HR Strategy
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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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Hot HR Issues – Part 1
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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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Leadership part 2 – Marcus Buckingham
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Prior Posts: Leadership Intro Leadership Part 1 – Art Weinbach In the Part 2 interview, We’ll look at Wharton’s interview with Marcus Buckingham. According to Buckingham, the best managers share one talent — the ability to find, and then capitalize…
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Responsibility – Part 3
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Im realizing that I never actually defined why I called this series “responsibility.” Mostly, it was because we in HR have a responsibility to ensure that certain practices maintain the HR and employer brand. So far, we’ve talked about values…
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Responsibility – Part 2
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How does your HR organization take responsibility for nurturing your high potentials? Launch a formal, high-level succession-planning conference for senior executives facilitated by corporate HR and outside experts; outline the leadership development process; and cascade it through the company. Create…
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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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Leadership part 1 – Art Weinbach
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Prior Posts: Leadership Intro Correction from the last post. These interviews I’m referencing are not from HBS – they’re from Wharton. I’m starting this series with an interview with Art Weinbach, the current CEO of Automatic Data Processing. Based in…
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Gautam Ghosh – The new HR professional?
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Gautam wrote this quite a long time ago, and I’ve been intending to reply for a while. As long as I’m writing about leadership these days, seemed like the right time. The upcoming generation of leaders strongly believes that HR…
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Leadership Intro – Three Ways of Great Leaders
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A few months ago, Fast Company pushed out this article on leadership. I’m going to follow this with my thoughts and examples from several interviews that Harvard also published in the last year. Just so you know, the Fast Company…
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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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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 1
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Why? This is simply a critical topic in HR technology as “strategy” transforms into true business support. The modern HR department and it’s HR technology must be able to support these three conditions to be effective in today’s world. Businesses…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 2
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Last week we talked about a good HRIS analyst’s role in decision support. This week we are going to talk about the integration between process determination and HRIS. HRIS should be playing the same role in process support that it…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 1
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I’ve been thinking that HRIS is given too tactical a role in most organizations. This is not based on any real metric or survey, but just a gut feel from organizations I’ve visited over the last half decade or so….
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HR Technology Does Not Make Us Strategic
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I admit – I used to be one… A vendor that is. I was one of those people who told HR technology buyers, “Great HR technology will allow you to be more strategic!!!” I’m sorry. But actually (in my and…
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Watson Wyatt – 2005 HCI study
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Watson Wyatt – Insider again pushes out a nice article tying together the correlation between effective HR program design and financial performance. First off, here’s a nice diagram of what we’ve beem blogging about for a while: Retrieved from http://www.watsonwyatt.com…
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EE’s quit to seek relationships, balance and mission
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In the “talent war” discussion, there is now even more room for concern. While we have always realized that growing retiree populations were decreasing the availability of senior talent, the development of young talent seems to be at risk as…
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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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Time to reconstruct HR practices, approach
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I was reading this commentary on HR practices basically not living up to expectations and thought I’d deliver my rebuttal. (Financial Express article here – pop-up warning if you follow the link) Mr. Reddy argues that: Veterans in the field…
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Pooh on Innovation
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It’s Friday and some things are too good not to post. This is from Visual Congruence — Creativity Zone: Pulling wisdom out of pooh “HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head,…
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HR 2006 Part 3 – Change Management
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HR 2006 Intro – What is HR Strategy? HR 2006 Part 1 – Priorities HR 2006 Part 2 – Direction It occurs to me that many of us do not really know what change management is. There is a significant…