavily plagiarized from Fortune Magazine (reference below) Francis Upton was a Princeton-trained mathematician. Working for Thomas Edison, he wrote to his father, “The strangest thing to me is the $12 that I get each Saturday, for my…
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An Interview with Employease
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I’ve been quite up front in my admission that I don’t know much about the mid-market for HRMS. As part of my education, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the absolute leaders in the mid-market HRMS arena…
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To Engage Employees, Let Them Go
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The Edelmann blog highlights a New York Times article analyzing the affect of vacation time (or lack of) on employee engagement and turnover within the younger generation of workers (not quite phrased that way of course). Many young people in…
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Great Brands in Action
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Creating a great brand is difficult. Often, the external brand and the internal brand are either not synchronized, or they are simply distinct strategies. Beyond the difficulty of creating a great brand, the difficulty of creating a single brand that…
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A Checklist for Leadership Development
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We all hate this talk about “HR having a seat at the table.” It’s a tagline that getting old and perhaps a bit insulting. The truth is that HR has the influence to spearhead initiatives such as leadership development, but…
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
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Talent management is clearly one of the morst popular strategies in HR today. Getting the most attention are components of talent management that can be systematized through software vendors like Taleo, SuccessFactors, Vurv, Authria and many others. Talent Acquisition, performance…
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Employer Branding and Talent Management
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The Human Resources IQ Blog has a nice write-up for creating a great employee value propusition and it’s affect on attracting and retaining talent. At systematicHR, we’ve been using the term employer branding, but if fact the two terms may…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 3
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Of couse not all HR change management means displacing staff (see parts 1 & 2). What every change management professional knows (and not all HR practitioners share this knowledge) is that there are several distinct levels of change: Level 1:…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 2
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So we left off with part 1 with an understanding that you might need to change some of your HR staff due to the realities of changing your HR business operates. Some you’ll want to keep, some you won’t. Hash…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 1
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We ended last week’s PMO discussion with change management. As a program manager, a high level understanding of change management may be all that you need – you’d have change management professionals working in the organization to get down to…
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When to Walk Away from a Sale: The Vendor Side of Vendor Management
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Since Donald Glade has been tackling vendor management, an article in “the CEO Refresher” ((McLaughlin, Michael W. “When to Walk Away From a Sale: Nine Pivotal Questions.” Retrieved from www.refresher.com on May 21, 2006.)) caught my eye when I noticed…
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PMO – Behavioral Change in HR
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Every project has some component of change. Especially in HR changes, an organization might be deploying changes to how HR practitioners, employees, or managers experience process or service delivery. In many cases, multiple populations experience changes of many varieties. As…
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PMO – Behavioral Change with Employees and Managers
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HR behavioral change is sometimes easy with employees and usually difficult with managers. Modern employees enjoy access to self service systems, but are sometimes lukewarm towards service delivery and call center environments they are not used to. Managers on the…
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PMO vs Change Management
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Change management is a critical part of almost any project and it is a determinant in the successful implementation in both technology and process projects. I believe change management should be an organized function within the PMO. How it’s structured…
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PMO and Project Decision Making
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A part of overall governance, how decisions are made within projects can also determine the success or failure of the project. It does not always matter if the decisions were right or wrong, as much as if there was transparent…