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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Thoughts on the HRO Europe Summit: Social Outsourcing?

    So as I wrote on Friday, last week I was in Amsterdam for the HR Outsourcing (HRO) Europe conference. I was there mainly to catch up with people and see how the outsourcing market had changed since my last involvement in it (working on...
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A Royal Revolution

    No, I’m not quite proposing that! But Will and Kate haven’t left me much time to escape from the UK before the royal wedding! So, either I just try to bring forward my plans (a bit of pressure can be a good thing, after all).  Or...
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cHRchat

    Spurred on from successes with our tweet-ups and unconference, Connecting HR has now launched a series of weekly Twitter chats when we tweet about a particular topic linked to the key themes we identified at the unconference, ie: General...
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Catch-up with Workday

w   I’ve had a couple of interesting conversations about developments in HR technologies recently. For example, at one of the panels at Enterprise 2.0, I was asked about to what extent HR systems limit HR’s ability to rise above compliance activities. ...
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I’m an HR Consultant, get me out of here!

    I’ve been feeling a bit down in the dumps after returning from my second trip to California in one month and with no other trips to sunnier climes coming up till next year.  The rain and fog in Amsterdam over the last couple of...
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HR and Enterprise 2.0 Happy Hour

    I also managed to speak about HR’s role in Enterprise 2.0 on last week’s HR Happy Hour with Steve Boese, Shaua Moerke and Matt Wilkinson from Socialcast. Do take a listen – and it’s well worth paying particular attention to the part where...
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HR, Collaboration and Analytics

    The other panel at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, also chaired by Oliver Marks (pictured with me) focused on measures.  We noted that because of the complexity surrounding HR and collaboration, many of the things we wish to measure...
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HR: beyond Compliance through Collaboration

    One of my E2.0 sessions was a panel looking a how HR can move out of its compliance role through the use of collaborative / 2.0 technologies. I thought this was a good panel session, and was pleased that we seemed to come to the conclusion...
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HR Collaboration Strategies at E2.0 Conference

    After this Summer’s E2.0 conference in Boston, where I suggested that people were trying to develop something that was basically designed to develop collaboration in a fairly non-collaborative sort of way – eg without much input from the...
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Socialising the CIPD Annual Conference

    I’m not at the CIPD annual conference today as I’m presenting tonight at the HR 2.0 track at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco. But I sent the CIPD some inputs on the conference this Summer and thought it might be worth reviewing...
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Why I support Influencer lists

    I particularly enjoyed this post from ‘TheHRD’ earlier this week.  But I’ve already commented to say that I don’t totally agree with him. Given my connection to this topic (having just been blogging on it quite extensively, and being...
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CHROs and Collaboration

    I’m in the US for the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week but unfortunately arrived just too late for this week’s HR Happy Hour – Episode 74 – ‘Creativity, Flexibility, and Speed’ (they didn’t get much time for calls anyway). Steve Boese...
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How to… Develop an HR 2.0 Strategy

  I’ve got an article on HR 2.0 in the current edition (volume 9 number 6) of Strategic HR Review. I suggest that HR practitioners wanting to gain benefits from social media need to: Develop a vision of the future Take their first steps...
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HR Metrics for Business Improvement and Strategy Alignment

    I’ll also be delivering this programme on HR Metrics for UMI on 6th and 7th December 2010: Measurement is an increasingly topical and important field for all HR practitioners to understand. However, the need is not simply to know the...
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    I mainly only deliver open workshops in Asia and the Middle East, but there are also a couple of UK sessions where you can catch me over the next couple of months. The first is a workshop on reorganisation and restructuring for JSB on...
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HR Collaboration Strategies at Enterprise 2.0 conference

     I’ll be presenting in a couple of sessions at this November’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara on Tuesday 9th November:   Human Resources professionals are at the center of managing the most valuable asset a company...
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