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#HRHappyHour Show Update - Summer Hours

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 10, 2012
Quick update for listeners of the HR Happy Hour Show, the weekly internet radio show and podcast on Human Resources, talent management, recruiting, workplace technology, and the HR marketplace that I have been hosting for the last 3 years or so. The show, normally broadcasts live via BlogTalkRadio at 8:00PM ET every Thursday, and to date we have done 144 shows covering anything and everything related to the world of work and the practice of people management.
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Not all viral resignations are flame outs

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 11, 2012
Lately the public, viral, and virulent types of employee resignations have been getting seemingly more and more popular. Whether it is on Twitter, via a blog post, a letter published in the New York Times, or via a YouTube video - the 'epic resignation', usually accompanied by some choice bashing of the company, its leaders, co-workers, and/or customers is enjoying a little run of popularity.
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Media and Consumer Tech Trend #3 - Information Acceleration

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 14, 2012
Recently the analyst firm Gartner issued an interesting press release sharing their '10 consumer macro trends shaping the technology, media and service provider markets over the next 10 years', and I have covered two of these trends Gartner called out here on the blog.
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Regrets of the retiring

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 15, 2012
There is a pretty internet-famous post titled, 'Regrets of the Dying', written by Bronnie Ware a long-time nurse who worked with serously ill and terminal patients.
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Looking for Innovation in Recruiting Technology

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 16, 2012
Tomorrow and Friday I will be attending the Recruiting Innovation Summit, an ERE Media event, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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WEBINAR: 5 Ways to Use Video to Raise Your HR and Recruiting Game

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 17, 2012
The merry band of misfits over at Fistful of Talent are at it again, ready for another classic no-holds-barred, (Really, you're probably asking, are there truly no holds barred? What about the Sleeper? Or the Figure 4 leglock? The Boston Crab? Trust me, even those holds are fair game.), free webinar designed to share information, insight, and real, actionable strategies and tactics all delivered in the trademark FOT style.
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Off Topic: Generic Equivalents

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 18, 2012
You've probably seen or heard of the phrase, 'It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough', or if you read a lot of popular business or productivity books or follow the tech start-up space, you'll be familiar with the common mantra to 'just ship', shorthand for 'Don't endlessly obsess on every last detail in a pursuit of a kind of elusive and ultimately unreachable perfection that will only result in you never actually producing anything and giving up in frustration, i.e.
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People, Process, and Productivity Killers

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | 2 days ago
Last week an interesting piece called '5 Ways Process is Killing Your Productivity', ran on Fast Company, a look and take on how overly rigid productivity systems, (like Six Sigma or TQM), can potentially have a detrimental effect on organization productivity and potential for innovation.
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Playing a different game than the rest of the league

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | 1 day ago
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to attend the Human Capital Institute, (HCI), Talent Acquisition Strategies event in New York City. One of the highlights of the event was the closing presentation given by New York Mets executive, Paul DePodesta, who you may remember from the Moneyball book and movie.
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Without you I'm nothing. I was talking about my phone.

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | 20 hours ago
Clearing out the RSS reader over the weekend, (you still remember Google Reader, right?), and while scrolling through the out of control list of 'starred' items, I ran into two pieces having to do with mobile technology and smart phones, while seemingly unrelated, also serve as unintended companion takes as to the relentless takeover of our normal lives by our devices.
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Disconnect: When what you offer is not what they want

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 9, 2012
(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Allied Van Lines, proud sponsor of the “2012 Workforce Mobility Survey”, designed to capture the voice of HR on topics related to workforce mobility. Allied has more than 75 years of experience in corporate, household and international relocation.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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10 years later, still talkin' about practice

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 8, 2012
This week was the 10th Anniversary of NBA legend Allen Iverson's classic 'talkin' about practice' press conference, where the Philadelphia 76ers star, just a few days after seeing his Sixers team eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Boston Celtics addressed the media and was confronted with questions about his (allegedly poor) practice habits.
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What should we pay your co-worker? No more questions for you 'Bro

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 7, 2012
It can be really difficult to rate your own performance at work as anyone that has stared frustratingly at their annual 'self-assessment' might agree. Trying to navigate that tricky tightrope between honestly, desire to reasonably match your self-ratings with the likely views of the boss, while making sure that a nice blend of ambition, honestly, and subtlety ends up painting a portrait of you in your best possible, (and defensible), light can be one of the most difficult exercises an employee has to deal with all year.
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Timesheets, Incentives, and Five O'Clock Beers

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 4, 2012
Timesheets. Despite incredible advances in biometrics, smart time clocks, and increasing availability of mobile and tablet solutions to make easier employee time tracking and time reporting, many organizations still have to deal with a weekly or bi-weekly struggle of collecting, verifying, or processing employee time sheets.
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HR Happy Hour Show Tonight: The American Way of Eating

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 3, 2012
The HR Happy Hour Show is back live tonight at 8PM ET with what should be a really fun show about a topic, eating in America, that at first blush might seem off topic for a show mostly about work, HR, Talent Managment, and technology, (and sports), kinds of subjects.
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Three stories you should be able to tell candidates

     Blog: Author: Steve | Source: Steve Boese's HR Technology | May 1, 2012
One more take based on the recently concluded NFL Draft, that annual and remarkable spectacle of talent assessment, evaluation, and management that plays out live, and on TV each spring.
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Should Big Data Drive Big Decisions?

     Article: Source: Deloitte | May 15, 2012

his year, many companies are taking on big data – ramping up tools and technologies to find signals and insight in unstructured, often external and generally messy data. While big data may be ready for business, are business leaders ready for big data?

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Workforce Analytics is a Journey and a Process

     Article: Author: Rishi Agarwal | Source: Deloitte | May 15, 2012

Many HR organizations have a desired destination in mind, one where they have the analytics capability to make predictions about their workforce for which they can then develop targeted responses. For example, they want to be able to predict the likelihood of turnover for a particular role or individual, so they can devise specific retention strategies. Or they want to predict which high potentials have the best chance of success as a senior leader. In our experience, there are many steps on the workforce analytics journey and organizations sit at different points along the journey based on their information maturity.

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Talent Edge 2020: Redrafting Talent Strategies for the Uneven Recovery

     Article: Source: Deloitte | May 15, 2012

Despite a new wave of uncertainty, many leading companies are pressing forward and reshaping their talent strategies. Many executives foresee leadership shortages in the year ahead and are looking at programs to accelerate leadership development within their companies. At the same time, given the stalled economy, many companies are seeking new sources of growth and are tailoring talent plans to address differing regional needs to support effective talent strategies and business operations.

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HR in the Financial Services Industry? Most Are Paying too Much.

     Article: Author: Greg des Groseilliers and Jeff Altman | Source: Deloitte | May 15, 2012

We all know the financial services industry (FSI) has been under the microscope in the past few years, but a new Deloitte Consulting benchmarking study focuses the attention on a different aspect of FSI operations: HR. What’s revealed may seem like piling on to change-weary FSI organizations. But, as the saying goes, the truth can set you free, or in this case, help you understand where significant improvement opportunities lie and how to take advantage of them.

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The Benefits of Data Talking to Data

     Article: Author: Dr. Robert Plant | Source: The Wall Street Journal | April 16, 2012

Companies have been collecting business-related data for decades—enough by some estimates to fill a stack of books reaching to Pluto and back.
What they do with it, however, is starting to change.
 

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Human Capital Trends 2012: Leap Ahead

     Article: Source: Deloitte | April 16, 2012

It’s fitting that 2012 is a leap year, since a number of converging market trends are driving HR organizations to make significant leaps in capabilities and performance. HR faces a critical, dual imperative in 2012 — a focus on enabling both their organization’s overall growth agenda and on driving efficiency in the business of HR. This dual focus demands decisive action as the stakes are greater than ever.
The top eight human capital trends outlined in the report include:

  • In 2012 growth is job #1
  • Operation globalization
  • Fast-track to the top
  • People risk is risky business
  • Seeing around corners
  • #social #mobile @work
  • Clouds in the forecast
  • Stay in front with an effective sales force

Businesses are calling on HR to leap ahead and help manage change in the face of complex challenges that touch so many parts of the enterprise. Understanding the 2012 Human Capital Trends — what they mean for both leading HR and for leading the business — is a great place to start.

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Tipping Point: Smartphone Owners Now Outnumber Other Mobile Users In The U.S.

     Article: Author: Ingrid Lunden | Source: TechCrunch | April 6, 2012

It’s a tipping point of sorts: smartphones are not (yet) being used by the majority of U.S. residents, but among mobile users, it looks like they have now outnumbered those on lower-end devices — or so consumers think — according to research out today from Pew.

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How Big Data Tools Help HR Understand You

     Article: Author: Josh Bersin | Source: Bersin & Associates | March 23, 2012

Most business people have heard the term "BigData," which refers to the analysis of massive amounts of transactional and business data to segment customers, pinpoint marketing, and predict consumer behavior.

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SAP-Commissioned Study Estimates Cloud Computing to Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

     Article: Source: SAP | March 22, 2012

Cloud computing is a powerful catalyst for job creation and has greater potential for employment growth than the Internet did in its early years, according to a new study by the Sand Hill Group, sponsored by SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP).

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