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Thinking Like A Leader
Read more: Thinking Like A LeaderOn my recent Taiwan trip with my family, one of my uncles tagged along for much of the tour. I really like this uncle as he is often quite interesting to talk to, and is an extremely smart guy. He’s been retired for a while from his last job as the COE of a major…
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Workforce Talent Retention
I recently talked to an organization who is moving their organization from one end of the city to the opposite far end of the same area. The commuting time between the cities is about 40 minutes, and some employees would benefit and have reduced commute, others would certainly pick up longer train or car rides.…
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An apology to the readers of systematicHR
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been using MS Word to type my blog entries, then using the copy-paste function to get the text into systematcHR. Along with text, a simple copy-paste also brings an abundance of formatting with it, that the blog and most HTML readers will not read. This has cause the…
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Keeping Managers Accountable for Turnover
— You must have a manager training program — You must have education on employee engagement — Metric on first year employee turnover, how much of hires were an employee brand mismatch versus manager skill? Are your managers accountable for turnover? Do you chalk that 20% turnover to the state of your business, company or…
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Scouting for Talent – An athletic view of the world
— How do you measure talent? — How do you determine who to develop? — How does that impact who gets developed and who gets money spent on them? We’ve talked about soccer moms and helicopter parenting on this blog. But we’ve never talked about how some of those kids participate in selection activities within…
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Global Change Management
So you’re rolling out a global HRIT strategy. Perhaps this means you are putting the entire enterprise on a global recruiting system, or you will ask each business unit and country to provide data to a global data warehouse, or even more extreme, perhaps you are forcing all of your businesses to go onto a…
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Staffing for Global IT Models
I often get the question about how to deploy HR technology services. People still seem to be in love with discovering the “best practices” in the industry, not realizing that they are general guidelines of what seems to be working for a decent population of companies in the current historical moment. In fact, the “best…
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Top Chef on Management Styles
I’ve been watching “Top Chef Masters” on Bravo TV. It takes some very well known chefs in the U.S. culinary scene and pits them against each other in a set of challenges. This week’s challenge (I am writing this on August 18) takes the last 4 chefs and pairs them with 3 souse chefs each. …
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6 Degrees: The Data Hub
“The Power of Six Degrees” recently re-ran on the Science Channel here in the U.S. The basic premise of 6 degrees was that you can connect yourself to any other person in the world, not matter how remote, with only 6 steps. What the show revealed was that in choosing that 6 step path, it…
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HR Market Makers: Who Really Determines What You Buy
So you think you choose what software you purchase? Well perhaps some of the time you do, but I’m starting to think that there are a couple dozen people in the HR industry that really determine the fate of HR software companies and purchasing. Let’s face it, the list of short listed vendors you will…
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Global HRMS Cultural Issues
Everyone wants global data. They want it in a global HRMS, or in a data warehouse. They want shared accessible data in communized practices and processes. They want the ability to roll-up data and aggregate reports and dashboards. They want workflow that crosses borders, and business units. To be honest, all of this is quite…