HR Strategy
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Tactical Talent Management Becomes Strategic
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Just a couple years ago, we always seemed to talk about outsourcing activities, processes and tasks that were administrative in nature. Part of the boom in Software as a…
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Connecting Employee Performance and Enterprise Performance
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Should Employee Performance Management be integrated and considered in Enterprise Performance Management? In an interesting twist, Thomas Otter and Jonathan Becher started a conversation here at exactly the same…
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Changing Management Culture to Improve Employee Creativity
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More and more of the literature that is out there (at least what I’m reading) is about innovation. Business thinkers are clearly over the fact that R&D, engineering and…
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Happy Cows Come From California
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Where I live, the California Cheese people have an advertising campaign (I assume in competition with Wisconsin) that show miserable cows in the midst of blizzards followed by “happy”…
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Your Workforce Bench Strength
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Jason Corsello has one of the most effective illustrations of workforce depth that I’ve seen. Every NFL team has a depth chart. Most are listed on their team’s website…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 9
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Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy, and teach it to others. A succession plan is nice. You in HR get to figure out how to…
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Closing the Floodgates: Retaining Senior Talent When the CEO Leaves
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We’ve all seen it. A CEO leaves the organization and takes half of the senior management with him/her to their next gig. Then the new CEO comes in and…
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How Social Networking Will End
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Colin Kingsbury wrote an interesting piece about the end of social networking (I’ve borrowed the title to his post as I’m getting much too lazy these days). He writes:…
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The Truth Behind Asia’s Talent Markets
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You’ll never hear me contesting the idea that Asian talent markets are ripe to be the major force in the world economy. After all, when you have half the…
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The Toyota Way: Principle 8
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Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes. I heard a rumor that I’ll leave as a rumor that when Microsoft Windows was put into…
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Labor Shortages: Myth and Reality
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There are two types of labor shortages currently under examination. The first is a shortage in the current labor supply, and then there’s the much feared future labor supply…
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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 7
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Use visual control so no problems are unhidden. One of the best modern tools we have is the data warehouse and the dashboard. We have totally current metrics available…
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Video iPods in Training
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“Training is now going to employees rather than the other way around.” ((Gronstedt, Anders. June 2007. “Employees Get and Earful.” HBR June 2007, Pg 26)) A few months ago…
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Social Media Best Practice #1
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I don’t know whether the other Systematic (systematicviewpoints.com) intended for his first post on social media best practices to infer that this best practice (#1) is also the most…
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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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What’s the Difference Between Employee Engagement and Commitment?
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Thanks to Terry for pointing me to an article Regina Miller wrote. In it, Regina speculates at the different definitions of commitment versus engagement. It seems that the world…
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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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Understanding the Contributors to Employee Engagement
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The May 2007 issue of HBR gives us a broader view of employee engagement and defines some of the contributors for it. Not surprisingly, employee engagement is not made…
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Choosing the Right Talent Strategy to Drive Profits
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So how much does it cost to drive up revenues by 1%? There are many possibilities including: Cost of acquiring new talent versis: Cost of developing new talent Cost…