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HR Technology Conference Reactions: Naomi’s Master Panel – SaaS
Read more: HR Technology Conference Reactions: Naomi’s Master Panel – SaaSTalk about a stacked panel. This one was moderated by a thought leader, and staffed by thought leaders. They included: MODERATOR: Naomi Lee Bloom (Managing Partner, Bloom & Wallace), Steven Miranda (SVP, Applications Development, Oracle), Mike Capone (VP for Product Development and CIO, ADP), Sanjay Poonen (President Global Solutions, SAP), John Wookey (EVP, Social Applications,…
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Recruiting and Selecting Salespeople
It would be absurd for me to tell you how to attract salespeople. So I won’t. Sales is so highly specialized based on the target markets, the product mix, the region that very few tactics are universal. However, Gallup has apparently found some common traits that all successful salespeople have some degree of. Gallup interviewed…
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Happiness vs. Engagement
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All too often the pursuit of happiness has been equated with the pursuit of money or a better job (a.k.a. money). Even Will Smith’s latest movie “The Pursuit of Happiness” which I think he should win an Oscar for has an underlying theme of real happiness, but the…
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Great HR Podcast Ideas
I’ve been thinking about how would could both communicate through podcasts. Certainly there are the obvious applications. If you do a corporate meeting, why not record it and make it available for download? If the President of the U.S. gets to speak to the nation weekly in his radio address, why not HR? What about…
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Defining Employee Engagement
In 2006, The Conference Board published “Employee Engagement, A Review of Current Research and Its Implications”. According to this report, twelve major studies on employee engagement had been published over the prior four years by top research firms such as Gallup, Towers Perrin, Blessing White, the Corporate Leadership Council and others. ((Patricia Soldati, March 8,…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and product actually gets done. Sure we have our formal organizational hierarchies, and we have process flow charts that rout our activities to each other, but the…
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(Not) Measuring Employee Productivity
More and more we’ve been seeing increased interest in some “real” employee metrics. Instead of looking at things like employee satisfaction, I’ve been talking about profit per employee and the chain of linkages between the engagement score and the profit figure. Business 2.0 Magazine had a write-up about measuring employee productivity. Here are some of…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Motivation
If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon. ((Despair.com)) I found this despair.com entry quite interesting on several levels. First, it draws from the realization that there is more to motivation than a poster,…
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Understanding the Millennial – Crisis at the Gate
It seems that teen unemployment is at an all time high. While they might have all manner of other activities going on, the lack of employment is a critical factor in the millennial ability to join the workforce and be productive. As recently as 1990, nearly 70% of newspaper carriers in the U.S. were teens.…
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Understanding the Millennial – The Incredible Opportunity
So perhaps you have not encountered this yet, but the millennial generation is different. What’s a millennial? In short, they are the upcoming generation that is currently graduating from high schools and colleges and will be for the next decade. This generation is quite special though. They possess a completely different sensibility around both work…
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Innovation Software and HR
Do I ever get sick of being the only one who talks about innovation and preaching that HR should be involved? Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent the last 6 months spewing on about collaboration and innovation and how HR should be part of the lead for figuring how that stuff works. After all, it’s…