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#TChat Radio Show Recap for 8/31/11 with the @12Most folks!

Today’s recap is written by Caty Kobe, a member of the TChat community and the Focus Community Manager. Last night’s #TChat made one thing was clear: globalization means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. People from all corners of the Twitterverse came forward to share thoughts, ideas, definitions, opinions and [...]

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a “crowd”), through an open call (Wikipedia). In theory, the internet should be a great enabler of being able to put a call for talent out to a community and in return [...]

Originally posted by Matt Charney, one of #TChat’s moderators, on MonsterThinking Blog The average worker today has more brands to deal with than a Texas cattle rancher, but one that most never really give a whole lot of thought to, at least compared to the ubiquitous (if ambiguous) concept of “personal brand” is that of employment branding. [...]

There was a pretty fantastic Twitter conversation happening last week on #TChat; it was about diversity. Be sure to check out the preview on MonsterThinking and the #TChat recap. It was during this conversation that I was reminded of how much I hate the word diversity. Picture an HR professional being called “personnel” by his [...]

The organizations of today and tomorrow must be highly adaptive and flexible. Unfortunately, the model we have inherited and have come to know as the model for structuring an organization, the hierarchy, is not. So what does this mean for those who define their role or even themselves by the fundamental the building block of [...]

When HR is truly about the business, embraced by the business, then they should manage all of people management, from beginning to end. And it’s getting there for many HR executives. Yet still for others, not so much. No matter the title you give Human Resources, those “business partners” I know in the space are [...]

“You and I, we are pressed into these solitudes Color and culture, language and race Just variations on a theme Islands in a much larger stream For you and me — Race is not a competition For you and me — Race is not a definition For you and me — We agree Reaching for [...]

Originally posted by Joe Gerstandt on MonsterThinking Blog Intersections baby, its all about the intersections… The majority of the work that we do around diversity and inclusion as HR professionals is focused on identity diversity, which is differences in our social identities…things like age, gender, race, ethnicity, orientation, physical ability, etc. I think that there [...]

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones was searching for the Ark of the Covenant, the key to all human existence. HR has been on a quest for its own Holy Grail for years – credibility. In this post, Laurie Ruettimann says the way to get HR credibility is to take over. Move into [...]