{"id":1952,"date":"2012-09-26T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2012-09-04T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:46:30","slug":"rules-of-the-other-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Rules of the Other Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The other road?\u00a0 What other road?\u00a0 The skinny 2-wheeled road of course.\u00a0 Here is the idea:\u00a0 for a cyclist to be safe when you are cruising down the road at 30 miles per hour, a guy 2 inches to your left, right, back and front, there are a couple basic things to keep in mind.<\/p>\n

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  1. Don\u2019t hit the brakes.\u00a0 At 30 miles per hour and a guy 2 inches behind you (true tailgating), hitting the brakes means that you\u2019re going to have a very sore butt and back from impact.\u00a0 When you do hit the brakes, usually it\u2019s accompanied by some rather foul language that reverberates all the way back through the pack.<\/li>\n
  2. Ride in a straight line (a.k.a. follow your line).\u00a0 Don\u2019t swerve, don\u2019t move right or left unexpectedly.\u00a0 I usually even check under my arm to make sure nobody is within striking distance before I \u201cchange my line.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Ride efficiently.\u00a0 You can always see the guys to avoid riding close to.\u00a0 They are the ones that are pedaling with their legs, arms, torso, and everything else.\u00a0 Perfect efficiency is a relaxed and still upper body while your lower body does all the work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I tell you all of this for one reason only.\u00a0 HR is a finely orchestrated bicycle dance.\u00a0 We can work together and radically increase our speed by drafting.\u00a0 Or we can bring all of us down together as well (this latter option is often quite painful).\u00a0 We often don\u2019t realize the integration we have with each other \u2013 that we are only a small cog in the HR process.\u00a0 If we look at things end to end, it\u2019s quite a bit more complex.<\/p>\n

    A quick snapshot reveals that how compensation constructs jobs can make life really easy or hard for recruiting.\u00a0 The quality of the recruiters\u2019 work makes life easy\/hard for HRSS (shared services) when the person is hired.\u00a0 HRSS makes life easy\/hard for payroll and benefits based on the accuracy of the data entry.<\/p>\n

    The thing is that we understand who is downstream from our piece of the puzzle, but I\u2019m not sure we always care enough.\u00a0 When the recruiter is told to slam someone into the hire process, HRSS is often left to pick up the pieces.\u00a0 We sometimes don\u2019t even know what all the ramifications are for months.\u00a0 The problem is that we (in this example recruiting) did something unexpected, and forced an action on someone else.\u00a0 At the end of the day, we probably caused more problems by deviating from our expected course than we solved by rushing someone into the organization.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s always bad to deviate.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s necessary.\u00a0 When I hit the brakes at speed, it usually comes with a simultaneous shout, \u201cSLOWING!\u201d\u00a0 When I change the line I\u2019m riding, I usually check under my arm (think of this as checking your bicycle blind spot) and quickly flick a wrist so everyone knows I\u2019m moving over.\u00a0 The point is, unexpected deviations are bad.\u00a0 Planned and coordinated deviations when really necessary can prevent a log of angst.<\/p>\n

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    The other road?\u00a0 What other road?\u00a0 The skinny 2-wheeled road of course.\u00a0 Here is the idea:\u00a0 for a cyclist to be safe when you are cruising down the road at 30 miles per hour, a guy 2 inches to your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8,11],"tags":[455,261,260,290,438,336],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-strategies","category-service-delivery","tag-collaboration","tag-effectiveness","tag-efficiency","tag-integration","tag-service-delivery","tag-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}