While I am in Washington, D.C and Chicago this week, Adrian Gostick was kind enough to provide a guest post for us. Adrian is the co-author of ‘The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance’. Thank you to Adrian for stepping up to the plate for [...]
Leading, Coaching, & Innovating with Trish McFarlane
Monthly Archives: September 2009
HRevolution- Session Topics
Your HRevolution planning committee has been making strong progress in the last couple weeks. We have secured all but two sponsorships, so if you want to be a sponsor, or know of a company that does, please have them email me at trisham89@hotmail.com for all the details. We are VERY excited to announce the session [...]
'The Guy's Manual'- Advice On Business And Life
I stumbled upon a really great section on the MSN site this morning. They have a section called ‘The Guy’s Manual’ that is dedicated to giving guys real advice on work, relationships, home & family, style, play & sports, and auto & tech. The fun part is that they do it through some hysterically funny [...]
HR- Your Call To Action
For all the talk about where HR is (dead, dying, totally “ok” as is, needs re-branding, transformation, or somewhere in between) the fact is that although many HR pros who use social media are talking about it, the discussion is not reaching the masses yet. We need a way to begin harnessing this energy. We [...]
A Day In The Life Of Victorio Milian- Creative Chaos Consultant
Happy Thursday! It’s been a bit since I highlighted someone in this series of posts. Just to recap, I am highlighting different HR bloggers so we can get a better understanding of why they got into blogging, what their daily HR job is, what inspires them, and some general day-to-day information. So far, I’ve been thrilled [...]
Making The Rubber Hit The Road- "Re-Branding" HR
If I were asked to describe my “ideal” HR department, it would be one in which every HR pro would: Know the business- Speak the language of the particular industry they support. Understand the financials- This is key to being able to strategically advise leadership on people issues. Get honest- They wouldn’t sugarcoat what is going [...]
What's Your Legacy?
Do you ever think about the legacy you will leave when you are no longer with your company? With unemployment near double-digits in many states, some employees are being forced to leave their companies because of the recession. While many employees leave of their own free will, others do not. Regardless, each employee leaves a [...]
Come On In, The Water's Warm- Encouraging Social Media For HR
Yesterday I was fortunate to be asked to present ‘How to Apply Social Media for Human Resources’ at my firm with several of my colleagues. While we have offered several sessions previously on how specific sites work, we had not taken the next step of demonstrating ways to use the sites in our day-to-day work. [...]
