We have over 500 responses to our 1,001 Canned Responses for Self Evaluations. As recently as yesterday we got these self evaluation contributions from two very clever writers. (If you have a self evaluation or two you’d like to contribute, please leave a comment. You’ll get attribution — and when this book is a best [...]

Fran Melmed, a very talented communicator, started free range communication a couple of weeks ago. I put it in my Must Read category. Stop over and say hello. For those of you who have doing this a while, make today the day you leave a comment. Remember how good that felt when we got started?

HR Bobbleheads – Episode 5: Interviews Then & Now from HR Bobbleheads on Vimeo.
In this episode: Bobbleheads from the 50s and today illustrate just how much *ahem* gender roles in the workplace have changed *ahem* over the years.
UPDATE: If you think that sexual harassment is dead in 2009, check this out.
Previous episodes:
HR Bobbleheads Episode 4: [...]

Here’s what I know about HR communication: It takes 100x more energy to send in a compliment than a complaint.
When you send out communications, you’ll always hear people bitch about it. But know that if people say good things about what you’ve done, that’s communication gold.

Here’s some real brilliance from a group of KnowHR readers. We got a new set of 10 Things Bad HR People Approve of “In Principle.” (It’s reverse psychology — it’s from a quote by Otto von Bismark: When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of [...]