One of the things I’ve suggested adding to my client’s learning strategy is the 70-20-10 approach.
I use the form of this developed by Morgan McCall, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo at CLC and popularised by Jay Cross, Charles... READ MORE - Reviewing 70-20-10 at HCI Learning and Leadership Development conference

Measurement by Belief (Liberty Mutual at CLO Symposium)

     There’s so much going on in the UK at the moment, with tomorrow’s Spending Review and Wednesday’s public sector pensions strike.  And I still haven’t got around to posting on last week’s report from the High Pay Commission. ...
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      As a judge of the Personnel Today Awards, I get invited to their swanky black tie event on Park Lane.  Last night’s ceremony was another excellent event, unaffected by snow as was last year’s do, and only let down, from...
READ MORE - Jack Dee on HR (or, “the comedian and the HR practitioner walked into a bar and…”)

#CRSS2011 CERN social recruiting: social not just social media

     I’m at CERN today for a session that their head of recruitment, James Purvis (in the picture, sitting in the middle) has put together.  The session is on recruitment and sourcing, not just on social recruiting, but that’s been...
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Youth Unemployment, #CIPD11 and #ConnectingHR

     My favourite post from CIPD11 was probably this one from Graham Salisbury: Executive Pay: The Subject Which Must Not Be Named in which Graham questions the absence of discussion on today’s absurd levels of executive reward and obscene...
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Blogger blogging #CIPD11

       Just four years ago there was hardly any focus on social media on the CIPD conference’s agenda, and only a few of us blogging and tweeting from the conference.  This year, the CIPD invited a sizeable blogsquad (‘blogger-bloggers’)...
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The human and the machine

     The best session at CIPD11 by far was on efficiency and performance and was delivered by John Greatrex, Group HR Director at Unipart, and Franceso Mereu, Director, HR, Corporate Planning and CSR at Toyota Motor Europe. For Greatrex...
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No innovation from asking customers

     I guess I should really be posting on the rest of the CIPD conference, not just my own interactive sessions (1,2).  There are a couple of reasons that I’ve not been doing so – firstly I was really struggling to find anything...
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#CIPD11 Bloggerversity

     There was much more on social media at the CIPD conference yesterday. Eg Matthew Hanwell and Neil Morrison did a session on social media and Sarah Beauerle from KFC an interesting one on social recruiting at the same time. I also...
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#CIPD11 / #CIPD11Tw Twitterversity / 2

     The most interesting thing at the conference yesterday (of course) was obviously the twitterversity session that Gareth Jones (@garelaos) and I (with help from Rob Jones, Neil Morrison, Natalia Thomson, Laurie Reutimann and others)...
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#CIPD11 / #CIPD11Tw Twitterversity

     I’m up at the CIPD conference for the next three days and will be blogging from a few of the conference sessions.  But I’ll also be delivering a Twitterversity session together with Gareth Jones, my co-founder at ConnectingHR....
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Julian Birkinshaw on Human Centric Management

     And while I’m on the subject of human centricity, let me point out that I, and ConnectingHR, are not alone in prioritising this.  For example, it’s interesting to see that Julian Birkinshaw’s latest research is on “Employee...
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     My other current interest, other than integrated talent management, is human centricity (see this post on the recent ConnectingHR unconference). So I had this article published in the HR Technology Europe conference guide:  ...
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#HRTechEurope Integrated Talent Management Technology

     There were a couple of differences between HR Technology Europe and an unconnected US based conference of the same name that I attended recently.  One of these differences was that there was more focus on core HR management...
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     I think most peoples’ favourite session on the first day of HR Technology Europe, perhaps tied with Thomas Otter’s opening keynote, was the first ever European italent competition run by Jerome Ternynck, CEO or SmartRecruiters (who...
READ MORE - #HRTechEurope – iTalent competition (and congratulations to MIIAtech)
     I’ve just got back from a great two days at HR Technology Europe in Amsterdam this week.  But since I was busy working as Master of Ceremonies, I’m going to struggle for time to get much out on my blog. Anyway here’s my summary...
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#HRTechEurope – CedarCrestone survey

     It’s the HR Technology Europe conference in Amsterdam today where I’ll be acting as emcee. Just in time, Lexy Martin at CedarCrestone have provided a summary of the European data for their global HR Systems Survey I encouraged you...
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