Characterizing the Last 20 Years While the adoption of technology has certainly been a major driver of change, there are ultimately four characteristics that define the business environment of the last two decades. Those characteristics are: Continuous churn — frequent cycles of both rapid economic growth and contraction that forced …
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Learn From HP’s Errors — a Checklist for Designing an Effective Succession Plan
Most organizations do a weak job at succession planning, but as recent events highlight, Hewlett-Packard deserves some sort of award for completely blowing it! While the “entire story” behind the departure of CEO Mark Hurd has yet to be uncovered, it is clear the issues leading up to it were …
Read More »The Cost of a Bad Hire: Butts in Chairs and How to Convince Hiring Managers to Avoid Them
(Incidentally, the same arguments can also be applied to existing weak employees in cases where layoffs or terminations are being considered.) The Top 30 Arguments against Hiring … “Butts in Chairs” a.k.a. Warm Bodies, “C” Players and Homer Simpson Business Impacts of Butts in Chairs Lost productivity — a new …
Read More »Your Resume Is Boring — And How to Increase Your Career Opportunities
Over a decade ago, Fast Company magazine dubbed me the “Michael Jordan of hiring,” so if you want to have a resume as powerful and effective as Michael Jordan’s actually is, consider each of the checklist items that follow. Bolster the Content of Your Resume While an unusual format may …
Read More »Measuring the Quality of Those You Didn’t Hire – Are You Missing the Best?
Selecting HR Metrics Is Unfortunately Not a Scientific Process Most organizations adopt metrics based on those covered by benchmark reports or that can be easily enabled via their technology providers, instead of determining what they need to discover or prove. As a result, many organizations are burdened with data and …
Read More »Factors That Degrade Employee Referral Program Performance — Reducing Results from Great to Good
The Top 20 Employee Referral Program Performance Degraders Loss of a program manager — losing or failing to replace a program manager charged with championing the program and keeping it active can lead to disastrous consequences even for a short period of time. Solution: a resource, hold them accountable, empower …
Read More »How to Recruit LeBron James … a Case Study on Recruiting a Game-changer Employee
Recruiting history was made this month. You may not be aware that last week marked the culmination of the most sophisticated recruiting effort executed in this century, one that will go down in history as a case study on how to recruit “game-changers.” The approaches used and the lessons to …
Read More »[Webinar] Doing Performance Management the Right Way
ERE Webinar from 8/4/2010 on performance management, presented by Dr. John Sullivan.
Read More »Championing Employee Referrals During Reductions in Force
The Important Role Employees Can Play In Acquiring Talent Whenever you want someone else to help you accomplish something, it makes sense to make the business case for them to do so. Helping employees understand why their participation in the referral program is critical to the organizations recovery is key. …
Read More »Spend the Summer Rebuilding Your Referral Program and Reap a Bounty of Benefits
I have a suggestion for you . . . dedicate your summer to re-building your employee referral program. Now is an ideal time to invest in program design and rejuvenation, as in most cases, chaos surrounding the new year and year end is a fading memory and distant nightmare. It’s …
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