Social recruiting training

      I was asked by Katie at the Kenexa Summit about training opportunities in social recruiting.  Rather than reply individually, I thought I’d link to some people and resources here. Firstly, courses and workshops: Mike...
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Confidence, engagement and human capital

     Indy replied to my recent post on engagement, and my question about why Kenexa’s, and other, engagement surveys don’t seem to pay as much attention as I’d expect to the social aspects of engagement. His view: “Who's right and...
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Top 50 blog

  Strategic HCM is included in Evan Carmichael (the Internet's #1 resource for small business motivation and strategies) as a Top 50 Human Resources blog to watch (or read!) in 2010. I didn’t get my picture included unfortunately, unlike Sharlyn...
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Promotion (and salary) envy

     My last but one post argued that despite Jack Wiley’s findings, the workplace is a very social environment, and we need to influence its sociology, if we want to maximise engagement and collaboration. And as I stated at the summit,...
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     One thing I did agree with Jack Wiley on, and was pleased to hear him say (because sometimes I’ve felt I’m the only one who does) was that the adage, ‘people join organisations but leave managers’, is a myth.  That the data...
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     In my end-of-day keynote at Kenexa’s Euro Summit, I talked about how the social aspects of an organisation play an important role in influencing the engagement levels of employees. I referred in particular to some of: Daniel...
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Kenexa Euro conference presentation

     I told attendees at Kenexa’s European summit that I’d provide them with the links I used in my presentation on social media, HR, engagement and collaboration.  So here you go:   Social HR / HR 2.0 (we focused on recruitment...
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Presenting in an online world (Talking HR 028)

     Tomorrow I’m going to be keynoting at Kenexa’s European Summit.
It’s a face-to-face rather than an online / social media presentation, but it’s a presentation about social media, so I was thinking back to our last Talking HR podcast... READ MORE - Presenting in an online world (Talking HR 028)

Top 25 blog

     Strategic HCM is back in the Fistful of Talent blog power rankings (v7.0). Congrats to all the other blogs on the list. And thanks once again to the Jessica, Kris and the FoT team.   Technorati Tags: Fistful of Talent,talent...
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5% cuts all round

     One of the British government’s first actions in power was to agree to 5% salary reductions. This could very easily be a sign of things to come, particularly in the UK’s public sector, where I suspect the cuts won’t come quite so...
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     Earlier in the week I asked HRevolution: What’s next? My second answer to this question deals with the session at the end of HRevolution (#HRevolution): how do we extend the conversation out of the echo chamber? I think it’s an...
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Is social learning team learning?

     I commented on an excellent post by Mervyn Dinnen, reflecting on social learning at HRevolution, yesterday. Mervyn asks: “Maybe if we are to get maximum benefit from Social Learning, especially from our unconferences, networking...
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Employer rating sites: why are they important to HR?

     I’m quoted in an an article in Personnel Today on employer rating sites such as Glassdoor.com. "They are becoming increasingly important," says Jon Ingham, social media expert and executive consultant at consultancy Strategic...
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HRevolution: What’s next?

     Most of this blog’s readers live in the US, but for the benefit of those readers in the UK (who perhaps don’t read all the US HR blogs, or the recruitment focused ones of Mervyn Dinnen and Bill Boorman in the UK), there was been...
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HCI webcast: Telling the European brand story

      I’m already involved with the Human Capital Institute in the US, delivering its Human Capital Strategist certification programme in the UK and Europe.   I’m now going to be presenting HCI’s first webcast focused specifically...
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100,000 visits

     I’m working at home today, catching up on work after having a bit of time off with a bad cold.  And I just noticed (really!) that this blog’s hit the 100 thousand reader mark (in terms of unique visits). Not great, as I’m sure...
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More more social learning at informatology

     I was just being a participant, albeit a fairly active one, on the second day of informatology.  The choice was between some fairly traditional presentations by Great Places to Work, Nick Shackleton-Jones on video production...
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Pecha Kucha at informatology

     As well as speaking at informatology, I also chaired an ‘unconference’* session consisting of pecha kucha presentations (a series of 20 slides, each auto-forwarded after 20 seconds). I thought it went well – and certainly found...
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      I presented a short talk at today’s informatology conference.  This was a plenary and I was asked to do something linking together the three strands focusing on talent management, learning and new media. To an extent,...
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More social learning at informatology

  Other social learning case studies (see my previous post on Google) from informatology included:      Tiina Paju-Pomfret on using social media in a learning context at BUPA. BUPA’s learning system, BUPA Live, allow Bupa staff...
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