When we were together at #HREvolution in Chicago this Spring, Paul Hebert, @incentintel, led a session with Jason Seiden with the objective of discussing how to influence people.  I found an interesting twist to the conversation that I have not been able to get out of my head for the last couple of months.  So, I have been reading and thinking and watching with this topic in mind.  I feel that my thoughts might be helpful for some.

The topic about influencing continually moved to compensation and incentives.  I believe some in the group had a very different perspective of these terms then I did. And, if I am going to develop myself and my managers as good leaders at Aquire, I need to figure out why!   read more »

More workers quit their jobs than were laid off in March. Wow. I was a little surprised when I first heard this statistic. Then I thought about it and realized what this means for talent management and workforce planning – it’s no time to be on auto-pilot. We’d better be working on strategies to keep the talent we already have as companies begin to hire again giving employees more choices in employers.

Let’s admit it – there’s been a buyer’s market for talent the past two years (when there’s been any hiring at all) resulting in a class of “underemployed” – laid-off overqualified types who were willing to trade in a title or a bit of salary in exchange for benefits. Even tenured employees who have been denied promotions or raises during hiring freezes and layoffs can be counted as underemployed. I recently read more »

There is a new property on the internet that is going to really add a wonderful voice to the human resource community. The Women of HR is the brain child of a wonderful group of women and a weekend outing in Chicago. These are some of the greatest movers and shakers in the HR Social Media space, in addition to being professional everyday in furthering the human resource profession. read more »

While attending the best HR networking event of the year, HRevolution, I participated in a debate in the last session about job titles.  The speaker, Laurie Ruettimann, was adamant that big job titles were critical and, in order to continue the great discussions of the event and move the HR profession forward, the people in the room needed to get promoted to positions of leadership and get better job titles.  Now, there was much more in Laurie’s context than just the importance of job titles, but the discussion tanked right there for me.  It went there largely because I disagree very strongly with much of that mindset, and I said so, very bluntly. read more »

Job titles are used to describe, in a few words, how a person can help you professionally, right? I have a pet peeve with a particular job title which I feel is completely misleading. I hate the job title Financial Planner. It has nothing to do with the job financial planners actually do. I know there are more regulations in the financial industry then you can shake a grumpy stick at, but this one drives me nuts. read more »