How to Give a Great HR Speech
A great HR speech is a work of art, and, like most works of art, the artist must practice and refine her techniques.
Employment Branding, Recruiting and Shaunda Zilich
I have a brand new article over at ERE about my friend Shaunda Zilich. She’s the global employment brand leader at GE. You may not know her name, but you’ve seen her work. Head on over there and check it out!
Choose Your Outfit, Choose Your Life
Choose your outfit, choose your life. I want to be healthy and active, but there are a lot of obstacles and excuses in my way. DNA, junk food, my travel schedule. You name it, I have a reason why I can’t exercise. So my super-secret trick is to put on my workout clothes on in…
Headwinds & Tailwinds
Do you feel like your life is unnecessarily stupid and hard? Do you feel like you’ve accomplished a lot and wonder why other people can’t work as hard as you? I heard a podcast, the other day, with Drs. Tom Gilovich and Shai Davidai. They explain why things seem needlessly hard for you in a…
The Current State and Future State of HR
Go ahead and try to explain the current state and future state of HR in less than 50 words. (I’ll wait. It’s not easy.) In years past, I told people that HR is an inverted pyramid. There’s value at the top and bottom, but it turns out that fewer people are doing more and more…
How to Write a Great HR Blog Post
I’m in love with my career as a writer, but most of my blogging isn’t very good. It’s a narcissistic dump of feelings to clear my mind and boost my ego. I want to believe that I write great HR blog posts. But I peer back through time and see that I’m almost always writing…
Leadership is Meant to Change Someone’s Life
You shouldn’t give feedback unless you want to change someone’s life. That’s an audacious goal, and it’s probably unattainable. But feedback is tough. Not everybody is meant to deliver messages. If you start out with the purpose of intent of making someone’s life better, your petty attachments and issues fade away. You can focus on…
Crushing It in Hustle Mode
I flew out to San Francisco last week for 24 hours. I wanted to stay longer, but my husband was out of the country, and my cat 16-year-old cat needed his medicine. So I got on a plane, flew through a blizzard, met a guy who works for The Shins at an airport bar who…
The Hedonic Treadmill of HR Tech and Life
A couple of years ago, I sat in a marketing meeting with a client that had just gone through a major pivot. They were moving from an established product to a fresh way of doing business. Everything was different: new logo, new message, new leadership, a new vision for the enterprise. But what was the…
Women Manipulate Maternity Leave with HR’s Help
Did you read the reporting that the US Supreme Court Nominee, Neil Gorsuch, allegedly said that women manipulate companies to extract maternity benefits? Yeah, those sneaky broads start an interview with the intention of pulling a fast one on business owners by having kids! He also allegedly believes it’s okay for employers to ask women…
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