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Archive for May, 2009
HR Bobbleheads Episode 1: The Water Cooler
May 29In this episode, we find the HR Bobbleheads engaging in wicked water cooler gossip.
HR with Impact
May 28
Too many HR programs are the equivalent of planting a single tulip and then wondering why your neighbors don’t ooh and ahh over your garden.
If you want HR with Impact, plant a thousand tulips. Have a plan, don’t just scatter a few bulbs here and there and hope they turn into something. Concentrate on one color, don’t plant the variety pack.
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Here’s a Top 10 List of gardens I’ve visited in my life that reinforce the point. (Sometimes it’s good to step outside. HR isn’t all about being inside four walls.)
- Keukenhof
- Chateau de Versailles
- Kew Gardens
- Chicago Botanic Garden
- Longwood Gardens
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- San Francisco Botanical Gardens
- Desert Botanical Gardens
- Giverny
- Denver Botanic Gardens
[Photo credit: Patrick Mayon]
Sneak Peek at HR Bobbleheads
May 27Here’s a sneak peek at HR Bobbleheads. We’re going to launch our site next week along with a show schedule. If you’d like to see HR Bobbleheads act out nutty HR scenarios in 60 seconds, send them in. You’ll see your name as a writer in the credits if we use your idea.
Let us know what you think.
What If You Just Threw Performance Management Away?
May 26That’s a question I ask almost every day. Ron Ulrici wrote today about the right way to do performance management. When you do it right, the annual performance management process looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?
We’re Still Taking Submissions for 1,001 Canned Responses for Self Appraisals
We have well over 200 individual submissions for canned responses for self appraisals. And they’re still coming. I believe that we can get this thing written in a week. If you have some submissions, or know someone who has snappy answers to self appraisals, have them click on 1,001 Canned Responses for Self Appraisals. All responses will be fully credited. You’ll get like thousands of karma points. Children and small animals will love you. Your mother will be proud.
Thanks much to contributors so far, including: Ashley Andrus of Zoe Training, Michael Long from The Red Recruiter, Bill Strahan of HumanMarkets, Fran Melmed of Context Communication Consulting, Krista Francis, Nora Burns of Insightful Endeavors, David Kaneda of DavidKaneda.com, Marie (who are you, Marie?), Lisa Robinson, Alan Gruner, Shawna Armstrong, Lindsay from Thoughts from Training Time, Michael VanDevort of Human Race Horses, Doug Sayed of Strategic Pay Series, Rick of 48Facets, MJ Anschell, and Trish of HR Ringleader.
Special shout out to Ben Eubanks of UpstartHR, whose enthusiasm for this idea really got me and lots of others jazzed.
More Reading about Performance Management
Did You Do Your Daily Performance Review Yet?
You Can’t Get Comp Right if Performance Management is a Mess
What Keeps You on Top of Your Game?
May 21I do the New York Times crossword puzzle every day. I can rip through Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday at will. Thursday takes a little more time. Friday takes my entire train ride. I’m thankful I don’t measure time-to-complete for Saturday. Sunday, ah, Sunday. I’ll do some, then set it down. Do some more later. Pick it up again late in the afternoon and fill in the remaining squares.
Why do I spend the time playing with puzzles? Because I’m in the word business. I write for a living. I find that doing puzzles keeps me sharp on word plays (and the occasional pun). It’s an investment in my job. I also read a lot. My Google Reader, for example, showed these stats today: “From your 144 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,854 items, starred 31 items, shared 8 items, and emailed 10 items.”
I read two newspapers a day. A book a week. And I still find time to watch Jeopardy!, Deadliest Catch and a few Phillies games. It’s about learning something new every day.
In HR, one of our jobs is to encourage continuous improvement. A big part of that is continuous learning.
Here’s the question of the day: What have we taught our people today that they didn’t know yesterday?
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