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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…