Back in the day when I was a newbie blogger with a good URL and an accidental audience, a friend offered a smart piece of advice. Quoting Kurt Vonnegut, he said, “Be careful who you pretend to be.” Whenever I think I know something, and whenever I’m about to present myself as an expert on…
I have been begging VPs of HR to hire human resources business analysts. This is true. If you’ve never heard of that job, here is a description from Amazon. (Side note: they use iCIMS. I don’t know what that surprises me, but it does.) Anyway, the job description starts off like this: The Amazon Device team designs and…
I’m getting ready for my trip to Orlando where I’ll be running with Rob Lowe (or something like that). I’ll do my best not to cause any trouble. The primary purpose of my trip is to host a segment of the WorkHuman agenda called “Big Ideas Cocktail Reception.” There are five great speakers who will be giving…
When I teach teams about implementing cool and new ideas in their human resources departments, we always look at the HR lifecycle. It goes something like this: Sourcing/Recruiting/Compensation Negotiations Onboarding/Benefits Learning/Development Talent Management Performance Management and Recognition Retention and Succession Management Off-Boarding and Knowledge Management Baked in there are the efforts required to keep labor costs…
The modern HR department relies heavily on analytics. So how can you be an effective HR leader if you’re terrible at math?
My Gramma never had a car. When we needed to food shop, we walked about a mile to the local grocery store called Dominick’s. She had a shopping cart that we pushed down Belmont Avenue like a bunch of homeless women. When we checked out at the register, she haggled over double coupons and sale…
I’m down with all of this research and science behind happiness at work. I think it’s a good thing. I like it when HR professionals think about happiness, too. Nobody wants you to be miserable from your long commute to your 21st-century factory job where you earn flat wages and can’t keep up. But in…
Gotta do some stuff. See you next week. Be safe.
There is no art and science of saying thank you. If you ever wonder if you should thank someone for doing a good job, the answer is yes. Say thank you. Stop what you’re doing and do it right now. Did you overlook somebody? Go back and say thank you. Pick up the phone. It’s never…
I’m speaking at the 2015 Skillsoft Perspectives conference on Wednesday. I’ll be up on stage with a bunch of experts talking about talent analytics. A colleague of mine asked, “What are you doing on that panel?” I said — “I sit on the board of a company that uses technology to marry and dissect labor,…