Branchout, BeKnown and the Bubble

    I was fascinated by this debate taking place at the Economist recently – are we in a new tech (social media) bubble? There were some highly engaging exchanges, and a thought provoking result – over two thirds of the participants voted...
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#SRConf: PepsiCoMo

    This post is really just an opportunity for some nice pictures of PepsiCo’s / TopBananas mobile recruiting app. Presenting with TB’s Dave Martin, PepsiCo’s Katie McNab explained that the company invests in social recruiting to support...
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    Just before lunch we had a panel featuring Matt Jeffery, head of EMEA Talent Acquisition at Autodesk; Lisa Scales at Tribepad and others.  Matt and Lisa had a good debate about the future of recruiting agencies (not good! – why would...
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    We’ve started today’s social recruiting conference with a presentation from Paul Maxin, Global Resourcing Director at Unilever. Unilever’s ambition is to double in size, whilst halving its environmental footprint and social recruiting...
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Summer HCM newsletter

    This is the text of my third e-newsletter if you didn’t receive it.
As we finally enter into Summer, I continue to focus on three things: Human capital / talent management Social capital / collaboration Strategic HR innovation.... READ MORE - Summer HCM newsletter

Social media and Soiled underwear

    I presented on the opportunities of using social media (and in focusing on social outcomes) at the SAP HR Summit at the end of last week.   The session went well and got lots of interest, though only in the room as nobody, other...
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HR Transformation at SAP

    My favourite presentation at last week’s SAP HR Transformation summit focused on SAP itself.  Roger Bellis, their European SVP for Talent, Leadership and Organisation Development (and a former client from Barclays) explained that...
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SAP HR Summit

  SAP HR Summit at Mercedez-Benz World ...
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The Growth of Digital HR

    I’m missing the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this year.
Last year, I found it such a key event that as well as the Boston conference (see my posts), I went back again to present on E2.0 and Culture in the follow-up event in Santa... READ MORE - The Growth of Digital HR
      I hadn’t received any suggestions for my presentation so I decided to simply focus on the opening preamble to the Westminster Briefing event. The first part of this focused on the role of the taskforce.  I suggested this was...
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    I’ll come back and post on my own presentation later, but to continue with the programme:   More Presentations Firstly, David Macleod and Nita Clarke talked about what the taskforce will be doing next.  The intent is not to...
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    I’m presenting later at a Westminster Briefing event on employee engagement chaired by Katie Truss, but first David Macleod and Nita Clarke (the Simon and Garfunkel, or Morcambe and Wise of empoyee engagement?) have been speaking about...
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Employee Engagement Taskforce: Policy & Practice Briefing

    On Wednesday I’m delivering a session with David Macleod, Chair of the Employment Engagement Task Force and Nita Clarke who along with David, co-authored the government’s ‘Engaging for Success’ report. We’ll be speaking on the government’s...
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