Double Loop Learning and HR Business Partnering

    Today, I’m doing a session on HR business partnering.  I’m keeping the definition quite broad to extent to the overall business focused approach used by HR functions today, as well as the particular role of the strategic business...
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Symposium Events: Advances in HR Measurements and Analytics

    I’ll be talking about my perspectives on measuring HR, using scorecards, and other analytical tools, as well as other perspectives and case studies around this area in these UK training sessions this year:   Advances in HR Measurements...
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    I think the best alternative to measuring HR in financial terms is to link HR activities and Human Capital outcomes of these activities to financial results through an HR scorecard or strategy map. Note this is different to trying to...
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     Have you seen Bersin’s latest High Impact HR report?  There are a number of interesting findings in this, but the one that sticks out for me is the suggestion that the the greatest common factor shared by today’s HR leaders...
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What’s your HCM POV?

    I think one of the most interesting inputs at the HCI Summit I covered recently was from Gary Hamel emphasising the importance of ideology – knowing what you believe about something in order to be able to support it through the design...
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Passive job seeking still high in the UK

  I’ve posted several times recently to suggest that what seem like decent engagement scores being reported by some organisations and a few vendors may hide a number of potentially very significant, and growing, employment problems. New based...
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    I promised that I’d award a ticket for the Economist’s Talent Management Summit to one of the people responding to my recent survey on HR’s challenges and I’m delighted to announce that the winner of this ticket is Christine Kelly from...
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Connecting HR Unconference (#CHRU 2)

    At the end of my HR 2.0 webinar, I mentioned that a good example of the sort of focus on community I’d been discussing is Connecting HR. As with the various examples I described, there’s a technology focus to this community, particularly...
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HR Innovation webinar

     Then my next webinar will focus on innovation in HR, building on my recent comments about the ‘Big Rethink’ in HR.  You can Book here.   Technorati Tags: HR,innovation   Consulting - Research - Speaking ...
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Social business webinar

     My next webinar, building on the theme of today’s will look at the social business, and will be on Tuesday 3rd May. “The social business is often defined as one that uses social media or Enterprise 2.0 technology.  However,...
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    Well I found delivering that webinar fun.  I was a shame that I was challenged by the technology meaning that once again it wasn’t as social (interactive) as I would have liked.  Well OK, it wasn’t social at all this time. ...
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It’s today: HR 2.0 webinar

     I hope you’ll be joining me for my Social HR / HR 2.0 webinar at 3.00 GMT today.  (That’s 10.00am CDT if you’re in Houston like me.)   If you can’t, or even if you can, join me, you may also be interested in these next...
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MagazynHR – the strategic approach to HR

    You can read more about my perspectives on strategic HR (if you speak Polish) in the current edition of MagazynHR.   Technorati Tags: MagazynHR,Poland,Strategic HR   Consulting - Research - Speaking  - Training - ...
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Dan Pink on Drive at the HCI Summit

    I’ve (nearly) completely missed out on posting on Dan Pink’s book, Drive, previously somehow.  I don’t know how that happened – it’s certainly something I talk about a lot.  I accept most of Paul Herbert’s case (which I still...
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Social HR webinar next week

    Just a quick reminder that I’ll be writing more about social HR (including learning) - that I’ve been writing about in my last couple of posts - in this webinar on Tuesday 15th March.  Do join me if you can!   Technorati Tags:...
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    I’ve had your questions from my webinar last week.  But firstly, let me briefly repeat my responses to the questions I did answer:   1. What about 360 degree feedback – isn’t this social? To an extent yes, but 1.feedback...
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My best hacks and stories at the MIX

    Actually, it’s not just that HCI / the MIX didn’t select my hack, that’s OK (everyone makes mistakes!).  It’s more that I don’t think the best of the rest have been selected either. However, some of the stories (suggestions rather...
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HCI Top Talent Blog 2011

    Strategic HCM has been chosen by analysts at the Human Capital Institute (HCI) as one of HCI's Top 50 Talent Blogs for 2011.   You may remember that I had entered a competition at the end of last year to win a prize at the Management...
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Symposium Events: Employee Engagement Summit report

    After leaving the Big Rethink yesterday, I went to Symposium Events’ Employee Engagement Summit.  It was a good afternoon which made me wish I’d got there earlier, with some interesting presentations on measuring and improving engagement....
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The Big Rethink in HR

    So what does the Big Rethink look like within HR? You may be interested in these notes on innovation in HCM from my Winter newsletter:   Unfortunately innovation is not something that is seen as a priority by many businesses (see...
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The Big Rethink: Pinball and employer branding

    One of the ideas discussed at the Big Rethink which I think has relevance for HR, and in which the treatment of employees is analogous to that of customers, is this way of looking at corporate  - or employer – branding: How people...
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    I’ve been at the Economist’s Big Rethink today.  You can see my blog posts on the conference here: Big Rethink: the social individual (I really recommend reading the review of the People’s Supermarket in particular – lots of relevance...
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Why you need to hear your Employee’s Voice

    The recent UK labour market statistics pointing to a jobless recovery throughout 2011 and beyond emphasise the need for all organisations to get the most out of the people they currently employ. One, and certainly the simplest, way of...
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