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02/26/01
- Orientation Vs. Integration
Your new employee orientation is a make 'em or break 'em experience for a new employee.
Why does something we want to do well, so often go astray? Check out these tips for doing new employee orientation well.
02/20/01
- Change, Change, Change: More Lessons From the Field
Want to make change work for you? Communicate; involve all stakeholders;
share the belief and the dream. Check out the second installment of change survey results!
02/12/01
- Change, Change, Change: Lessons From the Field
Change is possible; the need for change is increasing;
change capability is necessary for organizations that will succeed in the future. So say the respondents to my recent
survey about change management success. Check out the first installment of results! Much more to come!
02/05/01
- HR Tool: Performance Development Process Checklist
Performance appraisals, performance reviews, appraisal forms, whatever
you want to call them, let's call them gone! As a stand-alone, annual assault, they are
universally disliked and avoided. Use this tool to create a process that nurtures employee development instead.
01/28/01
- Tips About Dating, Sex, and Romance at Work
What's love got to do with dating, sex, and
romance at the office? Plenty! Get tips about how to address dating, sex, and romance at work.
01/22/01
- Survivors Can Soar After Downsizing!
If you do the right things right, you can minimize,
and even eliminate, the negative organizational impacts of a downsizing. Find out how!
01/14/01
- Downsizing Survivors
For whatever reason, your organization
downsized, right-sized, eliminated redundancy, scheduled lay-offs, or cut
staff. No matter what you called it, you all have something in
common--survivors. Learn more!
01/08/01
- The Growing Glossary Keeps on Giving!
Who thought Santa didn't
bring you anything for the Christmas holidays this year? He actually brought
the gift that keeps on giving--the beginning of a comprehensive glossary of
Human Resources words, terms, and concepts. Check out this ever-growing
resource!
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12/31/00
- Make the Most of Your HR Month!
Looking for ways to shine the
positive spotlight on your Human Resources programs, processes, and people?
Human Resources Month provides a great opportunity to get started. Find out
how!
12/21/00
- The Top Ten Resolutions for Your Possible New Year
Take a look at
these recommended resolutions. They'll help you recharge, renew, and revitalize
your career and life! These are from my heart, and just for you!
12/10/00
- The Awesome Power of Goal Setting—Ten Tips for Triumph
Heed
the advice offered by Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, Johann Wolfgang Von
Goethe, and Stephen Covey. When you begin your new year with solid direction
and desired outcomes in mind, you set yourself up for awesome success. These
tips will help you achieve your goals and live your resolutions.
11/30/00
- What Would an HR Hero Do?
Check out my first scenario in a new
interactive feature. I’ll keep adding more scenarios if site visitors
enjoy this new approach to sharing HR information. Please give me feedback in
the HR Community Connection Forum.
11/25/00
- Take Those Numeric Ratings and...
Numeric ratings are one of the
most abused components of any measurement and assessment system. They make
people angry and destroy fragile working relationships. The wonder to me is why
you would expect anything different. Want to know more?
11/18/00
- Making Learning Matter
Organizations with the best chance to
succeed and thrive in the future are learning organizations. What is a learning
organization? How can you turn your organization into a learning organization?
Find sixteen tips and a definition in this article!
11/10/00
- HR Trends: Are You Ready for an Agile Future?
Agile, nimble,
resilient—these words describe the people you want to hire, retain, and
develop in the future. They describe the organizations that will thrive in
times of intensely competitive, rapidly changing markets, customers, products,
delivery systems, and services. They describe YOU, if you value your HR career
and your contribution to the competitiveness and success of your organization.
Find out more!
10/31/00
- Help People Thrive at Work!
How to recruit, retain, reward, and
motivate staff currently tops your interest list. Doing these well is the most
important strategic role of the Human Resources professional. In what other
capacity can you contribute more to the success of your organization? InThe
New Pioneers: The Men and Women Who are Transforming the Workplace and the
Marketplace, Thomas Petzinger, Jr., discusses the pieces of a powerful
revolution currently reshaping the face of American business. I’d like to
see HR professionals leading the charge on these.
10/23/00
- Performance Management is NOT an Annual Appraisal!
Performance
appraisals are a hot topic in HR these days. In fact, hundreds of resources
exist to tell you how to do performance reviews. I think this is the wrong
approach. Should you do reviews at all? If so, what is the larger systems
issue? Find out!
10/15/00
- How to Make Values Live in Your Organization
Your culture is the
outward demonstration of the values that exist in your workplace. Are these
values creating the workplace you want? Do these values promote a culture of
extraordinary customer care by happy, motivated, productive people? Find out
more!
09/30/00
- HR Guide Got Guidance: Survey Results Are In!
Survey results are
in! Over 140 people invested their time to participate. I promise your time was
well spent. Read on to discover who uses the About HR site and what your
colleagues want from this HR site. Some of the results may surprise you! They
did me!
09/24/00
- Training CAN Make a Difference: Twelve Tips for Training
Transfer
Can you turn your training participants into learning magnets
who can’t wait to attend their next training? Absolutely. Can you expect
improved work performance as a result of the time, energy, and money you
invest? Absolutely. Find out how.
09/12/00
- Build a Value-Based Organization
Does the environment of your
workplace motivate, excite and retain employees? To ensure that it does, create
a workplace with a foundation firmly based on your core values. Learn
more!
08/31/00
- Book Review: Birth of the Chaordic Age
I‘ve been
thinking a lot about chaos -- not as in massive disorder, but as described in
the new science of complexity. That’s the study of organizations as
complex, living systems, not as ordered, controlled environments like those
defined by organizational charts and detailed job descriptions. Read some
additional thoughts and a book review of a terrific book.
08/23/00
- Resource Roundup: Ten Great Web Sites for Managers
The Internet is
a world whose cities, countries, streets, and byways are millions of Web pages
and more. If you’re a Human Resources manager with limited time to use the
World Wide Web as a career-building tool, the sheer magnitude is daunting. To
make this world more approachable, I’ve picked ten Web sites that contain
knowledgeable, thoughtful content for managers. Take a look; I’m sure
they’re value added for you.
08/14/00
- Ten Tips to Make Training Work
How much money did your organization
invest last year in training that failed to provide the results you sought? You
are not alone if training classes rarely resulted in the transfer of
immediately useful information to your workplace. Real employee behavioral
change, based on the training content, is even harder to demonstrate.
Discouraging? You bet! So what's an organization to do?
07/31/00
- Cures for Negativity
Your workplace is seething with hostility and
negativity! No matter where the bad vibes came from, it's up to you, as an HR
professional, to help make the atmosphere more positive, productive and
supportive. Find out how!
07/16/00
- Tips for Minimizing Workplace Negativity
Nothing affects employee
morale more insidiously than persistent workplace negativity. It saps the
energy of your organization and diverts critical attention from work and
performance. Find out how to minimize negativity before it starts.
07/09/00
- What Great Managers Do Differently
Great managers break every rule
perceived as "conventional wisdom" in selecting, motivating, and developing
staff. See how this helps create a stronger organization and committed
staff.
06/11/00
- Performance Appraisals Don't Work
Many managers intensely dislike
doing performance appraisals. Given the expectations of the traditional
process, who can blame them?
06/04/00
- Tips for Effective Coaching
Have you tried on your coaching hat?
These six tips will help you make the most of your opportunity as an HR
Coach.
05/30/00
- The Strategic HR Coach
Are you missing the momentum as more and
more executives seek the assistance of a business or personal coach? Find out
more about your opportunity in this role.
05/28/00
- Training Trends
The way organizations integrate training and
development concepts is changing. Is your organization ready for new
developments such as online learning?
05/14/00
- The New Role of the Human Resource Professional
The role of the
Human Resources professional is radically changing. Are you ready for the next
decade of change and evolution in HR systems and management style?