Best blog bling!

    So that’s it.  I hope 2010 has been a good year for you despite the economic problems round most of the world.  It’s been a good one for me, and particularly for (personal and) blog awards.  Thanks again to FOT, Evan Carmichael...
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Is 2011 the time to stop treating people like tools?

    My hack suggestion on Gary Hamel’s The Mix has been getting quite a bit of attention.  Pop over there, vote and add your comments too (free registration required) – it’ll be good to hear from you!   Technorati Tags: Gary Hamel,Management...
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Christmas presents?

    A regular reader of Strategic HCM?  A friend / contact of mine?  Want to do something for me? Here’s my Chirstmas present list for you: Like this blog!  You do, don’t you – so give me a thumbs up using the Facebook...
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HCM Update–Winter 2010: Innovation in HR

    If you didn’t receive it from me, the second edition of the Strategic HCM newsletter is available here.  The main focus this time around is innovation – including in HR 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 – and the capability and measurement approaches...
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Win my Talent Management ticket

    A reminder that my 2011 Predictions survey is open for another couple of weeks (until 8th January). Internal HR practitioners can win a free ticket to the Economist’s Talent Management Summit in London on 9th June next Summer.  ...
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The next Ulrich?

    John Sumser has finally put me down on his list of top 100 influencers at #73. This is the list of ‘real-world’ as opposed to ‘online’ influencers, so it’s nice to see “a rekentless travel schedule and the depth and clarity of his thought”...
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    Stimulated by this post from TLNT, I thought that as well as asking for your help in making some predictions for 2011, I should review those predictions I made (without your help!) at the start of 2010. These included this video blog...
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Connecting HR drinks

  My friends at Connecting HR are meeting for some Christmas drinks tomorrow night – unfortunately I won’t be able to be with them.
But this is what I imagine them doing: Have fun everyone!   Video credit: Elfyourself Technorati Tags:... READ MORE - Connecting HR drinks

HR Predictions for 2011

    I’m attending a few events and webinars providing predictions for 2011 at the moment.  I may share my comments on some of these with you over the next week or so.  However, I’ve deliberately avoided sharing my own predictions...
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More on social influencers – online mavens and connectors

    I’ve been posting on Social Advantage about Josh Bernoff’s book, Empowered, triggered by a incident with the Trainline, discussed on Twitter last week.  In the follow-up post I noted that Bernoff’s points about mass connectors and...
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Career Partnership and the Human Capital M-Prize

    Do you want to play a role in improving the technology of human accomplishment? Would you like to help make our organizations truly fit for the future (and fit for human beings)? And do you have a real-world story or bold new idea when...
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Webinar Series

           In 2011, I’ll also be delivering five of my own webinars, as well as continuing to participate on those of other leading organisations and commentators. Topics and dates of my webinars will be:...
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Economist Group Talent Management Summit 2011

    One of the other events I’ll be attending later in 2011 is the Economist Group’s Talent Management Summit.  This blog will also be acting as supporting media for this event, so you can plan to be hearing lots about it here. The draft...
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HR Directors Business Summit, January 2011

    One of the main events I’m going to speaking at in January is the HR Directors Business Summit in Birmingham, UK. I’ll be facilitating a joint tweet-up and twitter / social media introduction for new users, and also presenting on HR 2.0....
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HR Magazine - HR Vision

    I’ve a few things going on next year I want to tell you about.
One of these is that I’ll be appearing in HR Magazine’s new series of web debates and discussions, HR Vision, along with: Tanith Dodge, HR director, Marks and Spencer... READ MORE - HR Magazine - HR Vision

Introducing Organised Feedback

    You’ve hopefully seen my posts on Strategic HCM reviewing the Enterprise 2.0 conference I attended in Santa Clara, California recently. I’ve also been posting on Social Advantage and you’ll find more posts there on developing social cultures,...
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Thoughts on the HRO Europe Summit 2: Presenting with Peter Cappelli

    So as I wrote last Friday, the week before last, I was in Amsterdam for the HR Outsourcing (HRO) Europe conference and was on a panel together with: Consultants Andy Spence and Jane Owen Jones Nigel Perks from one of my old clients,...
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Pay transparency– in the news (and on cHRchat)

     Sir David Walker never actually suggested publishing details on each individual bankers’ pay, fearing that this would jeopardise their privacy (ah, poor dears!).  And he’s since pulled back from his milder suggestion that banks...
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G4Social

    The last presentation today (just before a Bill Boorman panel) is with Colin Minto, Global Head of Resourcing at G4S.  I’ve been following the progress of G4S’ new system since meeting Colin at a Connecting HR tweet-up earlier this...
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    There have been some fairly consistent views about social recruiting expressed this morning at Alan Whitford and Vic Okezie’s social recruiting conference…  Views which I think contrast to the way many if not most organisations looking...
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People first, social second

    So I’m at another social recruiting conference today where I was chairing a panel on engaging employees through and with social media, with Charlie Elise, Heather Taylor and Doug Shaw. I was trying to keep an eye on the twitter stream...
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