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April 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
by Franklin Bros

We’re starting today’s unconference with Liz Gottung, CHRO at Kimberly Clark.
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HR role
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Friday, April 29, 2011
by Franklin Bros

I’ve posted several times here that, even though I strongly support their use, engagement surveys should only ever be seen as part of the picture. Firstly, engagement is only one part of the broader contribution of human and social capital...
READ MORE - #HREvolution, Nobscot and Exit Interviews
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Engagement,
HCM technology,
Retention
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
by Franklin Bros

So I mentioned that I’ve also got the second Connecting HR unconference (#CHRU) coming up. Like HR Evolution, this should also be a really great event. Take a look at the comments we had back after our first unconference if you...
READ MORE - One week to #CHRU-2
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Connecting HR,
Events
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
by Franklin Bros

I’m off to Atlanta on Friday to attend the US HR community’s HRevolution unconference. Reflecting on it, I’ve come up with these ten reasons why I’m going: 1. I may not have succeeded in moving out of the UK as yet but I...
READ MORE - Why I’m attending #HREvolution
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Blogging,
Events,
Global HR
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
by Franklin Bros

I’m a few weeks with this, but I’ve now added the slides from my recent webinar on social HR / HR 2.0 to slideshare . I’ve included links to all the references I discussed so you can see these in the presentation transcript (you’ll...
READ MORE - Social HR / HR 2.0 webinar – slides
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Events,
HR 2.0,
Social capital,
Social media
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Monday, April 18, 2011
by Franklin Bros

If you’re interested in Dan Heath’s perspectives on Switch you may also be interested to know that I’ll be talking about my, and other, perspectives on making change management work more successfully in this training session for Symposium...
READ MORE - Symposium Training: Successful Change Management
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Change,
Events
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Friday, April 15, 2011
by Franklin Bros

Despite my enjoyment of the CIPD’s HRD conference (and particularly the sessions on next generation HR leadership) just over a week ago, I still feel the CIPD’s ideas about new generation HR, whilst interesting, miss much of the opportunity...
READ MORE - Response to Neil Morrison
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Blogging,
People management strategy
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This idea about HR leaders adapting their behaviours seems to have been my key theme over the last couple of weeks, and of course it applies to other business leaders too. So I’m looking forward to attending this session in a couple of...
READ MORE - Benchmark for Business: Michael Watkins
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Change,
Events,
Leadership
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
by Franklin Bros
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Events,
Performance management
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Events,
HRD11,
Learning
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
by Franklin Bros

The other main challenge to traditional HR thinking that got my attention during the CIPD HRD conference was this one about the role / importance of softer, more organic approaches as opposed to harder, more mechanistic ones. I’ve...
READ MORE - #HRD11: Stories not Processes
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Events,
HRD11,
Leadership
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
by Franklin Bros

One of the points the CIPD was stressing was that HR needs to adapt to the situation it exists within (I agree). Lucy Lewin from Standard Chartered talked about the need to hold yourself in a place of anxiety a little longer than usual,...
READ MORE - #HRD11: Questioning not Solutioning
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Events,
HRD11,
Innovation,
People management strategy
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Monday, April 11, 2011
by Franklin Bros

I left Ben’s workshop early as I wanted to see more on some of the case studies supporting the CIPD’s work on Next Generation HR, which I also posted on a couple of days ago. This and a similar session on the second day were, in my opinion,...
READ MORE - #HRD11: Next Generation HR & OD Leadership
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Events,
HRD11,
People management strategy
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Friday, April 8, 2011
by Franklin Bros

See below for information on www.thehaygroupconference,com.
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Emotional Intelligence,
Events,
Trust
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
by Franklin Bros

I’m delighted to announce the publication of a new book, The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management, edited by ASTD’s Pat Galagan and I4CP’s Kevin Oakes. The book focuses on the need for better integration between learning &...
READ MORE - Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management
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Book review,
Learning,
Talent management
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I’ve recently attended Dachis Group’s Social Business Summit in London (see my two posts at Social Advantage) and thought I’d post here on one of the sessions which was presented by Charles Hull at Archrival. The sessions was titled Social...
READ MORE - Social Business Summit: Millennial trends for HR
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Events,
Social media,
Social networks
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Events,
Global HR
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Monday, April 4, 2011
by Franklin Bros

Then on 9th June I’ll be blogging from the Economist’s Talent Management Summit where this blog is acting as supporting media. Speakers include: Robert Guest, Business Editor, The Economist Susan Peters, Vice-president, Executive...
READ MORE - Economist Talent Management Summit
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Events,
Talent management
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
by Franklin Bros

The first event I’ll be attending after my quiet April, and Connecting HR’s second unconference on 5th May, will be on 9-10th May when I’ll be delivering a workshop on social business and HR management at the European HR Forum in Brussels....
READ MORE - Pan-European HR Forum
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Events,
Global HR
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
by Franklin Bros
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Events,
HRD11,
People management strategy,
Social capital,
Social networks
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