Communications
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HRIT and Communications Strategy Overlap
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I think it’s apparent that I love talking about portal. Much of what I talk about is fairly theoretical and visionary considering not all the technologies are actually fully capable of delivering what I’d like to see, but we’re getting…
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The Future of UI
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One of the reasons I write so much about the user interface (UI), portals and SOA is that I believe HR technology’s future is very much about how we engage and increase end user adoption. In an increasingly dispersed global…
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Creating Strategy Part 3
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Here’s part 3: 7. Encourage Risks; Tolerate Mistakes ((Millard, Rob, June 5, 2006. “Increasing Your Strategic Clock Speed.” Retrieved from…
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Creating Strategy Part 1
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I recently posted that the creation of strategy was better served by being flexible and agile than creating concrete plans. Rob Millard probably said it better: NOT on a soviet-style grand plan, but about creating the resilience that the firm…
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Branding, Communications, Compensation, Engagement, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Talent Mgmt, Vendors, Workforce Planning
We Have Work to Do
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For all our lofty talk about employer branding, employee engagement, communications and change management, and for all the money we’ve been spending on implementing technology, process and workflow, we don’t seem to be tying the two together. I won’t be…
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Change Management, Communications, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Knowledge Mgmt, Learning Mgmt, Portal
HBR – P2P and Web 2.0 Leadership Development
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In 1995, two young U.S. Army officers who had been friends at West Point found themselves living down the street from each other at a base near Honolulu. Nate Allen and Tony Burgess were both in their first stints as…
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Networking From An Island
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This was a fun way to “network” although I don’t know if you could actually call it networking if you don’t know who you’re talking to and you have no anticipation that they will ever respond to your queries. OK,…
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HR Technology, Branding and Environmentalism
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Going where I never thought I’d go… But the HRIQ blog wrote this page about the amount of waste generated by a workplace in a single year. Apparently the average worker can throw away ONE QUARTER OF A TONNE OF…
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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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Ineffective Communications
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I was checking out ((I got there through the Employee Portals 2.0 blog)) Watson Wyatt’s effective communication report ((Watson Wyatt. “Effective Communication: A Leading Indicator of Financial Performance – 2005/2006 Communication ROI Study”, Retrieved from http://www.watsonwyatt.com on May 7, 2006.))…
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Hot HR Issues – Part 2
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The Conference Board of Canada did an interview with Dave Ulrich where he stated “the 21st century will belong to human resources and to organizational capabilities.” ((Thanks to Romain of unknow origin for pointing me to the Conference Board of…
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Responsibility – Part 1
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Charismatic leaders create an envorinment in which employees want to follow a vision or idea that has been stated. A goal of most leaders is to create the type of enviironment where employees are engaged in that mission and vision…
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Workstream Product Enhancements
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The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off…
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7 Habits of Effective Communications
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While I’m not a “communicator” in HRIT we are often involved in communications at levels we don’t think about. Basically, any time we’re implementing a system that will include a form of manager or employee self service, or designing a…
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Improving the quality of Communications – Part 2 of 2
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View part 1 here. Jason wrote this post about The Manager’s Role in PerformanceCorsello, Jason, December 19, 2005. “The Manager’s Role in Performance.” Retrieved from http://jasoncorsello.blogs.com on December 19, 2005. a couple days ago. Seemed to fit into this topic…
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Improving the quality of Communications – Part 1 of 2
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Employee Engagement at 14% Worldwide Actually, I’ll place a healthy bet that all bloggers and almost all blog readers are highly engaged. Let’s face it, for you to search out pages like this one instead of SHRM.com takes some effort….
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More on HR Communications
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One of the things that bothers be about blogspot.com is that I can’t have comments automatically showing up on the board – you have to click comments to see them. Most of the time, comments are innocuous enough, but sometimes…
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Branding, Communications, Service Delivery
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Perhaps the post should be “Branding, Communications, Service Delivery… Again.” Actually, there have been a couple of interesting things on the web. The first is a post by Andrew who referred to another debate about communications strategy and change. In…