Engagement
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Engagement is Economic Theory
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I was having a recent conversation with John Sumser where we discussed my need to be an engaged employee. Indeed, I’m that guy who is almost always engaged because I honestly love my work. I’m one of those unique people who actually find the world of HR and HR technology interesting. In general, I’m the…
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Change Management, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Service Delivery, HR Technology, Portal, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Android versus iPhones
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The web is alive with comparisons of Google Android phones and Apple iPhones. While it seemed for a long time that the iPhone was going to own the market, Android has slowly picked up steam. In fact, Apple may have made a serious miscalculation in tying themselves with the AT&T network and a limited population…
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Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Technology, Innovation, Portal Technology, Web 2.0Meaningful Experiences in Web 2.0
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I’ve complained about information overload before. As we get into lists and networks and blogs, and microblogs, we subject ourselves to information from increasingly diverse sources. Some of these are annoying sources that we wish we didn’t have anything to do with (your nephew’s farmville updates on Facebook), while others are truly valuable if you…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Web 2.0Enterprise Digital Interactions
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I know we don’t need any more buzzwords, but at the same time, HR and corporate organizations really seem to hate calling their internal blog, wiki, networking and collaboration tools “Social” media. There is good reason for this as most organizations are not trying to encourage social behaviors at work, but professional networking, increasing connections,…
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Branding, Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Web 2.0Enterprise Web 2.0 and Personal Brands
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I started systematicHR something like 5 years ago as a true weblog – a place where I could record my thoughts as I went through my daily reading and research. More than 5 years after my first blog post that I never thought anyone would read but myself, systematicHR has really become my own personal…
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When Things Go Wrong
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Over the last few months, we’ve been watching tremendously troubling images come out of BP’s Gulf oil spill. We often think that when things go wrong, they can usually be corrected, but sometimes something goes wrong and it’s just catastrophic. At the time of writing, the oil spill had recently overtaken the amount of oil…
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Up In The Air – Boarding Theory
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Many of the people I know have watched a film called “Up in the Air.” Indeed, I suppose it was a popular file garnering several Oscar nominations. (I have no idea if it won anything as I don’t watch the Oscars.) Several people have told me how personal the film was, and other than the…
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The “Other”
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Why can’t we get along with payroll? What makes them so different? It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance. There always seems to be some friction. Often we like to think that they are just “different” people. HR people are strategic and nurturing and…
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Gaming: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
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I’ve been writing a lot about gaming and being an advocate for the learning activities that it promotes. In many cases and for many games, there is active online collaboration, leadership, decision-making, team building, and project management going on. The participants don’t necessarily know it’s happening, but it is. However, while the players may be…
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Inspiration or Engagement?
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I’ve been away for a little while. No, I have not been on vacation, or away from the country. I’ve just not been writing. I don’t know if other bloggers have this problem, but I don’t bother writing if I’m not “inspired.” To be honest, I’ve faced this a few times in my career, and…
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Measuring the Temperature of your Workforce
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For those of you who have read Dan Brown’s new book “The Lost Symbol” there is an interesting concept of measuring the temperature of a population. I’ll provide a quick couple of paragraphs, noting that it’s really not critical in any way to the plot of the story: Trish laughed. “Yeah, sounds crazy, I know.…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, Functional, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy
Blending Food Flavors and Cross Functional Collaboration
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I usually write about cycling here, but I generally make it no secret that I’m a wannabe foodie. ((My other blog is a food blog)) Great food is sometimes about simplicity, and other times it’s about depth and flavor combinations. I was recently at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles (( Osteria Mozza is a partnership…
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Users First, Company Second
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I feel like I always talk about change management and adoption. When implementing a new system, I can definitely say that over the last few years I’ve seen a marked improvement in the diligence of internal implementation project managers in stressing the importance of behavioral change and end user adoption. It is honestly so easy…
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Great Individual Contributors <> Great Leaders
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I hate taking things from the sports world because other than the occasional job, riding my bike more than I should and watching the Boston Celtics in the post-season, I really don’t follow sports. Fact is, I usually don’t even realize it’s Superbowl Sunday until the game is half over. But being a pseudo Celtics…
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The Shift to Engagement
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I was reading a post on 2010 (originally attributed to Joyce Gioia, but without a link). ((Quick note to my fellow bloggers, Even though I don’t always link, I do almost always footnote. It’s a pain, but we live in an age where viral communications threaten the attribution of thought generation and innovative thinking. People…
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David Zinger 3 Words Follow-up
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3 Words Follow-up to yesterday’s post written by David Zinger. I am so pleased you took so much away from 3 little words. It makes me feel stronger than the 3 little pigs and I know some wolf can blow my 3 word structure down. The words are all important to me and my work.…
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Branding and the 3-word Theme
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I was checking out David Zinger’s twitter page and noticed his 2009 3-word theme. They are “Authentic, Connections, Engage.” A part of me wants a 5 page manifesto on his choice of these words and why they are important to him this year. (he probably wrote a blog post on this, but I missed it).…
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Survey Design 101 – Part 2: Which questions should I keep or drop?
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Guest Author: Stephen B. Jeong, Ph.D. In Part 1 of Survey Design 101, we discussed two broad topics related to survey design – choosing the right topics and creating quality questions. Survey design (or questionnaire development), however, is not complete until you can show that all or most of the redundant questions have been filtered…