Mike Molinaro, VP of HR Operations at Comcast, and Tom McKeown, our president and COO, will be at ASUG Fall Focus, presenting Comcast’s succession planning case study. If you will be at the conference, be sure to support us and learn how Aquire has developed a state-of-the-art succession planning system for Comcast’s 100,000 employees! Tom and Mike will be presenting on Thursday, October 7 from 9:15-10:15 a.m. In the meantime, check out the presentation deck above! If you’re not already registered, register here.

I LOVE the annual HR Technology Conference. Last week I told you why in my blog entry “Why go to the HR Tech Conference? Because it’s awesome!” And this week I’m sharing my list of Must-See sessions that I hope to attend. But first…

Today I have another reason to love HR Tech even more read more »

As I was doing research for a client regarding their corporate organizational structure, we started finding nationalistic extremes which gave a good case study discussion points.  Even as we translated the organizational design to American or multi-national companies, the issues stuck with the design structure.  I realize most, if not all, stereo types can be dangerous, but they help put the stories in context.

When looking at companies with VERY flat organizations, some of the highest concentrations of flat, yet large companies appeared to be read more »

There are plenty of reasons to go to the HR Technology Conference. The chance to network with HR professionals across the nation, the opportunity to hear and interact with leaders in our field, the ability to prospect products and services side-by-side, and the sessions focused on social media (They have a session on blogging!), to name a few. Not to mention, our friend, Marc Effron, will be following up his keynote at our conference by keynoting at HR Tech. These are all great and are already worth the trip to the Windy City. But honestly, they’re just an appetizer to read more »

There are so many traits that make up a good leader. One area that often is overlooked when you talk about good leadership, but seems to almost always be present when you discuss poor leadership is Accountability.  A good leader welcomes accountability and takes responsibility for their own actions and their followers actions, when the followers are acting on behalf of the leader or under her instructions. read more »