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Why I’d make a Fantastic HR Manager
1. Tangent starts here.1 I am an introvert. And not just a little introverted either. Case in point: I’ve taken some variation of Myers-Briggs every year for a solid decade (I just like personality...
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The Bottom Line: Why I Believe HR Really Matters
So I got into the function by choice (many people fall into it). It was a very conscious choice that involved a lot of introspection into how it was that I 1. Now that I think about it, “Careers I...
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The Elephant in the Room – Why Women *Actually* Hold Fewer Leadership...
Image Credit: <foxnews1450.com> So… Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer recently put a policy in place giving new dads eight weeks of paternity leave. This is half of what mothers at Yahoo now have (sixteen...
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Effective Leadership Comes in Many Forms
Image Credit: <www.aveksa.com> I’ve never needed to be in charge. I enjoy project management, and I enjoy leading teams. I sometimes do it even when I’m not interested in being bothered (in...
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Effective HR Starts With Listening
Image Credit: <scottpageillustration.blogspot.com> 1. I’m a bit distracted. My (awesome) company just granted me access to the HR Policy Association and I can’t stop reading all the great links /...
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Let Your Employees Know They’re Appreciated
Image Credit: <wejungo.wordpress.com> Lately I’ve become very bullish on appreciation. People will go above and beyond the call of duty for you – often for no additional compensation at all – if...
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Employee Advocacy
Image Credit: <www.outsourcing-center.com> I have mixed feelings about unions. There are things I like about their (general) practices, and there are also things I’m not a fan of. I might write...
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HR Quote of the Week: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something...
…his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair <en.wikipedia.org> As we get started this week, I want to share a quote with you from American author Upton Sinclair that got...
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Giving Good People Bad News
Image Credit: <www.wired.com> I struggle with giving people bad news – though I would also like to emphasize that I am not afraid to give people bad news. In point of fact, as an HR guy I have...
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Can Employees Handle the Truth? Does it Matter?
<www.baijusolanki.com> I just read a post from compensation consultant Chuck Csizmar touching on the problem of bureaucracy within organizations. In it, Csizmar recounts a scenario that all of us...
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Are You Well Suited To Your Job?
Image Credit: <noahrickun.com> I am a big fan of personality/behavioral tests: Be it Myers-Briggs (I’m an INTJ), The Big Five (aka OCEAN), DISC, Harrison, workZeit (you’ve probably never heard of...
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The Importance of Building Manager Capabilities
Image Credit: <www.talentalign.com> One of my (HR) friends was recently tapped to step into a senior leadership role within his organization while the incumbent takes a temporary leave of...
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Perspective
<www.totalmania.net> One of the toughest things about managing people issues is finding the center. This isn’t because it’s hard to understand what the middle ground looks like in a dispute, but...
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In Search of Perfection…
<juliachristova.com> I have never had a particularly high amount of energy around being liked. Don’t get me wrong… it is certainly nice to be liked. But I don’t need to be liked. It simply isn’t...
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Effective Performance Management…
<www.halogensoftware.com> …Is (mostly) all about messaging, right? I ask because this morning, whilst combing the internet for my daily dose of HR knowledge I came across the following nugget of...
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Does Managing the HR Function in California Require an SPHR?
1. Don’t judge me. -_-…So the other day I was chatting with another HR Pro about state laws 1, and at one point she commented that “opening a business in California is like opening a business in...
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The Power of Real Feedback
<crosslandteam.com-> …So over the past few days I’ve read two great articles on feedback. The first one (from Tim Sackett here) talks about how watered down feedback is an epidemic problem in...
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