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Talent 2012

How to improve your life with pharmaceuticals

Phone call. It’s Melissa. “Hi,” she says. “Can I come see you today? I can get a flight out of Austin at 5pm.” Of course I say yes. I assume she is breaking up with her boyfriend because she’s pretty much agoraphobic except for going to the stable to ride her horse or going to the office for her job. Both of which require only sporadic household departures.
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It's not Leadership if they are Paid to Follow

I've always found that one of the best places to develop leadership skills (particularly early in your career) is in the practice of volunteerism and community service.  If you want to learn if you can lead, raise your hand to lead a group of volunteers to accomplish an important task.  I was fortunate to find these kinds of opportunities early in my life and here's a few of the things I learned. You aren't a leader if people are paid or otherwise required to follow you.
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Five Steps to Turn Wasteful Meetings into Drivers of Success

At their best, most meetings are a waste of time. Instead of inspiring and enabling, way too many of them actually drain participants’ willingness and ability to do real work. Yet QlikTech has found a way to turn its annual corporate summit into a positive, culture-building and culture-reinforcing event that everyone looks forward to. When [...]
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Recruiting Technology – Not just the ATS anymore

A week doesn’t go by when I’m not asked which solution is my favorite. I always answer with one of the following: They are all my favorite None of them are my favorite Trust...
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The Integration of Talent Management Systems Comes to Forefront

The talent management systems market has been under quite a bit of stress lately. In the last 90 days we have seen SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors, followed by Oracle’s acquisition...
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Talent Management: Affirming Strategy and Acquiring New Tools

Alison Hill, Queen's IRC Research Associate
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Interview: What’s So Funny About Change?

On this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, my guest is Dr. Trina Hess of The Humor Academy, who will help us answer the question, “What’s So Funny About Change?” Tune in to hear why it is important to laugh our way through change. Learn how to introduce humor into your initiative and explore its limitations. Listen to the show here (30 minutes):
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How Leaders Kill the Joy of Work

Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees,” say Harvard’s Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. Amabile and her associates have successfully studied the inner work life of employees. And often, the picture is not very pretty.
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HR, Meet Marketing

If you are a typical company, your marketing department is bigger than your HR department, although HR is ostensibly responsible for recruiting, compensation, benefits, talent management, workforce analytics, workplace safety and legal compliance and marketing just has to write a few white papers.So why does the marketing team typically have its own wing while HR fits in a cubicle?  I have a theory about that from the marketing side of the house and you can get the inside scoop from HR over at Dave Ryan's HR Official.So, why? Is it because so many HR fun
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If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.

This past week, I had the opportunity to lead a panel discussion on recruiting technology at SourceCon. The panel was comprised of talent acquisition leaders and consultants who implement these systems. One of the...
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