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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…