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Feedback and Calling BS in Social
Read more: Feedback and Calling BS in SocialAn interesting thing happened at the recent HR Technology Conference. During Naomi Bloom’s “Master Panel,” when Mike Capone noted that ADP had the first SaaS application, before anyone else and before anyone called it SaaS, many of my compatriots on twitter decided to tweet this statement. I have no issues with announcing to the world…
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Workstream Talent Update
The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly underserved. My take is that the mid market is somewhere around 2500 employees to perhaps 15K employees. This is sort of the sweet spot to me…
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HR Function KPI’s
HR function KPI’s are defined the same way as Human Capital KPI’s except that they are internally focused, rather than focused on the broader organization. One should not be blind to the large amount of overlap that the two types of indicators have on each other though. When looking at the performance of the HR…
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Human Capital KPI’s
HR key performance indicators can be both incredibly difficult or quite simple to generate, depending on the type of indicator you’re looking for. The main problem with your KPI’s is that you need to first make the switch between simple metrics to understanding what a performance indicator is. The reality is that a simple metric…
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We Don’t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent
A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school students. While this trend has been going on in the U.S. for several years, many of us in HR have been having a concurrent discussion about…
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Generation Y Mobile Technology: The Future of Work
I’m not usually very interested in mainstream work technologies from the standpoint of systematicHR. However, I was listening to yet another ZDnet interview with a CIO (this time with Ray Gilbert of Alcatel-Lucent) regarding the next generation of technology. “…desire to watch convergence take place, to get people down to one cell phone or one…
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Redefining Innovation
The American Heritage Dictionary simply defines innovation as “The act of introducing something new.” ((American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com on April 3, 2007.)) ZDnet has a pretty nice CIO interview series. In one of them, Steve Cooper, the CIO of the Red Cross talks about innovation and some of their hurdles from the Hurricane…
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What Innovation Looks Like (really)
Image information in footnote ((Research and node layout by Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans; data from Thompson ISI; graphics & typography by W. Bradford Paley. Commissioned and partially supported by Katy Borner and the Places and Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition. Copyright (c) 2006 W. Bradford Paley, all rights reserved. (But you may print a version…
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Educating for a Lifetime
With rapid changes in technology, the business environment, and the dynamic nature of knowledge usability in the modern world, managing one’s career becomes increasingly difficult. Necessity dictates that employees not only change careers more often as their interests change and their knowledge becomes obsolete, but they need to retrain and re-educate more often as well.…
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Change Management Quotes
The change management blog had a great list of change quotes. I built my own list, basically to address the CM theme I’ve been drilling for the last two years that change management is not about training and communications (that’s only a small part) but more about individual behavioral change. Abraham Lincoln: The dogmas of…
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Training Salespeople
Miller Heiman has the ever popular “blue sheet” sales training, and there are many others like it. Teaching sales people how to sell isn’t necessarily the type of training that’s going to bring you higher revenues though. Years about Nabisco did a study on their non-sales skills sales training. They found that for ever $1000…