HR Lesson: Work Hard and Be Nice to People

There’s a real brilliance in simplicity. Anthony Burrill’s woodblock poster should be put up in HR departments and break rooms around the country. Toss out the HR mission statements. This is it: Work hard and be nice to people.
[Found at Tina Roth Einsenberg's fabulous Swissmiss.]
HR Communication Lesson: Surprise Them
Got a spare 5 seconds? Take a look at this Dutch retail shop’s website.
Wait…wait…wait…there.
If you want to do a great job communicating with your employees, give them a little surprise on top of something they recognize. It works.
A Few Good Creative Men
This movie remake of A Few Good Men into A Few Good Creative Men is making the rounds and really cracked me up. For any of you who have worked with creatives this one’s well worth watching.
[via SwissMiss]
Left Brain vs. Right Brain HR: The Test
Click here to look at this picture. Which direction is the ballerina rotating?
Tomorrow we’ll talk about what characterizes left brain vs. right brain HR.
Employee Communication with the Human Flipbook
First off, this human flipbook idea by Erbert & Gerbert is just plain cool. They made a bunch of t-shirts and then used stop-motion photography to make a little movie. How inventive.
That made me think about company t-shirt giveaways.
Wouldn’t it be cool to use this human flipbook idea for employee communication? You could use it in a large group training session where people could get together and create their movie based on what’s on their shirt. Or, it could be used for a big benefits rollout. How about if you wanted to get everyone to consider enrolling in long-term disability? You could create a movie, and your employees could be one frame in the communication. How about that? I’m going to get a flipbook at the Denver airport and see if I can sketch something out before I land in Philly this afternoon.
Any other ideas?



