How Managers Matter to Engagement – Q&A with Scott Carbonara
Author Scott Carbonara explores the critical role managers play in engagement We talk a fair amount about crowdsourcing and the importance of peer feedback and reinforcement on engagement and...
View ArticleNobody Works for You – What a Rock Band Can Teach You About Teamwork
The band Great Big Sea has a successful management philosophy: no one works for them, and they work for no one. My all time favorite band is Great Big Sea. I’ve been following them since I stumbled...
View Article10 Things CEOs Can Do to Protect the Talent Pipeline
CEOs care deeply about people metrics and talent management. In fact, according to PwC’s 2013 CEO Study, a majority of CEO’s are “particularly anxious” about the shortage of key skills in their...
View ArticlePeople Analytics and the Wave of the Future
Just in case you missed it, I feel compelled to blog today about a terrific article that was posted on the Atlantic Monthly’s site last week. It is all about big data and human resources, and the rise...
View ArticleHow to Build a Bullet-Proof Talent Strategy
HR is in a period of dramatic change. Anyone who has been part of HR for twenty, or ten, or even just a couple of years is probably nodding along with this. Many people credit this to the critical...
View ArticleMeasuring & Managing Culture with Big Data
Here is part two in our series of posts on the 6 hot themes that we see affecting HR this year. This post discusses how Culture Management is made infinitely more possible with the advent of Big Data...
View ArticleThe Talent War Ceasefire is Over
In this sixth and final part of our series of posts on the 6 hot themes that will be affecting HR in 2013, we look at the War for Talent, which is ramping up again in the face of the economic upturn...
View ArticleCultivating Your High Potentials with Recognition
Let me get this out of the way first and say that you should effectively manage, identify, recognize and reward ALL of your employees. That said, there is no question that an effective strategy for...
View ArticleThe Exceedingly Curious Origins of Performance Management
In our webinar with Talent Management Magazine yesterday, my colleague Jen Sartor and I talked about how the performance management process has been largely frozen in time since the 1960s or 1970s....
View Article101 Effective Words to Use in Recognition
I have an ongoing love affair with words. This earns me a fair amount of teasing from my co-workers, because in my effort to choose just the right word, I often grab a 10 cent word or something arcane...
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