The Happy Worker Kit
If Monday isn’t as happy as it just might be for your employees, secondose offers up The Happy Worker Kit.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Possibly some NSFW ads at the top of the page.
Sign Up for the PEBA’s 26th Annual Forum: The New Workforce
PEBA’s 26th Annual Forum takes place April 10, 2008 at the Philadelphia Marriott. I’ll write more about this next week. Today’s the last day to get discounted registration. But you have two more weeks if you have a spare $20.
And if you do get there, you’ll see Sarah Chambers and me presenting “How Do You Say ‘Communicate’ in Gen X, Gen Y and Millennial?” I’ll be Twittering it in.
Sign up for the conference by clicking here. All the cool HR kids are doing it.
Are You Wiki Worthy?
What are you doing in HR to make you worthy of an entry in Wikipedia? The most popular site on the Web has a notability requirement that says:
Within Wikipedia, notability is an inclusion criterion based on encyclopedic suitability of a topic for a Wikipedia article. The topic of an article should be notable, or “worthy of notice”. This concept is distinct from “fame”, “importance”, or “popularity”, although these may positively correlate with notability.
What are you doing today to warrant a mention in Wikipedia? How about just one thing. [Mine is eliminating performance reviews in my lifetime.]
HR Communication Lesson: You’re the Executive Editor
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
–Abraham Lincoln
Have you ever spent a bunch of time creating a presentation — okay, I’ll say it, PowerPoint — feel really good about it, and then have one person make a comment that you should completely reorganize it? Then you do that, show it around again, and another person says, “It should have more lead in.” Then you show it to a group and two others give their opinion and you end up changing it even more?
STOP!
Here’s what I know about employee communication after having done it for the last 150 years: Group editing doesn’t work. Neither does responding to every comment as if it has to be responded to. It’s funny, there are people who are creators, and then there are junior editors. In fact, everyone thinks they’re an editor. They’re not. You’re the executive editor. Take feedback. Make decisions. Get outta there.
You have to stick to your guns if you want your writing to be good. That includes, yep, PowerPoint. Your PowerPoint presentation isn’t War and Peace. Heck, it’s not even the Cliff’s Notes. Don’t let pseudo-editors try to wedge every last idea and slide into your presentation. Stick to your guns. As Davy Crockett said, “Know you’re right, and then move ahead.”
KnowHR in The Sydney Morning Herald
Ann-Maree Moodie wrote an very interesting article called “Office Power Tripping” in The Sydney Morning Herald where KnowHR was quoted. The next time, I’m volunteering to give the quotes in person in Sydney. (I’ve never been to Sydney, and I’m afraid that if I do, I’ll want to stay.)
[That very excellent photo of the Sydney Opera House is from Lihn rOm's Creative Commons photostream. It's a composite of 5 shots. Fabulous.]
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