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Decision effectiveness
Read more: Decision effectivenessA few years ago, i had a custom set of wheels made for my bike. I had the rims specifically weighed and picked out of a set of about 10 rims. I had the spokes weighed and balanced to make…
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Great Brands in Action
Creating a great brand is difficult. Often, the external brand and the internal brand are either not synchronized, or they are simply distinct strategies. Beyond the difficulty of creating a great brand, the difficulty of creating a single brand that…
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A Checklist for Leadership Development
We all hate this talk about “HR having a seat at the table.” It’s a tagline that getting old and perhaps a bit insulting. The truth is that HR has the influence to spearhead initiatives such as leadership development, but…
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Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
Talent management is clearly one of the morst popular strategies in HR today. Getting the most attention are components of talent management that can be systematized through software vendors like Taleo, SuccessFactors, Vurv, Authria and many others. Talent Acquisition, performance…
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Employer Branding and Talent Management
The Human Resources IQ Blog has a nice write-up for creating a great employee value propusition and it’s affect on attracting and retaining talent. At systematicHR, we’ve been using the term employer branding, but if fact the two terms may…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 3
Of couse not all HR change management means displacing staff (see parts 1 & 2). What every change management professional knows (and not all HR practitioners share this knowledge) is that there are several distinct levels of change: Level 1:…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 2
So we left off with part 1 with an understanding that you might need to change some of your HR staff due to the realities of changing your HR business operates. Some you’ll want to keep, some you won’t. Hash…
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Managing Change in Your HR Staff – Part 1
We ended last week’s PMO discussion with change management. As a program manager, a high level understanding of change management may be all that you need – you’d have change management professionals working in the organization to get down to…
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Shake up at Hewitt
The rumors have been around in the market for some time now, but this past week it showed up in print: What does surprise Pramuk and other experts, however, is that Hewitt doesn’t have a successor in place for Salvino….
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When to Walk Away from a Sale: The Vendor Side of Vendor Management
Since Donald Glade has been tackling vendor management, an article in “the CEO Refresher” ((McLaughlin, Michael W. “When to Walk Away From a Sale: Nine Pivotal Questions.” Retrieved from www.refresher.com on May 21, 2006.)) caught my eye when I noticed…
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PMO – Behavioral Change in HR
Every project has some component of change. Especially in HR changes, an organization might be deploying changes to how HR practitioners, employees, or managers experience process or service delivery. In many cases, multiple populations experience changes of many varieties. As…