Archive for January, 2009
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009My Yahoo page pops up with this heading about President Obama’s private chef coming from his home in Chicago to Washington and I immediately think about PR, image and branding. I don’t know about you, but if I was a Public Relations advisor to the President, I would not want a link between “private chef” and “President [...]
Cosmo Has The Answer For Selecting Winning Candidates
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Listen up Recruiters! We now have the ability to determine whether an applicant will be a good hire or not in just ten minutes! Cosmopolitan magazine is our new source for hiring good employees (well, male employees, anyway). Source: article entitled, “40 Things You Can Learn About a Guy in Ten Minutes.”
Now, with just a [...]
How We Sabatoge Ourselves
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009In the Personal Development Plan model that I discussed yesterday, I mentioned a section on Limiting Beliefs. I think I have touched on this topic before, but it bears bringing-up again. Our beliefs can be the core reason why we don’t get what we want out of life. It can be the main reason why an employee [...]
It Really Is All About You
Monday, January 26th, 2009
This is the good news: it really is all about you. In my last post, I talked about training and development. I mentioned how I asked the people who worked for me to have Personal Development Plans. I actually believe that we should all have Personal Development Plans. We need a plan for our lives and [...]
Train In Vain
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Buy them books and send them to school and….you know the rest. Typically, many large companies have large training budgets. They spend big bucks on developing their managers and never quite sure if there is a payoff or not. In fact, they are so unsure about the results, they usually slash the budget for training [...]
I’m Still Trying To Put Shoes On This Octopus
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Getting back to what one critic said about HR in response to Chris’ post:
ScottS said, “Do you really think a CPA can’t figure out how to hire a decent accountant?” He went on to say, “Let’s stop trying to think we possess some kind of secret greater knowledge about management than other managers in an organization.”
My answer [...]
Rebellion Within The Rebellion
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009If you haven’t already, check out Chris Ferndiandi’s guest posting on the blog, “Punk Rock HR.” His brilliant piece on the HR rebellion was a great read and the comments that followed were really fun. Believe me, I understand the critic’s point of view about Human Resources and even smiled at Jimmy’s rant about our field. And to those [...]
A Rose Is Still A Rose
Monday, January 19th, 2009My counterparts, Laurie, Chris and Frank are calling us to arms. I am a willing soldier. I believe in the cause. I agree – it is time for us to storm the Bastille and… do what? The people who control “The Bastille” don’t care. We care. Our rebellion is with us – the HR community. [...]
S & S
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
When discussing the topic of branding, my point was that, hopefully the “style” is backed-up by “substance.” Actually, I believe that this is true for just about everything. I’ve seen individuals rise in a corporation quickly due to style, but fall just as rapidly because the substance wasn’t there. Style can only take you so far. I’ve [...]
Maybe My Last Word On Branding
Thursday, January 15th, 2009As you know, we need to understand the culture, the products, the services, career mobility, and more about our company before we brand our employment offering. Considering all of these things, see if you can summarize your company in one sentence. Here are my attempts at this task based on organizations I’ve worked for…
__If you [...]