How Would a College Education be Different if you Were an Investor?!
There’s a concept that is starting to gain some steam in college tuition funding called “Income Share Agreements”. The basis of these agreements is pretty much “I” (the investor) pays “you” (the...
View ArticleAI 4 HR! Understanding the most Misunderstood Concept in HR!
Jeanne Meister, Forbes 2020 Workplace Columnist, and HR executive brought together this incredible team of great HR pros/minds and developed an entire curriculum around using Artificial Intelligence...
View ArticleSHRM-SCP or HRCI-SPHR? HR Pros – Which one should you get?
I’ve been HR blogging for ten years. You learn a few tricks about blogging after that amount of time. One is you find out what people actually want to read by the search words they use to find your...
View ArticleAnnouncement! I’m Joining the Josh Bersin Academy as a Senior Faculty Member!
Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be joining the Josh Bersin Academy as a Senior Faculty Member! I’ve run in the many of the same circles as Josh for years and, like many of you, have been...
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What’s Wrong with Virtual Conferences? #Covid19 #Coronavirus
My Spring is usually filled with travel. This year because of the “Great Outbreak’ (I used this on Twitter before everyone, once you start to see it everywhere, just know, you and I, will know where it...
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Josh Bersin Academy Launches New Remote Work Program!
As some of you know, I’m a Senior Faculty Member of the Josh Bersin Academy (we like calling it JBA for short!). It’s a great digital on-demand learning program for HR pros and leaders, with a really...
View ArticleAre We Still Pissy About Unpaid Internships?
Back in the height of the Great Recession (think 2008-2010), when we had double-digit national unemployment numbers. It was dark times, especially for those students who were graduating and those...
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What does the C-suite want out of an HR Leader?
You may be sitting at home right now, asking yourself this very question! I wonder what my CEO prefers I do in my role. It’s a valid question, and one I find that great HR leaders already know the...
View ArticleIs Love Greater Than Fear?
The most famous quote from Machiavelli’s book “The Prince” is: “Better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Uh, oh, Tim is quoting Machiavelli, this blog has jumped the shark! I heard this...
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The Weekly Dose: @Imperative – Peer to Peer Coaching for Leaders!
Today on The Weekly Dose I review the peer to peer coaching technology platform Imperative. Imperative is a leadership development platform that uses the power of peers to support each other as they...
View ArticleThe Pandemic has been hard on HR pros!
If we sat down and started to list out who has been most impacted by the pandemic on the jobs front, we would come up with a pretty interesting list! The vast number of unemployed would show us that...
View ArticleAnother day making decisions no one wants to make!
On the phone this week with a few HR Pros from the hospitality industry (think hotels and restaurants) some of the folks hit the worst by the pandemic. We start the call like most calls – “how are you...
View ArticleWhy do we suck so much?
There’s an interactive questioning technique called The 5 Whys. The theory is that if you continue to ask ‘why’ enough times you’ll get to the root cause of every issue. Timmy is a bad performer. Why?...
View Article4 Reasons You Fight to Keep What You Have vs. What You Need!
I recently had a great conversation with the CEO of Greenhouse Software, Jon Stross. Jon developed a model he calls the Hiring Maturity Model. Basically, it’s a scale or curve of where your recruiting...
View ArticleDoes Having 2 CEOs Work? Also, Ginger Superiority on #HRFamous
In episode 38 of The HR Famous Podcast, longtime HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Kris Dunn, and Jessica Lee discuss whether having two bosses or two CEOs (dual leadership in major corporations)...
View ArticleIt’s 2020 and I’m Re-certifying with @SHRM. Want to know why?
In 2001 I got my SPHR certification for the first time. I started my first real HR Manager job and the CHRO wanted to make sure every single HR person on our team had either a PHR or SPHR. I did an...
View ArticleThe 12 Steps of Recovery for Passionate A$$holes!
I wrote a post a while back titled, “The 5 Things HR Leaders Need to Know About Developing Employees“. In that post I had a paragraph: When I was young in my career, I was very ‘passionate’. That’s...
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Your Superpower is Your Authentic Self!
I had someone ask me what my superpower is? I found that a hard question to answer. I mean do you think being able to write a 500-word blog post in 15 minutes a superpower!? Some bloggers probably do,...
View ArticleThe Bad Idea Trap!
2020 wasn’t the best year for a lot of people and as such we have so much excitement and anticipation for what 2021 will bring, but we are cautious. Already in 2021, we’ve seen some hangover of 2020!...
View Article2021-2022 HR Trend – Teaching Sales People to Get Back on the Road!
“Yeah, I can get as much, or more, done right from my living room as I did before the pandemic!” (said in the snotty tone of a spoiled brat kid, maybe a slight valley girl vibe) “Like, there is...
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